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 Fraud Detection

Voi

Venture Round in 2023

Voi addresses vital behavioral health needs through advanced analytics and assessments. Voi Detect was created to save lives. It takes less than two minutes to complete and provides immediate feedback about imminent suicide risk within the following 72 hours. Voi Detect is a new standard of care. It assesses risk as accurately as a highly trained psychiatrist and provides detailed analytics about the patient population.

Verofax Limited

Seed Round in 2022

Traceability as a service for Pharmaceuticals, valuables and Food. Improve trust through eradicating counterfeit, tampering or inventory diversion. Solution includes last mile safe delivery.

Fakespot

Series A in 2020

Fakespot Inc. develops and operates a data analytics platform that spots fake online product reviews. It uses patented algorithms to sift out online product reviews that it thinks are unreliable on e-commerce platforms. The company’s application is available on App Store and Google Play. Fakespot Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

Fakespot

Seed Round in 2018

Trustify

Series B in 2018

Trustify, Inc. operates an on-demand technology platform that helps to connect and hire private investigators in the United States. The company offers real-time observation and digital monitoring services. It also provides services in the areas of background checks, social and digital media analysis, and real-time observations for staffing; finding witnesses, serving papers, locating assets, and collecting evidence for law; and workman's compensation, scene investigation, liability, witness identification, property and casualty, recorded statements, surveillance, subrogation potential, fact of loss, and SIU support services for insurance businesses. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Arlington, Virginia.

DIGGLE

Seed Round in 2018

DIGGLE is a service that provides fundamental management accounting management on the cloud called fraud management. It is possible to reduce the mistakes and man-hours of the fraud management task and easily carry out the fraud management task even if it is not an expert in finance or accounting. DIGGLE covers budget creation work and budget record comparison work, especially in the foreman management work. In the budget creation work, the KPI and the budget are automatically created by inputting the target numerical value to the preset parameters utilizing the budget generator function, while the forecast contrasting work is made up of the financial information, non-financial information It is easy to calculate by simply entering the numerical value, and it is possible to carry out calculation of the forecast contrast.

AllVirtuous

Seed Round in 2017

Using AllVirtuous mobile app, a global network of field investigators is enabled to collect vital evidence of counterfeiting amongst suppliers and distributors. Armed with the app and a set of counterfeit indicators that have been identified during extensive pre-forensic investigations, the investigators visit targeted establishments to quantify the scale to which the vulnerable brand has been compromised. The information can also be shared with law enforcement as evidence to pursue legal action, through the AllVirtuous Universal Recordation platform.

Zyudly Labs

Seed Round in 2017

Zyudly Labs, Inc. develops and offers big data and analytics platform for discovering data breaches and improve network security for the financial services industry. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Trustify

Seed Round in 2016

VillageDefense

Seed Round in 2015

VillageDefense allows you to know when crime is happening nearby through real-time alerts from people around you. The world is becoming increasingly social and connected, while safety has remained a solo effort. Using a combination of crowdsourcing, machine learning, and our team's DNA of bringing community and technology together, we're delivering the "facts on the ground", in real-time. We are Waze for crime.

Bonafide

Seed Round in 2014

Bonafide builds trust by allowing users to promote their community reputation or even identity. While Bitcoin transactions are anonymous there are many cases where identity is known. An example would be a retail location that accepts Bitcoins. A customer could be presented with a bill for meal with a QRC to make a payment. Without Bonafide there is no way for the customer to confirm that the address ties to the restaurant.

AwayFind

Seed Round in 2011

AwayFind, Inc. provides a Web application that finds and delivers timely email messages. Its Web application scans the user’s email inbox for new messages; and sends an alert with the first few lines of the message when a timely email arrives, as well as stores the email messages that are specifically asked to route for the clients. It supports various cell phone providers in the world. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in College Park, Maryland.

AwayFind

Angel Round in 2010