The firm
Village GlobalVC firm · CA43cheques in 12 months292all time2ledCompanies they are listed as backing
Portfolio
Where they are named on record
Filings
- SEC Form D · Company raisingnZero Labs, Inc.Executive Officer, Directorsince 2021
- SEC Form D · Venture Capital fundVillage GlobalManaging Member of the General Partner of the Issueron 4 filings · since 2020
- SEC Form D · Venture Capital fundVillage GlobalManaging Member of the General Partner of Issueron 2 filings · since 2017
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Erik Torenberg is an entrepreneur, investor, and most importantly a community builder. NFX General Partner James Currier connects with Erik on the intricacies of building online & offline communities, behavioral psychology of users, and useful tactics/frameworks for early-stage Founders to consider… More on the show's page
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252. Decentralization of VC, Why Your Fund Size is Your Strategy, and Why Startup Formation is the Most Important Contributor to Economic Growth (Erik Torenberg)
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a16z’s Erik Torenberg, Ben Horowitz, and Jennifer Li sit down with Vals founder and CEO Rayan Krishnan to discuss one of AI’s increasingly difficult problems: how do you actually measure whether a model is getting better? As public benchmarks saturate and models get better at optimizing for the… More on the show's page
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Apple PodcastsThe show's pageThe Infrastructure Behind the Machine Age
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Ben Horowitz, Martin Casado, Raghu Raghuram, and Erik Torenberg discuss the launch of a16z's new Machine Age Fund and the infrastructure buildout behind AI, from chips, memory, and networking to power, cooling, and data centers. Why a dedicated fund now? The group argues that the bottleneck in AI… More on the show's page
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Apple PodcastsThe show's pageBen Horowitz and Travis Kalanick on Building Again
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Ben Horowitz, Travis Kalanick, and Erik Torenberg take the stage at Atoms' launch event for a candid fireside conversation about entrepreneurship, company building, and why Kalanick believes the next industrial revolution will be powered by AI. They revisit pivotal moments from Uber's history,… More on the show's page
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Venture firms are turning to creators to build trust with the next generation of founders before a check is ever written. It's a trend that's been building with a16z's acquisition of Erik Torenberg’s Turpentine podcast and OpenAI's acquisition of TBPN. Lightspeed Venture Partners just made its own…
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