Village Global

Village Global is a San Francisco-based seed venture capital firm that operates a distinctive model in which successful technology founders and executives from companies including Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft serve as limited partners and actively engage with portfolio companies as mentors and commercial connectors. The firm was founded by Eric Torenberg and invests with initial checks from $500,000 to $3 million. Andela, the remote engineering talent network, was a Village Global portfolio company (primarily backed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Google Ventures; Village Global's specific role should be verified). Tala, the mobile lending and financial services platform, is a portfolio company. Beyond its original investments in Andela and Tala, the portfolio includes additional consumer, enterprise, and fintech technology companies.