500 Startups (Fund)

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500 Startups is a Silicon Valley venture capital seed fund & startup accelerator. We invest in internet startups on search, social, & mobile platforms. We run an incubation and accelerator program emphasizing design & user experience, distribution & customer acquisition, and lean startup practices & metrics. Our investment team and mentor network has operational experience at companies including PayPal, Google, YouTube, Yahoo, AOL, Zynga, LinkedIn, Twitter, Apple & Facebook.

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Dave McClure

Founding Partner @ 500 Startups. Ex-PayPal, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund, Mint.com. Geek, developer, entrepreneur, marketer. Investor in 250+ co's.
Christine Tsai

Partner at 500 Startups. Ex-Googler & ex-YouTuber. Left-handed.
Paul Singh

Partner at 500 Startups
Christen O'Brien

Partner & GM, Business Development

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Fred Wilson

Managing partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners.
Mitch Kapor

Lotus founder, built from 0 to $200MM in 3 yrs. Co-founder EFF. Founding Chair Mozilla. Investor: Twilio, Uber, Inkling, bit.ly.
Brad Feld

Managing Director at Foundry Group
Eric Ries

Author of The Lean Startup
Matt Mullenweg

WordPress, Automattic, Akismet, Polldaddy, VaultPress, Gravatar... http://ma.tt/
Karl Jacob

Keen (Ingenio), DimensionX, Wallop, Coveroo and Cloudmark. $500+ million in exits to msft, at&t etc. Early advisor to facebook.

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500 Startups

Silicon Valley internet seed fund & accelerator. 500 team has worked @ PayPal, Google, AOL, Rackspace, Yahoo, YouTube, Mint.com, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund.

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Eric Ries

Author of The Lean Startup
Jason Putorti

Co-founder of Votizen • Founder Advisor at SV Angel • First Designer-in-Residence at Bessemer • Former Lead Designer at Mint.com
Blake Commagere

Single-handedly pioneered Social Gaming industry (Vampires/Zombies). Created 1st version of Causes. Founder BuildForge (Sold to IBM), Founder Ohai.
Jeff Lawson

Entrepreneur, CEO and cofounder of Twilio.
Leonard Speiser

Co-founder Clover (Sutter Hill, Andreessen Horowitz), Co-founder Bix (sold to Yahoo), eBay, Intuit, MIT.
Aaron Batalion

CTO & Co-founder, LivingSocial. Husband, Father, Geek, Entrepreneur, Advisor.

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Dave McClure

Founding Partner @ 500 Startups. Ex-PayPal, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund, Mint.com. Geek, developer, entrepreneur, marketer. Investor in 250+ co's.
Christine Tsai

Partner at 500 Startups. Ex-Googler & ex-YouTuber. Left-handed.
Paul Singh

Partner at 500 Startups
Christen O'Brien

Partner & GM, Business Development
Bedy Yang

Venture Partner 500Startups (focused Latam + international); Founder Brazil Innovators - epicenter of startups in Brazil. Connector, community builder
George Kellerman

Venture Partner at 500 Startups. Profitably ran a $500M P&L at Dell; secured $200M+ in BD deals; $12B+ in financings and M&A; former firefighter--a real one!

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Marcus Ogawa Often the greatest help entrepreneurs can get is the confidence, support and appreciation that what they strive for matters and can be achieved. At 500 you will never feel alone and your resolve will be fortified with equal amounts education, connections, and most importantly love for what you do.