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500 Global
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
San Francisco, California 328,156 followers
Venture Capital firm on a mission to uplift people and economies worldwide through entrepreneurship.
About us
500 Global is a venture capital firm with over $2.7B in Assets Under Management that invests early in founders building fast-growing technology companies. We focus on markets where technology, innovation, and capital can unlock long-term value and drive economic growth. 500 Global has backed over 5,000 founders representing more than 2,600 companies operating in 80 countries. Our portfolio includes 51 companies valued at over $1 billion and 140 companies valued at over $100 million. Our 140+ plus team members are located in more than 15 countries and bring experience as entrepreneurs, investors, and operators from some of the world’s leading technology companies.
- Website
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http://500.co
External link for 500 Global
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 201-500 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2010
- Specialties
- Startups, entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Seed Accelerator, Startup Accelerator, Global Venture Capital, Innovation, Seed Program, Global Startup Ecosystems, technology, and investment management
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814 Mission St, 6th floor
San Francisco, California 94013, US
Employees at 500 Global
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Tilo Bonow 博蒂洛
Helping entrepreneurs get global exposure for their technologies, ideas and impacts is my passion. As an ambassador for innovation and value-adding…
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Colin Christensen
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Riz Virk
Faculty Associate@ASU, Play Labs@ MIT, Investor@Griffin Gaming, Theta Labs, TapFish, Tapjoy, Books: Simulation Hypothesis, Startup Myths & Models
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David Dufresne
Updates
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I'm Mentoring at the LlamaIndex RAG-A-THON today and the folks at AI Makerspace have the workshop attendees at rapt attention to what Agents do and how to build them. Excited for what folks will build over the next couple of days! Thanks for bringing this together - LlamaIndex Arize AI VESSL AI Toolhouse 500 Global Pinecone Together AI Mistral AI Box SAP AI at Meta Koyeb Thanks, Mark Evans and Sarah deSouza for having me. #rag #hackathon #genai #agenticrag
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Batch 35 Demo Day was absolutely electric! Thank you to the investors and members of the 500 Strong community that attended in person and online. B35 founders, thank you for all of your hard work over the past 4 months, we know it has been a grind. Job well done on the pitches - which were overall standard setting examples of effective business communication. 500 Demo Day week is a special time of the year, and this year coupled with SF Tech Week, 500 AGM, and our event with DrocSend and Dropbox Ventures - it was a great celebration of the 500 global community. Was great to see colleagues, friends, alumni, from Latin America, Europe, MENA, SEA, Africa and beyond. Demo Day is our annual flagship event, we see this as a bit of a town hall, one where the audience hears from a set of highly motivated (and opinionated) globally ambitious founders on missions to build the most disruptive products in their respective, meaningful markets. As a quick refresher, 500 Global recently celebrated our 14th birthday. We started out as 500 Startups and rebranded to 500 Global in 2022. Just to name a small sampling of our illustrious alumni, in the past we’ve had great companies such as Solana, Shippo, Talk Desk, Innovaccer, go through our flagship accelerator. We were fortunate to have Innovaccer Co-founder and CEO, and Batch 12 alum, Abhinav Shashank speak with our Founding Partner and CEO, Christine Tsai as part of Demo Day. Batch 35 is our first in person batch since March 2020. During the pandemic we were fully remote. With this first in-person batch we saw an opportunity to release a major new iteration of our offering for this current generation of company builders. We’ve always taken the term “accelerator” seriously, and have had a focus on growth fundamentals since day one of the accelerator — but today we lean into being much more bespoke, increasing the level of support to the founders that go through the program, by leveraging the 5,000+ strong company builder network that is the 500 Global portfolio. Our programming shifts for each team, and we provide resources to help make sure the entire founding team can uplevel in their respective individual function areas, but also the way they work together as a team. Companies in this batch are tackling interesting problems in lucrative markets, including in Healthcare, Fintech, Productivity, Fraud Prevention, Deep Fake Detection, AI Developer Tools, amongst others. The Founders in the batch have previously led teams at places such as Facebook, Stripe, AirBnb, Intel, Pandora, Pendo, Amazon, Google, Twitter, and more. Thank you Ali Moiz, Ada Chen Rekhi, Donny Ouyang, Emily Basileo, Kevin Yip, Dane Baker, Kristina Jones, Morgan Hirsh, Pere Codina, Albert Colmenero, James Fitzgerald, Matt Harris, Taz Patel, Richard MacDonald Jr., Maura Theriault, Erin Winkler-McCue, Leonard Lee, Ella Shukho, Niamh O'Donnell, Jordan Sawadogo, Roland Osborne, Iris Sun, Srishti Jain Kawatra.
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Tengo el enorme privilegio de despertar todas las mañanas con la convicción de que puedo cambiar las cosas. Pero eso no sería posible sin la gente con la que desde 500 LatAm construimos, a diario, lo que creo que es el momento más emocionante del ecosistema -y que va a definir los siguientes 15/20 años. Después de una de las semanas más intensas del año (y lo que falta! 🔥) me despido de la #SFTechWeek - donde tuve el placer de pasar tiempo y trabajar con algunas de las mentes más brillantes de nuestra generación. Desde nuestro Annual General Meeting (evento anual de inversionistas) para los LPs del fondo de LatAm, el AGM de 500 Global, Demo Day, múltiples horas en la oficina de Palo Alto, visitar HQs como el de Airbnb y hacer un flex en la convicción que tenemos como industria en el potencial de América Latina 🚀 pero sobre todo, la oportunidad de conectar en un nivel más profundo y humano con quienes *hacen que las cosas pasen*. ¡Estoy exhausta! Pero increíblemente agradecida por todo el tiempo invertido, el valor en las conversaciones y la seguridad de que vamos a sacarla del parque ⚾ ✨
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For the past five months at 500 Global and with Batch 35, I’ve worked closely with brilliant entrepreneurs, VCs, and teams- with intelligent, innovative, and talented individuals who have grit, willpower, and relentless energy. The VC industry is a magnet for precisely that. On Tuesday, we celebrated the culmination of four months of hard work with #Batch35 at #500GlobalFlagshipDemoDaty during #SFTechWeek. /To the fantastic teams: I couldn’t be prouder of your incredible progress and results. It's gratifying to see the milestones "My Favorite Batch 35" achieved. Each one of you is unique and unforgettable to work with. / To the VCs: Huge thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate this group of exceptional founders! Due to a four-digit number of RSVPs, we reached total capacity far in advance. / And a special shoutout to my amazing team at 500 Global—teamwork truly makes the dream work! Feel free to reach out if you want to learn more about 500 Global portfolio companies and what they’re building! with Christine Tsai Tim Chae Tony Wang Clayton Bryan Leonard Lee Niamh O'Donnell, Miranda Gahagan Helen Hyungmin P. Roland Osborne Jordan Sawadogo Iris Sun Srishti Jain Kawatra, Emily Printz Samantha Kiel Ali Moiz Ada Chen Rekhi Richard MacDonald Jr. Maura Theriault Erin Winkler-McCue Ken Wohl Andrew Boos Taz Patel Kyler Murlas Emily Basileo Maryellen Stafford Ally Boffa-Taylor Hannah Joo Donny Ouyang Kevin Yip and many other standards-setting professionals. Now, on to the next milestone! Stay tuned for more exciting news.
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When I arrived in SF in I didn’t expect such a crazy ride, but here we are! I’m happy to share we've just closed a $2.4M round! I could write a treatise on how to raise funds in the U.S. without a network—and what not to do—but that’s a topic for another post. Dawid Moczadło and I will be sharing some great product updates soon so stay tuned! Thank you, Tammie Siew, Walter Kortschak, and Aihui Ong (i-we), for believing in us! 💜
Vidoc Security Lab Secures $2.4M in Funding from Top Silicon Valley VCs! 💸 We’re excited to announce a major step forward for Vidoc Security Lab! We’ve secured $2.4M in investment from leading Silicon Valley VCs, including pebblebed and Firestreak Ventures, backing companies like Twitter, Palantir, and Stripe. We’re also supported by XFactor Ventures, investors in companies like Venus Aerospace and dev.to. Additionally, 500 Emerging Europe has once again invested in us, further validating our rapid growth. This partnership is a huge boost to our mission of redefining cybersecurity with AI. Big things are coming! #Cybersecurity #VC #Innovation #VidocSecurityLab
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Co-Founder & CEO @Ecomilez l +15 Years Experience in Logistics l Business Strategy l Serial Entrepreneur 3X Startups l1 Successful Exit l Helping Companies to reduce Operations Costs l Revolutionize Middle Mile Logistics
I would love to share that Ecomilez has just completed the incredible 500 Global seed bootcamp. This is another milestone in our journey to create a groundbreaking Egyptian startup that will revolutionize the global logistics industry, especially in the middle-mile sector. Thanks for everyone believed in us and I'm incredibly grateful for my amazing team. Their hard work and dedication have made this possible. Together, we've achieved something truly remarkable. Stay tuned for more exciting developments. Special Thanks to a such great team and great mentors Ezzeddin H. Zahzah Tiara C. Martinez Carlos Ruiz Del Vizo Tash Jefferies #Ecomilez #500Global #Logistics #sustainability #MiddleMile #startup #Egypt #unitedarabemirates #saudiarabia #trucking #LastMile
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🎉 Proud Milestone Alert! 🎉 We’re excited to announce that Funder is officially part of the 500 Global! 🚀 This is a huge step forward for us, and we couldn't be more proud to have reached this milestone with such an incredible team. A big thank you to the 500 MENA 500 Global Information Technology Industry Development Agency, ITIDA program management for their support and to our fellow startups—we’re thrilled to be on this journey together! 🙌💼 Stay tuned for more exciting updates from our acceleration journey. Here's to achieving new heights! 💪 #500Global #Funder #MilestoneAchieved #StartupJourney #AccelerationSuccess
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Vidoc Security Lab Secures $2.4M in Funding from Top Silicon Valley VCs! 💸 We’re excited to announce a major step forward for Vidoc Security Lab! We’ve secured $2.4M in investment from leading Silicon Valley VCs, including pebblebed and Firestreak Ventures, backing companies like Twitter, Palantir, and Stripe. We’re also supported by XFactor Ventures, investors in companies like Venus Aerospace and dev.to. Additionally, 500 Emerging Europe has once again invested in us, further validating our rapid growth. This partnership is a huge boost to our mission of redefining cybersecurity with AI. Big things are coming! #Cybersecurity #VC #Innovation #VidocSecurityLab
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500 Global reposted this
My journey with the 500 Global Seed Bootcamp, presenting my company AppAsap in Batch 4, was a real eye-opener. It was humbling experience, and I owe a lot to our mentors for creating this ego free environment: Carlos Ruiz Del Vizo, Emily Basileo, Colin Christensen, Tash Jefferies, Ezzeddin H. Zahzah, and Tiara C. Martinez And to my fellow founders, we spent 5 intense days together, and it was great getting to know you and your businesses. I have to admit, saying goodbye wasn’t easy and I was a little bit emotional to be honest. Thanks for the support, insights, and the friendships we’ve built. Titans, let’s keep pushing. Horaah. #500Global #Batch4
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