Investing Profile

Ben Casnocha(48)

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Co-Founder and General Partner at Village Global

villageglobal.vc/team/ben-cas...San Francisco, California

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Ben Casnocha's investing connections

25 Investors

Connected to Josh Elman (Greylock Partners), Brad Feld (Foundry Group), Mike Maples (Floodgate), and 22 other investors on Signal.

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Current Investing Position

Village Global General Partner

Investment Range

$250K - $1.5M

Sweet Spot

$750K

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$1.5B

Ben Casnocha is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Ben Casnocha's Investments On Record (13)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Qanooni	Pre SeedJun 2025$2M	$2M
Co-investors: Viktoriya Tigipko (TA Ventures)
Forethought	Series DMay 2025$25M Series ADec 2018$9M SeedFeb 2018$1M	$120M
Co-investors: Manu Kumar (K9 Ventures), Erik Torenberg (Andreessen Horowitz), Sandhya Venkatachalam (Khosla Ventures), Alex Kolicich (8VC), Yan-David Erlich (B Capital Group), Sri Pangulur (Tribe Capital), Karan Mehandru (Madrona Ventures), Robert Downey Jr (Footprint Coalition), Ross Fubini (XYZ Venture Capital), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Anne Dwane (Village Global), Alexa von Tobel (Inspired Capital), Brianne Kimmel (WorkLife Ventures), Suranga Chandratillake (Balderton Capital), Christopher Manning (AIX Ventures), Trevor McFedries (Techstars), Taylor Greene (Twelve Below), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Andy Coravos, Baron Davis, Gwyneth Paltrow, Mathilde Collin, Peter Sonsini, Kelvin Beachum Jr.
Perspective AI	SeedJan 2025$4M	$4M
Co-investors: Itamar Novick (Recursive Ventures (ICCA Labs))
LightBeam.ai	Series AFeb 2024$18M SeedDec 2020$5M	$23M
Co-investors: Bhaskar Ghosh (8VC), Venktesh Shukla (Monta Vista Capital), Donald Tucker (DocuSign), Sandeep Bhadra (Vertex Ventures)
SimpleX Chat	Pre SeedApr 2023$370K	$1.4M
Co-investors: Rob Biederman (Asymmetric Capital Partners)
Type Five	Pre SeedJan 2023
Salesroom	SeedJun 2022$9M	$9M
Co-investors: David Helgason (foobar.vc), Rob Biederman (Asymmetric Capital Partners), Daniel King (Blue Leaf Capital), Sean Marshall (Craft Ventures), Mike Marg (Craft Ventures), Barak Goldstein (Terra Venture Partners), Reshma Sohoni (Seedcamp), Chris Murphy, Peter Kazanjy
HUBUC	SeedJan 2022$10M	$10M
Co-investors: John Lilly (Greylock), Anthony Saleh (Photo Workshop), Albert Armengol (Grupo DKV), Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator), Michael Seibel (Y Combinator), Sujay Jaswa (WndrCo LLC), Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen (2xN), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Samvit Ramadurgam, Charles Delingpole