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 FinTech

PeopleFund

Series C in 2021
PeopleFund is Korea’s leading tech-based financial platform that is opening doors to financial freedom through affordable loans and attractive alternative investment products. It is the fastest growing marketplace lender in Korea and uniquely positioned as the first and only Korean marketplace lending platform to fully integrate with a top-tier commercial bank to process personal and business loans that are government approved. PeopleFund is also the first fintech platform to offer investment products directly on KakaoTalk, Korea’s most popular messaging app, which has allowed the company to grow and scale up its business. PeopleFund was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Seoul, Korea.

Finaxar

Venture Round in 2021
Finaxar is a financial service company that finances small businesses through cloud accounting platforms. The company leverages technology to provide fast and flexible business funding, aided by its simple, transparent pricing structures and integration. Finaxar provides superior, fully automated capital solutions to help Singaporean small businesses manage short-term cash flows and avoid bankruptcy. These include receivable financing, a flexible line of credit etc. - a perfect marriage between finance and technology. The company was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Plum Fintech

Series A in 2021
Plum Fintech is a developer of personal savings assistant solutions for customers. It offers Plum that monitors the daily spending and automatically sets money aside that the user won't need; analyzes the account to learn about the income, expenses, and spending patterns, monitors the current account and every few days transfers some money from it to the user’s Plum savings, and notifies the users about their balance. Alex Michael and Victor Trokoudes founded Plum Fintech on February 1, 2016. It has its headquarters in London in the United Kingdom.

Integrated Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Integrated Finance is a fintech company that specializes in providing a core banking platform tailored for banks and financial institutions. The company develops API-enabled solutions that facilitate the integration of various financial products. Its offerings include tools for building and launching financial services, enhancing customer engagement, automating workflows, and supporting open banking initiatives. By providing these features, Integrated Finance enables financial institutions to effectively manage their business finances and streamline operations, ultimately enhancing their service delivery and customer experience.

PeopleFund

Venture Round in 2021
PeopleFund is Korea’s leading tech-based financial platform that is opening doors to financial freedom through affordable loans and attractive alternative investment products. It is the fastest growing marketplace lender in Korea and uniquely positioned as the first and only Korean marketplace lending platform to fully integrate with a top-tier commercial bank to process personal and business loans that are government approved. PeopleFund is also the first fintech platform to offer investment products directly on KakaoTalk, Korea’s most popular messaging app, which has allowed the company to grow and scale up its business. PeopleFund was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Seoul, Korea.

Infina

Seed Round in 2021
Infina is an investment platform that engages in real estate and financial services.

PeopleFund

Venture Round in 2021
PeopleFund is Korea’s leading tech-based financial platform that is opening doors to financial freedom through affordable loans and attractive alternative investment products. It is the fastest growing marketplace lender in Korea and uniquely positioned as the first and only Korean marketplace lending platform to fully integrate with a top-tier commercial bank to process personal and business loans that are government approved. PeopleFund is also the first fintech platform to offer investment products directly on KakaoTalk, Korea’s most popular messaging app, which has allowed the company to grow and scale up its business. PeopleFund was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Seoul, Korea.

Lendo

Series A in 2021
Lendo is a fintech company that offers a peer-to-peer lending platform with core focus towards SMEs' debt finance. Its platform provides a variety of financing products for SMEs with an initial focus on pre-invoicing finance. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Saudi Arabia.

EMTECH

Seed Round in 2020
EMTECH is a fintech company founded in 2019 and based in New York, New York, focused on modernizing central banks to enhance financial inclusion and resilience. The company develops cloud-based software that provides scalable and robust digital infrastructure for central banks. Its offerings include digital regulatory sandboxes for collaborative workflows, as well as solutions for digital cash and digital currency integration, facilitating cross-border transactions. By customizing its services to meet the specific needs of different economies, EMTECH aims to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of central bank operations.

Nikel

Seed Round in 2020
Impact Credit Solutions develops a financial technology platform designed to provide finance to investors. Its platform offers credit to online lending platforms that focus on SME and consumer lending as well as give access to alternative lending investments, enabling lending platforms to get financial support to lend money to consumers and SME.

Infina

Seed Round in 2020
Infina is an investment platform that engages in real estate and financial services.

TrustIQ

Series B in 2020
TrustIQ is a fintech company that offers a platform where users can apply for online loans without collater. The platform's online loan application makes it easy for documents to complete because it only requires a soft copy of an ID card, a selfie photo with an ID card. Filling in the document form is easy and the questions asked are light, the point is still reasonable and not difficult. Upon application, the borrower receives an SMS to submit the loan. After getting an SMS link to submit a loan, then click the notification link, click approval on the Aja Link account, after that, the borrower will get a verification code for the mobile number, fill in all the forms and select the loan amount and the tenor, after that the contract is signed online and wait approximately 24 hours, then your loan will be included in LinkAja balance. Trustiq installment payment date is set for maturity every 25th of the same month because loans are approved only from 1-5th of each month, so borrowers cannot choose the payment date. Payment using a virtual account number that will be given to the borrower via a complete SMS by way of payment. The company operates under PT. Financial Technology Trust. It was headquartered in Jakarta, Jakarta Raya in 2018.

PeopleFund

Venture Round in 2020
PeopleFund is Korea’s leading tech-based financial platform that is opening doors to financial freedom through affordable loans and attractive alternative investment products. It is the fastest growing marketplace lender in Korea and uniquely positioned as the first and only Korean marketplace lending platform to fully integrate with a top-tier commercial bank to process personal and business loans that are government approved. PeopleFund is also the first fintech platform to offer investment products directly on KakaoTalk, Korea’s most popular messaging app, which has allowed the company to grow and scale up its business. PeopleFund was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Seoul, Korea.

Bankiom

Seed Round in 2020
Bankiom is a digital bank that allows customers to open a current account and quickly download a virtual debit card on your smartphone.

Fairbanc

Seed Round in 2019
Fairbanc is a scalable, AI-powered mobile loan and payments platform for emerging market small-medium enterprises (SMEs) that requires no collateral or credit history. The company's AI-powered platform can read digital footprints such as transaction history with large suppliers, and data on the mobile phone to grant instant digital credit line that SMEs can use to purchase inventories from our selected suppliers. Fairbanc's proven gender-intelligent ecosystem for loans and payments can be used in many vertical markets, eliminating the shortcomings of cash. Retail shop-owners can boost sales up to 20%, eliminate cash shortages, enjoy an easier payments regimen, and develop a credit history; suppliers receive more consistent order cycles, more instant payments upon delivery, and SKU sales expansion.

Complete Fintech Platform

Seed Round in 2019
Complete Fintech Platform designs and develops an online platform that helps users understand financial technology. It began operation in 2019.

Lean

Seed Round in 2019
Lean Technologies Limited is a Saudi B2B company that specializes in providing a developer-friendly application programming interface (API) platform aimed at facilitating access to financial data and payment initiation for fintech companies. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Riyadh, the company partners with financial institutions to create an integration layer that enhances existing systems while ensuring transparency and control over shared customer data. Lean offers a Universal API that allows fintechs to connect with multiple financial institutions through a single platform, thereby simplifying the integration process and enabling seamless access to users' bank accounts. This approach helps both developers and financial institutions navigate the complexities of financial infrastructure while maintaining oversight and security.

salutat

Seed Round in 2019
intelligent communications for financial institutions

Lendo

Seed Round in 2019
Lendo is a fintech company that offers a peer-to-peer lending platform with core focus towards SMEs' debt finance. Its platform provides a variety of financing products for SMEs with an initial focus on pre-invoicing finance. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Saudi Arabia.

TradingFoe Holdings

Seed Round in 2019
TradingFoe Holdings primarily engages in data analytics, processing, and other related activities.

NowPay

Pre Seed Round in 2019
NowPay, Inc. is a fintech company based in Cairo, Egypt, founded in 2018. It operates an online platform designed to enhance the financial wellness of corporate employees. The platform offers personal finance management services, allowing users to track savings, spending, budgeting, and borrowing. Additionally, NowPay provides a mobile application that offers detailed insights into employees' salaries, balances, and eligible loan amounts. The company partners with employers to facilitate advance salary payments, enabling employees to access their earnings at any time during the month without incurring liabilities, and to repay these advances over multiple months.

Synapse

Series B in 2019
SynapseFI is a banking platform that enables companies to provide financial products to their customers for a fraction of the cost of traditional banks. The company provides payment, deposit, lending. and investment products as APIs to FinTech companies who build and launch their financial innovations on top of their banking infrastructure. They help fintech companies work together to develop the technology. Founded in 2014, SynapseFI is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

salutat

Seed Round in 2019
intelligent communications for financial institutions

Finaxar

Series A in 2019
Finaxar is a financial service company that finances small businesses through cloud accounting platforms. The company leverages technology to provide fast and flexible business funding, aided by its simple, transparent pricing structures and integration. Finaxar provides superior, fully automated capital solutions to help Singaporean small businesses manage short-term cash flows and avoid bankruptcy. These include receivable financing, a flexible line of credit etc. - a perfect marriage between finance and technology. The company was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Singapore.

DeepSparks

Seed Round in 2019
Deepsparks Company Limited operates as a financial technology company that develops a platform for marketing and alternative scoring applications. The company focuses on implementing artificial intelligence (AI) technology in the credit scoring in the loan approval process by analyzing data, enabling financial institutions and the micro lenders to serve the underbanked sector. It serves AI-based marketing and digital lending clients. The company is based in Bangkok, Thailand.

PeopleFund

Series B in 2018
PeopleFund is Korea’s leading tech-based financial platform that is opening doors to financial freedom through affordable loans and attractive alternative investment products. It is the fastest growing marketplace lender in Korea and uniquely positioned as the first and only Korean marketplace lending platform to fully integrate with a top-tier commercial bank to process personal and business loans that are government approved. PeopleFund is also the first fintech platform to offer investment products directly on KakaoTalk, Korea’s most popular messaging app, which has allowed the company to grow and scale up its business. PeopleFund was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Seoul, Korea.

Fastwork

Series A in 2018
Fastwork Technologies Co., Ltd., founded in 2015, operates a leading freelancing platform in Thailand and Southeast Asia. Based in Bangkok, the company connects businesses with a diverse range of professional freelancers offering services in graphic design, writing, website and app development, video production, online marketing, and more. Fastwork's mission is to enhance the business and employment landscape in the region by providing a quick and cost-effective way for companies to find and hire freelancers for short-term projects. The platform serves over 300,000 businesses and offers approximately 22,000 services, facilitating seamless communication, payment processing, and project management between freelancers and clients. By streamlining the hiring process, Fastwork empowers businesses to accelerate their growth while offering freelancers the tools they need to promote their services and manage their work effectively.

Rize

Seed Round in 2018
Rize builds customer-centric financial applications for fintechs, incumbents, and non-financial brands. Our patent-pending Synthetic Account technology seamlessly integrates checking, saving, and individual brokerage with one flexible platform.

FinAccel

Series B in 2018
FinAccel is a financial technology company creating disruptive and meaningful products in retail credit for Southeast Asia, the 7th largest economy in the world and home to nearly 10% of the world's population. With an all star team of investors, founders and employees, FinAccel is currently focused on disruption in the unsecured lending space.

FundRocket

Seed Round in 2018
It is still incredibly hard for small businesses to get access to the capital they need. Fundrocket makes the process simple by leveraging data and technology to bring fairly priced capital directly to the merchant.

PayJoy

Convertible Note in 2017
PayJoy Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in consumer financing solutions for smartphones. The company targets underbanked individuals in emerging markets, providing them with access to modern electronics they may not otherwise afford. PayJoy's innovative locking technology, combined with data science, allows customers to select a smartphone, make a deposit, and choose a flexible payment plan. Merchants can install PayJoy's software on their devices, which keeps the smartphones locked until the purchase is fully paid. This approach aims to expand access to affordable consumer finance, helping a significant number of people join the digital and financial landscape.

PayJoy

Convertible Note in 2017
PayJoy Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in consumer financing solutions for smartphones. The company targets underbanked individuals in emerging markets, providing them with access to modern electronics they may not otherwise afford. PayJoy's innovative locking technology, combined with data science, allows customers to select a smartphone, make a deposit, and choose a flexible payment plan. Merchants can install PayJoy's software on their devices, which keeps the smartphones locked until the purchase is fully paid. This approach aims to expand access to affordable consumer finance, helping a significant number of people join the digital and financial landscape.

PeopleFund

Series A in 2017
PeopleFund is Korea’s leading tech-based financial platform that is opening doors to financial freedom through affordable loans and attractive alternative investment products. It is the fastest growing marketplace lender in Korea and uniquely positioned as the first and only Korean marketplace lending platform to fully integrate with a top-tier commercial bank to process personal and business loans that are government approved. PeopleFund is also the first fintech platform to offer investment products directly on KakaoTalk, Korea’s most popular messaging app, which has allowed the company to grow and scale up its business. PeopleFund was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Seoul, Korea.

ftcash

Seed Round in 2017
ftcash is one of India’s fast-growing financial technology venture, recognized by Forbes, which aims to empower micro-merchants and small businesses with the power of credit using digital payments, using only a bank account and a feature phone. ftcash uses its proprietary algorithm to understand the credit-worthiness using their transaction flow data on the ftcash payments platform along with several other data points including psychometric analysis, which can be leveraged to provide these SMEs institutional finance and recollect the money from their daily transactions. ftcash works with Banks and Financial Institutions to deploy its solution for all their SMEs. After a successful launch in India in 2015, ftcash is expanding globally. ftcash is being supported by PayPal and MasterCard to enable merchant services globally.

ftcash

Angel Round in 2017
ftcash is one of India’s fast-growing financial technology venture, recognized by Forbes, which aims to empower micro-merchants and small businesses with the power of credit using digital payments, using only a bank account and a feature phone. ftcash uses its proprietary algorithm to understand the credit-worthiness using their transaction flow data on the ftcash payments platform along with several other data points including psychometric analysis, which can be leveraged to provide these SMEs institutional finance and recollect the money from their daily transactions. ftcash works with Banks and Financial Institutions to deploy its solution for all their SMEs. After a successful launch in India in 2015, ftcash is expanding globally. ftcash is being supported by PayPal and MasterCard to enable merchant services globally.

Fastwork

Seed Round in 2017
Fastwork Technologies Co., Ltd., founded in 2015, operates a leading freelancing platform in Thailand and Southeast Asia. Based in Bangkok, the company connects businesses with a diverse range of professional freelancers offering services in graphic design, writing, website and app development, video production, online marketing, and more. Fastwork's mission is to enhance the business and employment landscape in the region by providing a quick and cost-effective way for companies to find and hire freelancers for short-term projects. The platform serves over 300,000 businesses and offers approximately 22,000 services, facilitating seamless communication, payment processing, and project management between freelancers and clients. By streamlining the hiring process, Fastwork empowers businesses to accelerate their growth while offering freelancers the tools they need to promote their services and manage their work effectively.

Plum Fintech

Seed Round in 2016
Plum Fintech is a developer of personal savings assistant solutions for customers. It offers Plum that monitors the daily spending and automatically sets money aside that the user won't need; analyzes the account to learn about the income, expenses, and spending patterns, monitors the current account and every few days transfers some money from it to the user’s Plum savings, and notifies the users about their balance. Alex Michael and Victor Trokoudes founded Plum Fintech on February 1, 2016. It has its headquarters in London in the United Kingdom.

Finova Financial

Venture Round in 2016
Finova Financial LLC develops and operates digital financial services technology platform, provides consumer loan on cars. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

FinAccel

Seed Round in 2016
FinAccel is a financial technology company creating disruptive and meaningful products in retail credit for Southeast Asia, the 7th largest economy in the world and home to nearly 10% of the world's population. With an all star team of investors, founders and employees, FinAccel is currently focused on disruption in the unsecured lending space.

Fastwork

Angel Round in 2016
Fastwork Technologies Co., Ltd., founded in 2015, operates a leading freelancing platform in Thailand and Southeast Asia. Based in Bangkok, the company connects businesses with a diverse range of professional freelancers offering services in graphic design, writing, website and app development, video production, online marketing, and more. Fastwork's mission is to enhance the business and employment landscape in the region by providing a quick and cost-effective way for companies to find and hire freelancers for short-term projects. The platform serves over 300,000 businesses and offers approximately 22,000 services, facilitating seamless communication, payment processing, and project management between freelancers and clients. By streamlining the hiring process, Fastwork empowers businesses to accelerate their growth while offering freelancers the tools they need to promote their services and manage their work effectively.

PeopleFund

Funding Round in 2016
PeopleFund is Korea’s leading tech-based financial platform that is opening doors to financial freedom through affordable loans and attractive alternative investment products. It is the fastest growing marketplace lender in Korea and uniquely positioned as the first and only Korean marketplace lending platform to fully integrate with a top-tier commercial bank to process personal and business loans that are government approved. PeopleFund is also the first fintech platform to offer investment products directly on KakaoTalk, Korea’s most popular messaging app, which has allowed the company to grow and scale up its business. PeopleFund was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Seoul, Korea.

ftcash

Seed Round in 2016
ftcash is one of India’s fast-growing financial technology venture, recognized by Forbes, which aims to empower micro-merchants and small businesses with the power of credit using digital payments, using only a bank account and a feature phone. ftcash uses its proprietary algorithm to understand the credit-worthiness using their transaction flow data on the ftcash payments platform along with several other data points including psychometric analysis, which can be leveraged to provide these SMEs institutional finance and recollect the money from their daily transactions. ftcash works with Banks and Financial Institutions to deploy its solution for all their SMEs. After a successful launch in India in 2015, ftcash is expanding globally. ftcash is being supported by PayPal and MasterCard to enable merchant services globally.

Finova Financial

Seed Round in 2016
Finova Financial LLC develops and operates digital financial services technology platform, provides consumer loan on cars. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

PeopleFund

Seed Round in 2015
PeopleFund is Korea’s leading tech-based financial platform that is opening doors to financial freedom through affordable loans and attractive alternative investment products. It is the fastest growing marketplace lender in Korea and uniquely positioned as the first and only Korean marketplace lending platform to fully integrate with a top-tier commercial bank to process personal and business loans that are government approved. PeopleFund is also the first fintech platform to offer investment products directly on KakaoTalk, Korea’s most popular messaging app, which has allowed the company to grow and scale up its business. PeopleFund was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Seoul, Korea.

Tech.eu

Seed Round in 2014
Tech.eu is a London-based company founded in 2013 that specializes in providing comprehensive coverage of the European technology sector. It delivers news, data, market intelligence, and insights into startup activity, focusing on various investment stages, geographic areas, and industry sectors. In addition to its editorial content, Tech.eu produces data-driven market intelligence reports and offers consultancy services, research, and event organization. The platform aims to inform and support stakeholders in the tech ecosystem, helping them navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of European technology.