500 Global portfolio

500 Global has 2202 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding.

Website: 500.co.

X: @500GlobalVC.

Type: Venture capital.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 2202.

Deals, last 12 months: 0.

Rounds led: 5 of 2223.

Capital in their rounds: $662.14M.

Latest deal: Appzen · Sep 22, 2025.

About this page

It is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, US, founded in 2010. It led 5 of the 2223 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is Appzen's $180M Series B+ round in September 2025, alongside Coatue, Riverwood Capital, Bloomberg Beta and 2 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward Consumer and social (557) and Commerce and retail (361). It has co-invested with Vision Ventures, SEEDRA Ventures and Felicis, most often Vision Ventures (5 rounds).

About 500 Global

Firm type: Venture capital.

Headquarters: Palo Alto, US.

Founded: 2010.

Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth.

Sectors: AgTech, Climate Tech, Digital Health, EdTech, FemTech, Fintech, Healthtech, Impact & Social Good, Sector Agnostic.

Check size: $150K.

Leads rounds: Yes.

Portfolio companies: 2,167.

Exits: 98.

Rounds led: 36.

Funds raised

Fund	Fund #	Size	Announced
5500 Global Global	-	$140Mvia Shai Goldman's fund list	Sep 17, 2021
5500 Startups Bay Area	III	$85M	Sep 1, 2015 blogs.wsj.com
5500 Startups Bay Area HQ	II	$44Mvia Shai Goldman's fund list	Oct 2013
5500 Startups Bay Area, NYC, Mexico, Brazil, India	Ifirst fund	$29Mvia Shai Goldman's fund list	Nov 2011

What 500 Global invests in

Consumer and social · 557 · 25%
Commerce and retail · 361 · 16%
Fintech · 317 · 14%
Education · 293 · 13%
Media and content · 292 · 13%
Developer tools and cloud · 232 · 11%
Health and bio · 211 · 10%
Logistics and mobility · 179 · 8%

How 500 Global invests

Stage	Deals	Capital in rounds
round	2191 99%	$6M
Seed	13 <1%	$32.34M
Series A	10 <1%	$108.5M
Series B+	8 <1%	$513M
Pre-seed	1 <1%	$2.3M

Year	Deals	Capital in rounds
2012	1 <1%	$1.5M
2013	1 <1%	$2M
2016	3 <1%	$9.74M
2017	2 <1%	$3.5M
2018	1 <1%	undisclosed
2019	5 <1%	$23M
2020	2 <1%	$13.5M
2021	4 <1%	$65M
2022	3 <1%	$90.3M
2023	5 <1%	$175M
2024	2 <1%	$52.6M
2025	4 <1%	$226M

500 Global portfolio companies 2,202 companies, page 12 of 12

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EElorian AIbacker
KKoolboksbacker

Company	Round with 500 Global	Total raised	Latest raise
EElorian AI AI agents	backer	$55M	Jul 21, 2026 Seed
KKoolboks Climate and energy	backer	$13.5M	Sep 4, 2025 Series A

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How this is counted

Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-11, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.

Venture funds 500 Global raised, from the list of new VC funds compiled by Shai Goldman (Brex). Each size links to the article that states it, or to that list where no article was found. All new funds: new VC funds.

Share is of the 2223 rounds on Recent Funding that name 500 Global. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.

Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists 500 Global, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/500-global (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.