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: Sandhya Venkatachalam (Social Capital), Manu Kumar (K9 Ventures), Erik Torenberg (Andreessen Horowitz), Alex Kolicich (8VC), Yan-David Erlich (B Capital Group), Sri Pangulur (Tribe Capital), Karan Mehandru (Madrona Ventures), Robert Downey Jr (Footprint Coalition), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Anne Dwane (Village Global), Ross Fubini (XYZ Venture Capital), Alexa von Tobel (Inspired Capital), Brianne Kimmel (WorkLife Ventures), Taylor Greene (Twelve Below), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Suranga Chandratillake (Balderton Capital), Peter Sonsini, Andy Coravos, Mathilde Collin
Perspective AI	SeedJan 2025$4M	$4M
Co-investors: Itamar Novick (Recursive Ventures)
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	$370K
Type Five	Pre SeedJan 2023
Salesroom	SeedJun 2022$9M	$9M
Co-investors: Barak Goldstein (Terra Venture Partners), Reshma Sohoni (Seedcamp), Sean Marshall (Craft Ventures), Mike Marg (Craft Ventures), Peter Kazanjy
HUBUC	SeedJan 2022$10M	$10M
Co-investors: John Lilly (Greylock), Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator), Michael Seibel (Y Combinator), Sujay Jaswa (WndrCo LLC), Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen (2xN), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Anthony Saleh (Photo Workshop), Samvit Ramadurgam