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.
Every 500 Global company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — a global seed book that is agent-native at the edges and governance-empty at the core, with five borrowed exemplars standing in for a thesis its own companies have not yet proven.
500 Global has 2,108 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 2,107 (100%) publish APIs indexed here.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Stripe, SendGrid, Twilio, Solana, Sentry.
Portfolio on the Network
Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar 7 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 26 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 153 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 145 Limited public surface area
Emerging 503 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 1273 Almost no public developer surface
Rest of Portfolio
1 further portfolio companies that don’t yet have a provider page on the network.
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