500 Global

Founded in 2010, 500 Global is a global venture capital firm with over $2 billion in assets under management. It invests in early-stage technology companies across 80+ countries, focusing on markets where technology and innovation can generate long-term value. With over 190 members based in more than 25 countries, the firm provides funding, mentorship, and connections to startups worldwide.

Clayton Bryan

Partner

Alba Zurriaga Carda

Global Head of Innovation Strategy

Tim Chae

Managing Partner

Shawn Chu

Principal

Itali Pedroni Collini

Director 500 Startups Brazil

Nicholas Davison

Director

Amal Dokhan

General Partner

Amal Enan

Partner

Atika French

Senior Associate

Vishal Harnal

Managing Partner

Laila Hassan

Venture Partner

Adrian Latortue

Investor

Moo Natavudh Pungcharoenpong

Venture Partner

Krating Poonpol

Partner

Mameaw Sapprasert

Partner

Peter Shin

Lead Manager

Sanjay Singhal

Partner

Pat Naranpat Thitipattakul

Investor

Christine Tsai

Founding Partner and CEO

Pedro Vieira

Partner

Tony Wang

Managing Partner

Bedy Yang

Managing Partner

Arief bin Johan Alimin

Associate

Guhyeonmo Simsa

Executive

Past deals in Art

Artue

Seed Round in 2024
Artue is a technology company transforming the art industry. It operates an online platform that connects artists, galleries, and collectors globally. This platform facilitates art transactions through a user-friendly digital marketplace, allowing collectors to discover, purchase, and store art pieces at their convenience.

Chaart

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Chart is a platform that focuses on art collectors and the secondary art sales market, and it is spearheading the digital revolution of the existing art trade business.

Gaspack

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Gaspack is a developer of a nonfungible token (NFT) launchpad that focuses on supporting creators, artists, and brands in transforming their intellectual property into successful NFT projects. The company offers comprehensive assistance throughout the entire process, including development, launch, scaling, and ongoing maintenance, ensuring that these projects operate as sustainable businesses. Gaspack provides a full technology stack, community management, and creative consultancy services, enabling artists and brands to effectively navigate the complexities of content creation and monetization in the digital space. By empowering creators with the tools and resources they need, Gaspack aims to facilitate additional income streams and foster innovative artistic ventures.

Fy!

Venture Round in 2023
Fy! is an AI-powered online marketplace specializing in art, home decor, and lifestyle products. The company offers a diverse range of items, including wall art, furniture, lighting, rugs, and various home accessories, all aimed at making stylish living more accessible. Fy! emphasizes quality and affordability, providing users with the opportunity to enhance their living spaces. The platform also features free shipping, ensuring a convenient shopping experience for customers looking to refresh their homes with unique and trendy decor.

Gaspack

Seed Round in 2022
Gaspack is a developer of a nonfungible token (NFT) launchpad that focuses on supporting creators, artists, and brands in transforming their intellectual property into successful NFT projects. The company offers comprehensive assistance throughout the entire process, including development, launch, scaling, and ongoing maintenance, ensuring that these projects operate as sustainable businesses. Gaspack provides a full technology stack, community management, and creative consultancy services, enabling artists and brands to effectively navigate the complexities of content creation and monetization in the digital space. By empowering creators with the tools and resources they need, Gaspack aims to facilitate additional income streams and foster innovative artistic ventures.

Fy!

Equity Crowdfunding in 2022
Fy! is an AI-powered online marketplace specializing in art, home decor, and lifestyle products. The company offers a diverse range of items, including wall art, furniture, lighting, rugs, and various home accessories, all aimed at making stylish living more accessible. Fy! emphasizes quality and affordability, providing users with the opportunity to enhance their living spaces. The platform also features free shipping, ensuring a convenient shopping experience for customers looking to refresh their homes with unique and trendy decor.

Nuqtah NFT

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Pioneering NFT's in the Saudi Arabia with Nuqtah's NFT creative marketplace, with a goal to value the creative economy at the pedestal it should be at.

Fy!

Venture Round in 2021
Fy! is an AI-powered online marketplace specializing in art, home decor, and lifestyle products. The company offers a diverse range of items, including wall art, furniture, lighting, rugs, and various home accessories, all aimed at making stylish living more accessible. Fy! emphasizes quality and affordability, providing users with the opportunity to enhance their living spaces. The platform also features free shipping, ensuring a convenient shopping experience for customers looking to refresh their homes with unique and trendy decor.

Fy!

Seed Round in 2020
Fy! is an AI-powered online marketplace specializing in art, home decor, and lifestyle products. The company offers a diverse range of items, including wall art, furniture, lighting, rugs, and various home accessories, all aimed at making stylish living more accessible. Fy! emphasizes quality and affordability, providing users with the opportunity to enhance their living spaces. The platform also features free shipping, ensuring a convenient shopping experience for customers looking to refresh their homes with unique and trendy decor.

Fy!

Seed Round in 2019
Fy! is an AI-powered online marketplace specializing in art, home decor, and lifestyle products. The company offers a diverse range of items, including wall art, furniture, lighting, rugs, and various home accessories, all aimed at making stylish living more accessible. Fy! emphasizes quality and affordability, providing users with the opportunity to enhance their living spaces. The platform also features free shipping, ensuring a convenient shopping experience for customers looking to refresh their homes with unique and trendy decor.

Artiphon

Seed Round in 2019
Artiphon, Inc. is a Nashville-based company founded in 2011 that focuses on the design and manufacturing of innovative musical instruments aimed at making music accessible and engaging for everyone. The company has developed products like the INSTRUMENT 1 and Orba, which utilize intuitive gestures such as tapping, sliding, and waving to facilitate musical expression. These instruments can easily switch between various sounds like guitar, violin, piano, and drums, allowing users to adapt their playing style. Artiphon gained significant recognition with record-setting Kickstarter campaigns, where both products raised over $1 million in pre-orders. The INSTRUMENT 1 was notably recognized as a TIME Best Invention of the Year and a NAMM Best in Show. The company’s design philosophy is inspired by feedback from its community of creators, and its team includes experienced professionals from notable companies in the technology and music industries. Dr. Mike Butera, the founder, leverages his extensive background in sound studies to inform Artiphon's innovative approach to music technology.

Fy!

Seed Round in 2016
Fy! is an AI-powered online marketplace specializing in art, home decor, and lifestyle products. The company offers a diverse range of items, including wall art, furniture, lighting, rugs, and various home accessories, all aimed at making stylish living more accessible. Fy! emphasizes quality and affordability, providing users with the opportunity to enhance their living spaces. The platform also features free shipping, ensuring a convenient shopping experience for customers looking to refresh their homes with unique and trendy decor.

Silkroad Images

Seed Round in 2016
Silkroad Images is a unique stock photography and editorial content library specializing in authentic oriental and Middle Eastern imagery. The company is dedicated to capturing and accurately portraying the rich culture and traditions of the Middle East and beyond, providing a diverse collection of photographic images, digital content, and editorial material. Silkroad Images sources its content from both professional photographers and its own team, ensuring that all materials meet high-quality standards. The company emphasizes the importance of representing the region's minorities and refugees, aiming to give a voice to those often overlooked. By collaborating with numerous photographers across the region, Silkroad Images not only showcases their work on an international platform but also supports their development through generous compensation schemes. Committed to social responsibility, Silkroad Images actively implements programs to assist marginalized groups, ensuring that their mission includes making a positive impact on society.

Fy!

Seed Round in 2015
Fy! is an AI-powered online marketplace specializing in art, home decor, and lifestyle products. The company offers a diverse range of items, including wall art, furniture, lighting, rugs, and various home accessories, all aimed at making stylish living more accessible. Fy! emphasizes quality and affordability, providing users with the opportunity to enhance their living spaces. The platform also features free shipping, ensuring a convenient shopping experience for customers looking to refresh their homes with unique and trendy decor.

Blisby

Seed Round in 2015
Blisby LTD. is a Bangkok-based company established in 2013 that operates an online marketplace dedicated to handmade crafts. The platform serves as an e-commerce site where artists and craft makers can showcase a diverse array of products, including clothing, stationery, and accessories. Blisby facilitates the sharing of ideas and inventions within the artistic community, enabling users to discover and engage with unique handmade items. Through its marketplace, the company promotes creativity and encourages collaboration among artisans in Thailand.

Mountary

Seed Round in 2014
Mountary is a company that specializes in providing an online platform for creating custom frames tailored to individual artwork. It offers customers the ability to select various options for matting and measurements, allowing for a personalized framing experience. Additionally, Mountary provides expert consultation services to assist users in selecting the most suitable frames for their homes. By focusing on affordability and quality, Mountary aims to enhance the expression of personal identity through customized framing solutions.

ArtCorgi

Seed Round in 2014
ArtCorgi is a marketplace for commissioned art, aiming to make the process as easy as possible. They make it easy to commission gorgeous work from artists in a predictable manner. With up-front prices, streamlined communication, and a straightforward creation process, ArtCorgi helps you quickly and easily commission original works of art (and have a really good idea of what you’ll be getting in terms of style and quality).

Solidarium Mercado de Artesanato e Serviços Digitais

Seed Round in 2014
Solidarium Mercado de Artesanato e Serviços Digitais is an online marketplace established in 2007 and headquartered in Curitiba, Brazil. The company specializes in connecting Brazilian designers, artisans, and makers with consumers and retailers, facilitating the sale of handcrafted products and services. By providing a platform that promotes local craftsmanship, Solidarium aims to enhance the visibility and reach of small-scale creatives in the Brazilian market.

Bounty Hunter

Seed Round in 2013
Bounty Hunter is a creative competition platform headquartered in the Bay Area, originally founded in Taipei, Taiwan in 2010. The company specializes in crowd sourcing ideas and artwork for brands by facilitating creative contests that engage a strong base of artists and talent, referred to as "Hunters." Bounty Hunter offers a user-friendly Contest Builder tool, which enables brands to create event sites for various competitions. The platform not only allows participants to showcase their work and enhance their portfolios but also incorporates a public voting feature, transforming competitions into marketing opportunities. Notable clients include major brands such as Google, Blizzard, Playboy, Microsoft, Lexus, and Gigabyte, which utilize the platform to drive creativity and interaction. Overall, Bounty Hunter serves as a vital channel for creative individuals to pursue their aspirations while building connections within the industry.

The IdeaLists

Seed Round in 2013
The IdeaLists is a curated online marketplace based in Los Angeles, California, that connects brands, businesses, and agencies with creative professionals for various projects. Founded in 2010, the platform facilitates the listing of projects, allowing creative talent from its vetted community to pitch based on specific criteria such as schedule, budget, and deliverables. This streamlined approach enhances access to quality creative work while minimizing unnecessary complexities that often increase costs and extend timelines. Additionally, The IdeaLists provides a concierge service to assist clients in effectively listing their projects, ensuring a tailored match with suitable candidates from its pool of job-seekers.

The RealReal

Series A in 2012
The RealReal operates an online marketplace for authenticated luxury resale, offering fashion for women, men and kids, as well as jewelry, watches, art and home items. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, it functions as a full-service consignment platform that authenticates every item through in-house experts and uses technology to determine pricing, while managing photography, listings, payments and shipping. It is the largest pure-play luxury resale platform in the United States and supports a sustainable circular economy by facilitating resale across multiple categories. The company generates revenue primarily from consignments and first-party sales on its marketplace, with additional direct sales, and provides services such as virtual appointments, in-home pickup and direct shipping to buyers.

Behance

Series A in 2012
Behance is an online platform established in September 2006 by Matias Corea and Scott Belsky, designed to enable creative professionals to showcase and discover work through multimedia portfolios. It caters to a wide range of creative fields, including graphic design, photography, illustration, animation, and more, allowing individuals to connect, collaborate, and share their talents. The platform supports creative networks for schools and organizations, facilitates portfolio distribution to various online galleries, and offers customization options through ProSite, a personal portfolio site builder. Behance serves as a vital resource for millions of users, providing a central hub for displaying and discovering creative work. Its operations are based in New York, United States, and it has gained significant traction, attracting millions of visitors monthly.

The RealReal

Seed Round in 2012
The RealReal operates an online marketplace for authenticated luxury resale, offering fashion for women, men and kids, as well as jewelry, watches, art and home items. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, it functions as a full-service consignment platform that authenticates every item through in-house experts and uses technology to determine pricing, while managing photography, listings, payments and shipping. It is the largest pure-play luxury resale platform in the United States and supports a sustainable circular economy by facilitating resale across multiple categories. The company generates revenue primarily from consignments and first-party sales on its marketplace, with additional direct sales, and provides services such as virtual appointments, in-home pickup and direct shipping to buyers.

Artsicle

Seed Round in 2011
Artsicle, Inc. is an online art gallery based in New York that specializes in providing original artwork for rent. Founded in 2010, the company allows customers nationwide to explore and discover their artistic preferences from the comfort of their homes, offering rental options starting at $25 a month. Artsicle features work from some of New York's top emerging artists, enabling users to access diverse artworks tailored to their tastes. The platform not only promotes the rental of art but also supports local artists by connecting them with a broader audience.

COLOURlovers

Venture Round in 2011
COLOURlovers is an international creative community that helps people discover their inner designer. We provide people with a wealth of user created & shared color inspiration as well as tools that make the creative process as simple as possible. Whether you’re simply looking for a color palette to kickstart your next project or want to produce a piece of vector art, we have the tools and services to help anybody from go from design inspiration to execution. As of 5/1/2011 there are 563,438 COLOURlovers around the world who have created 3,766,464 Colors, 1,562,273 Palettes and 1,461,132 Patterns.
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