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

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Run Pricing Tests

Seed Round in 2021

Run Pricing Tests helps technology companies increase profits through testing and optimizing pricing, product/service bundling, and all aspects of monetization. The company connects to CRM and ERP systems to source transactional, product, and customer data. IIt provides continuous monitoring of ongoing tests.

ActualConversion

Seed Round in 2020

We collect all the unique data generated by the many marketing platforms used by a business. We then filter and normalize that data into a universal language that we enrich with relevant business insights and recommendations that you can understand and use. It doesn't stop there... We don’t just want to simplify reporting to see what has worked well in the past, we want to help predict the best actions going forwards to get the best possible results, at the best budget.

Run Pricing Tests

Seed Round in 2020

QualSights

Seed Round in 2017

QualSights is visual insights platform that provides brands, agencies, and consulting firms a dramatically faster and more affordable way to generate deeper insights at a global scale. Clients use QualSights to remotely observe and interact with consumers as they shop for, use or consume products in their natural environment; conduct video interviews or focus groups; and enhance in-person fieldwork

Chatter Research

Seed Round in 2017

Chatter Research Inc specializes in developing a real-time customer research and feedback application tailored for retail and hospitality sectors. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with an additional office in Mountain View, California, the company offers a platform that facilitates conversational surveys through text messages, allowing customers to provide feedback as they exit stores or restaurants. This innovative approach enables businesses to enhance customer experiences and drive sales by leveraging AI-powered interactions. As of January 2020, Chatter Research operates as a subsidiary of Stingray Business.

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.

Apptopia

Series A in 2016

Apptopia, Inc. provides data and insights for mobile applications. The company provides downloads, revenues, and actives user data for every mobile application in the world. It also offers advertising optimization, product and market research, competitive intelligence and benchmarking, and monetization analysis for application developers; sales intelligence, lead generation, and market analysis for Ad networks and SDK companies; and deal discovery, due diligence, and market and trend analysis for investors and VC firms. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

RankScience

Seed Round in 2016

RankScience is a continuous-optimization platform that improves website SEO through automatic A/B testing and data science.

Store Level

Venture Round in 2016

StoreLevel offers next-generation omni-channel solutions. Audit, panels and field surveys to ensure the effectiveness of your marketing strategies in a precise manner, on a large scale and at a national level.

BREWPUBLIK

Seed Round in 2015

BREWPUBLIK is an e-commerce retailer for craft beer and provides beer to homes and offices. Their proprietary technology and data collection position them as the central nervous system of the industry, touching every part of the supply chain experience. Americans spend $100B a year on beer, yet the industry functions like it's 1957. They use data and scale advantages to be the most convenient way to get a beer. Their proprietary technology automatically matches their customers' taste profiles to new products that they've never tried. They generate revenue both from directly from selling the product and then increasingly generate multiples of that with their insights.

BREWPUBLIK

Seed Round in 2015

ResultsOnAir

Convertible Note in 2015

ResultsOnAir OÜ is a company based in Tallinn, Estonia, specializing in big data analytics for television advertisers. The firm offers services that include analytics evaluation, data processing, and insight gathering, aimed at enhancing the return on investment for TV advertising. By capturing real-time web traffic generated by television ads, ResultsOnAir enables clients to understand the customer journey from initial visit to conversion. The platform helps advertisers and their agencies optimize ad spending, often achieving an average return on investment of over 40%.

Whale Path

Seed Round in 2014

Whale Path is a crowdsourced market intelligence platform that connects corporate customers with a network of over 13,000 analysts who compete to provide reliable market data and analysis. Customers initiate research projects by launching challenges that specify a reward range for each data point and an overall budget. Analysts conduct research, submit data points, and offer insights through the platform. Whale Path rigorously reviews submissions for accuracy and validity, ensuring that only high-quality information is delivered to clients. This process allows customers to receive multiple submissions for each request and to compensate analysts based on the value of the information provided. By leveraging this innovative model, Whale Path empowers businesses to make informed decisions with proprietary market insights.

42 Technologies

Seed Round in 2014

42 Technologies, Inc. specializes in developing retail analytics and reporting solutions tailored for retail professionals, including merchandisers, planners, managers, and executives. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company focuses on simplifying and enhancing the use of retail data through its predictive analytics platform. This platform connects and consolidates various data sources, such as retail, e-commerce, inventory, and traffic, allowing users to perform detailed analyses. Key features include sales flash reports, visual item reporting, drilldown analysis, and ad-hoc reporting, all designed to help retailers identify growth opportunities and understand purchase patterns more intuitively. 42 Technologies also gained recognition by presenting at significant industry events like New York Fashion Week and TechCrunch Disrupt.

Pick1

Seed Round in 2013

Pick1 specializes in transforming survey data into actionable insights for brands, providing a comprehensive solution that integrates seamlessly with third-party technologies such as Salesforce and MailChimp. Unlike traditional polling tools that focus solely on question creation, Pick1 emphasizes the importance of leveraging responses by offering a customizable and flexible suite of marketing intelligence tools. This allows brands to automate the processing of survey data without the challenges of integrating separate polling systems. By delivering contextual data alongside survey results, Pick1 enables brands to better understand their audience, facilitating the creation of user clusters. This targeted approach helps brands tailor content and advertising strategies, ultimately enhancing engagement and conversion rates.

Sidewalk

Seed Round in 2013

Sidewalk helps small businesses with internet data collections that allows them to target their audiences. Knowing which businesses market online, salespeople spend less time researching businesses and more time selling to them. It explores and analyzes data sources like Facebook and company websites and surfaces SMEs that are most receptive to its users. Some of their customers are Constant Contact, MillerCoors, soldsie, occasion, and fundera. The company scores SMEs to determine their social ranking and interest in its users’ products. It has proprietary scores for SMEs that are popular, growing, tech-savvy, and engaged and focuses on helping companies grow their sales to small businesses. Sidewalk is a U.S.-based company that was launched in 2013 by Tony Amoyal and Mo Yehia.

TrueLens

Venture Round in 2012

TrueLens specializes in analyzing Socialgraphic data to enhance marketing strategies for prominent brands, including Adidas and Neiman Marcus. By leveraging insights from customer interactions and behaviors, TrueLens aims to help businesses better understand their target audiences and improve engagement. The company focuses on influencer marketing and content promotion, providing tools that enable brands to drive more effective results in their marketing efforts. Through comprehensive data analysis, TrueLens assists clients in optimizing their marketing initiatives to connect more effectively with customers and prospects.

TradeBriefs

Seed Round in 2012

TradeBriefs, backed by 500 Startups in Silicon Valley , is an online media company and premium B2B publisher with 10,00,000+ subscribers in India, including over 60,000+ CXOs. For Corporate Professionals? TradeBriefs understands the need for you to stay informed. We help you understand trends in IT, Retail, Food, Software, Telecom, Finance and other areas of Business. Our 'News about news' technology helps you keep track of the business news and insight most relevant to you. How we help Business? - Online Branding and Lead Generation - Co-Branded Content Promotion - Primary Research

PublikDemand

Seed Round in 2012

PublikDemand aggregates and organizes customer complaints by topic and company. Individual complaints are turned into qualified leads for competitors.

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.