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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 Publishing

Dhad

Venture Round in 2019
Dhad is an audio publishing house that produces and publishes books. The publishing house provides a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles that can be accessed on any device, anywhere, for easy listening. Its content is also accessible through its website and smartphone app. Manar Saud Alomayri founded the Riyadh, Ar Riyad-based company in 2015.

Dhad

Seed Round in 2018
Dhad is an audio publishing house that produces and publishes books. The publishing house provides a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles that can be accessed on any device, anywhere, for easy listening. Its content is also accessible through its website and smartphone app. Manar Saud Alomayri founded the Riyadh, Ar Riyad-based company in 2015.

Socius

Seed Round in 2016
Socius Live UG operates a social media curation and publishing platform based in Berlin, Germany. The company specializes in integrating branded content with social media interactions, allowing brands, events, and publishers to create engaging social hubs. Its platform utilizes technology to collect, curate, and display content from various social media channels, which helps brands automate and manage their social media advertising efforts. By matching advertisers' social content with publishers' pages, Socius enables the monetization of this content through custom native ads, enhancing the digital advertising landscape for both publishers and advertisers.

ALL DAY

Seed Round in 2016
All Day is building an editorial media brand and publishing technology for mobile-first Millennial audiences. The company leverages a network of owned and partner Social Media properties for content distribution and audience engagement, driving content sharing and virality. All Day’s network partners, writers, and editors manage posts, track analytics, and grow engagement through its CMS and Social distribution dashboard. Today, All Day maintains and engages a growing audience on Social Media channels through owned and operated content brands with over 28 million followers, as well as a distribution network reaching over 200 million followers across Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Included among the company’s more popular social accounts are HistoryinPics and EarthPix on Twitter. Through these owned and partner accounts, All Day distributes highly visual and shareable editorial content, which is often featured on its destination site AllDay.com.

Socius

Seed Round in 2016
Socius Live UG operates a social media curation and publishing platform based in Berlin, Germany. The company specializes in integrating branded content with social media interactions, allowing brands, events, and publishers to create engaging social hubs. Its platform utilizes technology to collect, curate, and display content from various social media channels, which helps brands automate and manage their social media advertising efforts. By matching advertisers' social content with publishers' pages, Socius enables the monetization of this content through custom native ads, enhancing the digital advertising landscape for both publishers and advertisers.

Fiberead

Seed Round in 2015
Fiberead LLC provides online translation and publishing services. The company edits, translates, and promotes authors’ work on multiple platforms and releases in various foreign language marketplaces, as well as offers readers with a range of books to choose. Its services include E-book publishing, agency representation, marketing and distribution, and sales data and reports. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Beijing, China.

Publishizer

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Publishizer is a crowdpublishing platform that facilitates connections between authors, readers, and publishers through pre-order campaigns. Founded in 2012 and based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, it allows authors to create book proposals and launch campaigns to gather pre-orders. Once an author secures a minimum of 250 pre-orders, Publishizer assists in finding and listing suitable publishers, enabling authors to select the best option for their work. The platform operates on a fee structure that charges 30% of the campaign fees. By emphasizing community engagement, Publishizer aims to transform the traditional publishing process into a more interactive experience for all stakeholders involved.

Sidelines

Seed Round in 2014
Sidelines, Inc. operates an online community for building a bridge between informed content creators and their audience. It amplifies writers’ voice to reach readers by featuring their work on premium digital publications; provides content publishers with premium discussions natively on their site; and enables brands to target demographic through authentic discussions they can sponsor. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

ALL DAY

Seed Round in 2013
All Day is building an editorial media brand and publishing technology for mobile-first Millennial audiences. The company leverages a network of owned and partner Social Media properties for content distribution and audience engagement, driving content sharing and virality. All Day’s network partners, writers, and editors manage posts, track analytics, and grow engagement through its CMS and Social distribution dashboard. Today, All Day maintains and engages a growing audience on Social Media channels through owned and operated content brands with over 28 million followers, as well as a distribution network reaching over 200 million followers across Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Included among the company’s more popular social accounts are HistoryinPics and EarthPix on Twitter. Through these owned and partner accounts, All Day distributes highly visual and shareable editorial content, which is often featured on its destination site AllDay.com.

NoRedInk

Seed Round in 2013
NoRedInk Corp. operates an online language-learning platform designed to enhance grammar and writing skills for students in grades 4-12. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, the platform provides a variety of adaptive exercises that engage learners and facilitate self and peer reviews. It delivers actionable performance data to educators, enabling them to track student progress effectively. NoRedInk's resources are utilized in over half of the school districts in the United States, reflecting its commitment to improving writing proficiency and unlocking the potential of millions of students.

Kibin

Seed Round in 2011
Kibin is modernizing the campus writing center by providing digital tools and services to help students write better essays and become better writers.

955Dreams

Seed Round in 2011
955Dreams is a new age publishing company.

Graphicly

Series A in 2011
The Graphicly platform offers automated self-publishing by converting, distributing and promoting image-based digital content across the most popular consumer mobile and eBook marketplaces including the Apple iOS Newsstand and iBookstore, Barnes & Noble NOOK Color, Amazon Kindle store, Facebook and many others, while streamlining the work flow, reducing production costs significantly and providing authors and publishers detailed real-time analytics. As the only platform that optimizes image-based content, Graphicly is uniquely poised to take advantage of the $23 billion publishing market, including the more than 300,000 self-published authors expected to produce a graphical work this year.

Graphicly

Series A in 2010
The Graphicly platform offers automated self-publishing by converting, distributing and promoting image-based digital content across the most popular consumer mobile and eBook marketplaces including the Apple iOS Newsstand and iBookstore, Barnes & Noble NOOK Color, Amazon Kindle store, Facebook and many others, while streamlining the work flow, reducing production costs significantly and providing authors and publishers detailed real-time analytics. As the only platform that optimizes image-based content, Graphicly is uniquely poised to take advantage of the $23 billion publishing market, including the more than 300,000 self-published authors expected to produce a graphical work this year.