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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 Media

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.

Blue Wire

Seed Round in 2020
Blue Wire Media operates a sports podcasting network that features over 40 podcasts, hosted by journalists, former athletes, and influential fans. The company focuses on acquiring and launching podcasts centered around specific teams and topics, allowing for targeted content that engages dedicated sports audiences. Founded in 2018, Blue Wire is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and also participates in online retailing, offering branded merchandise such as t-shirts. The network continues to expand its offerings as it grows within the sports media landscape.

Blue Wire

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Blue Wire Media operates a sports podcasting network that features over 40 podcasts, hosted by journalists, former athletes, and influential fans. The company focuses on acquiring and launching podcasts centered around specific teams and topics, allowing for targeted content that engages dedicated sports audiences. Founded in 2018, Blue Wire is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and also participates in online retailing, offering branded merchandise such as t-shirts. The network continues to expand its offerings as it grows within the sports media landscape.

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.

ALL DAY

Seed Round in 2016
All Day is building an editorial media brand and publishing technology for mobile-first Millennial audiences. The company leverages a network of owned and partner Social Media properties for content distribution and audience engagement, driving content sharing and virality. All Day’s network partners, writers, and editors manage posts, track analytics, and grow engagement through its CMS and Social distribution dashboard. Today, All Day maintains and engages a growing audience on Social Media channels through owned and operated content brands with over 28 million followers, as well as a distribution network reaching over 200 million followers across Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Included among the company’s more popular social accounts are HistoryinPics and EarthPix on Twitter. Through these owned and partner accounts, All Day distributes highly visual and shareable editorial content, which is often featured on its destination site AllDay.com.

Blurbiz

Seed Round in 2016
Blurbiz Media offers a SaaS-based platform that enables its users to create, edit, and distribute mobile optimized videos. Blurbiz Media offers tools that enable its users to schedule a time to publish their videos in a number of social media networks at the same time. Blurbiz Media was founded in 2015 and is based in Houston, Texas.

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.

MBDC Media

Seed Round in 2014
MBDC Media, founded in 2011 and based in Jakarta, Indonesia, is a prominent online media company specializing in digital brand content production. The company operates a network of online platforms, including Malesbanget.com, which is recognized as Indonesia's largest humor and entertainment viral media channel. MBDC Media provides a range of services, including creative content development, digital campaigns, video production, and event management. Additionally, it offers strategic planning and distribution services, along with measurement and analysis of media strategies. As a YouTube Certified Company, MBDC Media also manages a multi-channel network known as the RED Network, collaborating with various well-known YouTube creators. Through its offerings, the company aims to deliver engaging and localized content that resonates with Indonesian youth while serving advertisers effectively.

MBDC Media

Venture Round in 2014
MBDC Media, founded in 2011 and based in Jakarta, Indonesia, is a prominent online media company specializing in digital brand content production. The company operates a network of online platforms, including Malesbanget.com, which is recognized as Indonesia's largest humor and entertainment viral media channel. MBDC Media provides a range of services, including creative content development, digital campaigns, video production, and event management. Additionally, it offers strategic planning and distribution services, along with measurement and analysis of media strategies. As a YouTube Certified Company, MBDC Media also manages a multi-channel network known as the RED Network, collaborating with various well-known YouTube creators. Through its offerings, the company aims to deliver engaging and localized content that resonates with Indonesian youth while serving advertisers effectively.

Visually

Series A in 2014
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.

ALL DAY

Seed Round in 2013
All Day is building an editorial media brand and publishing technology for mobile-first Millennial audiences. The company leverages a network of owned and partner Social Media properties for content distribution and audience engagement, driving content sharing and virality. All Day’s network partners, writers, and editors manage posts, track analytics, and grow engagement through its CMS and Social distribution dashboard. Today, All Day maintains and engages a growing audience on Social Media channels through owned and operated content brands with over 28 million followers, as well as a distribution network reaching over 200 million followers across Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Included among the company’s more popular social accounts are HistoryinPics and EarthPix on Twitter. Through these owned and partner accounts, All Day distributes highly visual and shareable editorial content, which is often featured on its destination site AllDay.com.

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.

Medialets

Series B in 2010
Medialets is the creator of Servo the only technology that helps marketers manage and measure the complete ROI of mobile ad campaigns. Servo is also the only buy-side mobile ad server to receive Media Rating Council (MRC) accreditation for display impressions and clicks and it's the only ad serving platform that comprehensively delivers, accurately measures, fully attribute, and instantly optimizes the ROI of every impression across all creative types, everywhere in mobile. Partnered with all five of the top five agency holding groups including Publicis, Omnicom, and Interpublic, Medialets’ Servo supports clients like P&G, American Express, Toyota, HBO, and other global brands. Founded in 2008 and is headquartered in New York City with offices in London, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

Graphicly

Series A in 2010
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.