# Village Ventures

> Village Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Health Care. See 101 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Williamstown, United States
- Total investments: 101
- Last investment: Apr 2017
- Lead investor: 15%
- Fund size: $125M
- Last fund: Oct 2007
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/village-ventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/villageventures
- Website: http://www.villageventures.com

Village Ventures is a VC fund in Williamstown focused on Software and Health Care. Village Ventures makes early stage investments in digital media and services and financial services.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 17 | 17% |
| Health Care | 12 | 12% |
| Advertising | 8 | 8% |
| Mobile | 7 | 7% |
| Analytics | 7 | 7% |

112 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 32 | 32% |
| Series B | 27 | 27% |
| Series C | 11 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 10 | 10% |
| Seed | 9 | 9% |

8 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Matt Warta | Venture Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-warta |
| Michael Barach | Venture Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-barach |
| Robert Kraus | General Counsel and General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-kraus |
| STEVEN MASSICOTTE | Chief Operating Officer and General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steven-massicotte |
| Bo Peabody | Managing General Partner | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bo-peabody |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SimpleReach | SimpleReach is the #1 way for brands to measure and improve content ROI. By bringing together hundreds of data sources across websites, social channels, and publishers into the world's largest content data cloud, SimpleReach enables brands to understand how their content drives business outcomes everywhere. Leading content marketers likeIntel, Chase, and Home Depot rely on the SimpleReach platform to generate actionable insights that improve the impact of their content creation and distribution. Learn more at www.simplereach.com | $13.6M | Series B | Apr 21, 2017 |  |
| Metamarkets | Metamarkets offers an interactive analytics platform for buyers and sellers of programmatic advertising. It gives its users the ability to see what’s happening in the media marketplaces where they operate and provides the high-speed processing power needed to gain a competitive edge. Customers such as Twitter, AOL, and Rubicon Project use theMetamarkets platform to drive their business performance through intuitive access to real-time information. Metamarkets puts the power of ad hoc data navigation and visualization into the hands of marketers. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $15M | Series C | Feb 24, 2015 |  |
| Dwolla | Dwolla is a payment services provider powering innovations with sophisticated account-to-account payment solutions. Dwolla’s modern API simplifies the complex process of integrating with the various payment networks to create a single end-to-end solution–giving businesses the ability to program payments on the same day, next day or in real-timedirectly to bank accounts. With minimal development, start-ups to Fortune 500 companies can gain efficiency, flexibility and improved cash flow by working with Dwolla. | $9.7M | Series D | Sep 30, 2014 |  |
| SimpleReach | SimpleReach is the #1 way for brands to measure and improve content ROI. By bringing together hundreds of data sources across websites, social channels, and publishers into the world's largest content data cloud, SimpleReach enables brands to understand how their content drives business outcomes everywhere. Leading content marketers likeIntel, Chase, and Home Depot rely on the SimpleReach platform to generate actionable insights that improve the impact of their content creation and distribution. Learn more at www.simplereach.com | $9M | Series A | Jul 11, 2014 |  |
| Goji | Goji is an American online insurance agency, combining smart tech with human expertise to find you the right policy at the best price. Goji combines human expertise with smart technology to match customers with the right coverage at the best price.Since 2007, Goji has helped hundreds of thousands of Americans compare rates from top brands and buythe policy that's best for them. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $14M | Series D | Apr 15, 2014 |  |
| GutCheck | GutCheck specializes in online agile market research that equips and empowers the world’s most innovative brands to unlock bold new possibilities by harnessing the power of agile technology and human empathy. We empower brands with the insights to make decisions throughout the innovation cycle and meet you where you are in the process. | $4M | Series C | Jan 28, 2014 |  |
| Zipmark | Zipmark enables businesses to send and receive 100% digital checks without risk, at a reasonable and transparent cost. Zipmark's API can be easily integrated into web and mobile payments, offering a lower cost alternative to credit and debit cards; also by leveraging Zipmark QR codes users can pay for items such as rent, fees orsubscriptions directly from paper invoices via the Zipmark iPhone app.Zipmark was founded by Jake Howerton and Jay Bhattacharya. Jay was the co-founder of Mobile Money Ventures (acquired by Intuit) and was with Citigroup for 7 years where he was responsible for emerging payments strategy including mobile, NFC and smartcards. Jake is a technology focused entrepreneur and the former CTO of Sunshine Suites, Inc. Magazine's 15th Fastest Growing Real Estate Company in 2009. Jake is also active in creating the OpenTransact standard, an open and simple financial standard for authorizing transactions without revealing account credentials. | $1.5M | Seed | Aug 14, 2013 |  |
| BlueTarp Financial | BlueTarp Financial is a B2B credit management company serving over 2000 suppliers since 1998. BlueTarp pays suppliers upfront for their sales and protects them from credit risk so they can fund the growth of their business. Suppliers can customize their program by choosing to manage customer interactions as they do today, or select a full-serviceoption where BlueTarp handles customer service and collections. They can also grow sales with options for up to 90-day terms, credit lines up to $1M, and a loyalty rewards program. Their SmartView™online tools give suppliers full transparency into customer buying and payment activities. It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Portland, Maine. | $15M | Private Equity | Jul 23, 2013 |  |
| Sulia | **Sulia is a subject-based social network that connects you to the top social sources on subjects you care about.**We all have interests that we're extremely passionate about. Whether it's our family, a sports team, breaking news, Hollywood gossip, a hobby, a career, or a political issue, we obsess over our interests everyday.However, with an endless number of sources talking about an endless number of subjects, it's nearly impossible to find the best sources to follow to across your interests. And, even if you were able to identify the top sources, sifting through all of their content is maddeningly time-consuming.We built Sulia to address these problems (which were driving us mad too).Sulia’s subject-based structure of social channels connects trusted sources and enthusiasts on shared interests across thousands of subjects, including breaking news and events. How?We use a combination of network managers and sophisticated algorithms to identify the best-regarded sources across thousands of subjects. We then dynamically filter content from those sources, regardless of where it's created (a blog, a social network, a media site, through Sulia's publishing system, etc.), into high-quality, realtime social channels. The result is streams of timely content from trusted sources that is always on-topic, readable, and relevant.People use Sulia everyday to discover new sources and engage with their interests. Sulia is backed by leading media and technology investors, including:-- Firstmark Capital: Rick Heitzmann-- Village Ventures: Matt Harris, Bo Peabody-- IA Capital Partners: Roger Ehrenberg-- Founder Collective: Chris Dixon-- SV Angels: Ron Conway-- Mark Gerson, Founder, Gerson Lehrman Group | $6M | Series B | Jul 23, 2013 |  |
| GutCheck | GutCheck specializes in online agile market research that equips and empowers the world’s most innovative brands to unlock bold new possibilities by harnessing the power of agile technology and human empathy. We empower brands with the insights to make decisions throughout the innovation cycle and meet you where you are in the process. | $4M | Series B | Jun 12, 2013 |  |

10 of 101 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Village Ventures invest in?

Village Ventures invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Advertising startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 101 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Village Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Village Ventures?

The team at Village Ventures includes Matt Warta (Venture Partner), Michael Barach (Venture Partner) and Robert Kraus (General Counsel and General Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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