# 500 Emerging Europe

> 500 Emerging Europe is a VC fund in California backing Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence. See 43 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: California, United States
- Total investments: 43
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 37%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/500ee/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/500ee
- Website: https://ee.500.co/

500 Emerging Europe is a VC fund in California focused on Software and SaaS. 500 Emerging Europe help the companies from Emerging Europe scale globally.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$7M |
| Pre-Seed | $425k–$3.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 21% |
| SaaS | 7 | 16% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 16% |
| Generative AI | 6 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 12% |

70 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 22 | 51% |
| Pre-Seed | 17 | 40% |
| Series A | 1 | 2% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 42% |
| Turkey | 6 | 14% |
| Poland | 2 | 5% |
| Estonia | 2 | 5% |
| Hungary | 1 | 2% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Callsy AI | Create your personal AI e-commerce assistant that follows up with your Abandoned Cart users and helps them finish their purchases. Offer personalized discounts and custom URL checkouts via SMS. Automate processes and let AI agents help you run your business. Collect real-time conversation transcripts with your potential customers, get feedback onproducts and pricing, offer them discounts, and help them finish purchases with just a few clicks. Elevate your business using AI automation.- AI agent will call abandoned checkout users and help them finish purchase. - Collect customer feedback on your products and offers, personalized discounts. - Follow-up via SMS after conversation with a quick personalized checkout link. - Create a personalised AI agent and choose from +40 languages. - Select one of 17 voices and accents for a more realistic emotion and connection. | $100K | Convertible Note | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| Intryc | Sentify's objective is to assist organizations in harnessing the power of Generative AI by providing greater insights into their users' experiences and conversations with LLM products. | $3.1M | Seed | Jan 23, 2025 |  |
| Vidoc Security Lab | Vidoc Security Lab is an ethical hacking platform that offers cutting-edge security solutions for security experts for asset monitoring and security research. | $2.4M | Seed | Oct 10, 2024 |  |
| Daytona | Daytona is an enterprise-grade alternative to GitHub Codespaces for administering self-hosted, secure, and standardized development environments. | $5M | Seed | Jun 25, 2024 |  |
| Vidoc Security Lab | Vidoc Security Lab is an ethical hacking platform that offers cutting-edge security solutions for security experts for asset monitoring and security research. |  | Pre-Seed | May 24, 2024 |  |
| DiffuseDrive | DiffuseDrive is a developer tool for high-fidelity synthetic data for computer vision development. It specializes in data generation for autonomous driving development using their advanced GenAI data platform. DiffuseDrive mission is to streamline the data generation process by harnessing natural language interactions, eliminating developmentbottlenecks. | $3.4M | Seed | May 20, 2024 |  |
| Pythagora | Dev tool that uses AI to generate integration tests by analysing server activity without the developer having to write a single line of code | $4M | Seed | May 14, 2024 |  |
| Refine | Refine is a react-based web application development platform that offers a wide range of software services. | $2.8M | Seed | May 06, 2024 |  |
| YonedaLabs | YonedaLabs is an AI-based software that assists chemists in optimizing reaction parameters such as temperature, concentration, and catalyst. | $4M | Seed | Apr 26, 2024 |  |
| Ubicloud | Ubicloud is an open source cloud that can run anywhere where users can use our managed service to reduce your cloud spend by 3–10x, or self-host Ubicloud to control your own cloud. | $16M | Seed | Mar 05, 2024 |  |

10 of 43 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [e2vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/e2vc) — VC Fund, 15 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [500 Istanbul](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-istanbul) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Collective Spark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/collective-spark) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Credo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/credo-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does 500 Emerging Europe invest in?

500 Emerging Europe invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 43 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is 500 Emerging Europe's check size?

500 Emerging Europe typically joins rounds of $500k–$7M at Seed and $425k–$3.2M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds 500 Emerging Europe participates in.

### When did 500 Emerging Europe last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for 500 Emerging Europe closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 43 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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