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

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 Coworking

Wisepath

Venture Round in 2021
Wisepath provides a work-communication tool for virtual offices and manages projects and growth. The company is based in Mexico City, Mexico.

ikigai

Venture Round in 2021
ikigai.net embraces a new approach for technology consulting by creating the perfect balance between Work, Skills, Passion and Social Impact.

COR

Seed Round in 2021
COR is the next-generation solution for creative and professional teams that intelligently suggests how to manage your projects, teams, and finances.

Greenhouse.co

Seed Round in 2020
At the moment, Greenhouse has launched one location but has plans to expand across South East Asia. The first site is in Kuningan, Jakarta and it's called "Greenhouse at the Penthouse." Perched on the 25th floor, "Greenhouse at the Penthouse" provides a breath-taking 360° view of the skyline. The concept is "office-in-a-park," and it is conceptualized by the award-winning designer - Ang Xinwei. Currently, Greenhouse is the most massive co-working space in Jakarta, featuring 1800 sq. ft. of office space alongside a garden with more than 100 plants. The 9 meters high ceiling supports the park-like environment providing an abundance of natural light.

Go-Rework

Series B in 2020
Go-Rework is a merger of Indonesian coworking spaces operators GoWork and Rework .

Kolay

Seed Round in 2020
Kolay is a SaaS platform that combines employee engagement with core HR needs. We are helping HR professionals to streamline their day to day tasks with an easy to use and smart platform.

Fooda

Seed Round in 2020
Fooda, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in providing food delivery services to offices. Founded in 2010, Fooda connects local, regional, and national restaurants with workplace environments, offering unique meal programs that employees look forward to each day. The company facilitates on-site dining by having top-rated restaurants serve meals in office lobbies or breakrooms, while also providing catering services for corporate meetings and events. By leveraging its platform, Fooda not only supports local restaurants but also enhances the dining experience for employees, allowing them to enjoy authentic meals at work.

Breather

Series D in 2019
Breather Products Inc. is a provider of on-demand private workspaces designed for productivity, allowing clients to reserve and unlock spaces through its web and mobile applications. Founded in 2012 and based in Montreal, Canada, the company has established a network of hundreds of locations across major cities, including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Washington, Toronto, Montreal, and London. Breather offers flexible workspace solutions available by the hour, day, or month, catering to businesses seeking comfortable and private environments. Each space is equipped with technology that facilitates seamless work experiences, enabling users to engage in meetings or video conferences without delay.

Fooda

Series D in 2019
Fooda, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in providing food delivery services to offices. Founded in 2010, Fooda connects local, regional, and national restaurants with workplace environments, offering unique meal programs that employees look forward to each day. The company facilitates on-site dining by having top-rated restaurants serve meals in office lobbies or breakrooms, while also providing catering services for corporate meetings and events. By leveraging its platform, Fooda not only supports local restaurants but also enhances the dining experience for employees, allowing them to enjoy authentic meals at work.

Letswork

Seed Round in 2019
Letswork, a mobile app, is changing the co-working industry by partnering with existing hospitality assets and activating them as co-working spaces during the day. It is the UAE's largest networking of co-working spaces and offers users affordable and flexible workspaces across the country through a single membership.

Unito

Seed Round in 2018
Unito Inc., founded in 2015 and based in Montréal, Canada, specializes in developing a project management integration tool that enhances collaboration across various teams and departments. The platform automatically synchronizes projects, tasks, and conversations between multiple work management applications, such as Trello, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Wrike, Zendesk, and Hubspot. By allowing users to connect their existing tools without requiring them to learn new systems, Unito promotes seamless communication and improved workflow. The platform addresses the complexities of integrating disparate software applications, enabling businesses to boost productivity by minimizing the need to switch between different tools and providing flexible synchronization options for tasks and projects.

Hubble

Venture Round in 2017
Hubble makes renting office space easy. It is an online marketplace to match those looking to rent office space with those who have it. They focus on co-working, shared offices and private serviced offices within specific hubs in London. They wrap the entire transaction to allow businesses to search across all office types, pay your rent, sign your contract and satisfy all your office needs in just a few clicks. Their platform means that they allow tenants and office providers to find each other quickly and easily. Moreover, they reduce the admin burden to create even more value for both sides of the market.

WeTipp

Pre Seed Round in 2017
WeTipp is the online platform that connects through interests and skills to help groups engage their members. How? Map the interests and skills of their members, collaborate at scale and aggregate all the tools they need in one place. WeTipp works with Associations, Alumni, Coworking spaces and Public institutions, among which the largest users are the European Commission and Italian Ministry of Education. WeTipp is a 500 Startups company and founders were respectively the COO and CTO of Talent Garden, 1st investor and biggest network of co-working spaces in Europe and top WeWork competitor.

XWORK

Seed Round in 2017
XWORK operates an online marketplace in Indonesia that specializes in short-term rentals of business spaces, including meeting rooms, training facilities, co-working spaces, and event venues. Founded in 2016 and based in Jakarta, the platform allows users to conveniently search for and book private workspaces on an hourly, daily, or monthly basis. By connecting property owners, such as hotels and co-working space providers, with customers seeking flexible work environments, XWORK accommodates a variety of business needs. The company features a diverse selection of well-designed rooms across key cities in Indonesia, ensuring that users can find spaces that meet their specific requirements.

Factory

Venture Round in 2017
Factory develops and operates offices for fast growing startups and technology companies. Their model focuses on clustering successful startups, international tech giants and young entrepreneurs in sizable office complexes to facilitate exchange, shared knowledge and provide the framework for serendipity to take place. The Factory concept originated in Berlin in early 2012 as a response to the dire need for flexible contracts for office space from technology startups, doubling in size sometimes inside 12 months. Understanding the specific growth trends and needs for tech-focused firms, their spaces and rental contracts are designed to support the individual phases of their development. Beyond well designed, flexible office space, Factory’s cluster model creates proximity and allows like-minded companies to network, host events together and ultimately build meaningful partnerships and relationships with one another. The environment they strive for on their campuses is open and collaborative – where all parties are supporting each other along their growth trajectory. They have defined six elements at the core of the Factory model: Community, Technology, Events, Partnerships, Communication and Space. While it is intrinsic for the startup community to be open and share with one another, often other actors within society have difficulty in finding an inroad. Factory offers access by the established industry, academia and politicians through a physical manifestation of a city’s technology community.

Knotel

Series A in 2017
Knotel is a flexible workspace platform that provides tailored office solutions for established and growing companies. Founded in 2016, Knotel aims to offer businesses the flexibility to scale according to their unique needs. With over 5 million square feet of space across more than 300 locations worldwide, Knotel is focused on transforming commercial real estate. The company employs an in-house team of architects, interior designers, and workplace strategists to customize each workspace, allowing clients to concentrate on their core operations and culture.

WORQ

Seed Round in 2017
WORQ operates and rents a community driven coworking space that involves working collaboratively in a shared working environment in Malaysia. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

iControl

Seed Round in 2016
iControl provides construction professionals with tools designed to streamline project management and enhance collaboration among teams. By facilitating better communication, iControl helps ensure that all stakeholders are aligned, which leads to faster project completion and improved efficiency. The platform eliminates the need for cumbersome reporting processes, allowing users to focus on their core tasks instead of administrative burdens. Overall, iControl aims to optimize workflows and enable construction teams to reclaim valuable work hours.

OpenDoor

Pre Seed Round in 2016
OpenDoor creates modern, collaborative living spaces targeted at urban creatives and millennials. Their homes are curated social environments that facilitate sharing, connections, and meaningful relationships.

Talent garden

Series A in 2016
Talent Garden is a prominent innovation platform and coworking network that supports digital and technology professionals. Established in 2011 in Brescia, Italy, the company operates 23 campuses across eight countries, including Albania, Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Romania, and Spain. Talent Garden serves as a collaborative environment for startups, freelancers, and large corporations, fostering connections and professional development within the digital and tech sectors. The organization aims to cultivate vibrant, locally connected campuses that empower communities and enhance the growth of innovative ideas. With a growing membership of over 600 talents and more than 40,000 online community members, Talent Garden is dedicated to creating an ecosystem that nurtures entrepreneurial success and collaboration among professionals in the technology space.

Outsite

Seed Round in 2016
Outsite is a collection of unique work+play accommodations that cater to the growing community of entrepreneurs, business travelers and digital nomads who are looking for alternatives to uninspired hotels and conference halls. Whether you want to surf famous waves, ski mountains, climb walls or just bike around town between working sessions, Outsite offers a place to stay with creative co-working spaces and a growing list of innovative “New Networking” activities, designed to spur meaningful and creative collaborations.

Croissant

Seed Round in 2016
Croissant is a workspace search application that offers a flexible solution for individuals seeking productivity while on the move. By partnering with over 500 workspaces in major cities such as New York, San Francisco, and London, Croissant provides its members with a diverse range of options, including co-working spaces, cafes, startup offices, hotels, and restaurants. This membership model allows users to explore their cities while maintaining their work efficiency, catering to the needs of professionals looking for versatile and convenient work environments.

DigitalOutposts

Seed Round in 2016
We're building a platform to host groups of remote working professionals and graduate students in distinctive coworking destinations. We bundle workspace, accommodation, logistics help, and activities, so guests can seamlessly get work done while exploring a new place. Our guests are people from around the world who have jobs, research, or projects to work on and who have strong passion, constant curiosity, and a love for travel.

Kolay

Angel Round in 2016
Kolay is a SaaS platform that combines employee engagement with core HR needs. We are helping HR professionals to streamline their day to day tasks with an easy to use and smart platform.

Supergleu

Seed Round in 2016
Supergleu helps college students and employers connect through conversation.

Workgeni.us

Pre Seed Round in 2015
WorkGenius is a scheduling and support platform for hourly workers.

HUBBA

Seed Round in 2015
HUBBA Co., Ltd. is a provider of coworking spaces tailored for startup entrepreneurs, innovators, and professionals in Bangkok, Thailand. Established in 2011, HUBBA offers a variety of work environments, including hot desks, private offices, meeting rooms, and multifunction spaces. The company emphasizes creating vibrant communities and providing essential business services to its members. HUBBA has expanded its presence beyond Bangkok, with additional locations in Chiang Mai and Vientiane, and plans for further growth across Southeast Asia. The organization is committed to fostering an environment where individuals can focus on their creative and entrepreneurial pursuits.

Koding

Series B in 2015
Koding is a San Francisco based technology company that works with Local IDEs and delivers instant developer collaboration. It saves thousands of dollars per hire with instant dev environment setup, and remote pair-programming and chat built-in. Even just 2 days a year is a huge cost when their entire team can't work. With Koding, everyone has a completely identical dev environment. Koding eliminates their localhost and sandbox environment issues and let's just focus on their production DevOps. Koding's collaboration features allow them to pair-program with your friends and colleagues by allowing to them share (in real-time) their web-based IDE, Terminal, and white board. Koding also features a robust developer community. Users can share ideas, get questions answered, and learn new things from the social aspects of Koding.

Common Living

Series A in 2015
Common Living Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in co-living facilities, founded in 2015. The company promotes community-driven housing by offering furnished and shared apartments with flexible lease terms, catering to a diverse clientele, including students and professionals. Its platform allows members to rent rooms without broker fees, providing access to essential amenities and a supportive living environment. By focusing on community, convenience, and affordability, Common Living aims to enhance the co-living experience, making it easier for individuals to find pleasant and collaborative living spaces.

coworking spaces

Series A in 2015
Coworking spaces are starting up everywhere in Southeast Asia.

Worklife

Seed Round in 2015
WorkLife is a web app that helps teams have more productive meetings. It is a collaboration platform that automates best practices for managing meetings, projects and people and helps team to improve their performance by using it. It helps to create agendas, stay on track during the meeting, and ensure next steps will be done afterwards. WorkLife is founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

FounderDating

Series A in 2015
FounderDating is a network of talented entrepreneurs with different backgrounds and skill sets all ready to start their next company or project. All too often you know people with similar backgrounds and skills sets to your own. They help you find cofounders with complementary skill sets.

Pantry

Seed Round in 2014
Pantry provides instant access to fresh food through a network of swipe, grab and go kiosks. We provide a simple way for people to eat well in the workplace and on the go, allowing them to be more healthy, happy and productive. Our local food partners curate a seasonal menu of fresh meals, snacks and beverages to satisfy any appetite around the clock. Since our founding in 2012, Pantry has deployed kiosks across the US to a growing list of workplaces, hospitals, universities and hotels.

Hunie

Seed Round in 2012
We're a community of Creative Humans that inspire and connect with one another on a professional platform that puts us on top of the world. We network with the industry's best, seek inspiration and knowledge from our peers, and strut our stuff with other Creatives. We're a new kind of Creative community. We're DesignersCouch.

Mural

Seed Round in 2012
MURAL is a digital workspace for visual collaboration. Our platform and services enable innovative teams to think and collaborate visually to solve important problems. People benefit from MURAL’s speed and ease of use in creating diagrams, which are popular in design thinking and agile methodologies, as well as tools to facilitate more impactful meetings and workshops. Global enterprises including IBM, USAA, E-Trade, Intuit, SAP, Atlassian, Autodesk and GitHub have embraced visual collaboration to align their teams, plan in real-time, speed up decision making, reduce travel costs and accelerate a culture of innovation. MURAL’s certified enterprise-class cloud-based infrastructure connects 40 percent of Fortune 100 global enterprises, drawing the support of leading investors from Radian Capital, Gradient Ventures, Endeavor Catalyst and others. MURAL is headquartered in San Francisco and employs over 100 people working remotely across six time zones around the world, including office hubs in Buenos Aires and Europe. Learn more at Mural.co.