# 500 Global

> 500 Global is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Software and E-Commerce. See 2,132 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 2,132
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last fund: Jan 2025
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/500-startups
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/500startups
- Website: http://500.co
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/500startups

500 Global is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and E-Commerce. 500 Global offers an accelerator program designed to provide mentorship and resources to startup founders. It facilitates educational programs for investors and operates networking platforms to connect entrepreneurs with mentors and operators. The firm's activities include managing investment strategies focused on diverse geographic regionsand sectors. Through its infrastructure, the company supports the development of innovation ecosystems by providing access to capital and industry expertise.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for 500 Global. Shizune tracks 53 team members at 500 Global. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/500-startups?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 246 | 12% |
| E-Commerce | 168 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 133 | 6% |
| FinTech | 127 | 6% |
| Financial Services | 120 | 6% |

483 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 754 | 35% |
| Series A | 182 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 171 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 101 | 5% |
| Series B | 53 | 2% |

15 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 506 | 24% |
| Singapore | 63 | 3% |
| United Arab Emirates | 45 | 2% |
| Egypt | 42 | 2% |
| South Korea | 37 | 2% |

66 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Agahuseyn Ahmadov | Program Coordinator | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agahuseyn-ahmadov |
| Arın Ozkula | General Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ar%C4%B1n-%C3%B6zkula |
| Cecilia Ezquerro | Associate | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cecilia-ezquerro |
| Clayton Bryan | Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clayton-bryan |
| Didier Quiroz Ceballos | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/didier-quiroz-ceballos |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Branddu | Branddu is an e-commerce service-based company. Merchandising Marketplace that brings together several suppliers in one place, offering more than 12,000 different products, immediate quotes, inventory display, and the ability to immediately design products. | $300K | Pre-Seed | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| Amity Robotics | Amity Robotics is focused on redefining customer-facing experiences with AI-powered digital human solutions. Amity Roboticsspecialize in delivering GenAI-powered robotic platforms —that seamlessly combine advanced AI with integrated hardware solutions. From retail and hospitality to healthcare and airports, our goal is to empower businesses toelevate customer engagement through smarter, more efficient, and human-like digital interactions. | $7M | Seed | Jul 01, 2026 |  |
| LineWise | LineWise is a AI Engineer troubleshoot system that helps manufacturers maximize production uptime. | $6M | Seed | Jun 03, 2026 |  |
| RemotePass | RemotePass is a workforce management platform that helps companies onboard, manage, and pay contractors and employees across multiple countries. The platform combines HR, payroll, compliance, expense management, and employee benefits tools into a single system for both local and international teams. It also provides employer-of-record services,allowing businesses to hire full-time workers in countries where they do not have a legal entity. RemotePass includes features such as multi-currency payroll, time-off management, contractor management, and integrations with accounting and HR software platforms. The company also offers financial services for workers, including multiple payout methods, payroll cards, and access to localized benefits and compliance support. | $17.4M | Series B | May 20, 2026 |  |
| Karpatia Benefits | Karpatia Benefits is a SaaS + marketplace platform for managing corporate employee benefits by providing a customisable, digital, and user-friendly system for employers and employees to manage benefits flexibly. | $100K |  | May 20, 2026 |  |
| DDD Invoices | At DDD Invoices we help internet software companies with invoicing in their software (ERPs, CRMs, invoicing & accounting softwares, B2B SaaS, marketplaces, mobility providers etc.) to comply with global invoicing, e-invoicing & fiscalization regulations, so they can send, receive & store invoices globally.With additional set of APIswe also help, start-ups to shorten their time to market with embedded UI options and creating their own invoicing software in just a couple of days. | $1.5M | Seed | May 14, 2026 |  |
| Deep Infra | DeepInfra is an AI inference cloud platform that enables developers and organizations to run machine learning models at scale through a unified API. The platform supports a wide range of capabilities, including large language models, vision processing, embeddings, image and video generation, and speech applications, allowing users to integratemultiple AI functions into their systems. It provides an OpenAI-compatible interface, which allows existing applications to switch endpoints with minimal code changes while accessing a large catalog of open-source models. DeepInfra manages the underlying infrastructure, including GPU resources and scaling, so users can deploy and operate AI workloads without handling complex system setup. The service is designed to facilitate production-level AI deployment by offering automated scaling, model hosting, and tools for integrating and running inference workloads efficiently. | $107M | Series B | May 04, 2026 |  |
| Nas Daily |  | $27M | Series A | Apr 16, 2026 |  |
| Nibbles | Nibbles is a pet-first organization committed to extending the life of pets through innovative healthcare options that are accessible and affordable for pet owners. As a public benefit corporation, Nibbles places a strong emphasis on both pet welfare and supporting pet owners, underpinned by our philosophy of being easy to use, pet-first ineverything we do, all engineered by pet-lovers. | $238.1K | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 10, 2026 |  |
| Elorian | Elorian specializes in creating AI models that can handle a variety of data kinds simultaneously. | $55M | Seed | Apr 09, 2026 |  |

10 of 2,132 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sanabil 500 MENA Seed Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sanabil-500-mena-seed-accelerator) — VC Fund, 101 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 41 deals together
- [Vision Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vision-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 28 deals together
- [East Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/east-ventures) — VC Fund, 25 deals together
- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 23 deals together
- [Shorooq Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shorooq-partners) — VC Fund, 23 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does 500 Global invest in?

500 Global invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 2,132 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact 500 Global?

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### Who are the partners at 500 Global?

The team at 500 Global includes Agahuseyn Ahmadov (Program Coordinator), Arın Ozkula (General Partner) and Cecilia Ezquerro (Associate), among 53 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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