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Flipping the Scripts: Village Capital Lets Startups Choose Who Wins Funding

  • Writer: Eric Alvarez
    Eric Alvarez
  • Mar 7, 2023
  • 1 min read

Updated: Mar 29, 2023

"In 2009, Village Capital, the world’s largest organization supporting impact-driven, seed-stage startups, began exploring solutions to a challenge they saw blocking progress toward racial equity in venture capital. They noticed a systemic reliance on “pattern recognition” among most venture capital firms, in which investors—a predominantly White and male population—were more likely to support those that looked like them. "


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