Village Labs

Helping America's businesses become employee owned

Y CombinatorSummer 2024ActiveB2BHuman ResourcesFintechHuman Resources

What they do

Problem

Business owners nearing retirement need a financially viable succession plan that preserves their company legacy and supports employees.

Solution

Village Labs helps businesses set up and manage employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) to transition ownership to employees while capturing tax benefits.

Who it's for

Privately held business owners and their companies seeking to transition ownership to employees via an ESOP.

Founders

Roger Cawdette

Co-Founder & CEO

I'm the co-founder & CEO at Village Labs where we're building software for ESOPs. Our hope is that by creating great products and technology for ESOPs, we’ll be able to expand employee ownership across America. Before this, I co-founded Finary (YC W21) where we were building a social network for the stock market (before WallStreetBets went viral!). I studied Technological & Social Innovation at Harvard and left after my sophomore year to do YC.