Village

Hi ProductHunt! I’m Abdallah Absi 👋🏽, and I’m thrilled to introduce to you Village 🏠 — the AI for your social capital. TLDR; We help professionals ** instantly and magically ** find warm introductions to customers, investors, and talent that are impossible to find via LinkedIn. Our V1 product helps 100k+ venture-backed founders instantly find warm intros to follow-on investors through 14,000+ pre-mapped VC networks. You can filter investors by connection strength, sweet spot funding, the sectors they invest in and more. There’s nothing better for fundraising in the market today than Village! **BACK STORY:** In 2019, after several startup setbacks, I decided to look for a job. I moved from Lebanon to the US and found myself stripped out of all my network and rapport that took years to build. I tried really hard to leverage my network by putting down a list of all my warm connections in a sheet, then reaching out to them individually to tap into their networks for opportunities for me. People struggled to help because they simply didn’t know how to scan their network for the purpose of helping me specifically. My efforts ended in frustration. It was obvious there’s a lack of “high-resolution” network visibility, so I started hacking a prototype. I was afraid this was an only a me problem, so I ended up joining LinkedIn Premium’s product team in the US — to learn about the market, and build it internally if I could. Fast-forward 2022, LinkedIn — I quit LinkedIn. I Joined hands with Rafa. I’ve worked directly with maybe ~50-100 engineers throughout my career. Rafa is absolutely the #1 engineer I’ve ever worked with. He’s not an ex-big tech, not a Harvard. We met cold after ~50 interviews with engineers and have been working together for 3 years now. He’s the poster-child of high-rapport, high-ethics with unbelievable drive that the Village network would help you discover. Now you can. You get a Lifetime 100% off Essentials plan if you sign up today only. If you’re a VC-backed founder, please write in the comments and we’ll DM you the private access to your portfolio.

Hey ProductHunt! I’m Abdullah Bakhach, co-founder and CTO. Absi and I met late-2022 when I was the CTO of Toters ($23m raised) leading a 60+ tech team. Absi wanted to sell us a Village license that would help my company recruit trusted software engineers 10x faster through our network. He opened his laptop screen to show me - and in a few clicks I saw a lot of software engineers that I could get trusted references on and potentially hire. The value was magical. I joined Absi as a co-founder and CTO early 2023. We’ve put a lot of love and long nights into this product. We can’t wait to hear your feedback!

I've been using Village since August 2022 and can't recommend it enough. The team is awesome and the product is unmatched if you're trying to figure out how to leverage your network. I went from zero to a funded startup thanks to Village.

We've been an early user for helping us uncover introduction paths in our network. The team has been iterating rapidly and creating value for us. Happy user here! :)

Congratulations on the launch! Village sounds like an incredible tool for making those crucial connections. Great work!

Congrats on the launch Abdallah and Abdullah! While most of our movement at Activepieces is in inbound, in the few times I needed to reach out to potential partners, Village made it much faster and efficient. In fact, I think it made it possible as the chances of getting replies were too low without proper intros. I thought LinkedIn was supposed to do this linking but it turns out that Village is needed! I'll keep giving feedback regarding my experience whenever I use Village.

Congratulations on the launch, the product is amazing!