Village - The Social Capital API Product
Village is a Social Capital API Platform designed to amplify sales, fundraising, and hiring workflows by delivering relationship intelligence. It provides a large relationship graph that maps connections across people and companies, enabling warm introductions and deeper insight into networks for teams, founders, VCs, and executives.
Who it's for
- For Teams: Add relationship intelligence to your CRM and workflows with AI-powered insights and scalable networking capabilities.
- For VCs: Discover warm intro paths, map investor and portfolio networks, and accelerate fundraising and sourcing.
- For Founders: Access intros to investors, potential customers, and partners through a mapped network of relationships.
- For Sales, Fundraising, and Recruiting: 10x outbound and outreach efficiency via prioritized introductions and relationship context.
How Village works
- Village maintains a proprietary relationship graph that blends public and private data to surface the best introduction paths to individuals and companies.
- It integrates with your existing tools (CRMs, calendars, email, LinkedIn, Google Contacts) to create a unified, up-to-date network map.
- You can extend networks to 3rd-degree connections and invite colleagues to collaborate within a private community.
- The platform emphasizes privacy and security, with data usage and retention designed to minimize exposure while maximizing usefulness.
Key advantages
- Locate warm introductions more efficiently than cold outreach.
- Visualize and act on relationship pathways to target companies, investors, and customers.
- Pre-mapped portfolio and investor networks (e.g., 14k+ portfolio networks) for faster connections.
- AI-driven relationship scoring and intros that surface the most relevant contacts.
How to use Village
- Sign up or request access (for Teams, VC partners, or API access).
- Connect your data sources (CRM, Google Contacts, calendar, email, LinkedIn) with explicit permissions.
- Browse and utilize relationship insights to identify warm intro opportunities.
- Use browser extension or native integrations to overlay relationship data onto your existing workflow.
Use cases
- Sales: Find warm intros to target B2B companies and accelerate pipeline through trusted referrals.
- Fundraising: Identify partners and warm introductions to VC firms in strategic locations.
- Recruiting: Locate introductions to engineers or executives in desired markets.
- Founders/Portfolios: Leverage network insights to connect with potential customers and investors.
Data and privacy
- Village combines public data sources (7+ data sources with 700M+ profiles, 30M+ company records, 500k+ funding rounds) and private data (your permissions to analyze contacts and calendar interactions).
- Data processing is designed to minimize raw data retention and provide opt-out/delete options.
Core Features
- Relationship intelligence embedded in CRM and workflows
- AI-powered relationship scoring and intro recommendations
- Large, multi-source relationship graph (public + private data)
- 1-line-of-code integration into your stack (API & CRM integrations)
- Browser extension to overlay insights across web apps
- Private teams and clubs for collaborative networking
- 3rd-degree connection expansion and warm-intro optimization
- Pre-mapped investor and founder networks with portfolio integration
- Privacy-first data handling with deletion and delisting options