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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 1 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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