Solving big problems for people and the planet.
We fuel the growth of sustainable and impactful businesses by unlocking capital for early-stage entrepreneurs who are building emergent solutions for social, economic, and environmental challenges around the world.
We’ve run 150+ accelerators. We equip founders with unique tools to increase their efficiency, sustainability, impact, and inclusiveness.
Entrepreneurs, read on for opportunities to apply to our programs.
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Global
Equitable Access to Essential Services
Learn about the Standard Chartered Futuremakers Women in Tech Program, which supports impact-creating, tech-enabled, women-led startups in building thriving businesses across ten markets in Africa, the Middle East, and Pakistan. The initiative’s goal is to enable 360 young, women-led startups to overcome financial, social, and cultural barriers to business growth, creating jobs in their communities. Learn more and apply.
United States
Climate Innovation & Adaptation
This is an investment-readiness program designed to support 10 climate-focused startups addressing the growing environmental challenges across the US. Learn more.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Climate Innovation & Adaptation
This program is an investment-readiness accelerator program that will support 10-15 startups in Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and South Africa with innovative solutions for sustainable development. Learn more.
Asia
Climate Innovation & Adaptation
This program is an investment-readiness accelerator program that will support ten startups in Malaysia and Vietnam with innovative solutions for sustainable development in Asia. Learn more.
Latin America
Climate Innovation & Adaptation
This program is an investment-readiness accelerator program that will support ten startups with innovative solutions for sustainable development in Latin America. Learn more.
Global
Equitable Access to Essential Services
Learn about the Standard Chartered Futuremakers Women in Tech Program, which supports impact-creating, tech-enabled, women-led startups in building thriving businesses across ten markets in Africa, the Middle East, and Pakistan. The initiative’s goal is to enable 360 young, women-led startups to overcome financial, social, and cultural barriers to business growth, creating jobs in their communities. Learn more and apply.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Climate Innovation & Adaptation
Empowering Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Africa 2025 is Phase Two of an initiative to strengthen climate innovation across Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Together, we will co-deliver five tailored investment-readiness programs, supporting 150 sustainability-focused startups across these markets in SSA. Learn more.
Latin America
Climate Innovation & Adaptation
This program, supported by the Posner Foundation, will support startups creating solutions to transform food systems by empowering informed consumer decisions, enhancing food center efficiency, reducing losses in production and distribution, and driving innovation in food waste diversion across Latin America. Learn more.
United States
Economic Mobility
The US Women in Tech Accelerator is designed to tackle the funding inequities women founders face and unlock early-stage financial and social capital through support, expertise, resources, and tools they need to scale their solutions. Learn more.
Europe
Climate Innovation & Adaptation
A three-year initiative that will support 165 entrepreneurs across the UK, France, Southern Europe, and the US who are making a positive environmental, social, and economic impact in their communities. Learn more.
United States
Climate Innovation & Adaptation
Sage Impact Entrepreneurship is an initiative to support impact-creating entrepreneurs across Europe, the UK, and the US, building solutions that benefit both people and the planet. Learn more.
Latin America
Equitable Access to Essential Services
This program, supported by the Impact Ventures by J&J Foundation, will support startups in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico who build solutions addressing critical healthcare ecosystem challenges in Latin America. Learn more.
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Since our founding 15 years ago, Village Capital has taken a unique approach to unlocking social and financial capital for impact-creating entrepreneurs. Through our unique approach – testing, iterating, disseminating, and evolving tools for equitable entrepreneurship – we stay rooted in our mission, driving forward with purpose even amidst change.
Emily Sylvester, CEO and Founder of Mother of Fact in Langdon, NH, is a different kind of leader today than six months ago. After participating in the LIFT: Accelerating Equitable Health Innovation 2024 program, she is more confident and prepared to scale her early-stage startup’s digital health platform, expanding access to lifesaving nutrition and healthcare services for underserved families.
The companies making the most significant systemic changes in the world are tackling our problems from a human standpoint and implementing change management theory – transitioning processes, resources, and people to achieve desired outcomes.
