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

Timothy Chae

Managing Partner

Amal Enan

Partner

Max Fram-Schwartz

Venture Partner

Christine Herron

Advisor

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

Christine Tsai

Co-Founder, Partner & Chief Executive Officer

Tony Wang

Managing Partner

Bedy Yang

Managing Partner

Paul Yoo

Chief Financial Officer

Past deals in Pakistan

PostEx

Venture Round in 2023
PostEx is a hybrid of receivables factoring solutions and courier services that pay invoice values upfront to e-commerce companies offering Cash on Delivery as one of their modes of payment.

Dawaai

Venture Round in 2021
Dawaai is an online pharmacy for emerging Asia. From its beginning in Pakistan starting as one of the first technology-enabled pharmacies in the region, it is now on to disrupting healthcare in a big way and making it accessible to consumers. The company develops a one-stop platform which brings healthcare to consumers’ home across South Asia and MENA. Its offerings including ePharmacy platform with very reputable hospital partners, refill reminders, eLabs at home, online consultation, and its in house team of qualified healthcare professionals to provide advice as and when needed. Dawaai was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan.

Dawaai

Venture Round in 2021
Dawaai is an online pharmacy for emerging Asia. From its beginning in Pakistan starting as one of the first technology-enabled pharmacies in the region, it is now on to disrupting healthcare in a big way and making it accessible to consumers. The company develops a one-stop platform which brings healthcare to consumers’ home across South Asia and MENA. Its offerings including ePharmacy platform with very reputable hospital partners, refill reminders, eLabs at home, online consultation, and its in house team of qualified healthcare professionals to provide advice as and when needed. Dawaai was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan.

Dawaai

Seed Round in 2020
Dawaai is an online pharmacy for emerging Asia. From its beginning in Pakistan starting as one of the first technology-enabled pharmacies in the region, it is now on to disrupting healthcare in a big way and making it accessible to consumers. The company develops a one-stop platform which brings healthcare to consumers’ home across South Asia and MENA. Its offerings including ePharmacy platform with very reputable hospital partners, refill reminders, eLabs at home, online consultation, and its in house team of qualified healthcare professionals to provide advice as and when needed. Dawaai was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan.

Dawaai

Seed Round in 2019
Dawaai is an online pharmacy for emerging Asia. From its beginning in Pakistan starting as one of the first technology-enabled pharmacies in the region, it is now on to disrupting healthcare in a big way and making it accessible to consumers. The company develops a one-stop platform which brings healthcare to consumers’ home across South Asia and MENA. Its offerings including ePharmacy platform with very reputable hospital partners, refill reminders, eLabs at home, online consultation, and its in house team of qualified healthcare professionals to provide advice as and when needed. Dawaai was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan.

Enhance Ventures

Seed Round in 2018
Enhance Ventures is a venture builder based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, focusing on developing web and mobile-enabled businesses in the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan, and Turkey (MENAPT) regions. Founded in 2015, the company aims to create online platforms that provide life-enhancing products and services. Among its notable portfolio is joi, a leading online gift aggregator in the Middle East, which facilitates the selection and purchasing of gifts. Additionally, Enhance Ventures operates MEDIGO, a global marketplace for medical travel that streamlines the process of searching, booking, and arranging healthcare services abroad. The firm has attracted investment from various sources, including venture capital funds and prominent angel investors from the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.

Ingrain Media

Seed Round in 2015
They creates machine vision technology that enables Augmented Reality beyond the range of depth sensors. Virtually every Augmented Reality device (Hololens, Magic Leap, Meta, Google's Tango) relies on IR depth sensors for scene understanding before it can augment the environment. The IR sensors, however, can only estimate depth information in a limited range, practically making these devices unusable in outdoor scenarios. At Ingrain, they use their years of bleeding edge vision research experience to create technology that relies solely on sensors available on a typical smartphone to do long range Augmented Reality.