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 Marketing and advertising

AvantCom International

Seed Round in 2019
AvantCom International provides consultancy, training, social media management, marketing, public relations and events services.

DOZ

Seed Round in 2014
DOZ Marketing Software helps create an organic marketing campaign and to launch a customized timeline of tasks needed to achieve marketing goals.DOZ has vetted marketing professionals from around the world. DOZ automatically assigns the right experts to every task on custom, marketing campaign.DOZ helps websites to run more effective online marketing campaigns by managing natives industry experts and marketing professionals.

Rain

Seed Round in 2014
Through Rain, in 4 minutes people can create an ad and place that ad on the phones of consumers that are locate next to their business.

BrandCont

Seed Round in 2013
BrandCont offers the first branded content campaign planning tool for selecting media based on target. In addition, an exhaustive measurement of the consumption of each content is made in order to optimize campaigns and redefine content design. BrandCont offers KPIs that generate value information, both for selecting and planning as well as for tracking and closures. Metrics generate value information to build effective real-time sequences and for rerouting activity.

OneSpot

Venture Round in 2012
OneSpot, Inc. is a content advertising company based in Austin, Texas, with additional offices in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. Founded in 2005, it specializes in a content marketing platform that personalizes branded content across various digital channels, including websites, email, mobile, and paid media. The platform leverages machine learning and natural language processing to analyze available content alongside users' behavioral data and contextual signals, delivering tailored brand experiences. This capability allows marketers to enhance brand engagement by providing relevant content that keeps users returning for more. OneSpot's clientele includes major brands such as Nestle, L'Oreal, Unilever, and Under Armour, demonstrating its effectiveness in fostering strong content-based relationships and driving measurable results.

Teads.tv

Series A in 2012
Teads.tv outstreams video advertising and the leading native video advertising marketplace.owth companies. Publishers work with Teads to create brand new outstream video inventory, monetizing it through programmatic buying, their own sales force, or third parties including Teads Demand. Teads pioneers advertising experiences that respect the user, creating unprecedented levels of premium inventory which previously didn’t exist. Brands, agencies and trading desks can access this top-tier, premium inventory, available on the web and on mobile, in the Teads Marketplace. Through our managed services capabilities, the Teads team execute on their client’s behalf using its platform.

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.

Teads.tv

Seed Round in 2010
Teads.tv outstreams video advertising and the leading native video advertising marketplace.owth companies. Publishers work with Teads to create brand new outstream video inventory, monetizing it through programmatic buying, their own sales force, or third parties including Teads Demand. Teads pioneers advertising experiences that respect the user, creating unprecedented levels of premium inventory which previously didn’t exist. Brands, agencies and trading desks can access this top-tier, premium inventory, available on the web and on mobile, in the Teads Marketplace. Through our managed services capabilities, the Teads team execute on their client’s behalf using its platform.