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 SaaS

ikas

Seed Round in 2022
ikas is a cloud based POS software for retailers

Omniful

Grant in 2022
Stealth B2B SaaS

Appaegis

Seed Round in 2021
Appaegis simplifies enterprise data access while enforcing strong zero-trust security for remote access. Its patent-pending solution protects data access and gives administrators full control over how enterprise data is used. The company was founded by security veterans with successful security track records.

Userpilot

Seed Round in 2020
Product Experience Software that helps product & customer success teams improve user onboarding and boost adoption.

Userpilot

Seed Round in 2020
Product Experience Software that helps product & customer success teams improve user onboarding and boost adoption.

AppBind

Seed Round in 2020
AppBind, Inc. is a software company based in Atherton, California, established in 2018. The company offers a platform that enables agencies and consultants to manage cloud software and service subscriptions on behalf of their clients. By creating virtual credit cards, AppBind allows users to procure subscriptions, advertising, and digital assets while automatically tracking and recording expenses. This streamlined approach helps businesses efficiently manage payments and reduces the risk of missed subscriptions or payments. The platform aims to simplify the management of cloud software, making it easier for agencies to grow their services and maintain financial oversight for their clients.

Bakala

Seed Round in 2020
Bakala is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tool that provides Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCGs) companies with real-time access to analytics on market shares, distribution, pricing, promotion, and much more. With accurate and timely data, FMCGs can accordingly make better business decisions to improve their product, supply chain, distribution, and sales.

Workhint

Seed Round in 2019
Workhint LLC develops a software as a service (SaaS) based platform that connects companies with independent management consultants on demand. Its platform offers features, such as invitation link to onboard experts to the platform, video call, hours tracking offline or online, invoicing tool to help organizations pay experts based on hours tracked, and messaging and file sharing tools to helps experts and users share texts, agree on meeting time, and more. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

Userpilot

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Product Experience Software that helps product & customer success teams improve user onboarding and boost adoption.

Taker

Seed Round in 2019
Taker, SaaS-based online ordering system for restaurants where it helps them set up their branded ordering website and apps instantly.

Sixa

Seed Round in 2019
Sixa is a full computer that operates right from the cloud through a client app. It supports various devices and is capable of running the most demanding applications. With it, users can easily deploy a cloud computer developed for different tasks and access a powerful virtual computer without hardware upgrades. Sixa was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Detexian

Seed Round in 2018
In the modern workplace, software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications are dispersed and managed across different business teams, making security audit an almost impossible task to keep up with. User misconfiguration has become a key security threat to organizations saying Yes to SaaS solutions. Detexian provides simple visibility and security configuration consistency across SaaS stack so organizations can entrust workers with care of data in a multi-SaaS world.

Khmerhome

Seed Round in 2018
KhmerHome.com operates a real estate platform. The company offers Software as a Service (SaaS) platform for local real estate agencies to connect with their customers, and manage their inventories and their online presence. Its property management system enables users to manage their listings and clients. It also offers a property valuation application. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Kimola

Seed Round in 2018
Kimola is a data analytics company specializing in understanding human behavior through its innovative platforms. Launched in 2018, Kimola Analytics offers audience-specific trends and lifestyle insights by employing an artificial intelligence engine to anonymously profile consumers. This enables marketers to enhance their strategies, optimize media buying, and improve return on investment. Additionally, Kimola Cognitive, a machine learning platform, assists in auto-classifying various forms of social listening data, including interview scripts and customer feedback. Founded in 2014 at the Microsoft Innovation Center, Kimola has evolved into a resource for global corporations aiming to ground their strategies in sectors such as communications, sales, and marketing. The company combines technology with social sciences to deliver comprehensive insights into consumer behavior.

Resource

Seed Round in 2018
Resource is a software company that specializes in connecting potential employees with employers through its innovative recruiting platform. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Resource offers a sourcing-as-a-service solution that automates the candidate sourcing process for growing companies. By streamlining this process, the platform significantly reduces manual effort and time wastage, allowing clients to efficiently manage candidate outreach and improve their hiring practices.

SV Academy

Venture Round in 2017
SVAcademy is a 15-month business development apprenticeship paid for by employers. SVAcademy’s team has started and sold SaaS companies to Oracle and HP, hired and trained more than 400 SaaS sales reps, conducted admissions at Harvard, and coached more than 100,000 students across the country.

NAZAR

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Nazar develops a SaaS based agentless database performance monitoring solution. Antônio Inocêncio, Leo Zeba, and Matheus Oliveira in 2014, with its headquarters in Recife in Brazil.

Auctio

Seed Round in 2016
Auctio, Inc. operates a SaaS platform that allows clients to generate leads from existing customers by launching incentive-based referral and cross selling programs. Its platform introduces the right incentives to the right employees in real time to reduce sales cycles and increase revenue; dashboard and predictive analytics help marketing teams customize incentives in order to increase employee engagement; predictive lead scoring optimizes lead management process by scoring leads based on buyer profiles and account level data; enables to capture success stories and case studies in order to leverage best practices and make it actionable for the organization; and offers data in a single platform to make better-informed decisions. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Backstartup

Pre Seed Round in 2016
At Backstartup we want to reinvent the relationship of small businesses with their accounting and finances, and for this reason we've decided to reinvent the Accountant. Our SwaS, completely replaces the Accountant in Small Business, providing them with reports, taxes and financial statements month to month though our online platform. We eliminate manual tasks and human errors by using accounting automation bots and bank integrations and assign our customers a virtual administrative support team that accompanies them to guarantee a comprehensive service experience. We are pioneers in Latin America, where paper culture is highly entrenched, in moving traditional offline behaviors to a 100% online experience.

Raxar Technology Corporation

Seed Round in 2016
Raxar is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that is disrupting the $212 billion infrastructure management markets through the use of Big Data, IoT, Cloud, and Mobile Technologies. Raxar provides a proven intelligent data management platform that enables enterprise and government agencies to reduce costs, track critical assets, and optimize complex workflows. Clients are able to collect, manage and deliver detailed information associated with their assets in real time while utilizing a highly configurable solution. Raxar was founded in Tampa, Florida in response to the growing need for smarter mobile solutions around industrial applications. Raxar's overall mission is to provide the next generation of tools to improve the condition, safety, and accessibility of the world's infrastructure.

Triage

Seed Round in 2014
Triage integrates the SaaS tools you use everyday. Quickly connect your services, Triage syncs everything important into one mobile feed.

Sales Beach

Seed Round in 2014
Sales Beach Inc., a sales automation company, develops B2B outbound lead management and automation solutions. The company focuses on helping users to generate meetings from targeted cold leads. Its software automates outbound sales, enabling users to send personalized emails to various possible contacts in their target industry and turn responses into meetings. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Synappio

Seed Round in 2013
An Atlanta-based technology startup helping email marketers get and stay in compliance with their Email Service Providers.

Sales Beach

Seed Round in 2013
Sales Beach Inc., a sales automation company, develops B2B outbound lead management and automation solutions. The company focuses on helping users to generate meetings from targeted cold leads. Its software automates outbound sales, enabling users to send personalized emails to various possible contacts in their target industry and turn responses into meetings. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Saygent

Seed Round in 2011
Saygent's voice response & analysis SaaS allows companies to get superior customer insights at scale. Saygent automatically interviews thousands of customers and analyzes their responses for meaning and sentiment without using the expensive call centers or costly IVR systems. Saygent takes only 2 minutes to set up, and within hours, you get rich dashboard with actionable results. You quickly get a sense of the the most important trends and can listen to specific important calls of champions or detractors.