The Idea Village
ideavillage.org Direct + LP
The Idea Village is a New Orleans-based nonprofit accelerator that supports startups through programs like IDEAinstitute and VILLAGEx. It also manages the Momentum Fund, a venture capital fund investing in its accelerator alumni.
The Idea Village is an accelerator headquartered in New Orleans, United States. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from seed to Series A, in startups, technology and innovation. Its stated cheque size is $100,000 investment at market terms. $7 million under management and 8 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“The odds of success for companies that complete a rigorous and selective accelerator program and raise outside capital greatly exceed those that do only one or the other.”
— The Idea Village, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Accelerator
- Headquarters
- New Orleans, United States
- Invests in
- Gulf South, Louisiana
- Sectors
- startups, technology, innovation
- Cheque size
- $100,000 investment at market terms
- Assets under management
- $7 million
- Portfolio
- 8 companies
Team, as The Idea Village publishes it
- Jon Atkinson Chief Executive Officer
- Liz Maxwell Chief of Staff
- Megan Balch Managing Director
- Andrew Albert Programs Director
- Ashleigh Sparks Development Manager
- Sydney Scott Marketing Manager
- Sean Mulligan Senior Programs Manager
- Seleigh Taylor Senior Manager of Administration
- Karissa Chao Programs Manager
Names and roles exactly as listed on ideavillage.org. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 1 co-investors found.
- imec.xpand 1 shared company: morrow.co
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page The Idea Village publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.ideavillage.org/name, type, hq_country, hq_city, sectors, description, status
- https://www.ideavillage.org/momentumfundis_investor, layer, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, aum, portfolio_count
- https://www.ideavillage.org/ourteampeople
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Record 1419 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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