| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.01.2021 | EcoCart Simplifies Sustainable Shopping for Eco-Conscious Bu... | While online shopping offers convenience and a way to stay safe during COVID-19, it is not necessari... |
| 20.01.2021 | Apothecary Creates a Skinfluencer-Driven Marketplace for a M... | While the skincare revolution is not new, it is quickly evolving as indie brands drive innovation an... |
| 13.01.2021 | Pawsh is Delivering Pet Grooming Services Anywhere | Traditional pet grooming is stressful for pets and their owners. Pets get anxious about traveling to... |
| 11.01.2021 | Grow is Helping Teams Share Better and Faster Feedback | As COVID-19 continues to disrupt the workplace, many companies are developing new HR playbooks. Work... |
| 08.01.2021 | Accrue Helps Tech Companies Increase Profits through Optimiz... | Pricing is a challenge, but now more than ever, companies need to hit the market with optimized pric... |
| 05.01.2021 | Thinknum Co-Founder Gregory Ugwi on Growing Only as Fast as ... | Lagos-native Gregory Ugwi started his career as a strategist (or “strat”) at Goldman Sachs in 2008. ... |
| 17.12.2020 | 2020 in Review – Resilience, Strength, & Empathy | In the unpredictable and often chaotic year that was 2020, we as a community collectively navigated ... |
| 16.12.2020 | Female Founders Share Their Most Powerful Tips for Increasin... | It’s no secret that startups need both money in the bank and customer growth to succeed. While it ca... |
| 16.12.2020 | Stack Makes Working from Home More Productive with Smart Bro... | During this pandemic, we’ve all noticed that it isn’t always easy to stay productive. Working at hom... |
| 15.12.2020 | BLCK VC’s Brian Hollins Talks Opportunities and Resources fo... | Black investors and founders are still vastly underrepresented in the world of venture capital, but ... |
| 14.12.2020 | EMTECH Helps Build Modern Financial Market Infrastructures i... | The financial market infrastructure in emerging markets is not always able to support all citizens. ... |
| 14.12.2020 | Why We’re Publishing Our Diversity & Inclusion Statistic... | Diversity has always been part of 500 Startups’ DNA. We know great companies are born of great ideas... |
| 11.12.2020 | Drover Helps Scooter Operators Comply with Municipal Regulat... | Because of COVID-19 fears, there is a decline of people using mass transit and Uber for short city t... |
| 10.12.2020 | avoMD Brings Standardized Clinical Protocols at the Point of... | The challenge of deploying clinical decision-support tools is not new to the medical industry, but i... |
| 08.12.2020 | How New SEC Crowdfunding Rules Could Provide Founders With a... | Equity crowdfunding looks poised to deliver expanded opportunities for founders trying to raise capi... |
| 08.12.2020 | Awsm Banking Teaches Teens Financial Literacy with Help from... | Financial literacy is incredibly important, and learning best practices should begin at a young age.... |
| 07.12.2020 | Pariti is Bringing Together Talent, Capital, and Founders in... | The tech markets throughout the African continent are young, but developing fast. According to Quart... |
| 30.11.2020 | Adapty Helps Companies Manage and Grow Mobile In-App Subscri... | Consumers are increasingly using mobile apps for work, education, and entertainment. Mobile app subs... |
| 24.11.2020 | WorkClass Matches Frontline Job Seekers with Employers in So... | We are always on the lookout for companies that help connect job seekers with employers. In Southeas... |
| 24.11.2020 | What It’s Going to Take To Increase Female Founder Fundraisi... | Last month, Pitchbook reported a grim update that 2020 Q3 fundraising for female founders hit a thre... |
| 23.11.2020 | 500 Startups Signs Agreement with iNNpulsa Colombia to Train... | It was a warm sunny day in San Francisco in May 2019, as the U.S. Secret Service cordoned off the bu... |
| 20.11.2020 | Ash Makes it Easy to Get Tested for STIs/STDs at Home | Although at-home test kits have become a popular alternative to visiting a medical clinic in person,... |
| 19.11.2020 | Invidica is Upgrading the Ecommerce Wholesaler-Retailer Rela... | Ecommerce sales have been rising steadily over the last few years, accounting for almost 57% of over... |
| 17.11.2020 | How Former NFL Player Mike Brown Is Innovating Philanthropy ... | To understand Win-Win, a gamified giving platform, you have to understand founder and CEO Mike Brown... |
| 16.11.2020 | Clout Jam is Helping Social Media Influencers Take Control o... | Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, media consumption was on the rise across all social media platfor... |
| 12.11.2020 | How the Gig Economy Is Shaping the Future of Work | On the eve of U.S. elections, we invited Alex Rosenblat, the author of Uberland: How Algorithms Are ... |
| 10.11.2020 | What it Means to Support Black Founders at 500 | At 500, we’ve always prided ourselves on our values of being bold, being the example, being humble, ... |
| 05.11.2020 | Understanding Your Term Sheet: Convertible Debt, Convertible... | Part of the territory of being a founder includes wearing many hats, and while scrappiness and hustl... |
| 04.11.2020 | How Yonas Beshawred Built StackShare into a Critical Tool fo... | When Stackshare founder Yonas Beshawred first graduated from college, he joined one of the world’s l... |
| 03.11.2020 | 500 Startups Reimagines its Miami Growth Program to Boost Fo... | One year ago my colleagues Anabella Rojas, Richard MacDonald, Jr. and I met for our annual end of pr... |
| 02.11.2020 | How Global Launch Is Adapting to Help Startups Expand to the... | Written by Anna Heim
In partnership with Enterprise Singapore, 500 Startups has selected Batch 2 ap... |
| 30.10.2020 | Kiira Wants to Bring Quality Healthcare to College Women thr... | Since transforming the flagship accelerator to virtual first, we’ve been excited by the companies jo... |
| 30.10.2020 | Kiira Wants to Bring Quality Healthcare to College Women thr... | Since transforming the flagship accelerator to virtual first, we’ve been excited by the companies jo... |
| 30.10.2020 | How Early Stage Companies Can Make Responsible Technology a ... | The intersection of technology and society is in a precarious place currently. Tech giants face risi... |
| 15.10.2020 | Accelerating ESG Adoption in Early Stage Venture Capital | The year 2020 has served up many reminders of the pressing issues facing society, from failures to a... |
| 15.10.2020 | Meet the Startups in 500’s First Fully Virtual Accelerator | At 500 Startups, innovation is a staple of our business model. In March, we announced the revamp of ... |
| 14.10.2020 | 15 Tips to Bringing Teams Closer Even During Tough Times | We are living through one of the largest collective challenges the world has faced, so it’s the perf... |
| 30.09.2020 | 500 Startups Bolsters Commitment to MENA’s Startup Ecosystem... | 500 Startups made its first investment in MENA in 2012. Back then, few U.S. venture investors made t... |
| 22.09.2020 | How to Do Deals in Slack | Back in March, 500 Startups set up a dedicated Slack channel to facilitate investor networking durin... |
| 30.07.2020 | Used-car platform recorded a V-shaped recovery during the CO... | “We attribute our strong recovery to three key reasons.”
Eric Cheng, the co-founder and CEO of seco... |
| 29.07.2020 | It’s Never Too Soon for Entrepreneurs to Make the World a Be... | The Black Lives Matter movement has reminded us of our collective failure to forcefully address syst... |
| 23.07.2020 | COVID-19 Related Tax Credits | Guest Post: the following post is a sponsored guest post by IncentAdvise. All views and opinions rep... |
| 23.07.2020 | Full Speed Ahead with 500 Startups LatAm’s Batch 12 | At the beginning of 2020, 500 Startups’ LatAm team had everything planned for the entire year: our g... |
| 21.07.2020 | Handling Uncertainty: Increasing Runway and Customer Acquisi... | Guest Post: the following post is a sponsored guest post by Brex. All views and opinions represented... |
| 17.07.2020 | Martin Basiri of Newly-Minted Unicorn ApplyBoard on the Futu... | In May, Ontario-based ApplyBoard announced that it raised $75 million, making it 500 Startups’ lates... |
| 15.07.2020 | Why 500 Kobe Is Ready to Back COVID-19 Solutions | Are you working on innovative tech-based solutions to the challenges posed by COVID-19? If so, read ... |
| 09.07.2020 | 500 Startups, WEF and WHO Call on Global Startups to Solve C... | Following our inaugural ImpactAim Indonesia Demo Day last November with the UNDP, the World Economic... |
| 09.06.2020 | Our Framework Post-COVID-19 | There’s no doubt that COVID-19 has affected nearly every industry globally. Supply chains have been ... |
| 02.06.2020 | Black Lives Matter | We are grieving the tragic murder of George Floyd in Minnesota.
Mr. Floyd is one of many Black Amer... |
| 22.05.2020 | Launch Your Business in Georgia (The Country, not the State) | The following post is written by Nato Chakvetadze, Program Associate for 500Georgia.
Gavin: Here ev... |
| 15.05.2020 | Taking our Flagship Accelerator Virtual-First | There is not a single business that is not affected in some form or another from COVID-19, and 500 S... |
| 09.05.2020 | Look Outside of Silicon Valley to See How Founders Can Be Su... | 500 Startups kicked off a new series called Innovation Coffee Breaks. Experts from leading companies... |
| 28.04.2020 | Why Investing in Female Founders Matters Now More Than Ever | Long before diversity and inclusion became buzzwords, we decided to make venture capital inclusive f... |
| 09.04.2020 | How We Created our Digital Demo Day Experience | The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the entire startup ecosystem, and in the name of safety and suppo... |
| 06.04.2020 | 5 Ways Startups Can Make it Through Periods of Uncertainty | Guest Post: The following post is a sponsored guest post by Nik Adhia, Senior Director of Global Ope... |
| 06.04.2020 | How Startups Can Navigate the Change in Investment Climate D... | With the rise in regulations and restrictions surrounding COVID-19, we’ve entered unprecedented time... |
| 03.04.2020 | How the 500 Startups Community Is Helping Those Affected By ... | We at 500 are focused on helping the global community during these unsettling and unprecedented time... |
| 26.03.2020 | Why the Accelerator Model is Broken—and how 500 Startups is ... | No one would’ve envisioned me as a venture capitalist. I was raised in rural Wyoming, far from the h... |
| 18.03.2020 | Tools and Tips for Working Remotely From 500 & GitLab | On March 16th, 500 had the opportunity to lead a chat with Darren Murph, the Head of Working Remote ... |
| 18.03.2020 | Welcoming New Partner and Global Digital Transformation Expe... | I first met Flavio in 2013, when he co-invested alongside 500 Startups in Olist, one of Brazil’s lar... |
| 10.03.2020 | Ones to Watch in Esports | Esports continues to be a leader in advancing media technology, yet the gaming community continues t... |
| 09.03.2020 | Using Design Strategy to Unlock Growth | Guest Post: The following post is a sponsored guest post by Noteh Krauss. All views and opinions rep... |
| 06.03.2020 | The Female Trailblazers Impacting Mental Health, Analytics, ... | “Out of every ten investors that you’ve pitched, how many of them were female?”
When we polled the ... |
| 03.03.2020 | Ones to Watch in Sensors and AI | In the golden age of data, businesses in media, communication, and commerce were some of the first t... |
| 27.02.2020 | Hospitality Tech as a Service | As sector agnostic investors, we get a first-hand look at tech-enabled startups across a number of d... |
| 11.02.2020 | Meet the Startups of Batch 26 | We are excited to announce our 26th batch of companies to join our flagship seed accelerator in San ... |
| 07.01.2020 | 5 Fast Ways To Know You’re Underpriced & How To Fix It | I see this far too often: earnest company joins me on an introductory call seeking advice on how to ... |
| 20.12.2019 | The Value of the 500 Seed Accelerator in 2019 | Going into 2020, 500 will be entering it’s tenth year of operation. It’s been a crazy journey for us... |
| 17.12.2019 | ¡Hola Batch 11 LatAm! These are the 9 Startups Joining our L... | 500 Startups is excited to announce the latest batch from our Seed Accelerator based in Mexico City.... |
| 17.12.2019 | Niama El Bassunie’s Mission to Unlock Trade in Africa | It is within 500’s DNA to invest in talented founders, no matter whether they are situated in Silico... |
| 16.12.2019 | The Future of Startup Ecosystems Across the Globe | The idea of being a founder has never been so popular around the world, so how is that going to chan... |
| 10.12.2019 | 500’s Past & Present: Betting on International Startups... | In 2010, 500 Startups started as a new kind of venture capital firm in Silicon Valley with a contrar... |
| 27.11.2019 | Ready to scale in Southeast Asia? Start in Singapore. | While people may think of Singapore as a top startup city, what they may not realize is that this ci... |
| 21.11.2019 | Inside Batch 25 at 500 Startups | Guest Post: Rishika Jhamb is the Marketing Lead at Alluva. Under no circumstances should any of the ... |
| 25.10.2019 | The Future of Corporate Venture Capital | The following is an excerpt from 500’s latest report, Unlocking Corporate Venture Capital.
How has ... |
| 04.10.2019 | 500 Around the World: Takeaways from the Sberbank-500 Accele... | If 500 has learned one thing from investing in over 75 countries, it’s the importance of placing bet... |
| 03.10.2019 | Inside 500: How Their Accelerator Helped Me Grow My Accounti... | Felix Rodriguez is the founder and CEO of Back Office, a human-assisted AI platform and bookkeeping ... |
| 24.09.2019 | Welcome Tony Wang as 500’s New Managing Partner | 500 centers itself around supporting bold, innovative founders around the world. As venture dollars ... |
| 12.09.2019 | United Nations Development Program and 500 Startups Join For... | Startup founders often have ambitions not just to make money, but to change the world. So, how do we... |
| 19.08.2019 | 500’s Latest San Francisco Batch is Hoping to Innovate in Mu... | Music, TV, and intellectual property all have the potential of influencing what content we consume a... |
| 13.08.2019 | Latest AI Applications from 500’s Batch 25 | AI is one of those buzzwords that feels like it has endless applications. That’s why it is hugely im... |
| 06.08.2019 | The Up and Coming Startups Aiming to Disrupt Healthcare | Healthcare has a notorious reputation for being intimidating. From complex insurance policies and pa... |
| 30.07.2019 | 500Kobe Accelerator Program is back, now with a Focused Trac... | 500 Startups and Kobe City are thrilled to announce our 4th consecutive accelerator program, which w... |
| 29.07.2019 | Announcing Courtney Powell as COO of 500 Startups | 500 has seen incredible growth over the past 9 years, yet our goal has always stayed constant: back ... |
| 22.07.2019 | Snacking on Growth in Miami | Breaking Down the Business of Startup Growth:
Did you know that each day we provide a snack to foun... |
| 22.07.2019 | Meet the Startups of Batch 25 | At 500, it’s our mission to back the world’s most talented entrepreneurs, whether they’re on the oth... |
| 09.07.2019 | 500 Startups & Misk Innovation to Launch Second Batch of... | Applications are now open for Batch 2 of the Misk 500 Accelerator Program
500 Startups and Misk Inn... |
| 31.05.2019 | In-House vs. Outsource: What’s the Best Accounting Strategy ... | Guest Post: Justin McLoughlin is the Founder of airCFO. Under no circumstances should any of the bel... |
| 22.05.2019 | Startup Guide: 4 Tax Deductions to Watch for in 2019 | Guest Post: Justin McLoughlin, Founder of airCFO. Under no circumstances should any of the below con... |
| 22.05.2019 | Announcing the 11 Startups in 500 LatAm’s Batch 10! | 500 Startups is excited to announce the latest batch from our Seed Accelerator based in Mexico City.... |
| 21.05.2019 | Misk 500 MENA Accelerator Celebrates First Demo Day | Its been one week since the Misk 500 Batch 1 Demo Day and we’re still smiling. The energy in the roo... |
| 18.04.2019 | 500 Startups Launches “Falcon’s Nest” Pitch Competition in K... | In partnership with Ahli United Bank, 500 Startups is proud to announce the first of its kind pitch ... |
| 17.04.2019 | Announcing the 3rd Batch of the MENA Dojo | Continuing our MENA Series A Programs
500 continues to work hard to bring the best industry knowled... |
| 25.03.2019 | To Infinity and Beyond: 500’s Next Chapter | My journey with 500 began eight years ago as a startup founder in Batch 3. At the time, 500 was a fl... |
| 25.03.2019 | 500 Falcons Final Close Oversubscribed at $33 million! | We are happy to announce that we’ve had an oversubscribed final closing for our first MENA region fo... |
| 19.03.2019 | Key B2B Metrics You Need To Communicate To An Investor | Are you selling your product to another business? Whether your customer segment is an SMB or an ente... |
| 18.03.2019 | Announcing Batch 1 of the Misk 500 MENA Accelerator Program | Six weeks ago, we launched the inaugural batch of the Misk 500 MENA Accelerator Program, bringing th... |
| 12.03.2019 | Miami’s Blooming Ecosystem | Image Gallery: 500 Startups Unity + Inclusion Miami
500 recently hosted another hugely successful U... |
| 11.03.2019 | Announcing a new admissions process for VC Unlocked at Stanf... | In 2015, I wrote a LinkedIn post about “Investing in Women” and a new investor training program we w... |
| 11.03.2019 | Women in the Startup Ecosystem: How Can We Accelerate Inclus... | From Salaried Employee to Entrepreneur
According to the IDB (Interamerican Development Bank), if we... |
