500 Global
500 Global (formerly 500 Startups) is a global venture capital firm and startup accelerator founded in 2010 by Dave McClure and Christine Tsai and headquartered in Palo Alto / Silicon Valley, California. The firm invests from pre-seed to pre-IPO in globally ambitious technology founders, built on the belief that "talent lives everywhere, but capital and opportunity does not." 500 Global pioneered a "lots of little bets" seed strategy, backing hundreds of companies per fund with smaller initial checks, and has grown one of the industry's largest truly global seed portfolios: 3,000+ companies across 80+ countries with $300B+ in cumulative portfolio valuation, including 35+ companies valued at $1B+ and 160+ valued at more than $100M. It runs regional and thematic practices spanning Southeast Asia, Latin America, MENA, Africa, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and Eurasia, plus a Sustainable Growth strategy (health, climate, agriculture, gender, education), flagship accelerator programs, and the VC Unlocked investor-education program that has trained 1,400+ investors. As of April 30, 2025 the firm reported approximately $2.3B in assets under management. Notable investments include Canva, Grab, Talkdesk, Credit Karma, Twilio, and Bukalapak.
500 Global is tracked in the API Evangelist network. This page is the human-readable profile that sits on top of the machine-readable index we maintain at apis.io.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
500 Global is in the network as a tracked entity. We haven't yet indexed a public API surface for it — when one is published, the artifacts, score, and agent-readiness read will appear here automatically. The source repository is where that profile is built.
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