Allie Burns is a venture capital investor at Village Capital who champions "peer-selected investment," where entrepreneur cohorts make final funding decisions through structured scoring rather than traditional expert picking, with research showing this approach reduces bias against women founders. She focuses on overlooked sectors like financial inclusion and housing that affect "real world" problems, regularly citing that fewer than 20% of billion-dollar companies operate in areas critical to healthy lives, while backing non-obvious founders like PiggyVest in Nigeria, a female-co-founded savings platform for people without traditional banking access.