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 Real Estate

FazWaz

Venture Round in 2023
Thailand's Home for Real Estate

RealAtom

Seed Round in 2021
RealAtom, LLC is a commercial real estate debt platform established in 2016 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. The company facilitates connections between borrowers and a network of lenders seeking investment opportunities in commercial properties. By providing a digital platform, RealAtom enables commercial property owners, brokers, and lenders to efficiently secure loans and manage financing transactions. The technology used by RealAtom supports the handling of billions of dollars in commercial real estate loans annually, streamlining the financing process for all parties involved.

Flat.mx

Series A in 2021
Flat.mx is a property tech startup that that simplifies the process of buying or selling a home, with a deep layer of technology and data. With Flat.mx, sellers can sell their homes for a fair price in a matter of days, and move-in to a new apartment effortlessly. For buyers, Flat.mx assures the conditions of the property, a fair purchase price, and a seamless buying experience. Bernardo Cordero and Victor Noguera founded it in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito Federal.

FazWaz

Venture Round in 2021
Thailand's Home for Real Estate

AlterEstate

Venture Round in 2021
AlterEstate is a cloud-based software solution designed for real estate agencies, enabling them to enhance sales and manage properties through a comprehensive dashboard. The platform incorporates a sales pipeline management methodology, allowing users to visualize their sales process and receive property recommendations tailored to client needs. In addition to its core functionalities, AlterEstate offers a website builder, marketing tools such as landing and form builders, and accounting and automation features. This integrated approach allows agencies to streamline operations, focus on closing sales and rentals, and provide a personalized experience for their clients, all within a single platform.

MHub

Seed Round in 2020
MHub is a developer of a real estate fintech platform that facilitates collaboration among property developers, real estate agents, bankers, and buyers. The platform aims to streamline the property purchasing process, allowing these stakeholders to work together more efficiently. By creating a community focused on simplifying interactions within the real estate market, MHub helps deserving buyers navigate the complexities of acquiring homes. The company's goal is to establish a systematic and synergistic environment that enhances communication and collaboration among all parties involved in real estate transactions.

FazWaz

Series A in 2020
Thailand's Home for Real Estate

Whitemark

Seed Round in 2020
Whitemark is a real estate company operating on a high-tech platform. Their focus is on high-end residential, penthouses, villas, and resort projects in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

RealStake

Seed Round in 2020
RealStake, a digital investment platform that offers real estate investment syndication. The firm was established in Singapore, Central Region by James Vuong and Calvin Lam in 2018.

PortalTerreno.com

Seed Round in 2020
PortalTerreno.com is the first marketplace specialized in the land market in latin america.

YouHomes

Seed Round in 2019
You Homes is a reliable platform that operates in the field of real estate. It promotes transparent transactions by excluding brokers but matching genuine hosts with the most suitable demands and accommodating their negotiation. YouHomes focuses on addressing the emerging issues of the housing market today, such as supporting the verification of real estate information, protecting customers' personal information, increasing transparency in transactions based on Modern technology platform, dedicated and thoughtful service staff; thereby contributing to accelerate the speed and efficiency of transactions, helping customers save time, effort and money.

Shwe Property

Series B in 2019
Shwe Property is a leading real estate platform in Myanmar, established in 2015 and headquartered in Yangon. The company operates Shweproperty.com, a comprehensive online portal that facilitates property searches and listings for various users, including investors and individuals seeking to buy or rent homes. The platform features a vast database of over 11,000 properties, along with detailed information and photographs, making it a valuable resource for navigating the real estate market. Shwe Property attracts significant traffic, with monthly page views exceeding one million and unique visitors ranging between 35,000 and 90,000. The company collaborates with more than 100 real estate agents, providing them with a robust system that has been in use for over three years, ensuring access to timely market information and trends.

EasyKnock

Series A in 2019
EasyKnock, Inc. is a real estate technology company founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company specializes in sale-leaseback programs, allowing homeowners in the United States to access their home equity without needing to move. Its primary offerings include the Sell and Stay program, which enables homeowners to receive cash for the value of their home while retaining the option to buy it back or move at their convenience, and MoveAbility, designed for those planning a near-term relocation. Through these programs, EasyKnock aims to provide homeowners with financial flexibility and support in managing their housing needs.

99.co

Series B in 2019
99 Pte Ltd operates www.99.co, a website to browse, post, import, and manage properties. Its website allows users to buy, rent, and sale houses, condominiums, apartments, and HDBs in Singapore. The company also offers its services through mobile applications. 99 Pte Ltd was founded in 2013 and is based in Singapore.

Nestready

Venture Round in 2018
NestReady Inc. is a real estate technology company based in Montreal, Canada, founded in 2012. The company has developed a marketplace that integrates all stages of the home buying experience, connecting mortgage lenders with homebuyers. Its platform serves as a comprehensive tool that simplifies the home buying process by merging mortgage services with real estate offerings, facilitating better client relationships and improving visibility into the progress of transactions. This integration allows mortgage lenders to enhance customer understanding, reduce acquisition costs, and provide a seamless homebuying experience directly on their websites. By bridging the gap between home discovery and financing, NestReady aims to increase conversion rates and improve client retention.

Khmerhome

Seed Round in 2018
KhmerHome.com operates a real estate platform. The company offers Software as a Service (SaaS) platform for local real estate agencies to connect with their customers, and manage their inventories and their online presence. Its property management system enables users to manage their listings and clients. It also offers a property valuation application. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Vacayo

Seed Round in 2018
Vacayo is a real estate management and service platform that helps owners rent their properties seamlessly and with higher income, leveraging Superhosts for on-the-ground operations. Despite the growth of the sharing economy, homeowners monetize less than 2 million of the 8 million second homes in the US. We leverage technology & big data to higher profits, total coverage, and better options owners. Vacayo allows owners to put their vacation rental on autopilot. Our system is cutting the typical costs of property management companies by 30%-60%.

RealAtom

Pre Seed Round in 2017
RealAtom, LLC is a commercial real estate debt platform established in 2016 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. The company facilitates connections between borrowers and a network of lenders seeking investment opportunities in commercial properties. By providing a digital platform, RealAtom enables commercial property owners, brokers, and lenders to efficiently secure loans and manage financing transactions. The technology used by RealAtom supports the handling of billions of dollars in commercial real estate loans annually, streamlining the financing process for all parties involved.

99.co

Series A in 2017
99 Pte Ltd operates www.99.co, a website to browse, post, import, and manage properties. Its website allows users to buy, rent, and sale houses, condominiums, apartments, and HDBs in Singapore. The company also offers its services through mobile applications. 99 Pte Ltd was founded in 2013 and is based in Singapore.

Expansive

Seed Round in 2017
Expansive is a real estate collective funding platform, or real estate crowdfunding, that brings together investors and real estate developers so that the two parties get a better alternative to those currently existing in the market. Investors can invest in residential and commercial real estate developments previously reviewed and filtered by their team with amounts from $ 15,000 pesos. They select developers with proven experience and experience in order to confirm that they can meet the criteria of Expansive and after a process of verification and Due Diligence they decide which projects they accept and make accessible to their registered users. Once an opportunity is selected, detailed project information and legal documents containing "risk factors" are included, which investors must review carefully before deciding to invest through Expansive. Once an investor decides to invest, it is funded to a concentrating account, the campaign is closed and once the amount is raised, it is transferred to the developer's account.

SnapStays

Seed Round in 2016
The biggest selection of medium-term furnished apartments

Mashvisor

Seed Round in 2016
Mashvisor lets average people become savvy individual investors to make profitable real estate investments and rental strategy decisions through an online platform that instantly aggregates real estate data. The platform delivers neighborhood data and analytics such as Cash Flow, Cash on Cash Return, Cap Rate, GRM, Vacancy Rates and rental market strength indicators to identify secure investment market potentials for traditional and short-term lodging (Aribnb) properties.

Home61

Seed Round in 2016
HOME61 Miami Inc. operates as an online real estate company that helps users to find real estate properties in Miami and other surrounding areas. It enables users to search residential (house, apartment, condos, and penthouse) and other properties for rent and sale. It allows individuals, landlords, management companies, or brokers to list their real estate properties for rent and sale. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Miami, Florida.

MetroResidences

Seed Round in 2016
MetroResidences is a digital apartment rental service providing a fuss-free and transparent way to lease a home. Our approach relies on technology and human-centered customer service to make leasing simple, legal and paperless.

ZipMatch

Series A in 2015
ZipMatch is an online marketplace that offers real-estate services for buyers, brokers, and real estate developers. Most of the problems in the Philippine real estate industry today can be sourced in the long, tiring, and complicated process for buyers and brokers. Fortunately, there’s ZipMatch.com, the first property matchmaker for buyers, brokers and real estate developers that can help simplify the process.

HomeLight

Series A in 2015
HomeLight is an online real estate marketplace that connects home buyers and sellers with top real estate agents, aiming to simplify and enhance the real estate transaction process. The company provides a range of services, including HomeLight Agent Matching, which utilizes data and agent reviews to facilitate connections, and Simple Sale, an investor matching platform. Additionally, HomeLight offers consumer finance and lending products through HomeLight Home Loans and transactional tools via HomeLight Agent Services. Since its inception in 2011, HomeLight has focused on delivering positive outcomes for its clients at every stage of their real estate journey, whether it involves making an all-cash offer or navigating the closing process. The company has received recognition for its workplace culture and innovation in the real estate sector.

ZipMatch

Seed Round in 2014
ZipMatch is an online marketplace that offers real-estate services for buyers, brokers, and real estate developers. Most of the problems in the Philippine real estate industry today can be sourced in the long, tiring, and complicated process for buyers and brokers. Fortunately, there’s ZipMatch.com, the first property matchmaker for buyers, brokers and real estate developers that can help simplify the process.

99.co

Seed Round in 2014
99 Pte Ltd operates www.99.co, a website to browse, post, import, and manage properties. Its website allows users to buy, rent, and sale houses, condominiums, apartments, and HDBs in Singapore. The company also offers its services through mobile applications. 99 Pte Ltd was founded in 2013 and is based in Singapore.

ZipMatch

Seed Round in 2014
ZipMatch is an online marketplace that offers real-estate services for buyers, brokers, and real estate developers. Most of the problems in the Philippine real estate industry today can be sourced in the long, tiring, and complicated process for buyers and brokers. Fortunately, there’s ZipMatch.com, the first property matchmaker for buyers, brokers and real estate developers that can help simplify the process.

Reesio

Seed Round in 2013
Reesio solves the bad data problem by owning the only up-to-the-minute residential property data. By giving agents an awesome productivity tool that they use multiple times per day to manage their deals, they're able to automatically take agents' real-time transaction info and create searchable listings that are more accurate than anything on the planet. More importantly, Reesio owns ALL of its own data. Reesio was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

RealtyShares

Seed Round in 2013
RealtyShares is a real estate investment platform that gives investors direct access to quality commercial real estate investment opportunities. It connects its network of individual and institutional investors with experienced real estate operators looking to raise capital to improve properties for higher, better use. Venture-backed by premier investors such as 500 Startups, Union Square Ventures, General Catalyst, Cross Creek Advisors, and Menlo Ventures, RealtyShares has deployed more than $840 million over 1,100 investment opportunities in 41 states.

VTS

Seed Round in 2013
View The Space, Inc. operates a commercial real estate leasing and asset management platform that enables owners and brokers to streamline their workflows and lease space. Its platform also enables owners and brokers to manage deal activity, identify trends, and quantify portfolio performance. It also offers VTS Market, an online marketing platform that enables landlords and their agency teams to market and lease their available spaces remotely. View The Space, Inc. was formerly known as View The Space, LLC. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, New York.

Flyer, Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
Our mission is to eliminate the use of the traditional flyer as the main marketing tool in real estate. It’s a design oriented web based app developed to simplify the process of creating and sharing real estate flyers. Flyers can be generated in minutes by simply dragging and dropping pictures into the browser. We are taking advantage of the latest technologies to explore listings with 360º inside imagery.

42Floors

Series A in 2012
42Floors Inc. specializes in commercial real estate services, focusing on office space listings from various sources, including brokerages, landlords, and online platforms like Craigslist. The company offers leasing services across different property types, including office, retail, industrial, medical, and restaurants. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, 42Floors has established itself as a prominent resource for searching office space, ranking highly in search results across 200 cities in the United States. It operates as a subsidiary of Knotel, Inc.

Rentlord

Seed Round in 2011
Rentlord Limited operates as a lettings agency that allows landlords to rent and manage their homes, and tenants to find homes online. It enables users to pay and collect rent online. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Manchester, United Kingdom.

Estately

Angel Round in 2010
Estately is a real estate search platform that allows users to find homes for sale using a map interface. They can access detailed property descriptions and information about nearby amenities such as schools, parks, restaurants, and transit options. Operating as a licensed real estate brokerage in 30 states and affiliated with 60 Multiple Listing Services (MLS), Estately offers a comprehensive search experience. Users can refine their searches by neighborhood, zip code, or city, and can also filter listings based on specific criteria such as property type, price, and condition, including options like Tudors, fixers, and pre-foreclosures. By connecting property seekers with real estate agents, Estately facilitates informed decisions in the home-buying process.