500 Startups

500 Startups

Type	Venture capital firm
Headquarters	Mountain View, California
Number of locations	Mountain View, CA, USA San Francisco, CA, USA London, UK Seoul, S. Korea Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Istanbul, Turkey
Key people	Dave McClure (Founding Partner) Christine Tsai (Founding Partner) Khailee Ng (Managing Partner) Bedy Yang (Managing Partner)
Website	500.co

500 Startups is an early-stage venture fund and seed accelerator founded by Dave McClure and Christine Tsai in 2010. The fund admitted a first "class" of twelve startups to its incubator office in Mountain View, California in February, 2011. They expanded to a second class of 21 in June 2011 and a third class of 34 in October 2011.

As of August 1, 2015, 500 Startups had invested in over 1,200 companies including Tripoto,Punchd,Console.FM, CoContest,Contactually,Safe Shepherd,idreambooks, Fileboard, KraftlymyGengo, ChinaNetCloud,CucumbertownVisual.ly, E la Carte, Canva,Cleanify,Udemy,24/7 Techies,ZipMatch,RidePal,,Avanoo, and Headout. Of current investments, more than 20% have participated in other incubators, 20-30% are international, and over 60 have been acquired. Some of their successful active companies are CreditKarma,ViralGains,RapidAPITwilio,GrabTaxi,TalkDesk, and Intercom.io. To date, their biggest exits include $403M acquisition of Makerbot by Stratasys, $350M acquisition of Wildfire by Google, $200M acquisition of Viki by Rakuten, and $117M acquisition of Simple by BBVA.