What You Get
Velocity is our exclusive program for pre-seed founders. We give you the capital, peer cohort, and network to go from 0 to 1.
Applications are due September 18th for the vintage starting October 15th, 2024
Our LPs have founded some of the world's greatest tech companies. They partner with Village for in-person events, virtual masterclasses, and have even invested directly in follow-on rounds.
We leverage our unparalleled network to help you navigate the founder, and fundraising, journey. Founders backed by Village Global have gone on to raise more than $6B from elite VC firms like:
Rabidly ambitious founders. We want founders who are obsessed with the problem they’re solving and are world-class at shipping. We’re agnostic to industry or team composition. We invest in single-person teams, seasoned founders, global teams, remote companies, you name it. If you're building something ambitious and you’re unstoppable, you belong at Velocity.
We consider ourselves generalists across sectors, go-to-market, and geography. Most of our investments are US-based, but previous Velocity companies have been from every continent. Most of our investments are in software, but we’re open to any phenomenal founder solving big problems they’re obsessed with. See “Who is eligible to apply?” above for more.
While we prefer to invest first, we often invest in founders who have already raised funding.
The exact dollar amount and valuation change per company, but we typically invest on a post-money SAFE with pro-rata rights.
Early-stage startups are all about the founder and team, so show us why you’re excellent at what you do and how you’re uniquely suited to build the business you’re working on. We take references seriously, so you should, too. Showing a deep understanding of your customer and their needs is a must, as is selling that you are the person to build the solution.
We operate on a rolling basis and have deadlines for specific cohorts. Cohorts start quarterly and run for 12 weeks.
The next deadline is September 10th for the cohort starting October 15th.
Around 20 companies per year.
We’re happy to connect you to vendors that our founders speak highly of across bookkeeping, payroll, banking, and much more. Our portfolio companies have combined to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in discounts and credits across companies like Microsoft, Airtable, Notion, and many more.
We don’t call this an accelerator because there are no fixed investment terms and we accept applications on a rolling basis. Accelerators are often one-size-fits-all whereas Velocity is customized to meet founders where they are in terms of needs and stage.