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

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Stitch

Venture Round in 2021
Stitch is a social networking platform designed to help older adults connect with others for companionship, dating, travel, and shared activities. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, the platform focuses on facilitating meaningful relationships by enabling users to find partners for various pursuits, including dinner dates and travel companionship. Stitch offers features such as interest and activity matching, secure communication, and identity verification to ensure a safe and tailored experience for its users. The service is available to customers worldwide, addressing the diverse companionship needs of older adults.

MHub

Seed Round in 2020
MHub is a developer of a real estate fintech platform that facilitates collaboration among property developers, real estate agents, bankers, and buyers. The platform aims to streamline the property purchasing process, allowing these stakeholders to work together more efficiently. By creating a community focused on simplifying interactions within the real estate market, MHub helps deserving buyers navigate the complexities of acquiring homes. The company's goal is to establish a systematic and synergistic environment that enhances communication and collaboration among all parties involved in real estate transactions.

Bliinx

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Bliinx Inc. is a Montreal-based company established in 2018 that focuses on developing software designed to enhance business relationships. Its platform aggregates interactions between professionals and their contacts into a streamlined relationship timeline, accessible through Office 365, including inbox, calendar, and mobile devices. Bliinx primarily serves sales, marketing, and customer success teams by providing tools that uncover relationship-based insights and automate data capture. This functionality aims to save time, improve win rates, enhance strategic decision-making, and ultimately drive revenue growth.

HYVE

Seed Round in 2019
HYVE helps users navigate their social media channels by allowing them to follow more people. It connects user's social media sites like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and others into one centralized app.

KiKi

Pre Seed Round in 2019
The first social network in the world that shortens the virtual time of users and promotes experiences in the real world. KiKi started in 2018 by launching an MVP in Spain. Since 2019, it has been part of the best startup accelerator in the US: 500 Startups. In 2020 the app won the first award in the Date Awards in the BEST UP AND COMING DATING SITE category and 3rd in the BEST NICHE DATING SITE. Currently, it has become one of the most searching APP by users to meet like-minded people and live real experiences close to them. It is available in both the App Store and the Play Store.

EME Hive

Series A in 2018
EME is a community-based, social live streaming app for finding like-minded friends and partners. Through the power of live streaming technology, users are able to form real-time connections with members of their own communities. By offering a subscription dating service as well as a live streaming platform, EME makes it easy for users to flirt, chat, and date in real-time -- all within the same app.

IRL

Seed Round in 2018
IRL is a social planning application designed to facilitate real-life interactions among users. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the app simplifies the process of sending and receiving invitations to social gatherings. It offers users a range of suggestions for activities based on their interests, locations, seasons, and upcoming holidays. In addition to event planning, IRL allows users to anonymously nominate friends for activities suited to their skills. The application also integrates local public events and enables users to sync their calendars with friends while following sports teams, musicians, and local venues. Overall, IRL aims to enhance social connectivity and encourage users to engage in shared experiences.

WeTipp

Pre Seed Round in 2017
WeTipp is the online platform that connects through interests and skills to help groups engage their members. How? Map the interests and skills of their members, collaborate at scale and aggregate all the tools they need in one place. WeTipp works with Associations, Alumni, Coworking spaces and Public institutions, among which the largest users are the European Commission and Italian Ministry of Education. WeTipp is a 500 Startups company and founders were respectively the COO and CTO of Talent Garden, 1st investor and biggest network of co-working spaces in Europe and top WeWork competitor.

Talent garden

Series A in 2016
Talent Garden is a prominent innovation platform and coworking network that supports digital and technology professionals. Established in 2011 in Brescia, Italy, the company operates 23 campuses across eight countries, including Albania, Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Romania, and Spain. Talent Garden serves as a collaborative environment for startups, freelancers, and large corporations, fostering connections and professional development within the digital and tech sectors. The organization aims to cultivate vibrant, locally connected campuses that empower communities and enhance the growth of innovative ideas. With a growing membership of over 600 talents and more than 40,000 online community members, Talent Garden is dedicated to creating an ecosystem that nurtures entrepreneurial success and collaboration among professionals in the technology space.

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.

Supergleu

Seed Round in 2016
Supergleu helps college students and employers connect through conversation.

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.

EME Hive

Venture Round in 2015
EME is a community-based, social live streaming app for finding like-minded friends and partners. Through the power of live streaming technology, users are able to form real-time connections with members of their own communities. By offering a subscription dating service as well as a live streaming platform, EME makes it easy for users to flirt, chat, and date in real-time -- all within the same app.

FounderDating

Series A in 2015
FounderDating is a network of talented entrepreneurs with different backgrounds and skill sets all ready to start their next company or project. All too often you know people with similar backgrounds and skills sets to your own. They help you find cofounders with complementary skill sets.

Socialight

Seed Round in 2014
Socialight the company behind a platform that enables local content publishers and communities to create their own mobile applications. Founded in 2005 by Melinger and fellow graduates of New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, businesses use Socialight’s self-serve platform to design and launch apps around location-based content. The company has powered mobile and web solutions for top brands such as Ford Motor Company, Travel Channel, and NBC Universal with its scalable, white-label platform.

Connected2Me

Seed Round in 2014
Connected2Me is a global messaging platform based in Turkey that has over 25 million registered users. The platform features a web chat application that connects registered profiles with anonymous site visitors, allowing users to communicate without revealing their identities. This unique anonymity feature sets Connected2Me apart from other messaging platforms, contributing to its viral growth in user acquisition. By prioritizing privacy and anonymity, Connected2Me offers a distinctive approach to online communication, appealing to users seeking a secure messaging experience.

Stitch

Seed Round in 2014
Stitch is a social networking platform designed to help older adults connect with others for companionship, dating, travel, and shared activities. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, the platform focuses on facilitating meaningful relationships by enabling users to find partners for various pursuits, including dinner dates and travel companionship. Stitch offers features such as interest and activity matching, secure communication, and identity verification to ensure a safe and tailored experience for its users. The service is available to customers worldwide, addressing the diverse companionship needs of older adults.

Tappy

Seed Round in 2014
Tappy is a hyperlocal social app that transforms any location into a virtual online community where users can discover interesting people and relevant content Tappy focuses in creating a social network beneficial to both consumers and businesses.

Social Tables

Series A in 2014
Social Tables, Inc. is a cloud-based software company that serves the hospitality, events, and catering industries. Founded in 2011 and based in Washington, D.C., the company provides a comprehensive platform that includes sales and catering CRM software, management tools, interactive floor plans, and lead capture services. Its solutions facilitate the booking and management of events for hoteliers and event managers, while also enhancing the connection between sales and operations for caterers. By streamlining the event planning process—covering aspects such as floor plan design, seating chart creation, and guest engagement—Social Tables aims to simplify and enhance the experience for event professionals. The company operates as a subsidiary of Cvent, Inc. since October 2018.

Traity

Series A in 2014
Traity is a company that provides a platform for analyzing the reputation of users within collaborative economies. Established in 2012 and based in Mountain View, California, Traity measures individuals' reputations by examining their social media footprints. This analysis enables users to trust one another in online interactions. Additionally, Traity has developed a blockchain-based tool that assesses personality traits and reputation attributes, such as creativity and perseverance, through crowdsourcing data and user reviews from various platforms. This tool serves as a valuable resource for businesses seeking to evaluate their employees' traits more accurately.

Stitch

Seed Round in 2014
Stitch is a social networking platform designed to help older adults connect with others for companionship, dating, travel, and shared activities. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, the platform focuses on facilitating meaningful relationships by enabling users to find partners for various pursuits, including dinner dates and travel companionship. Stitch offers features such as interest and activity matching, secure communication, and identity verification to ensure a safe and tailored experience for its users. The service is available to customers worldwide, addressing the diverse companionship needs of older adults.

Tapestry

Seed Round in 2014
Official Twitter feed for http://t.co/3Csf62O4, the easiest way to stay connected to your family without worrying about technology.

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.

ChatCenter AI

Seed Round in 2013
ChatCenter AI offers a comprehensive API designed for mobile application developers to enhance customer acquisition and monitor viral metrics. Founded in 2013 and based in Mountain View, California, the company provides tools that enable developers to seamlessly integrate referral and invitation features into their applications. With user-friendly drag-and-drop functionality and a robust dashboard, developers can optimize their viral marketing strategies by personalizing landing pages and conducting A/B tests. The API boasts impressive performance metrics, including a click-through rate exceeding 20% from customized landing pages to app stores and a conversion rate of over 30% for signups from invitations sent. ChatCenter AI addresses a critical challenge for app developers by facilitating effective customer engagement and acquisition.

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.

Referly

Seed Round in 2012
Referly is an online referral system designed for social networks that enables users to share links to products and services while earning rewards based on their friends' actions. By tracking shared links, Referly allows individuals to cultivate a reputation as knowledgeable sources for their favorite items, incentivizing them to promote products they value. The platform effectively combines social sharing with a rewards mechanism, encouraging users to engage with their networks and generate purchases through their recommendations.

Social Tools

Seed Round in 2012
Social Tools is a Social Marketing Suite, that enables Agencies and Marketers to run low-cost promotions and contests on Facebook. Social Tools allows brands to build and Run any kind of promotion such as sweepstakes, image contest, coupons, giveaways, and much more, on any Facebook page, website or mobile device, on a very easy way. Social Tools enables brands grow their social audience, engage consumers, and drive sales reducing the CPA and increasing the ROI in Social Media.

Hunie

Seed Round in 2012
We're a community of Creative Humans that inspire and connect with one another on a professional platform that puts us on top of the world. We network with the industry's best, seek inspiration and knowledge from our peers, and strut our stuff with other Creatives. We're a new kind of Creative community. We're DesignersCouch.

Traity

Seed Round in 2012
Traity is a company that provides a platform for analyzing the reputation of users within collaborative economies. Established in 2012 and based in Mountain View, California, Traity measures individuals' reputations by examining their social media footprints. This analysis enables users to trust one another in online interactions. Additionally, Traity has developed a blockchain-based tool that assesses personality traits and reputation attributes, such as creativity and perseverance, through crowdsourcing data and user reviews from various platforms. This tool serves as a valuable resource for businesses seeking to evaluate their employees' traits more accurately.

Hornet

Angel Round in 2012
Founded in 2011, Hornet is the world’s premier gay social network. With over 25 million diverse users globally, the Hornet mission is to empower gay men to come out and join in the fun and fabulous of the gay community. The Hornet Feed curates content from acclaimed editors, thousands of community leaders, friends, and the guy next door, to spark meaningful connections. Powered by leading-edge technology, Hornet has become the number one gay app in markets such as France, Russia, Brazil, Turkey, and Taiwan, and is rapidly expanding its sizable user base in the United States. More information at hornet.com Hornet - Connect To Your Community

Teamly

Seed Round in 2012
In Spring 2013 Teamly launched its new Social Performance Management product for enterprise social networks. Available now inside TIBCO’s tibbr Marketplace its possible to manage reviews, goals, recognition, tasks and projects.

Shareaholic

Seed Round in 2011
Shareaholic, Inc. offers a content amplification platform designed to enhance the discovery, engagement, and sharing of relevant content for marketers, publishers, and site owners. By enabling website owners to showcase pertinent content, the platform helps increase pageviews, user engagement, and time spent on their sites. Shareaholic also facilitates the sharing of various activities, such as articles and purchases, across multiple social media channels including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. In addition to these features, the platform provides actionable metrics that offer insights into content performance and audience interactions. With a user base exceeding 300,000 websites, Shareaholic serves customers globally and was founded in 2008, with its headquarters located in Boston, Massachusetts.

GoVoluntr

Seed Round in 2011
Social platform to bring volunteers, nonprofits and businesses together to mutually benefit each other around solving social issues. Creating a social community of non profits and causes that need help. Adding the workforce of volunteers to track, share and redeem their good deeds at nonprofits. Layering in businesses to brand themselves with causes, build more traffic through rewarding volunteers while branding themselves in the community. We are brokers of CSR and philanthropy between businesses and nonprofits using game mechanics and rewards systems to engage volunteers.

Connected

Angel Round in 2011
Connected is a personal relationship manager that brings all your contacts and conversations together in one place. Connected was born from the realization that the story of success in almost every business endeavor starts with relationships. Maybe it's your buddy that introduces you to a potential customer that becomes a landmark deal. Or your biz dev counterpart at a large firm who turns out to be a former classmate and helps you secure a key partnership. Or discovering an old friend who is in your industry and the ideal VP for your company. Yet how many of these situations feel serendipitous? And do you really feel in control of your network? Connected was developed to help you maximize the potential of your relationships by helping you build rapport with new people, stay in touch with the important people in your network, and find the right person for the task at hand. With the advent of social networking, we are able to connect with more people than ever before in all stages of our lives. This creates new possibilities of staying in touch with your network. Yet at the same time it means more noise and information from every single person you may have ever interacted with. You need the right tools to manage these contacts and ensure the most important ones are surfaced to you when they matter.

Ninua

Seed Round in 2011
Ninua builds social media applications: Symphony Tools helps businesses manage their social media presence. And, NetworkedBlogs, with 1M+ registered blogs, helps bloggers grow their reach on social networks.

Symphony

Seed Round in 2011
Symphony is a social media management tool for businesses that use images on social networks. It helps businesses manage their social media presence - beautifully and quickly. Paid product for SMBs & agencies.

Scaffold

Seed Round in 2011
Scaffold connects offline and online identities. We offer easy to use APIs for services and marketplaces to verify their users.

Flowtown

Seed Round in 2010
Flowtown is a social media marketing platform designed to assist businesses in converting email contacts into engaged customers. By leveraging openly shared information from popular social networks, Flowtown provides an accessible tool that facilitates effective communication between businesses and their clients. The platform has successfully served over 15,000 businesses, enabling them to foster growth and establish strong, loyal relationships with their customers.

GroupSpaces

Venture Round in 2010
GroupSpaces Limited provides a self-serve online platform for managing membership groups, such as clubs, hobbies, charities, professional associations, alumni networks, and more. Its platform enables group leaders and committees to organize member records, send email newsletters, host forums and email discussions, organize events and sell tickets, collect membership fees, and more. The company serves customers worldwide. GroupSpaces Limited was founded in 2007 and is based in London, United Kingdom.