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

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Fy!

Venture Round in 2023

Fy builds a creative and addictive mobile marketplace to shop online.

Builtfirst

Seed Round in 2020

Builtfirst is a venture partnership platform that offers a low-code online B2B marketplace, enabling companies to efficiently manage their offerings, discounts, and support. The platform allows businesses to create a customized marketplace for perks, integrations, and services tailored to their needs. By providing access to a wide range of software and service discounts, Builtfirst assists startups in optimizing their operational costs and improving their financial efficiency. This enables entrepreneurs and business owners to save resources on essential tools and services, streamlining their efforts in navigating available options and maximizing their advantages in the competitive landscape.

Userpilot

Seed Round in 2020

Product Experience Software that helps product & customer success teams improve user onboarding and boost adoption.

Userpilot

Seed Round in 2020

Product Experience Software that helps product & customer success teams improve user onboarding and boost adoption.

Fy!

Seed Round in 2020

Fy builds a creative and addictive mobile marketplace to shop online.

Plant an App

Seed Round in 2020

Plant an App, Inc. develops and operates a cloud-based app development platform for the development and deployment of web applications. Its low-code platform provides a suite of pre-built modules and tools that enable IT teams of small and medium-sized businesses to create, edit, and manage web applications. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Userpilot

Pre Seed Round in 2019

Product Experience Software that helps product & customer success teams improve user onboarding and boost adoption.

Sofy

Seed Round in 2019

Test your Websites and Android apps autonomously for visual quality, performance and reliability. No scripts or source code required!

Fy!

Seed Round in 2019

Fy builds a creative and addictive mobile marketplace to shop online.

AppOnboard

Series B in 2018

AppOnboard is a Los Angeles-based software company empowering creators to build businesses without any programming experience. The company offers two no-code products: Buildbox, the largest no-code mobile game engine, and AppOnboard Studio, a mobile, interactive design studio that enables anyone to create playable ads and app prototypes.

AppOnboard

Series A in 2018

AppOnboard

Venture Round in 2017

AppOnboard

Seed Round in 2017

Fy!

Seed Round in 2016

Fy builds a creative and addictive mobile marketplace to shop online.

CodeUpStart

Seed Round in 2016

Learn to Code by creating Real Life Startup projects

StackShare

Pre Seed Round in 2015

StackShare, Inc. develops a cloud-based discovery platform that lets users to find software development tools and cloud infrastructure services. It offers solutions in the areas of application and data, including libraries, application hosting, languages and frameworks, data stores, and assets and media; mobile, payments, analytics, application utilities, and communications; DevOps for monitoring build, test, and deployment solutions; and business tools for back office support, sales, and marketing design collaboration. The company allows startup companies to describe about the technology they use. StackShare, Inc. was formerly known as Leanstack, Inc. and changed its name to StackShare, Inc. in March 2015. StackShare, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in San Jose, California.

Fy!

Seed Round in 2015

Fy builds a creative and addictive mobile marketplace to shop online.

Playbasis

Series A in 2015

Playbasis (Thailand) Co., Ltd. provides a cloud-based technology platform for businesses to launch modern applications that are fun, engaging, and rewarding for audience. Its products include playbook, an off-the-shelf mobile application that provides businesses with access to engaging mobile experience; playbook plugins; presence that enables users to launch own branded augmented reality games and applications; and portal, which provides a smart landing page optimized for conversions. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand.

SkyGiraffe

Series A in 2015

SkyGiraffe is a full-stack enterprise mobility platform. Their platform mobilizes back-end data to enable enterprise employees to manage business processes natively on iOS, Android, and Web. With a secure, code-free platform, SkyGiraffe extends enterprise data directly to mobile devices and provides customized, job-specific micro-moments that can read and write-back real-time data to existing backend systems. Backed by SGVC, Trilogy Equity Partners, Microsoft Ventures, 500 Startups and enterprise software angels, SkyGiraffe is based in San Mateo, CA with R&D in Israel.

CodePicnic

Convertible Note in 2015

CodePicnic offers an interactive learning platform designed to enhance the way companies communicate their coding solutions. By providing embeddable consoles that operate directly in the browser, CodePicnic allows users to engage with APIs, libraries, and web services in a hands-on manner. This approach enables developers to demonstrate their products effectively, allowing potential customers to experiment and learn through direct interaction rather than passive reading. By bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application, CodePicnic empowers users to understand and integrate with existing code bases, fostering a more dynamic learning experience.

Nitrous

Series A in 2014

Nitrous.IO Inc. is a company that offers a cloud-based platform designed for web application development. Founded in 2012 and based in Menlo Park, California, it enables developers to code from any location and device without the need for installation or configuration. The platform facilitates real-time collaboration on projects, allowing teams to deploy applications to production servers with a single click and manage versioning of development environments. By streamlining the development process, Nitrous provides significant benefits to indie developers, designers, and organizations of all sizes, making it easier and faster to launch and manage web applications.

Playbasis

Seed Round in 2014

Vessel

Seed Round in 2014

Mobile app publishers spend a tremendous amount of effort driving downloads, but root cause analysis regarding user engagement and retention is often muddled. To solve this challenge, Vessel has created an advanced and powerful WYSIWIG platform that empowers product managers/marketers to rapidly build and launch experiments (no coding required) in their native mobile apps in real-time, WITHOUT waiting for app store updates. With Vessel, marketers can deliver targeted and personalized content to specific segments of their audience, instantly. Their platform provides detailed analytics on engagement, retention funnel outcomes, and more, allowing product managers/marketers to quantify results and make informed decisions before deploying a single line of code. Vessel supports all native platforms (iOS, Android & Windows) as well as cross-platforms like PhoneGap, Appcelerator.

Runnable

Seed Round in 2013

Runnable speeds up development by providing full-stack environments for every code branch. Instant access to clean, performant environments enables your developers to get feedback, test end-to-end, debug and deploy without having to wait. Runnable provides unlimited self-managed environments for any application at a low, fixed cost.

Nitrous

Seed Round in 2013

Trigger.io

Seed Round in 2012

Trigger, a San Francisco, CA-based company that has just launched its cross-platform mobile development framework targeted at web developers who want to be able to create native mobile apps.

Shareaholic

Seed Round in 2011

Shareaholic, Inc. offers a content amplification platform designed to enhance the discovery, engagement, and sharing of relevant content for marketers, publishers, and site owners. By enabling website owners to showcase pertinent content, the platform helps increase pageviews, user engagement, and time spent on their sites. Shareaholic also facilitates the sharing of various activities, such as articles and purchases, across multiple social media channels including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. In addition to these features, the platform provides actionable metrics that offer insights into content performance and audience interactions. With a user base exceeding 300,000 websites, Shareaholic serves customers globally and was founded in 2008, with its headquarters located in Boston, Massachusetts.

Graphicly

Series A in 2011

The Graphicly platform offers automated self-publishing by converting, distributing and promoting image-based digital content across the most popular consumer mobile and eBook marketplaces including the Apple iOS Newsstand and iBookstore, Barnes & Noble NOOK Color, Amazon Kindle store, Facebook and many others, while streamlining the work flow, reducing production costs significantly and providing authors and publishers detailed real-time analytics. As the only platform that optimizes image-based content, Graphicly is uniquely poised to take advantage of the $23 billion publishing market, including the more than 300,000 self-published authors expected to produce a graphical work this year.

Graphicly

Series A in 2010