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Company Overview of 500 Startups
Company Overview
500 Startups is an incubator and venture capital firm specializing in seed investments in startups and early stage companies. It seeks to invest in financial services, e-commerce, search/social/mobile platforms, personal & business productivity, consumer, education & language, family & healthcare, web infrastructure, and food technology sector. The firm targets investing in Asia including Southeast Asia, Japan, Europe, and India. It prefers to invest between $0.25 million and $0.5 million for a 5 percent stake. 500 Startups is based in Mountain View, California with additional offices in Mexico; Brazil; Beijing, China; and New York, New York.
Mountain View, CA
United States
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500 Startups Key Developments
500 Startups Presents at Southland 2013 - Southern Culture + Technology Conference, Jun-12-2013 through Jun-13-2013. Venue: Historic Cannery Row District, Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Presentation Date & Speakers: Jun-12-2013, Paul Singh, Principal and Partner. Jun-13-2013, Paul Singh, Principal and Partner.
500 Startups announced that it has appointed Pankaj Jain as the venture partner in India to lead its India investments. Jain comes on board as a part of two New Venture Partners that include Jain in India and Shai Goldman in NYC. Pankaj Jain has been involved in the Indian startup scene for the last five years as an entrepreneur, community builder at Startup Weekend, mentor and investor. Most recently, Pankaj was consulting for the TLabs accelerator in the New Delhi area where he was focused on deal sourcing and running the accelerator. Prior to moving to India in 2007, Pankaj spent over ten years running technology and operations in NYC for multiple hedge funds, including LTCM. Pankaj will be focusing on investing in Indian startups, investor relations and building community across India. Shai Goldman has been working with early stage startups and venture capital firms for over 10 years. Shai was most recently with Silicon Valley Bank, running their early stage startup outreach group in NYC, which included managing relationships with accelerators, co- working facilities, angels and seed funds. Shai will continue to be based in NYC, expanding the reach of 500 Startups. Shai's role will be combination of investing in NYC/Boston startups, cultivating L.P. relationships, improving operations, assisting portfolio companies and community building in NYC.
500 Startups Presents at 23rd Annual Venture Capital Investing Conference, Jun-19-2012 02:00 PM. Venue: The St. Regis Hotel, 125 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, United States. Speakers: David McClure, Founding Partner; Founding Partner and General Partner of 500 Startups Fund.
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