Village Capital

Village Capital is a Washington, D.C.-based venture capital firm founded in 2009 that focuses on early-stage and seed investments in sectors such as agriculture, education, energy, financial services, and healthcare. The firm aims to empower entrepreneurs by employing a unique peer-support model, allowing entrepreneurs to select the ventures that receive pre-committed seed funding at the conclusion of its programs. Village Capital connects high-potential entrepreneurs with essential resources, fostering innovation and growth. It operates both a nonprofit that provides training for founders and a for-profit investment fund that invests in top program graduates, having supported over 1,000 entrepreneurs and more than 550 enterprises across various global regions. The firm has achieved notable success, with its alumni generating significant revenue and creating thousands of jobs, while maintaining a high recommendation rate among participants.

Adedana Ashebir

Regional Manager

Allie Burns

Chief Executive Officer

Allyson Burns

CEO

Daniel Cossío

Manager, Programs and Partnerships

Apoorv Karmakar

Senior Director

Rachel Schwartz

Senior Associate FP&A

Ben Wrobel

Director of Communications

Past deals in Mexico

Vexi

Venture Round in 2022
Vexi is a financial technology company based in Mexico City, founded in 2016. It specializes in providing credit card services aimed at the young, underbanked population in Latin America, facilitating access to formal credit. Through its mobile application, Vexi enables users to create personalized payment plans, manage their expenses, and build their credit history with minimal documentation. The company offers both a digital credit card for online transactions and a physical card for in-person purchases, all designed to enhance user experience and financial literacy. Vexi's proprietary technology aims to streamline the onboarding process, making credit more accessible and secure for underserved individuals.

valarix

Grant in 2021
We are an online accountant for businesses. We focus on serving small businesses in México. The base of our service is the electronic invoice in México, we apply data analysis to the database of each costumer to in a semi automatic way, build their accounting books, calculate their taxes and detect risks and opportunities. Our goal right now is to build a platform with a machine learning engine, so we can have a complete automatic accountant, so the real accountant can focus on advising the customer in their business and not in building their financial information. Our goal is to change the way accounting, finance and tax services are being provided, changing the way the information is retrieve, store and analyze. Right now you need an army of low pay accountants to do book keeping in regular basis, we want to change that to only one accountant with data science knowledge tools to make his job more efficient. We believe this can change the auditing market by reducing cost to serve clients, improve data analytics from auditors, and even give banks a better understanding of small businesses so they can target better financial products to small business owners.

Akiba

Grant in 2021
Akiba is a platform that revolutionizes employee savings funds and funds.It allows companies to manage their employee funds and funds in a digital and transparent manner, in addition to offering credits and payroll advances in an agile manner.

Vexi

Seed Round in 2021
Vexi is a financial technology company based in Mexico City, founded in 2016. It specializes in providing credit card services aimed at the young, underbanked population in Latin America, facilitating access to formal credit. Through its mobile application, Vexi enables users to create personalized payment plans, manage their expenses, and build their credit history with minimal documentation. The company offers both a digital credit card for online transactions and a physical card for in-person purchases, all designed to enhance user experience and financial literacy. Vexi's proprietary technology aims to streamline the onboarding process, making credit more accessible and secure for underserved individuals.

Finerio

Seed Round in 2021
Finerio is an automated personal finance platform based in Mexico that offers users a free and efficient way to manage their finances. The platform allows individuals to link their debit and credit accounts from major Mexican banks, providing insights for effective financial planning and saving. Finerio focuses on personal finance management by enabling users to create custom budgets, monitor and track expenditures, and analyze their consumption patterns. Through its open finance and data analysis capabilities, Finerio empowers users to gain control over their financial information, ultimately helping them plan their expenses and enhance their savings.

Plant Squad

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Plant Squad is an online platform that offers plant-based foods.

Flexio

Seed Round in 2021
At Flexio, we’re using today’s technology to bring significant disruptive innovation to the financial industry in Latin America. Flexio is a checkout technology company pioneering the next generation of point-of-sale financing. We focus on improving the lives of consumers by delivering simple, honest and transparent financial products. Flexio is an everyday financing solution that customers deserve and merchants need. Flexio is built on the principles of simplicity, transparency, and privacy.

Quipu Bank

Grant in 2020
Quipu is a marketplace-platform aimed to ease and increase trade of goods and services between people living in low-income communities. Quipu is a digital community market that seeks to facilitate the exchange of goods and services between people who depend on the popular economy.

Aplazo

Seed Round in 2020
Aplazo is a fintech platform based in Mexico that facilitates online installment payments for users making purchases at affiliated stores. The platform allows customers to apply online and choose a payment method that enables them to pay for their products in fixed installment plans. By providing this service, Aplazo aims to enhance financial access and opportunities for consumers while helping businesses expand their customer base through innovative payment solutions.

Diabesmart

Seed Round in 2020
Diabesmart is a healthcare company that offers services that improve the quality of life of diabetic patients. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Cuauhtemoc, Mexico.

Deli Life Wellness

Seed Round in 2020
Deli Life Wellness is a health and wellness company helping organizations and their employees move toward a healthier lifestyle. The company's mission is to make health care and wellness accessible through education and promotion tools to improve people's quality of life. Deli Life Wellness was founded in 2015 and is based in Lomas de Chapultepec

Griyum

Seed Round in 2020
Griyum is an insect flour rich in proteins, low cost and without dominant flavor. Tenemos un propósito: Nutrir a México. 7 de 10 mexicanos tienen sobrepeso y están en riesgo de padecer diabetes. Por eso, iniciamos la producción y comercialización de harina de grillo comestible como un ingrediente rico en proteína para balancear alimentos procesados. Creamos una cadena de valor basada en micro-productores, a quienes les acercamos un paquete tecnológico para que inicien su cultivo de grillo. Compramos su producción, la transformamos en harina y nos volvemos proveedores.

Doopla

Seed Round in 2018
Doopla is a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform that provides above-market returns to investors, while charging below-market interest rates to borrowers.

Contalisto

Seed Round in 2018
Contalisto is an accounting technology platform to file taxes in Mexico. It generates invoices and allows users to track their documents in a single screen. Contalisto was launched in 2014 and is operated from Mexico City, Distrito Federal.

Salud Cercana

Seed Round in 2017
Salud Cercana SAPI DE CV provides preventive and primary care for patients with cardiovascular diseases. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Ecatepec, Mexico.

Billpocket

Seed Round in 2015
Billpocket is a financial technology company that transforms smartphones and tablets into point-of-sale terminals, facilitating card payments without the need for traditional banking infrastructures. Users can accept debit and credit card payments directly through their mobile devices, simplifying the payment process and eliminating high maintenance fees and complex setups associated with conventional systems. Billpocket's platform also offers the option for customers to convert payments into interest-free monthly installments, while the company charges a fixed commission to sellers. This innovative approach enables a seamless transaction experience for both businesses and consumers.

Yotepresto

Seed Round in 2015
yotepresto.com is the fastest growing mexican-based marketplace lending platform connecting individual and institutional investors to near-prime borrowers applying for a personal loan.

Volabit

Venture Round in 2015
Volabit is a developer of a cryptocurrency trading platform. Volabit allows cash-based online payments through its mobile wallet as well as faster and cheaper international transfers. Volabit is financially empowering people through the use of Bitcoin.

ComproPago

Seed Round in 2015
ComproPago is a platform that allows online businesses to receive cash payments. Due to the low debit and credit card penetration in Mexico (30%) plus the lack of confidence when buying online via credit card, the e-commerce industry in Mexico is in search of alternative solutions to tackle this issue. ComproPago solves this problem by providing more than 130,000 physical payments points (Oxxo, 7eleven, Walmart, Superama, etc.) across the whole country, where customers can make cash payments to pay for products and services bought online.