500 Labs

500 Global, formerly known as 500 Startups, is a venture capital firm and incubator based in Mountain View, California, founded in 2010. The firm specializes in seed investments, primarily focusing on early-stage technology and financial services startups across various sectors, including biotech, e-commerce, fintech, and digital healthcare. 500 Global operates a four-month accelerator program, where it typically invests between $0.05 million and $1 million for a 5 to 10 percent equity stake in companies with at least $100,000 in monthly revenue. The firm targets a global market, with particular emphasis on regions such as the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Since its inception, it has invested in over 2,200 startups and supports the growth of innovation ecosystems through educational programs and partnerships. 500 Global also prioritizes investments in companies led by minority founders, reflecting its commitment to diverse entrepreneurial leadership.

Amjad Ahmad

General Partner

Chandini Ammineni

Partner

André Marcel Bally

Investor Relations Associate

Amal Enan

Partner

Max Fram-Schwartz

Venture Partner

Twwo Pun Jaruthassanakul

Investment Associate

Yolanda Kim

Principal

Matt Lerner

Partner

Jon Li

Director, Investor Relations

Jasmine Liew

Investment Manager

Robert Neivert

Venture Partner

Khailee Ng

Managing Partner

Krating Poonpol Ph.D

Partner

Ruangroj Poonpol

Venture Partner

Natavudh Pungcharoenpong

Partner

Mameaw Sapprasert

Partner

Reena Sharma

Investor Relations Associate

Mike Sigal

Partner, FinTech

Sanjay Singhal

Partner, Canada

Tanya Soman

Venture Partner

Paulina Szyrmer

Head of Global Education

Pat Naranpat Thitipattakul

Investor

Tony Wang

Managing Partner

Paul Yoo

Chief Financial Officer

Past deals in Predictive Analytics

Murmur

Seed Round in 2023
Customer Data Platform helps brands to explore audiences in real-world, connect with them in real-time via car-top billboards. Using our smart car-top billboard technology, Optical AI and proprietary Wi-Fi payload, we collect data in real-time, create retargeting online ads dynamically..

Krunch

Seed Round in 2022
Krunch helps you understand the developer world through data. Powered by our proprietary Artificial Causal Intelligence (ACI) model, you are able to do analysis that was not possible before. Our analytic platform helps companies with API or developer focused products to conduct impact analytics on their outreach efforts, developer profiling and developer experience enhancement. With our technology, we are able to solve our users' problems 10 times better than existing solutions.

Penfield.AI

Seed Round in 2021
Penfield.AI specializes in cybersecurity solutions, focusing on enhancing security operations through advanced automation and performance optimization. The company has developed a patent-pending technology that models the skillsets of cybersecurity analysts in real-time, allowing for the automation of complex tasks. Its platform provides AI-powered tools that facilitate process standardization and bottleneck analysis, thereby enabling security teams to streamline workflows and improve their overall security posture. By equipping clients with these innovative tools, Penfield.AI aims to optimize performance and elevate the effectiveness of cybersecurity efforts.

Lydia.ai

Venture Round in 2021
Knowtions Research Inc. is an applied artificial intelligence company based in Toronto, Canada, focused on transforming health data into actionable insights. Its flagship product, the Lydia AI platform, is designed specifically for health insurers, allowing them to analyze and utilize complex medical data to enhance operational efficiency. By leveraging predictive analytics, Lydia enables insurers to automate claims processing and tailor customer experiences. Founded in 2015, Knowtions Research aims to make global health data more accessible and useful, driven by support from notable investors such as Alibaba Entrepreneur’s Fund and Information Venture Partners.

Lydia.ai

Venture Round in 2021
Knowtions Research Inc. is an applied artificial intelligence company based in Toronto, Canada, focused on transforming health data into actionable insights. Its flagship product, the Lydia AI platform, is designed specifically for health insurers, allowing them to analyze and utilize complex medical data to enhance operational efficiency. By leveraging predictive analytics, Lydia enables insurers to automate claims processing and tailor customer experiences. Founded in 2015, Knowtions Research aims to make global health data more accessible and useful, driven by support from notable investors such as Alibaba Entrepreneur’s Fund and Information Venture Partners.

Penfield.AI

Seed Round in 2020
Penfield.AI specializes in cybersecurity solutions, focusing on enhancing security operations through advanced automation and performance optimization. The company has developed a patent-pending technology that models the skillsets of cybersecurity analysts in real-time, allowing for the automation of complex tasks. Its platform provides AI-powered tools that facilitate process standardization and bottleneck analysis, thereby enabling security teams to streamline workflows and improve their overall security posture. By equipping clients with these innovative tools, Penfield.AI aims to optimize performance and elevate the effectiveness of cybersecurity efforts.

ActualConversion

Seed Round in 2020
We collect all the unique data generated by the many marketing platforms used by a business. We then filter and normalize that data into a universal language that we enrich with relevant business insights and recommendations that you can understand and use. It doesn't stop there... We don’t just want to simplify reporting to see what has worked well in the past, we want to help predict the best actions going forwards to get the best possible results, at the best budget.

Retrocausal

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Retrocausal builds intelligence augmentation systems that help frontline workers train better, be more efficient at their daily jobs, and improve the processes they drive. Their RetroActivity platform for human activity analysis automatically builds computational models of a complex physical task, given only a handful of recorded demonstrations of the task. Once such a model is built, RetroActivity can finely track the job status from live video, to guide a worker through the task, provide independent training, and perform analytics.

Predina Tech

Seed Round in 2020
Predina Tech Limited is a London-based company that focuses on developing mobile applications and an artificial intelligence platform aimed at predicting and mitigating risks associated with autonomous vehicles. Founded in 2016, the company offers various solutions, including Collision Avoidance for semi-autonomous vehicles, which provides advanced warnings to drivers; Fleet Risk, designed for mobility services; and an AI-driven safety solution for Smart Cities that aims to reduce congestion and enhance public safety. Additionally, Predina Tech's platform analyzes historical crash data alongside factors such as street intersections, weather conditions, and time to predict the likelihood of vehicle accidents at specific locations, serving both insurance and safety needs.

Pique

Seed Round in 2019
Pique helps turn visitors into customers, with an AI recommendation engine proven to turbocharge ecommerce growth. Pique helps medium-sized businesses turn even first-time web visitors into paying customers, with little to no historical data. With industry-leading AI tuned for your customers and a dynamic data scientist team, Pique has grown ecommerce revenue up to 50%. Our research team consists of data-scientists with experience from Silicon Valley, Stanford University, and Cambridge University. We published a paper on recommendations that was recognized at RecSys 2017, the world’s most prestigious recommender system conference, featuring sponsors such as Amazon, Spotify, and Netflix among others.

eino

Pre Seed Round in 2019
EINO, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in developing predictive software aimed at forecasting the movement and intent of people in urban environments. The technology enhances historical data with extensive contextual information, which is processed by an artificial intelligence engine to guide key business decisions. This capability enables companies to optimize resource planning and distribution, improve operational efficiency, and enhance customer service, ultimately leading to increased revenue. EINO is currently engaged in proof of concept projects with three major global operators.

Hedron

Seed Round in 2019
Analytical Space is in the business of quickly moving data from imaging satellites in space back to the ground. Analytical Space is building the in-orbit communication infrastructure that will enable real time knowledge of what is happening on the surface of our planet.

Preteckt

Seed Round in 2018
Preteckt, Inc. develops a cloud-based platform that specializes in predicting and prescribing maintenance diagnostics for vehicles. The company offers vehicle prognostics-as-a-service (VPaaS), connecting manufacturers of connected and autonomous vehicles with service providers. Preteckt utilizes its proprietary real-time automotive data architecture to integrate artificial intelligence, deep learning, and machine learning algorithms, enabling efficient management of automotive data. This innovative approach provides a significant speed advantage over traditional big data solutions, allowing for real-time processing with zero false positives. The platform is designed to scale seamlessly with existing connected vehicles and fleets, serving a diverse clientele that includes municipalities, telematics service providers, and original equipment manufacturers in the automotive sector. Established in 2015, Preteckt is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, with an additional location in Hamilton, Canada.

Kimola

Seed Round in 2018
Kimola is a data analytics company specializing in understanding human behavior through its innovative platforms. Launched in 2018, Kimola Analytics offers audience-specific trends and lifestyle insights by employing an artificial intelligence engine to anonymously profile consumers. This enables marketers to enhance their strategies, optimize media buying, and improve return on investment. Additionally, Kimola Cognitive, a machine learning platform, assists in auto-classifying various forms of social listening data, including interview scripts and customer feedback. Founded in 2014 at the Microsoft Innovation Center, Kimola has evolved into a resource for global corporations aiming to ground their strategies in sectors such as communications, sales, and marketing. The company combines technology with social sciences to deliver comprehensive insights into consumer behavior.

Datatron

Seed Round in 2018
Datatron Technologies Inc. offers a machine learning model lifecycle management platform designed to streamline the deployment and governance of machine learning models. Established in 2016 and located in San Francisco, the company enables organizations to efficiently produce and manage multiple machine learning models in production. Its platform supports automated processes for feature engineering, model training, monitoring, troubleshooting, deployment, and versioning. Datatron's solutions are vendor, language, and framework agnostic, accommodating a wide range of tools and technologies such as Python, R, and TensorFlow. This versatility is complemented by a user-friendly interface that simplifies model management for enterprises, ensuring effective oversight and governance of their AI and data science initiatives.

ScoreData Corporation

Seed Round in 2017
ScoreData Corporation, a global data analytics company, which provides data analytics solutions to deliver predictive insights. It operates ScoreFast, a self-learning predictive analytics SaaS platform that offers solutions in the areas of churn management and customer retention, cross-sell and up-sell models, lifetime value management, credit risk management and collections, customer engagement and contact center solutions, fraud risk management, and other functional areas. The company serves banking and financial services, insurance firms, telecom service, and retail companies. ScoreData Corporation was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Palo Alto, California with an additional office in Pune, India.

Panoply

Series A in 2017
Panoply automates all of the data management tasks associated with running big data on the cloud, freeing up engineers and data scientists to focus on exploring data to discover and drive business value

SentiSum

Seed Round in 2017
SentiSum operates an artificial intelligence-driven analytics platform that delivers actionable insights derived from customer feedback across various channels. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, with an additional office in London, the company utilizes advanced natural language processing techniques to help businesses understand customer sentiment at a granular level. SentiSum's dashboard enables sales and customer experience teams to enhance customer loyalty and retention, while product teams can refine their offerings based on detailed insights. The platform classifies data into customized structures and offers both pre-trained and bespoke models tailored to client needs. By connecting and analyzing customer interactions, SentiSum empowers organizations to identify key moments that influence customer experience, ultimately reducing churn and fostering improved sentiment and loyalty.

Codec

Seed Round in 2017
Next-generation audience intelligence for brands. Codec's AI-powered insights will bring new confidence and accuracy to the way brands engage with target audiences. They spend their time geeking out over new AI and ML pipelines, hunting down cool datasets and thinking about what it all means for the creative process and content marketing. Between us, we’ve built fast database startups, run VC-backed startups in the US and UK and founded one of the world’s first social media agencies. They started Codec to empower marketers and creatives with the empirical evidence they need to make better decisions and they are proud to have worked with some of the best in the business since founding Codec in early 2015.

Insider

Venture Round in 2017
Insider is a growth management platform that assists digital marketers in enhancing their customer engagement throughout the marketing funnel, from acquisition to retention and revenue generation. The platform utilizes real-time predictive segmentation powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, enabling marketers to create personalized customer journeys across various channels, including web, mobile apps, and advertising. Designed for ease of implementation, Insider's unified data layer eliminates the need for complex integrations, allowing marketers to focus on driving growth without inefficiencies. The company aims to optimize marketing effectiveness by improving return on ad spend, driving conversions, and facilitating product discovery. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Singapore, Insider has expanded its presence globally with offices in multiple cities, including London, Tokyo, and Dubai. The company has received recognition for its innovative solutions and leadership, including listings in prestigious startup rankings.

Obie

Pre Seed Round in 2017
At Obie.ai we use AI to surface knowledge from silos and deliver it where questions are asked, speeding up internal support and accelerating growth for mid-sized companies.

UrbanLogiq

Convertible Note in 2017
UrbanLogiq is a Canadian company that specializes in developing a cloud-based platform for urban data analytics aimed at enhancing city planning. Founded in 2016, the company focuses on integrating various previously siloed datasets from government sources with additional public, private, and Internet data. By applying machine learning and analytics, UrbanLogiq aims to provide city planners with tools that streamline decision-making processes. Its platform includes features for economic intelligence, enabling detailed forecasting of economic trends and policy impact analysis, as well as transportation analytics that consolidate traffic sensor data for optimizing traffic management and infrastructure planning. UrbanLogiq's solutions are designed to empower public officials to build safer, stronger, and more resilient communities without requiring extensive data expertise.

Fuel

Seed Round in 2017
Intelligent Nutrition Engine analyzing your genetics, lifestyle, and body metrics to optimize and deliver the perfect meals for you.

Valor Water Analytics

Seed Round in 2016
Valor Water Analytics, Inc. specializes in developing analytical solutions for water utilities to enhance financial and resource management. The company offers a range of interactive tools and dashboards that analyze utility sales data, providing insights into revenue performance and opportunities for conservation. Its flagship product, Customer Water Sales Analytics, helps utility finance and conservation managers access disaggregated sales information, key performance indicators, and targeted program insights. Additionally, Valor provides commercial and industrial solutions, including custom water cost calculators and the Valor Technology Platform, which serves as a comprehensive data and business intelligence system. This platform enables utilities to benchmark their performance, reduce costs, conserve resources, and manage financial risks related to water operations. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, California, Valor Water Analytics operates as a subsidiary of Xylem Inc.

AppFront

Seed Round in 2016
Helping Restaurants Optimize, Personalize and Control their Customers’ Digital Experience in Real-Time, Across any Channel.

Botanalytics

Convertible Note in 2016
Botanalytics is a conversational analytics tool for bots. It helps bot makers to improve human-to-bot communication by identifying bottlenecks, segmenting conversations & users, and measuring engagement. The company is committed to improving human-bot interactions and conversational UI through data. By offering analytics for bots, Botanalytics empowers bot developers, corporate brands, and agencies to improve their chatbots with historical and real-time conversation data. The team aims to make it as easy as possible for developers to act on data, and are available to bots spread across 12 different platforms. Thousands of conversational products such as Messenger bots, Google actions, and Amazon Alexa skills use Botanalytics

StreetHawk

Seed Round in 2015
StreetHawk is a predictive mobile engagement platform, increasing customer retention & engagement on mobile apps.

Prayas Analytics

Seed Round in 2015
Prayas Anaytics helps retailers A/B test their stores, the way eCommerce companies A/B test their websites. This is done by continuously collecting data on customer movement using existing security cameras already in a retailer's stores. Prayas Analytics is a Y Combinator backed company (S15) and is currently working with several retailers including Barneys, Payomatic, and multiple Fortune 200 retailers. The company has been featured in VentureBeat, The National Retail Federation, and Techcrunch. Visit www.prayasanalytics.com for more information.

Panoply

Seed Round in 2015
Panoply automates all of the data management tasks associated with running big data on the cloud, freeing up engineers and data scientists to focus on exploring data to discover and drive business value

ResultsOnAir

Convertible Note in 2015
ResultsOnAir OÜ is a company based in Tallinn, Estonia, specializing in big data analytics for television advertisers. The firm offers services that include analytics evaluation, data processing, and insight gathering, aimed at enhancing the return on investment for TV advertising. By capturing real-time web traffic generated by television ads, ResultsOnAir enables clients to understand the customer journey from initial visit to conversion. The platform helps advertisers and their agencies optimize ad spending, often achieving an average return on investment of over 40%.

Vizalytics Technology

Seed Round in 2014
The Vizalytics Insight Builder family of contextual insight tools produces location-specific business intelligence, operating across all your data sets to speed decisions on site selection, location performance, use case optimization, development, and future planning. Competitive rankings, feasibility scores, and customer/neighborhood profiling enable cities to drive planning and operations, bankers to assess loan prospects, real estate firms to uncover development opportunities, retail chains to compare branches. Insight Builder tools find the data, do the data science, and put you in position to act. Contact us to learn which Insight Builder tool is right for you:

SocialCops

Seed Round in 2014
SocialCops are partner with leaders and organizations around the world to make data-driven decisions easier and more effective. Their work helps build a world with smarter cities, happier citizens, better policies, and a brighter future. Today's model of engaging with data — both the data they use and how they use it — is broken. Data intelligence is the solution. It starts with finding all the data you need for your decision — extracted from elaborate internal systems, sourced from places you never would have thought to look, and unified with real-time data. they then transform this mass of data into intelligent insights that make the best decision obvious. SocialCops is backed by 500 Start-ups; Rajan Anandan, Managing Director of Google India; and Manoj Menon, Managing Director of Frost and Sullivan APAC. Its team consists of engineers and data scientists. The company won the love of the Forbes India '30 under 30', World Summit Youth Award, and IBM Smart Planet Challenge.

Coinalytics Co.

Convertible Note in 2014
Coinalytics Co. offers data aggregation, real-time analytics, and tunable predictions for Bitcoin ecosystem. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Sporthold

Seed Round in 2014
Our algorithm correctly predicts what will happen on the spread 54.65% of the time. That's a crushing edge in a $1T annual market. We do that by collecting data only we have access to and building a clever algorithm using AI to identify trends we can use to arbitrage what we know will happen versus what the sports books think will happen. We collect the data by making an addictive sports prediction game that's free to play for our users. Contact us to learn more.

PredictionIO

Seed Round in 2013
PredictionIO is an open-source machine learning server designed for software developers and data engineers to create predictive features such as personalization, recommendation, and content discovery. The platform allows developers to effortlessly integrate predictive capabilities into their web or mobile applications through a straightforward set of APIs. This enables the implementation of features like product recommendations similar to those used by major retailers or news suggestions akin to popular content platforms, all accomplished with minimal coding effort. By providing these tools, PredictionIO supports the development of smarter applications that enhance user experiences.

Pick1

Seed Round in 2013
Pick1 specializes in transforming survey data into actionable insights for brands, providing a comprehensive solution that integrates seamlessly with third-party technologies such as Salesforce and MailChimp. Unlike traditional polling tools that focus solely on question creation, Pick1 emphasizes the importance of leveraging responses by offering a customizable and flexible suite of marketing intelligence tools. This allows brands to automate the processing of survey data without the challenges of integrating separate polling systems. By delivering contextual data alongside survey results, Pick1 enables brands to better understand their audience, facilitating the creation of user clusters. This targeted approach helps brands tailor content and advertising strategies, ultimately enhancing engagement and conversion rates.

Wiser Solutions

Seed Round in 2012
Wiser is the leading provider of actionable data for better decisions. Wiser collects and analyzes online and in-store data with unmatched speed, scale and accuracy. The Wiser platform then blends these insights with advanced workflow software to drive business value for brands and retailers. Using a unique combination of data science and human validation, Wiser offers integrated solutions for every aspect of retail, all in one place.

GetChorus.com

Seed Round in 2011
Chorus works with your current customer support solution to let companies reply to the angriest emails first, decrease risk of bad PR on social networks, and predict future trends and sentiment.

DemandSphere

Seed Round in 2011
DemandSphere is the result of the evolution and growth of GinzaMetrics, an enterprise search and content marketing platform with clients around the world in a variety of organizations and roles.The changes to the marketing landscape and, by extension, the roles that marketers play, has meant constant updates to data and insight needs by our users. Where SEO, content, email, social, paid, display, offline, and other channels once lived separately there are growing connective ties between online and offline experiences, and onsite and offsite content needs.

Fastcall

Angel Round in 2011
Fastcall, a Salesforce Silver Partner, delivers the highest-rated, Salesforce-native dialer used to drive sales productivity and eliminate manual sales tasks. Our subscribers sell faster and close more deals. At the core of artificial intelligence is data used for machine learning - the never-ending data firehose produced from every interaction we have with our prospects. Leveraging Salesforce Artificial intelligence, Fastcall enables your organization to turn a bottomless ocean of phone and SMS data into increased sales. Fastcall is today's modern phone application. We log phone and SMS activity, maintain progress against defined goals and deliver smart notifications that surface time-sensitive activities. Fastcall subscribers put the frustration with disparate phone systems poorly integrated with Salesforce behind them. Data integration is a top challenge for every Salesforce admin. Savvy marketers want their interaction data in Salesforce. Fastcall subscribers are capturing time-sensitive signals from customer interactions and analyzing the data entirely in Salesforce. Fastcall gives marketing a 360-degree view of the customer phone and SMS interaction data.

Saygent

Seed Round in 2011
Saygent's voice response & analysis SaaS allows companies to get superior customer insights at scale. Saygent automatically interviews thousands of customers and analyzes their responses for meaning and sentiment without using the expensive call centers or costly IVR systems. Saygent takes only 2 minutes to set up, and within hours, you get rich dashboard with actionable results. You quickly get a sense of the the most important trends and can listen to specific important calls of champions or detractors.