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 Digital Marketing

Murmur

Seed Round in 2023

Customer Data Platform helps brands to explore audiences in real-world, connect with them in real-time via car-top billboards. Using our smart car-top billboard technology, Optical AI and proprietary Wi-Fi payload, we collect data in real-time, create retargeting online ads dynamically..

Vipot Reklam Danışmanlık

Grant in 2021

"Kaliteli hizmet politikası doğrultusunda hareket eden Profesyonel ekibiyle dijital dünyada Google Reklam, Web Tasarım, Sosyal Medya Danışmanlığı, Kurumsal Kimlik, Reklam Danışmanlığı, İtibar Yönetimi ve Tasarım Hizmeti alanlarında 200 üstünde müşterimize hizmet vermekteyiz. Vipot Reklam olarak işletmelerin var olma adımlarını atmaları için çalışmaya devam etmekteyiz veriyi ve sunulan hizmetin tanıtılması emeğin paraya dönüşmesini sağlamak en büyük görevimiz ve vizyonumuzdur."

GOAT.AI

Pre Seed Round in 2021

Adaptive is a mobile minisite and storefront solution for SMEs. It helps to empower small businesses with advanced marketing, CRM, loyalty, and operational tools.

XCUTE

Seed Round in 2020

A freelancing service that connects small business owners with digital media freelancers for short term projects in Saudi Arabia.

DigitaSport

Seed Round in 2020

DigitaSport is the best way for sports entities to digitize brand value and engage fans on mobile and web.DigitaSport is a technology company that helps sporting entities engage with fans on mobile and web.

Convertedin

Seed Round in 2020

Convertedin is an ad automation platform for eCommerce businesses using AI. They help retailers unleash their full marketing potential with intelligent algorithms. Equip yourself to create crazy ad campaigns with 5X better ROI.

Acadium

Seed Round in 2020

Acadium is an online platform designed to provide students with hands-on marketing experience, facilitating their entry into the workforce. The platform offers free online courses in various marketing disciplines, including email marketing, social media, and search engine optimization, all developed by industry experts. After completing these courses, students can participate in remote apprenticeships with vetted businesses, gaining real-world experience while assisting small businesses, startups, and entrepreneurs with their marketing needs. This model not only helps students acquire essential skills but also allows businesses to receive up to 40 hours of marketing support each month, fostering a mutually beneficial relationship that supports career development and business growth.

Intrepid Group Asia

Venture Round in 2019

Intrepid Group Asia specializes in e-commerce services, helping brand partners and vendors maximize their online marketing potential. Founded in 2017 and based in Singapore, the company offers a comprehensive platform that includes store management, market consultation, content creation, and business analytics. By leveraging advanced analytics, automation, and cross-platform API connectivity, Intrepid Group Asia delivers tailored solutions that enhance brand equity and facilitate market share expansion. Their services also encompass key account management, digital marketing, and partner engagement, enabling clients to effectively navigate the rapidly evolving e-commerce landscape in Southeast Asia.

Ovation

Seed Round in 2019

By utilizing kiosks, QR codes, and web/mobile site, business owners can measure customer experience and collect customer information while being empowered with tools to help the win back unhappy customers and turn fans into marketers. Then, with simple effective text marketing, they can invite those customers back in. Improve customer experience--get more new customers--get more repeat customers. 16x better than receipt surveys, 10x ROI monthly, 18x higher engagement with unhappy customers.

Convertedin

Seed Round in 2019

Ovation

Seed Round in 2018

Digital Mortar

Seed Round in 2017

Digital Mortal enables full path customer journey analytics to power the reinvention of physical retail. The founders, Gary Angel and Jesse Gross, built and sold the leading digital analytics consultancy in the US to a Big 4 firm. Digital Mortar packages the measurement, reporting, analytics and experimentation methods they developed for improving digital into a SaaS product driving optimization of store layout, display, promotions and staffing.

AppFront

Seed Round in 2016

Helping Restaurants Optimize, Personalize and Control their Customers’ Digital Experience in Real-Time, Across any Channel.

Shiprocket 360

Series B in 2016

Skyrocket Your Online Sales. We help SME's, Manufacturers, Creative People and Service Providers setup their brand online and get sales from their own stores and also from other sales channels.

Beeketing

Seed Round in 2015

Beeketing Pte. Ltd. develops e-marketing applications that assist online sellers to convert their Website visitors into customers by personalized follow-up emails. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Visually

Series A in 2015

Visually, Inc. operates a visual content creation platform that connects clients with a diverse network of creative professionals, including designers, journalists, animators, and developers. The company specializes in producing a wide array of visual content, such as animated videos, motion graphics, presentations, infographics, and social media assets. Additionally, it offers services for designing microsites, interactive websites, eBooks, white papers, and more. Serving various industries, including retail, education, healthcare, and technology, Visually enables businesses to engage their audiences through visually appealing and effective content. Founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco, Visually is now a subsidiary of Scribble Technologies Inc. The platform emphasizes collaboration, allowing clients to maintain creative control while benefiting from the expertise of over 1,000 certified professionals.

Shiprocket 360

Series A in 2014

Skyrocket Your Online Sales. We help SME's, Manufacturers, Creative People and Service Providers setup their brand online and get sales from their own stores and also from other sales channels.

DOZ

Seed Round in 2014

DOZ Marketing Software helps create an organic marketing campaign and to launch a customized timeline of tasks needed to achieve marketing goals.DOZ has vetted marketing professionals from around the world. DOZ automatically assigns the right experts to every task on custom, marketing campaign.DOZ helps websites to run more effective online marketing campaigns by managing natives industry experts and marketing professionals.

Funnely

Seed Round in 2014

Funnely helps online stores' owners create and optimize their Facebook Ads campaigns with a conversion oriented strategy. Through our platform small and medium online sellers grow their audience, improve their online Ads performance and increase their sales.

Shakr.com

Venture Round in 2014

Shakr.com is an online video making platform developed by Shakr Media Co., Ltd., which was founded in 2010 and is based in Seoul, South Korea. The platform allows users to seamlessly transform their multimedia content from the cloud and social media into professional-quality videos. Shakr has established itself as a leader in creative technology for video marketing, supporting hundreds of thousands of marketers globally in adapting to the video-centric landscape of social media. By leveraging top creative talent, Shakr enhances users' creative capabilities while maintaining high-quality standards. The company is also recognized as a Facebook Marketing Partner, underscoring its commitment to effective video marketing solutions.

Shakr.com

Series A in 2014

Visually

Series A in 2014

Synappio

Seed Round in 2013

An Atlanta-based technology startup helping email marketers get and stay in compliance with their Email Service Providers.

Shiprocket 360

Seed Round in 2013

Skyrocket Your Online Sales. We help SME's, Manufacturers, Creative People and Service Providers setup their brand online and get sales from their own stores and also from other sales channels.

Datafree

Series A in 2012

Connecting enterprises to their mobile audiences #datafree.

DemandMarkets

Seed Round in 2011

DemandMarkets is a marketing business company.

DemandSphere

Seed Round in 2011

DemandSphere is the result of the evolution and growth of GinzaMetrics, an enterprise search and content marketing platform with clients around the world in a variety of organizations and roles.The changes to the marketing landscape and, by extension, the roles that marketers play, has meant constant updates to data and insight needs by our users. Where SEO, content, email, social, paid, display, offline, and other channels once lived separately there are growing connective ties between online and offline experiences, and onsite and offsite content needs.

Retailigence

Seed Round in 2010

Retailigence Corporation operates a hyperlocal marketing platform designed to enhance in-store product sales by leveraging real-time inventory data from brick-and-mortar retailers. Founded in 2009 and based in Redwood City, California, the company offers a mobile advertising solution tailored for product brands and local retailers. Its key offerings include the adPOP Engine, which integrates inventory data into programmatic advertising for location-based user engagement, and a mobile application that displays local store-level product availability. Retailigence serves a diverse clientele that includes advertising solutions, application developers, agencies, and shopper marketers in the United States. The company has established a strategic partnership with Gimbal, Inc. Retailigence operates as a subsidiary of ShopAdvisor, Inc.