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 E-commerce

Fy!

Venture Round in 2023
Fy builds a creative and addictive mobile marketplace to shop online.

El-Dokan

Pre Seed Round in 2022
El-Dokan is an enterprise e-commerce software designed for large and growing retail stores in MENA.

Modesta

Seed Round in 2022
Modesta is an e-commerce store that helps women express themselves by featuring the latest trends in modest fashion.

Retailo

Series A in 2022
Retailo develops an online B2B marketplace for retail supply chain in the MENAP region. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

GuruHotel

Seed Round in 2021
With GuruHotel, hotels can build a real e-commerce website in less than 10 minutes and directly sell their rooms.

Retailo

Seed Round in 2021
Retailo develops an online B2B marketplace for retail supply chain in the MENAP region. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Una Brands

Debt Financing in 2021
Una Brands provide a fast and fair way for e-commerce business owners to sell their companies.

Una Brands

Seed Round in 2021
Una Brands provide a fast and fair way for e-commerce business owners to sell their companies.

Mercular

Venture Round in 2021
Mercular operates as an online shopping platform that specifically targets those who are into hobbies relating to sports, games, and music.

GuruHotel

Venture Round in 2021
With GuruHotel, hotels can build a real e-commerce website in less than 10 minutes and directly sell their rooms.

Modesta

Venture Round in 2021
Modesta is an e-commerce store that helps women express themselves by featuring the latest trends in modest fashion.

Retailo

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Retailo develops an online B2B marketplace for retail supply chain in the MENAP region. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Retailo

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Retailo develops an online B2B marketplace for retail supply chain in the MENAP region. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Linkshop

Seed Round in 2020
Linkshop is a professional retail industry website, providing full-round information and data services. It is an information web-provider in retail industry, including shopping centers, department stores, convenience stores, and supermarkets. It provides readers with high-quality and analysis-driven editorial that is retailer focused. Linkshop’s content includes accurate and timely news, news analysis, marketing tactics, strategic management, original research, trends, and best-practice information. It was launched in 2000 and is based in China.

Salasa

Series A in 2020
offer total solutions for your e-commerce needs and manage your complete logistics value chain. Our fulfillment services offer a cost-effective way to store your products without adding to overhead costs. Salasa provides superior pick-up and pack services with multiple shipping options that keep your products moving fast while reducing operational expenses. Salasa provides you with the peace of mind to focus on the task ahead: taking your e-commerce to the next level.

Dreamship

Seed Round in 2020
Dreamship is the trusted ecosystem for ecommerce merchants who prioritize end buyer experience.

Fy!

Seed Round in 2020
Fy builds a creative and addictive mobile marketplace to shop online.

Gili

Seed Round in 2020
Gili is an online retail platform specializing in footwear and a range of fashion apparel for men and women. It provides customers with access to clothing, bags, and accessories at wholesale prices, sourcing products directly from major factories across Asia. By focusing on e-commerce, Gili aims to deliver a diverse selection of quality apparel while ensuring affordability for its customers.

VOO

Seed Round in 2020
VOO is Delivery aggregator for E-commerce, through Network of courier partners, towards higher successful delivery rates and bigger e-commerce profits

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.

Trteeb

Seed Round in 2019
Trteeb operates an online platform for customized tailor clothing for Arab traditional thobes connecting users to tailors. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

CloudCommerce

Seed Round in 2019
CloudCommerce operates as a cloud platform that sellers manage global online marketplaces. It features a system that connects the SME product data with online markets globally, which makes entering the global market easy. Also, it connects the logistic system in order to help reduce production costs and shipping times.

Curie

Seed Round in 2019
For over 3B people experiencing Shelter-at-Home, the new normal is order-ahead and delivery. Businesses have to find whole-new ways of reaching customers because customers are not going to stores. They can no longer rely on foot traffic or visual merchandising. Curie brings the stores home to shoppers. Curie looks to improve the at-home shopping experience as opposed to a list a-la Amazon. Curie brings the store to the home with a Shelf-to-Home Experience. With Curie, customers shop with AR, then make their purchases and receive them via delivery or pickup apps. Shopping has remained nearly unchanged for over 10K years. You go to the store, look around, and buy things. We are trained to look at shelves, the packaging, the prices, and deals. For many, ordering online is broken experience. There’s simply too much cognitive dissonance between the shelf and a mobile app or website.

aftersale (Formerly Send4)

Seed Round in 2019
aftersale seeks to improve the quality of service perceived by the Brazilian consumer by solving complex problems simply. It connects branded consumers through interfaces in an omnichannel concept, increasing logistics and fulfillment efficiency and eliminating customer experience gaps in the process of exchanging and returning purchases. Consumers gain in convenience, advantages and much less effort to secure their right. Business gains in operating savings, customer retention, increased average ticket purchase, increased satisfaction and improved reputation. It serves major clients in the Fashion and Accessories, Cosmetics and Beauty, Professional Products, and Home and Decoration segments.

Edfa3ly

Seed Round in 2019
Edfa3ly.com is an automated personal shopping platform that allows customers to purchase items from any U.S. store or website. The service facilitates the acquisition of both physical merchandise and downloadable software, ensuring that ordered items are shipped directly to the customer's doorstep or made available for download. Edfa3ly.com provides comprehensive support, including payment processing with international merchants, customs clearance, and last-mile delivery, effectively removing barriers to shopping across borders.

Fy!

Seed Round in 2019
Fy builds a creative and addictive mobile marketplace to shop online.

Catch Fashion

Seed Round in 2019
Catch Fashion is an online fashion portal.

Easyship

Series A in 2018
Easyship is a technology company that provides eCommerce sellers with a one-stop solution to ship their orders worldwide. It allows eCommerce merchants and marketplaces to integrate a seamless shipping gateway to their shopping cart. Easyship integrates with more than 100 different shipping services including major couriers such as DHL, FedEx, USPS and UPS, at prices discounted up to 70%. For each order, Easyship compares all shipping couriers and gives transparency to the buyer on delivery time and shipping costs. Easyship guarantees taxes & duties for shipments based on the type of item and its customs value - making sure that eCommerce sellers never experience unexpected costs or delays while shipping worldwide. Because all of this is integrated within a single, efficient, free software, sellers only need their Easyship account to sync their stores and streamline their logistics from checkout to delivery. Easyship also provides e-fulfillment services to eCommerce sellers that are willing to have their products stored, packed, and shipped from one of Easyship’s warehouses.

Dreamship

Seed Round in 2018
Dreamship is the trusted ecosystem for ecommerce merchants who prioritize end buyer experience.

iPrice Group

Corporate Round in 2018
iPrice Group Sdn Bhd operates an e-commerce platform. The company offers electronics, clothing, shoes, bags, watches, jeweler, kids and toys, sports and outdoors, and home and living products. The company also provides products in various categories, such as kitchen and dining, cooling, women’s ethnic wear, skin care, men’s sneakers, strollers and carriers, makeup, backpacks, women’s dresses, accessories, food supplements, hair care, smartphones, LED, cases and covers, men’s shoes, gadgets, women’s heels, sport, fashion watches, travel, headphones, bedroom, casual, beauty and health, medical equipment, and cycling products. It serves clients in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Vietnam. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Edfa3ly

Venture Round in 2017
Edfa3ly.com is an automated personal shopping platform that allows customers to purchase items from any U.S. store or website. The service facilitates the acquisition of both physical merchandise and downloadable software, ensuring that ordered items are shipped directly to the customer's doorstep or made available for download. Edfa3ly.com provides comprehensive support, including payment processing with international merchants, customs clearance, and last-mile delivery, effectively removing barriers to shopping across borders.

Edfa3ly

Series B in 2017
Edfa3ly.com is an automated personal shopping platform that allows customers to purchase items from any U.S. store or website. The service facilitates the acquisition of both physical merchandise and downloadable software, ensuring that ordered items are shipped directly to the customer's doorstep or made available for download. Edfa3ly.com provides comprehensive support, including payment processing with international merchants, customs clearance, and last-mile delivery, effectively removing barriers to shopping across borders.

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.

Fy!

Seed Round in 2016
Fy builds a creative and addictive mobile marketplace to shop online.

SupplyAI

Convertible Note in 2016
SupplyAI is a retail technology company that creates products to improve people's shopping experience. AspenCX, our Shopper Success platform helps shoppers track orders, make easy self-service returns & exchange requests, and at the same time helps retailers unify shopping experience and grow their customer relationships. Through Aspen, businesses are now able to bring greater transparency to shipping and returns or exchange. As a result, retailers see greater customer trust, while ensuring they are able to operate in the most efficient manner possible. Our integration is seamless and comes with dedicated support. Our goal is simple - give your shoppers more reason to trust merchants, resulting more transactions with increased value, more frequently.

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.

M-vendr Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2015
M-vendr's turnkey Point of Sale applications and API solutions enable the multi-channel distribution of prepaid digital products such as mobile airtime, electricity and the provision of financial services to customers in emerging markets via mobile, web or retail agent service points.

iPrice Group

Seed Round in 2015
iPrice Group Sdn Bhd operates an e-commerce platform. The company offers electronics, clothing, shoes, bags, watches, jeweler, kids and toys, sports and outdoors, and home and living products. The company also provides products in various categories, such as kitchen and dining, cooling, women’s ethnic wear, skin care, men’s sneakers, strollers and carriers, makeup, backpacks, women’s dresses, accessories, food supplements, hair care, smartphones, LED, cases and covers, men’s shoes, gadgets, women’s heels, sport, fashion watches, travel, headphones, bedroom, casual, beauty and health, medical equipment, and cycling products. It serves clients in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Vietnam. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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.

Fy!

Seed Round in 2015
Fy builds a creative and addictive mobile marketplace to shop online.

Easyship

Seed Round in 2015
Easyship is a technology company that provides eCommerce sellers with a one-stop solution to ship their orders worldwide. It allows eCommerce merchants and marketplaces to integrate a seamless shipping gateway to their shopping cart. Easyship integrates with more than 100 different shipping services including major couriers such as DHL, FedEx, USPS and UPS, at prices discounted up to 70%. For each order, Easyship compares all shipping couriers and gives transparency to the buyer on delivery time and shipping costs. Easyship guarantees taxes & duties for shipments based on the type of item and its customs value - making sure that eCommerce sellers never experience unexpected costs or delays while shipping worldwide. Because all of this is integrated within a single, efficient, free software, sellers only need their Easyship account to sync their stores and streamline their logistics from checkout to delivery. Easyship also provides e-fulfillment services to eCommerce sellers that are willing to have their products stored, packed, and shipped from one of Easyship’s warehouses.

Shopline

Seed Round in 2015
Shopline is a do-it-yourself e-commerce platform tailored for merchants in Asia, enabling them to create online shops with ease. It offers a user-friendly setup process, allowing users to launch their stores within minutes without any coding skills. The platform supports multiple regional payment methods and provides native language options, making it accessible to a diverse range of users. All online shops are fully responsive, ensuring a consistent and optimal experience across devices. By focusing on the needs of small businesses in Chinese-speaking countries, Shopline aims to empower entrepreneurs with straightforward tools that align with their operational needs, positioning itself to make a significant impact in Asia's growing e-commerce market.

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.

Shopline

Seed Round in 2014
Shopline is a do-it-yourself e-commerce platform tailored for merchants in Asia, enabling them to create online shops with ease. It offers a user-friendly setup process, allowing users to launch their stores within minutes without any coding skills. The platform supports multiple regional payment methods and provides native language options, making it accessible to a diverse range of users. All online shops are fully responsive, ensuring a consistent and optimal experience across devices. By focusing on the needs of small businesses in Chinese-speaking countries, Shopline aims to empower entrepreneurs with straightforward tools that align with their operational needs, positioning itself to make a significant impact in Asia's growing e-commerce market.

Keen Systems

Series A in 2014
Keen is the first cloud-based service that helps them quickly and economically build an ecommerce-driven web presence and streamline their complete workflow from estimates to orders to shipping. The print industry produces $640B annually and is almost entirely made up of companies with 250 employees or fewer. They are quickly looking to transition from phone calls and emails to an online workflow. Today 20% of print transactions originate online, by 2017 that number will be over 50%. Until now, this has been a very expensive, difficult, and most times ineffective transition for print service providers. Keen was founded by a team with deep roots in both print and Internet technology. The service was first announced (in alpha) at DEMO Fall 2009. Keen went live at Graph Expo 2011 – the largest annual print industry conference in North America – where it won a “Must See ‘Em” award. Keen is the official ecommerce workflow partner of Roland DGA (announced in March 2012).

Goods Platform

Seed Round in 2013
Goods Platform, Inc. provided an online platform for wholesalers to accept purchase orders online. It also served as a virtual point-of-sale system for wholesalers to manage inventory, create digital catalogs, and accept orders. The company was based in the United States.

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.

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.

Privy

Seed Round in 2013
Privy, Inc. operates a platform designed to help small businesses build and manage their email lists. The platform offers a variety of tools, including website popups, bars, and banners to convert website traffic, as well as exit intent features to enhance email list growth. It also provides landing pages for tracking conversions from social and advertising networks, along with email-gated offers to boost list expansion and drive both online and offline conversions. Additionally, Privy offers an iPad application for email collection at in-store events, catering to field marketers. The company primarily serves e-commerce vendors, local businesses, and content publishers, aiming to support them in developing their online presence and enhancing customer engagement. Founded in 2011 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Privy focuses on equipping small e-commerce brands with essential marketing tools and education for growth.

Shopintoit

Seed Round in 2012
Powering Social Storefronts for Retailers-> Shopintoit is adding thousands of items monthly for sale and hundreds of stores every month in the $200 Billion market for socially-sourced e-commerce. Company provides social storefronts integrated with Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter. Backed by 500 Startups.

Keen Systems

Seed Round in 2012
Keen is the first cloud-based service that helps them quickly and economically build an ecommerce-driven web presence and streamline their complete workflow from estimates to orders to shipping. The print industry produces $640B annually and is almost entirely made up of companies with 250 employees or fewer. They are quickly looking to transition from phone calls and emails to an online workflow. Today 20% of print transactions originate online, by 2017 that number will be over 50%. Until now, this has been a very expensive, difficult, and most times ineffective transition for print service providers. Keen was founded by a team with deep roots in both print and Internet technology. The service was first announced (in alpha) at DEMO Fall 2009. Keen went live at Graph Expo 2011 – the largest annual print industry conference in North America – where it won a “Must See ‘Em” award. Keen is the official ecommerce workflow partner of Roland DGA (announced in March 2012).

Privy

Seed Round in 2012
Privy, Inc. operates a platform designed to help small businesses build and manage their email lists. The platform offers a variety of tools, including website popups, bars, and banners to convert website traffic, as well as exit intent features to enhance email list growth. It also provides landing pages for tracking conversions from social and advertising networks, along with email-gated offers to boost list expansion and drive both online and offline conversions. Additionally, Privy offers an iPad application for email collection at in-store events, catering to field marketers. The company primarily serves e-commerce vendors, local businesses, and content publishers, aiming to support them in developing their online presence and enhancing customer engagement. Founded in 2011 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Privy focuses on equipping small e-commerce brands with essential marketing tools and education for growth.

Beetailer

Seed Round in 2011
Beetailer's software helps retailers import existing web stores onto Facebook and gives e-retailers tools for promoting the storefront and detailed analytics about how well it is doing.

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.