500 Global

500 Global, established in 2010, is a global venture capital firm with over $2.4 billion in assets under management. Based in Mountain View, California, with offices worldwide, the firm invests in early-stage technology companies across 80+ countries. 500 Global focuses on markets where technology and innovation can drive long-term value and economic growth. The firm's investment portfolio spans diverse sectors such as biotech, fintech, internet, and consumer services, with a preference for companies generating at least $100,000 in monthly revenue. 500 Global offers a four-month accelerator program, providing startups with funding, mentorship, and connections to renowned investors. The firm has invested in over 2,800 companies, including 35 unicorns, and has a team of over 190 members based in 25 countries.

Clayton Bryan

Partner

Shawn Chu

Principal, Global Investment

Itali Pedroni Collini

Director 500 Startups Brazil

Nicholas Davison

Director

Amal Enan

Partner

Cecilia Ezquerro

Portfolio Director

Laila Hassan

Venture Partner

Neha Khera

Co-Founder and Partner, 500 Canada

Eunhye Kim

Investment Associate

Khailee Ng

Managing Partner

René Lomelí Ojeda

Partner, 500 Latin America

Pedro Vieira

Partner

Yingjie Wang

Investor

Tony Wang

Managing Partner

Past deals in FMCG

Calo

Venture Round in 2023
Calo is a direct-to-consumer food tech company that specializes in personalized meal subscriptions. The company’s app calculates the specific calories and macronutrients users require, delivering ready-to-eat meals tailored to their fitness goals. By matching users with chef-prepared meals, Calo ensures high-quality food that caters to busy lifestyles. The platform offers a diverse range of meal plans based on individual dietary needs, facilitated by nutritionist-approved algorithms. With a user-friendly interface, the Calo app allows users to analyze their nutritional requirements and subscribe to meal plans in under two minutes, providing a convenient solution for those seeking healthy food options delivered directly to their doorstep.

Chaldal

Venture Round in 2023
Chaldal Limited is an online grocery and delivery service based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with operations extending to Chattogram and Jashore. Founded in 2013, the company aims to provide customers with a wide selection of daily essentials, including groceries, beauty and health care products, baby care items, and home necessities. Chaldal stocks over 4,000 products across its warehouses and leverages a cloud-based inventory system, allowing customers to view real-time product availability. The company prioritizes convenience by offering delivery within an hour, mimicking the experience of shopping in a large retail store, which is often limited in local markets.

Dezpax

Series A in 2022
DezpaX is an e-commerce company that specializes in packaging distribution services, focusing primarily on the food industry. It offers a range of comprehensive food packing solutions that include customizable options for packaging design and ordering. Clients can personalize their packaging with features such as logo printing, food box straps, stickers, and glass sleeves. DezpaX emphasizes sustainability by providing packaging made from biodegradable materials, catering to the growing demand for environmentally friendly products in the food sector.

Chaldal

Series C in 2022
Chaldal Limited is an online grocery and delivery service based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with operations extending to Chattogram and Jashore. Founded in 2013, the company aims to provide customers with a wide selection of daily essentials, including groceries, beauty and health care products, baby care items, and home necessities. Chaldal stocks over 4,000 products across its warehouses and leverages a cloud-based inventory system, allowing customers to view real-time product availability. The company prioritizes convenience by offering delivery within an hour, mimicking the experience of shopping in a large retail store, which is often limited in local markets.

Verofax

Seed Round in 2022
Verofax is a provider of asset digitization and tracing solutions, focusing on enhancing productivity and compliance for businesses across various sectors, including pharmaceuticals, valuables, and food. The company's platform offers services that improve traceability and brand protection through features such as serialization and anti-counterfeiting systems. By addressing issues like counterfeit products, tampering, and inventory diversion, Verofax aims to foster trust among consumers. Additionally, the platform facilitates secure transaction validation, ensuring that every step in the supply chain is monitored and verified. With a commitment to improving consumer satisfaction and operational integrity, Verofax offers a comprehensive solution for businesses seeking to enhance their product safety and authenticity.

Calo

Seed Round in 2021
Calo is a direct-to-consumer food tech company that specializes in personalized meal subscriptions. The company’s app calculates the specific calories and macronutrients users require, delivering ready-to-eat meals tailored to their fitness goals. By matching users with chef-prepared meals, Calo ensures high-quality food that caters to busy lifestyles. The platform offers a diverse range of meal plans based on individual dietary needs, facilitated by nutritionist-approved algorithms. With a user-friendly interface, the Calo app allows users to analyze their nutritional requirements and subscribe to meal plans in under two minutes, providing a convenient solution for those seeking healthy food options delivered directly to their doorstep.

Freshket

Venture Round in 2021
FreshKet is an integrated workflow marketplace designed for fresh food suppliers and restaurants. The company operates a web-based platform that facilitates restaurant supply management by connecting vendors with buyers of fresh ingredients. Through its marketplace and order management system, FreshKet streamlines the purchasing process, allowing clients to efficiently find vendors, buy or sell fresh products, and enhance the transparency of their transactions. This approach not only improves operational efficiency but also helps businesses increase profitability.

Shoppa

Seed Round in 2021
Shoppa is a digital supermarket that connects consumers to farms and other suppliers.

Chaldal

Venture Round in 2021
Chaldal Limited is an online grocery and delivery service based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with operations extending to Chattogram and Jashore. Founded in 2013, the company aims to provide customers with a wide selection of daily essentials, including groceries, beauty and health care products, baby care items, and home necessities. Chaldal stocks over 4,000 products across its warehouses and leverages a cloud-based inventory system, allowing customers to view real-time product availability. The company prioritizes convenience by offering delivery within an hour, mimicking the experience of shopping in a large retail store, which is often limited in local markets.

Monkey Foods

Venture Round in 2021
Monkey Foods, established in 2020 and headquartered in San Salvador, operates a cloud kitchen platform designed to facilitate food delivery services for entrepreneurial chefs. The company manages all aspects of the process, from order receipt to delivery at customers' doorsteps, allowing chefs to focus on cooking while Monkey Foods handles logistics.

Graviti

Seed Round in 2021
Graviti offers the products needed the most, financed for months. No credit or debit card, no initial payment, no arrears, and with credit approved immediately. It wants to make sure every family in LATAM is able to buy basic appliances for the home by offering fair and accessible financing to acquire them. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Mexico.

Quantum Platform

Seed Round in 2021
Quantum Platform is a business-to-business product platform that specializes in providing data-driven sampling solutions. The company utilizes intelligent e-process integration to offer targeted sampling services, specifically designed to engage active online shoppers based on defined criteria, thereby driving conversion rates. Quantum collaborates with global fast-moving consumer goods companies and a range of exclusive online businesses, ensuring that samples are delivered directly to the target audience's doorstep. In addition to its core sampling solutions, the company also develops specialized targeted market research and product testing campaigns, leveraging intelligent matching, feedback, and analytics to help enterprises improve their business outcomes and profitability.

Blume

Seed Round in 2020
Blume is a company based in North Vancouver, Canada, specializing in all-natural self-care products designed specifically for girls experiencing puberty. Founded in 2016 by Bunny and Taran Ghatrora, Blume offers a range of products that address the unique needs of this demographic, including meltdown acne oil, gentle face washes, natural deodorant, menstrual care items like organic tampons, and PMS relief oils. The company emphasizes the use of natural ingredients in its formulations and aims to provide a supportive and empowering experience for young women. Blume's products are available for purchase through its website, and the company also offers curated gift boxes.

Invygo

Seed Round in 2020
Invygo is the first and largest car subscription service in the MENA region, established in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE. The company offers consumers a seamless app-based platform that provides access to passenger cars through an all-inclusive monthly subscription model, allowing users to customize their subscriptions on a month-to-month basis without the financial burdens typically associated with car ownership. Invygo's service enables customers to easily subscribe to and return vehicles, with payments covering insurance, maintenance, breakdown support, and concierge assistance. Additionally, the platform offers dealers an innovative business model to generate revenue while minimizing depreciation and operational costs.

Quantum Platform

Seed Round in 2020
Quantum Platform is a business-to-business product platform that specializes in providing data-driven sampling solutions. The company utilizes intelligent e-process integration to offer targeted sampling services, specifically designed to engage active online shoppers based on defined criteria, thereby driving conversion rates. Quantum collaborates with global fast-moving consumer goods companies and a range of exclusive online businesses, ensuring that samples are delivered directly to the target audience's doorstep. In addition to its core sampling solutions, the company also develops specialized targeted market research and product testing campaigns, leveraging intelligent matching, feedback, and analytics to help enterprises improve their business outcomes and profitability.

Bakala

Seed Round in 2020
Bakala is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tool that provides Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCGs) companies with real-time access to analytics on market shares, distribution, pricing, promotion, and much more. With accurate and timely data, FMCGs can accordingly make better business decisions to improve their product, supply chain, distribution, and sales.

Fooda

Seed Round in 2020
Fooda is a Chicago-based company founded in 2010 that specializes in providing food delivery services to offices. It partners with restaurants to offer unique meal services directly in office lobbies or breakrooms, allowing employees to enjoy a variety of authentic dining options at their workplace. Fooda's services include daily lunch deliveries and catering for corporate meetings and events, enhancing the workplace experience by bringing top-rated local, regional, and national restaurants to offices.

Graviti

Seed Round in 2020
Graviti offers the products needed the most, financed for months. No credit or debit card, no initial payment, no arrears, and with credit approved immediately. It wants to make sure every family in LATAM is able to buy basic appliances for the home by offering fair and accessible financing to acquire them. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Mexico.

Fooda

Series D in 2019
Fooda is a Chicago-based company founded in 2010 that specializes in providing food delivery services to offices. It partners with restaurants to offer unique meal services directly in office lobbies or breakrooms, allowing employees to enjoy a variety of authentic dining options at their workplace. Fooda's services include daily lunch deliveries and catering for corporate meetings and events, enhancing the workplace experience by bringing top-rated local, regional, and national restaurants to offices.

Calo

Seed Round in 2019
Calo is a direct-to-consumer food tech company that specializes in personalized meal subscriptions. The company’s app calculates the specific calories and macronutrients users require, delivering ready-to-eat meals tailored to their fitness goals. By matching users with chef-prepared meals, Calo ensures high-quality food that caters to busy lifestyles. The platform offers a diverse range of meal plans based on individual dietary needs, facilitated by nutritionist-approved algorithms. With a user-friendly interface, the Calo app allows users to analyze their nutritional requirements and subscribe to meal plans in under two minutes, providing a convenient solution for those seeking healthy food options delivered directly to their doorstep.

Invygo

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Invygo is the first and largest car subscription service in the MENA region, established in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE. The company offers consumers a seamless app-based platform that provides access to passenger cars through an all-inclusive monthly subscription model, allowing users to customize their subscriptions on a month-to-month basis without the financial burdens typically associated with car ownership. Invygo's service enables customers to easily subscribe to and return vehicles, with payments covering insurance, maintenance, breakdown support, and concierge assistance. Additionally, the platform offers dealers an innovative business model to generate revenue while minimizing depreciation and operational costs.

Cricket One

Seed Round in 2019
Cricket One Inc. is a producer of cricket protein powder, offering a range of products for both human and animal consumption. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the company specializes in cricket meal and has developed technology for environment monitoring and control to optimize protein production. Cricket One's product line includes cricket-based sausages and mayonnaise, which are available in markets such as Vietnam, Russia, and Korea. Additionally, the company supplies cricket powder to bakeries and snack manufacturers in the United States and Europe. Committed to social responsibility, Cricket One collaborates with farmers to enhance their livelihoods by providing training and resources to improve cricket farming practices, significantly increasing their income. The company emphasizes sustainability, promoting cricket protein as a low-impact alternative to traditional protein sources, with a focus on reducing water usage and greenhouse gas emissions.

GoodsMart

Venture Round in 2019
GoodsMart is a mobile application developed to facilitate the online shopping of groceries and household products. Founded in 2013 and based in Cairo, Egypt, the company aggregates local grocery stores within its platform, allowing users to purchase a range of items including groceries, personal care, and home care products. GoodsMart offers a premium shopping experience with next-day delivery, enabling consumers to enjoy fresh products delivered directly to their homes. By streamlining the grocery shopping process, GoodsMart helps users save both time and money, making daily errands more manageable.

Breadfast

Series A in 2019
Breadfast is a Cairo-based company that specializes in producing a wide range of bread and bakery products, including various types of loaves, buns, and pastries. Founded in 2017, the company offers an extensive selection of items, such as white and brown toast, baguettes, multigrain bread, and different flavors of croissants and muffins. In addition to its bakery offerings, Breadfast operates an online delivery service that provides customers with a quick and convenient way to access household essentials, groceries, and over 3,000 items, including fruits, vegetables, and personal care products. This service aims to meet the daily needs of consumers by delivering fresh products directly to their doorsteps.

Cricket One

Seed Round in 2019
Cricket One Inc. is a producer of cricket protein powder, offering a range of products for both human and animal consumption. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the company specializes in cricket meal and has developed technology for environment monitoring and control to optimize protein production. Cricket One's product line includes cricket-based sausages and mayonnaise, which are available in markets such as Vietnam, Russia, and Korea. Additionally, the company supplies cricket powder to bakeries and snack manufacturers in the United States and Europe. Committed to social responsibility, Cricket One collaborates with farmers to enhance their livelihoods by providing training and resources to improve cricket farming practices, significantly increasing their income. The company emphasizes sustainability, promoting cricket protein as a low-impact alternative to traditional protein sources, with a focus on reducing water usage and greenhouse gas emissions.

Graviti

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Graviti offers the products needed the most, financed for months. No credit or debit card, no initial payment, no arrears, and with credit approved immediately. It wants to make sure every family in LATAM is able to buy basic appliances for the home by offering fair and accessible financing to acquire them. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Mexico.

Breadfast

Seed Round in 2017
Breadfast is a Cairo-based company that specializes in producing a wide range of bread and bakery products, including various types of loaves, buns, and pastries. Founded in 2017, the company offers an extensive selection of items, such as white and brown toast, baguettes, multigrain bread, and different flavors of croissants and muffins. In addition to its bakery offerings, Breadfast operates an online delivery service that provides customers with a quick and convenient way to access household essentials, groceries, and over 3,000 items, including fruits, vegetables, and personal care products. This service aims to meet the daily needs of consumers by delivering fresh products directly to their doorsteps.

Prodsmart

Seed Round in 2017
Prodsmart, Informática, Lda. is a Portuguese company founded in 2013 that specializes in developing analytics, management, and optimization software for manufacturing assembly lines and job shops. The company offers a comprehensive tracking system that enables factories to eliminate paperwork and collect real-time data through the use of smartphones on the shop floor. Its software provides functionalities such as shop floor management, real-time dashboards, planning and scheduling, product traceability, inventory management, custom reports, and real-time alerts. Prodsmart serves a diverse range of industries including automotive, electronics, food and beverage, textiles, and industrial manufacturing, among others. The company’s clients include notable firms such as Mitsubishi and Componor, reflecting its commitment to enhancing operational efficiency and visibility within manufacturing processes.

Blume

Angel Round in 2017
Blume is a company based in North Vancouver, Canada, specializing in all-natural self-care products designed specifically for girls experiencing puberty. Founded in 2016 by Bunny and Taran Ghatrora, Blume offers a range of products that address the unique needs of this demographic, including meltdown acne oil, gentle face washes, natural deodorant, menstrual care items like organic tampons, and PMS relief oils. The company emphasizes the use of natural ingredients in its formulations and aims to provide a supportive and empowering experience for young women. Blume's products are available for purchase through its website, and the company also offers curated gift boxes.

SureGroup

Seed Round in 2016
Commerce in Africa is deeply facilitated by cash, but cash-based transactions are expensive, unsafe, and difficult to track. Suregifts identified an opportunity to take advantage of the growth and adoption of the internet and all things digital in Africa by creating a simple, yet safe alternative currency to be utilised for specific purposes; Vouchers. At the core of what SureGifts does, is selling and maintaining an inventory of vouchers, which can be exchanged between two or more parties, and spent at a closed but extensive network of merchants across Africa for a near-unlimited assortment of goods and services.

Boxgreen

Seed Round in 2016
Boxgreen is an e-commerce subscription platform based in Singapore, founded in 2014. The company specializes in curating and delivering a selection of nutritious snacks directly to customers' offices or doorsteps. With a choice of 20 snack options, Boxgreen focuses on providing healthy snacks made from wholesome ingredients that are free from artificial flavoring and coloring. This approach allows consumers to enjoy convenient snacking without compromising their health and fitness goals.

Tuckernuck

Series A in 2015
Tuckernuck, Inc. is an online retailer based in Washington, D.C., specializing in apparel and lifestyle products that embody a classic American aesthetic. Founded in 2010, the company offers a diverse range of items for women, men, and children, including clothing, accessories, and home décor. Its product offerings encompass tops, outerwear, jewelry, bags, activewear, and beauty products, as well as home items such as barware and kitchen accessories. Tuckernuck curates a blend of well-known and emerging brands, emphasizing a timeless style that reflects tradition and an active lifestyle. The company aims to create a distinctive shopping experience by continually introducing unique products that resonate with customers, making it a go-to destination for those seeking quality and classic American style.

Sonoma

Venture Round in 2015
Sonoma Market, established in São Paulo, Brazil in 2018, operates an online marketplace connecting local farmers, artisanal producers, and specialized importers with customers seeking high-quality food and beverages. The company facilitates immediate delivery of curated products through its platform, aiming to bring the Latin American quality food and beverage sector meaningfully onto the internet.

Love With Food

Seed Round in 2014
Love With Food operates an online subscription platform that focuses on delivering healthier snack options, including organic, all-natural, and gluten-free products, directly to consumers. Targeting primarily female consumers aged 25 to 45, the platform allows users to explore new snacks through a monthly subscription service that includes free home delivery and no cancellation fees. In addition to providing a diverse range of snack choices, Love With Food also serves as a marketing platform that collects valuable product intelligence data for consumer food brands. This data helps brands effectively reach their target audience while significantly reducing marketing and research costs. The company has partnered with notable brands such as General Mills, Nestle, and Lindt Chocolates. A distinctive aspect of Love With Food's mission is its commitment to social responsibility; for every snack box delivered, the company donates a meal to feed a hungry child in America, having contributed over 250,000 meals to date.

Sonoma

Angel Round in 2013
Sonoma Market, established in São Paulo, Brazil in 2018, operates an online marketplace connecting local farmers, artisanal producers, and specialized importers with customers seeking high-quality food and beverages. The company facilitates immediate delivery of curated products through its platform, aiming to bring the Latin American quality food and beverage sector meaningfully onto the internet.

Love With Food

Seed Round in 2012
Love With Food operates an online subscription platform that focuses on delivering healthier snack options, including organic, all-natural, and gluten-free products, directly to consumers. Targeting primarily female consumers aged 25 to 45, the platform allows users to explore new snacks through a monthly subscription service that includes free home delivery and no cancellation fees. In addition to providing a diverse range of snack choices, Love With Food also serves as a marketing platform that collects valuable product intelligence data for consumer food brands. This data helps brands effectively reach their target audience while significantly reducing marketing and research costs. The company has partnered with notable brands such as General Mills, Nestle, and Lindt Chocolates. A distinctive aspect of Love With Food's mission is its commitment to social responsibility; for every snack box delivered, the company donates a meal to feed a hungry child in America, having contributed over 250,000 meals to date.

Tuckernuck

Seed Round in 2012
Tuckernuck, Inc. is an online retailer based in Washington, D.C., specializing in apparel and lifestyle products that embody a classic American aesthetic. Founded in 2010, the company offers a diverse range of items for women, men, and children, including clothing, accessories, and home décor. Its product offerings encompass tops, outerwear, jewelry, bags, activewear, and beauty products, as well as home items such as barware and kitchen accessories. Tuckernuck curates a blend of well-known and emerging brands, emphasizing a timeless style that reflects tradition and an active lifestyle. The company aims to create a distinctive shopping experience by continually introducing unique products that resonate with customers, making it a go-to destination for those seeking quality and classic American style.

Love With Food

Seed Round in 2011
Love With Food operates an online subscription platform that focuses on delivering healthier snack options, including organic, all-natural, and gluten-free products, directly to consumers. Targeting primarily female consumers aged 25 to 45, the platform allows users to explore new snacks through a monthly subscription service that includes free home delivery and no cancellation fees. In addition to providing a diverse range of snack choices, Love With Food also serves as a marketing platform that collects valuable product intelligence data for consumer food brands. This data helps brands effectively reach their target audience while significantly reducing marketing and research costs. The company has partnered with notable brands such as General Mills, Nestle, and Lindt Chocolates. A distinctive aspect of Love With Food's mission is its commitment to social responsibility; for every snack box delivered, the company donates a meal to feed a hungry child in America, having contributed over 250,000 meals to date.
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