Investor directory

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.

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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 B2C

Omniful

Grant in 2022
Stealth B2B SaaS

Optimity

Series A in 2022
Optimity Inc. operates a corporate wellness platform designed to enhance employee engagement through the incorporation of micro-habits. The platform enables workers to take brief, productive breaks lasting from 30 seconds to two minutes, during which they can practice health-focused activities aimed at improving mood, focus, and social connections within their workplace culture. Optimity offers a range of micro-habits, including stress-relief exercises, stretches, mindfulness practices, and hydration reminders, catering to diverse professionals from various industries. The company employs behavioral science strategies, gamification, and community engagement to motivate users towards healthier choices. Targeting B2B clients, particularly in the life insurance sector, Optimity helps organizations reduce acquisition costs by generating quality leads through its wellness initiatives. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Optimity was previously known as myHealthSphere Inc.

HiCustomer

Series A in 2019
HiCustomer Co., Ltd., founded in 2017 and based in Tokyo, Japan, specializes in developing a customer success management platform tailored for software as a service (SaaS) operators. The platform offers tools that aggregate and visualize critical customer information, including usage status, communication history, and sales data. It calculates customer health scores and detects withdrawal signs from usage patterns, allowing organizations to enhance customer lifetime value and improve relationships. By empowering customer success teams with actionable insights, HiCustomer enables clients to optimize their resources and drive business growth effectively.

Optimity

Seed Round in 2018
Optimity Inc. operates a corporate wellness platform designed to enhance employee engagement through the incorporation of micro-habits. The platform enables workers to take brief, productive breaks lasting from 30 seconds to two minutes, during which they can practice health-focused activities aimed at improving mood, focus, and social connections within their workplace culture. Optimity offers a range of micro-habits, including stress-relief exercises, stretches, mindfulness practices, and hydration reminders, catering to diverse professionals from various industries. The company employs behavioral science strategies, gamification, and community engagement to motivate users towards healthier choices. Targeting B2B clients, particularly in the life insurance sector, Optimity helps organizations reduce acquisition costs by generating quality leads through its wellness initiatives. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Optimity was previously known as myHealthSphere Inc.

Aladdinb2b

Seed Round in 2018
Aladdin is a B2B Platform that facilitates global trade through technology. It can easily expand your business to the MENA region by gaining access to decesion makers with the best match target. You can share these matches, request meetings with them, follow ups and close deals on one platform. Find your business potential in the target market in few clicks, and spend your valuable time meeting and doing business with the right people.

HiCustomer

Seed Round in 2018
HiCustomer Co., Ltd., founded in 2017 and based in Tokyo, Japan, specializes in developing a customer success management platform tailored for software as a service (SaaS) operators. The platform offers tools that aggregate and visualize critical customer information, including usage status, communication history, and sales data. It calculates customer health scores and detects withdrawal signs from usage patterns, allowing organizations to enhance customer lifetime value and improve relationships. By empowering customer success teams with actionable insights, HiCustomer enables clients to optimize their resources and drive business growth effectively.

OrderCircle

Seed Round in 2016
OrderCircle is self-service ordering for wholesale customers. OrderCircle takes the hassle out of B2B orders - no more phone orders, faxes, or emailed forms. Think of it as Shopify for B2B ordering. With OrderCircle, businesses can accept and manage orders from their wholesale customers with the same ease and simplicity offered by B2C carts. Customers can place their own orders, receive invoices automatically, and check order status themselves. OrderCircle is elegant e-commerce for B2B commerce - we're bringing the same all-digital experience that B2C shoppers expect to wholesale transactions. Invoicing, shipping, payments, and analytics - all in one place, all in OrderCircle.

BREWPUBLIK

Seed Round in 2015
BREWPUBLIK is an e-commerce retailer for craft beer and provides beer to homes and offices. Their proprietary technology and data collection position them as the central nervous system of the industry, touching every part of the supply chain experience. Americans spend $100B a year on beer, yet the industry functions like it's 1957. They use data and scale advantages to be the most convenient way to get a beer. Their proprietary technology automatically matches their customers' taste profiles to new products that they've never tried. They generate revenue both from directly from selling the product and then increasingly generate multiples of that with their insights.

BREWPUBLIK

Seed Round in 2015
BREWPUBLIK is an e-commerce retailer for craft beer and provides beer to homes and offices. Their proprietary technology and data collection position them as the central nervous system of the industry, touching every part of the supply chain experience. Americans spend $100B a year on beer, yet the industry functions like it's 1957. They use data and scale advantages to be the most convenient way to get a beer. Their proprietary technology automatically matches their customers' taste profiles to new products that they've never tried. They generate revenue both from directly from selling the product and then increasingly generate multiples of that with their insights.

Sales Beach

Seed Round in 2014
Sales Beach Inc., a sales automation company, develops B2B outbound lead management and automation solutions. The company focuses on helping users to generate meetings from targeted cold leads. Its software automates outbound sales, enabling users to send personalized emails to various possible contacts in their target industry and turn responses into meetings. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Sales Beach

Seed Round in 2013
Sales Beach Inc., a sales automation company, develops B2B outbound lead management and automation solutions. The company focuses on helping users to generate meetings from targeted cold leads. Its software automates outbound sales, enabling users to send personalized emails to various possible contacts in their target industry and turn responses into meetings. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Carreira Beauty

Seed Round in 2013
Carreira Beauty is a Brazilian company based in Sao Paulo, founded in 2013. It serves as a comprehensive marketplace for beauty professionals and salons, offering a career development and online distribution portal. This platform connects beauty industry professionals, facilitating their growth and providing essential resources to enhance their careers. Carreira Beauty aims to streamline the beauty business by catering to the needs of both individual practitioners and salon establishments.

CentralMayoreo.com

Seed Round in 2013
CentralMayoreo.com is a B2B e-commerce marketplace, focusing on intra-national wholesale, with initial launch in Mexico, but replicable into other Latin American countries. This platform allows distributors to offer their products for sale in bulk, and to list different prices according to volume, as well as for specific buyers or class of buyers. Buyers include retailers and end consumers looking to buy in bulk.