# 500 TukTuks

> 500 TukTuks is a VC fund in Mountain View backing FinTech and E-Commerce. See 55 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mountain View, United States
- Total investments: 55
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 31%
- Last fund: Jun 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.500tuktuks.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/500tuktuks

500 TukTuks is a $15M USD micro-fund focused on promising Thai startups. Key to the fund’s operations and with a particular focus on fashion, beauty and ecommerce opportunities in Thailand and South East Asia, Sapprasert has been pivotal in investing in some 48 startups in her two years there.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $150k–$2.5M |
| Series A | $1.2M–$4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 6 | 11% |
| E-Commerce | 6 | 11% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 11% |
| Food and Beverage | 5 | 9% |
| SaaS | 4 | 7% |

88 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 26 | 47% |
| Series A | 12 | 22% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 5 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 4% |
| Series B | 2 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Thailand | 28 | 51% |
| Singapore | 6 | 11% |
| United States | 3 | 5% |
| Malaysia | 2 | 4% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 2% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Krating Poonpol | Co-Founder | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/krating-poonpol |
| Moo Natavudh | Co-Founder & Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/natavudh-p-moo |
| Pahrada Sapprasert | Director | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pahrada-sapprasert |
| Pahrada Sapprasert | Director | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mameaw-sapprasert |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Everself | Everself is an obesity management platform providing a comprehensive suite of treatments, combining both medication and next-generation endoscopic interventions. The company's physician-supervised approach combined with remote monitoring technology sets a new benchmark in obesity care to accelerate the adoption of advanced obesityinterventions, enabling patients to achieve their weight loss goals. | $11.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 03, 2025 |  |
| Tiger New Energy | Tiger New Energy is a clean energy firm that provides cutting-edge battery switching technology to encourage environmentally friendly mobility options. | $2.5M | Seed | Nov 08, 2023 |  |
| Sleek EV | A 5G-IOT enabled Electric Scooter manufacturer designed for urban riding. Sleek's mission is to build innovative and benchmark-setting vehicles designed around urban lifestyles, practicality and performance for a greener future. Sleek’s users enjoy a seamless customer experience through its IOT-enabled vehicles and mobile application. |  | Seed | Sep 06, 2023 |  |
| Persona Studios | Official AI Personas for Creators, Influencers, and Celebrities | $600K | Pre-Seed | Aug 10, 2023 |  |
| Lemonaide | Lemonaide offers software that manages and handles the data and information related to the history of automotive and technology. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Globish Academia (Thailand) | Globish Academia (Thailand) is beyond just for native English countries, it already has become global. How nice would it be if EVERY THAI can speak English with confidence a little more. Thais can befriend the whole world. When Global English meets Innovation and Change-makers, Globish Academia was established for those who are actively making aa better society through innovating EVERYDAY education. We do want to change the fact that “English Proficiency” is rank 2nd of “Thai Youth Fear Toward AEC Competitiveness”, with only 3% lower than our unfortunate political problem. | $2.4M | Series A | Sep 29, 2022 |  |
| Salary Hero | Salary Hero is a financial health platform built for the Thai workforce. Our service enables your company to improve staff financial well-being by providing them with a suite of financial tools including Salary on Demand, Financial Education, Budgeting Tools and High-Interest Savings. Salary Hero integrates with your current HR processes tomake implementation and management of our service seamless for HR. Employers see tangible cost savings by implementing Salary Hero, driven by lower staff turnover, faster recruiting, and a happier and more productive workforce. | $2.8M | Seed | Jun 07, 2022 |  |
| Carsome | Carsome is an online used car platform that provides efficient car selling services to individuals and entities. Through its online bidding portal, customers are able to sell their vehicles directly to dealers. Carsome facilitates the entire car selling process from inspection to valuation, bidding, and payment as well as logistics needs, allowingthe customers to sell their cars.It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 03, 2022 |  |
| Carsome | Carsome is an online used car platform that provides efficient car selling services to individuals and entities. Through its online bidding portal, customers are able to sell their vehicles directly to dealers. Carsome facilitates the entire car selling process from inspection to valuation, bidding, and payment as well as logistics needs, allowingthe customers to sell their cars.It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 03, 2022 |  |
| Carsome | Carsome is an online used car platform that provides efficient car selling services to individuals and entities. Through its online bidding portal, customers are able to sell their vehicles directly to dealers. Carsome facilitates the entire car selling process from inspection to valuation, bidding, and payment as well as logistics needs, allowingthe customers to sell their cars.It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 03, 2022 |  |

10 of 55 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ORZON Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/orzon-ventures) — VC Fund, 35 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Falnas Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/falnas-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Krungsri Finnovate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/krungsri-finnovate) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Premier Advisory](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/premier-advisory) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [500 Southeast Asia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-durians-2) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does 500 TukTuks invest in?

500 TukTuks invests primarily in FinTech, E-Commerce and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 55 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Thailand. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is 500 TukTuks's check size?

500 TukTuks typically joins rounds of $150k–$2.5M at Seed and $1.2M–$4M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds 500 TukTuks participates in.

### How do I contact 500 TukTuks?

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### Who are the partners at 500 TukTuks?

The team at 500 TukTuks includes Krating Poonpol (Co-Founder), Moo Natavudh (Co-Founder & Partner) and Pahrada Sapprasert (Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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