Village turns fundraising into graph search
Abdallah Absi, co-founder and CEO of Village, on using PostHog for product analytics
Village is turning fundraising from a cold outreach grind into a graph search problem. The workflow is simple, a founder types a need like fintech seed investors, Village checks public funding rounds plus calendar, contact, and team data, then returns specific people who can plausibly make the intro. That matters because the product is not just listing firms, it is ranking real paths through founders, coworkers, and portfolio networks.
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For a founder raising, the core job is not finding investor names, it is finding who already has a relationship with them. Village mapped around 14,000 VC funding rounds, so it can infer that a founder backed by Lightspeed or The Weekend Fund is a possible bridge to that investor.
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The same workflow extends beyond fundraising. When a team joins together, a recruiter or sales lead can search the shared network and see who on the company can open a door to a candidate or prospect, which turns one founder's address book into a team wide prospecting tool.
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Funding is the beachhead because the data is unusually structured and public. Village can often infer warm paths even when the intermediary is not using the product, because the relationship comes from employment history, small team overlap, and recorded funding relationships.
This is heading toward a broader relationship intelligence product for sales and recruiting. If Village keeps proving that public graph data can surface usable warm paths at scale, the company can move from occasional fundraise workflows into daily revenue and hiring workflows, where teams search for introductions every week instead of every round.