“Let’s find a common language between entrepreneurs and investors”
Ross Baird, Founder, Village Capital
Ross Baird, Founder, Village Capital
Ross developed the Village Capital concept in 2009, and has led the development of programs worldwide. Before launching Village Capital, he worked with First Light Ventures, a seed fund focused on impact investments. Prior to First Light, Ross worked on the development of four education-related start-up ventures: the Indian School Finance Company in Hyderabad, India, the National College Advising Corps in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and two ventures using technology to promote civic participation.
Abaca is a product of Village Capital, the world’s largest organization supporting impact-driven, seed-stage startups.
We launched Abaca in 2019 as a way to help more impact-driven founders connect with investors and other supporters who can help them scale. Join the more than 12,000 entrepreneurs and 1,000 investors who have built profiles on Abaca.
Meet the people who make Abaca a reality.
Abaca is a project of Village Capital built and designed in partnership with Pixelmatters.
Andrew is the Director of Abaca and a co-creator of Village Capital’s VIRAL™ investment readiness framework. Andrew has worked with Village Capital for six years during which time he also recruited and trained entrepreneurs in investment readiness and financial modeling in Mexico, India, and the United States, led the firm’s Investment Analyst team globally, and built out Village Capital's communications infrastructure.
Prior to Village Capital, Andrew worked at the Indian School Finance Company in Hyderabad, India to build their first credit-scoring algorithm and portfolio delinquency monitoring tools.
Andrew holds a Master of Management Studies from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, a Certificate in Social Entrepreneurship from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and a Bachelor of Arts from Bennington College.
Andrew is the Director of Abaca and a co-creator of Village Capital’s VIRAL™ investment readiness framework. Andrew has worked with Village Capital for six years during which time he also recruited and trained entrepreneurs in investment readiness and financial modeling in Mexico, India, and the United States, led the firm’s Investment Analyst team globally, and built out Village Capital's communications infrastructure.
Prior to Village Capital, Andrew worked at the Indian School Finance Company in Hyderabad, India to build their first credit-scoring algorithm and portfolio delinquency monitoring tools.
Andrew holds a Master of Management Studies from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, a Certificate in Social Entrepreneurship from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and a Bachelor of Arts from Bennington College.
As Chief Operating Officer, Peter focuses on Village Capital’s people, finances and technology to help achieve our mission, and also heads up product strategy to build new ways of solving problems for impact-driven entrepreneurs and investors.
Before joining Village Capital, Peter led digital media businesses as VP/GM, including Military Times and USA TODAY High School Sports. Before that, Peter was Vice President of Product Development and Deployment at Gannett Digital with responsibility for building, rolling out and marketing new digital products. Peter led the deployment of digital initiatives across 100+ local media properties, including design standards, content management, email marketing and web analytics platforms, and local-market integrations for CareerBuilder and Cars.com.
Before joining Gannett, he launched one of the first local news websites for The Lawrence Journal-World in Lawrence, Kan., also home to the University of Kansas, where he received a bachelor's degree in Journalism & Mass Communications.
As Chief Operating Officer, Peter focuses on Village Capital’s people, finances and technology to help achieve our mission, and also heads up product strategy to build new ways of solving problems for impact-driven entrepreneurs and investors.
Before joining Village Capital, Peter led digital media businesses as VP/GM, including Military Times and USA TODAY High School Sports. Before that, Peter was Vice President of Product Development and Deployment at Gannett Digital with responsibility for building, rolling out and marketing new digital products. Peter led the deployment of digital initiatives across 100+ local media properties, including design standards, content management, email marketing and web analytics platforms, and local-market integrations for CareerBuilder and Cars.com.
Before joining Gannett, he launched one of the first local news websites for The Lawrence Journal-World in Lawrence, Kan., also home to the University of Kansas, where he received a bachelor's degree in Journalism & Mass Communications.
I'm a Front-end Developer with two years of experience. I live in Porto, Portugal and I'm 25 years old.
I'm very passionate and dedicated to my work. I'm always trying to learn new things.
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I'm a Front-end Developer with two years of experience. I live in Porto, Portugal and I'm 25 years old.
I'm very passionate and dedicated to my work. I'm always trying to learn new things.
With 2 years of experience as a professional, I have acquire different skills.
