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  1. History

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{{Infobox company
| name = 500K Startups Management Company, L.L.C.
| logo = 500 Startups - logo.png
| type = Venture capital firm
| key_people = Dave McClure
| location_city = Mountain View, California
| homepage = {{URL|500.co}}
| locations = Global
}}500 Startups is an early-stage venture fund and seed accelerator founded in 2010 by Dave McClure[1][2] and Christine Tsai.[3][4] The fund admitted a first "class" of twelve startups to its incubator office in Mountain View, California in February, 2011.[5] They expanded to a second class of 21 in June 2011 and a third class of 34 in October 2011.[6][7]

History

In 2012, 500 Startups acquired Mexican.VC, an accelerator in Mexico City, expecting to ramp up its investment in Mexico substantially. Through its investment in Alta Ventures, 500 Startups planned have better access to deal-flow in this region.[8]

As of August 1, 2015, 500 Startups had invested in over 1,200 companies{{citation needed|date=October 2018}} including Eat App[9] IDreamBooks, Little Eye Labs, myGengo, Cucumbertown,[10] Visual.ly, Canva,[11][12] Udemy,[13] RidePal.[14][15] As of August 2015, more than 20% of the companies had participated in other incubators, 20-30% were international, and over 60 had been acquired.[15]

Some of firm's active companies are CreditKarma,[16] Twilio,[16] GrabTaxi,[16] and TalkDesk,[17] The exits include $403M acquisition of Makerbot by Stratasys,[18] $350M acquisition of Wildfire by Google,[19] $200M acquisition of Viki by Rakuten,[20] and $117M acquisition of Simple by BBVA.[21]

500 Startups has locations in Silicon Valley, Mexico City, Israel and San Francisco.[22] In 2015, they announced they would be starting a three-month growth program in London, UK[23] as well as a pre-accelerator in Oslo, Norway.[24] In March 2018, 500 Startups announced that it chose Downtown Miami as its first East Coast U.S. outpost.[25]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/500-startups-details-incubator-program-2011-2|publisher=Business Insider|title=Super Angel Dave McClure Launches Incubator Program, Dismisses "Bubble" Talk|date=February 10, 2011|author=Matt Rosoff}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/what-silicon-valley-can-learn-from-seoul.html|publisher=New York Times|title=What Silicon Valley Can Learn From Seoul|date=June 2, 2015|author=Jenna Wortham}}
3. ^{{Cite web|title = Team|url = http://500.co/team/|website = 500 Startups|accessdate = 2015-11-23}}
4. ^{{cite news|publisher=Business Insider|title=Exclusive: The Controversial Dave McClure Tells All|first=Matt|last=Rosoff|date=February 11, 2011|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/02/11/businessinsider-angel-investor-dave-mcclure-interview-2011-2.DTL#ixzz1FsbxEPyI}}
5. ^{{cite news|publisher=TechCrunch|url=https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/09/500-startups-unveils-its-2nd-batch-from-foodspotting-for-fashion-to-iron-chef-in-your-livingroom/|date=June 9, 2011|title=500 Startups Unveils 2nd Batch: 21 Startups|first=Alexia|last=Tsotsis}}
6. ^{{cite news|publisher=Venture Beat|title=500 Startups accelerates 21 new companies|date=June 9, 2011|first=Anthony|last=Ha|url=https://venturebeat.com/2011/06/09/500-startups-accelerator-second-class/}}
7. ^{{cite news|publisher=GigaOM|title=The best and brightest from 500 Startups’ third demo day|date=January 25, 2012|first=Ryan|last=Lawler|url=http://gigaom.com/2012/01/25/500-startups-third-demo-day/}}
8. ^Source:Alta Ventures Mexico Raises $70M First Fund, Draws Support from 500 Startups
9. ^http://www.menabytes.com/doha-dojo-first-batch-startups/
10. ^{{cite news|title=Recipe to bring cooks and foodies together|url=http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOINEW&BaseHref=TOIBG%2F2013%2F10%2F29&PageLabel=26&EntityId=Ar02601&ViewMode=HTML|newspaper=The Times of India|author=B Pradeep Nair}}
11. ^{{cite web|title=Canva Investors|url=https://www.canva.com/press/investors/}}
12. ^{{cite news|title=Canva Raises $3 million|url=https://twitter.com/500Startups/status/314529399405961219}}
13. ^Toto, Serkan, [https://techcrunch.com/2010/01/11/mygengo-is-mechanical-turk-for-translations "MyGengo Is Mechanical Turk For Translations"]. The Washington Post. 2010-01-11
14. ^Perez, Sarah. [https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/10/google-bus-for-the-rest-of-us-startup-ridepal-scores-500k-from-500-startups-others/ RidePal, The “Google Bus For The Rest Of Us,” Scores $500K From 500 Startups & Others], TechCrunch. September 10th, 2012
15. ^{{cite news|publisher=TechCrunch|title=500 Startups Raising New $50M Fund, Names 4 New Partners, With 250+ Investments To Date|date=April 6, 2012|first=Rip|last=Empson|url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/06/500-startups-new-fund-new-partners/}}
16. ^{{Cite web|title = Startups|url = http://500.co/startups/|website = 500 Startups|accessdate = 2015-11-23}}
17. ^https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vonjour-com
18. ^{{Cite web|title = Stratasys Acquiring MakerBot In $403M Deal, Combined Company Will Likely Dominate 3D Printing Industry|url = https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/19/stratasys-acquiring-makerbot-combined-company-will-likely-dominate-3d-printing-industry/|website = TechCrunch|accessdate = 2015-11-23|first = Darrell|last = Etherington}}
19. ^{{Cite web|title = Google Acquires Wildfire, Will Now Sell Facebook And Twitter Marketing Services [Update: $350M Price] |url = https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/31/google-acquires-wildfire/|website = TechCrunch|accessdate = 2015-11-23|first = Josh|last = Constine}}
20. ^{{Cite web|title = Exclusive: Japan’s Rakuten Acquires Viki Video Site for $200 Million|url = http://allthingsd.com/20130901/exclusive-japans-rakuten-acquires-viki-video-site-for-200-million/|website = AllThingsD|accessdate = 2015-11-23}}
21. ^{{Cite web|title = Banking Startup Simple Acquired For $117M, Will Continue To Operate Separately|url = https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/20/simple-acquired-for-117m-will-continue-to-operate-separately-under-its-own-brand/|website = TechCrunch|accessdate = 2015-11-23|first = Darrell|last = Etherington}}
22. ^{{cite web|title=500 startups|url=http://500.co/|website=500 startups|accessdate=16 Aug 2015}}
23. ^{{cite web|last1=O'Hear|first1=Steve|title=500 Startups Arrives In London With "Distro Dojo", A Three-Month Growth Program For Post-Seed Startups|url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/24/blimey-guv-500-startups-arrives-in-london/|website=Techcrunch|accessdate=16 Aug 2015}}
24. ^{{cite web|last1=Murray|first1=Neil|title=Doubling down on Europe: after ‘Distro Dojo’ in London, 500 Startups launches a ‘pre-accelerator’ in Oslo|url=http://tech.eu/news/500-startups-pre-accelerator-oslo/|website=Tech.eu|accessdate=16 Aug 2015}}
25. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article206193819.html|title=Downtown Miami’s newest resident: A $400 million dollar Silicon Valley fund|work=miamiherald|access-date=2018-06-02|language=en}}
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