Village Capital has run leading investment readiness training programs around the world for over 10 years. During that time we’ve worked with over 1,100 companies in 28 countries. Companies that have participated in our accelerator programs raise 3x more capital, earn 2.3x more revenue, and create 1.4x more jobs.
Entrepreneurs get real value from Abaca and Village Capital’s investment readiness methodology.
Corporate and foundation partners such as Paypal, IBM, MetLife and more turn to Village Capital to train entrepreneurs on investment readiness.
Accelerators around the world are getting on board. Over 60 accelerators across the United States, Africa, Latin America, and Asia have licensed and adopted our approach.
Now, for the first time ever we’re offering training in our proven methodology to any entrepreneur worldwide.
Now any investor or entrepreneur support organization can bring the Village Capital team to train your companies and improve their investment readiness.
We offer a variety of workshops and training programs to fit your budget and time requirements.
Our 1 hour workshop is designed to be a basic introduction for founders and entrepreneurs to the importance of investment readiness when trying to obtain capital, and how to effectively self-assess investment readiness using Village Capital's Venture Investment Level (VIL) framework and Abaca platform.
Highlights
Number of Attendees: Requires a minimum of 10 companies in attendance. Recommended for up to 50 companies.
Price: Limited Time Offer -- FREE!
In addition to learning how to assess their investment readiness founders will also learn how build a milestone plan providing next steps to improve their investment readiness. Founders will also validate their self-assessments and the viability of their milestone plans through a guides peer-review process.
Everything from the 1 hour workshop PLUS:
Number of Attendees: Recommended for 10-25 companies. Suitable for up to 50.
Price: $500.00
The 3 hour workshop includes rich peer-to-peer and mentor breakout groups. Entrepreneurs learn the same skills of asessing and validating their Venture Investment Level and building a Milestone Plan. In this extended session entrepreneurs will have time to both put their newly acquired skills to work and refine their plans based on feedback from their peers and Village Capital mentors.
Highlights:
Part 1 - Benchmarking: Identifying your Venture Investment Level to help you target investors that are a good fit for your business
Part 2 - Building a Milestone Plan to level up your company
Bonus - Planning your fundraise & pitching it to Investors
Number of Attendees: Recommended for 4 to 20 companies. Suitable for up to 32 companies. There is a limit of a maximum of 4 companies per mentor.
Base Price: $1,000 and includes 1 mentor (the facilitator)
Mentors: $500 per additional mentor
If you’re looking to run a full 3 month long accelerator program we can help with that too! Village Capital both licenses our full curriculum and can run accelerator programs on your behalf. This is a much larger commitment than the introductory workshops but there’s no denying it gives your entrepreneurs the deepest and most impactful experience. Find out more here.
Abaca relies on Village Capital's proven investment readiness methodology to help companies benchmark and track their Venture Investment Level.
Village Capital developed the underlying framework over 10 years of training thousands of entrepreneurs and working with hundreds of investors across the world. Now it’s available to entrepreneurs everywhere. It’s what powers Abaca.
Each level includes milestones in eight business categories, creating a 9-level, 8-category grid, which we call the Milestone Grid. The grid challenges entrepreneurs’ preconceptions about their business’ progress, helping them see their company through investors’ eyes. This framework helps entrepreneurs articulate to investors their next steps and readiness for future investment, while also allowing investors to communicate what specifics they need to see before being ready to invest.
The grid below visualizes a startup’s progress in each business category. Entrepreneurs can quickly pinpoint gaps needed to complete the next Level. We call those gaps critical milestones, which help set priorities and are great for framing conversations with board members, investors and mentors.
