500 Global

Overview

Early-stage venture firm and accelerator operator that began as 500 Startups in 2010 and renamed itself 500 Global in September 2021, when it closed a US$140M global flagship fund. It reports about US$2.3B in AUM (as of April 2025) and runs accelerator and founder programs in the US, Latin America, MENA, Eurasia and East Asia, often with government or corporate partners. A 2026 Form D was filed for a new 500 Global AI Insiders Fund.

Runs 500 Global Flagship Accelerator, accelerator ($50K).

Notable portfolio companies

• Canva
• Udemy
• Credit Karma
• Twilio
• Grab
• Talkdesk

Funds

LPs on the record

4 private foundations list on their latest IRS Form 990-PF, and 2 other LPs report holding 500 Global’s funds.

• International Finance Corporation (IFC) Development finance institution · 1 fund
• Korea Venture Investment Corp. (Foreign VC Investment Fund) Government fund of funds · 1 fund
• Vinik Family Foundation Private foundation · 1 fund

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Firms whose LPs overlap

The firms sharing the most LPs on record with 500 Global, relative to how many LPs each has. A peer set like this is what Find LPs ranks LPs from.

• Alpha JWC Ventures 2 LPs in common
• Acv Capital Pte. Ltd. 2 LPs in common
• Antler 2 LPs in common
• Playground Global 2 LPs in common
• SOSV 2 LPs in common

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Reported fund performance

As reported by public LPs that invested in these funds, net of fees. “Versus vintage” ranks each fund against every other fund of the same vintage in that LP’s report, mostly private equity and venture funds. Open a fund for its cash flows and full peer ranking.

International Finance Corporation (IFC): IFC Investment Services Projects (World Bank Group Finances One), industry: Funds, as of October 11, 2026. IFC discloses every investment project in the World Bank Group's open data set "IFC Investment Services Projects" (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, updated daily), with an industry, a product line, a status and the amount of its equity, loan and guarantee investment in millions of US dollars. This list keeps the 338 projects that IFC classifies in the industry "Funds", whose status is Active or Pending Disbursement, whose product line is not Loan, and that have an equity amount. The fund name is the data set's company name (the legal entity IFC invests in); IFC lists each project separately, so a fund with a second commitment appears twice. The commitment is IFC's equity investment as the data set gives it, in millions of US dollars, multiplied by one million; where a project also has a loan amount only the equity is counted. Nothing is converted or estimated: the data set is in US dollars. It has no vintage year, paid-in amount, distributions, value, multiple or IRR, so those are blank. Left out: 24 fund projects that are Completed (exited), 46 that are not yet signed or are on hold, 24 whose product line is Loan or that have no equity amount, 5 whose project name IFC prefixes with CI (co-investments in a single company), and 31 that IFC's project name prefixes with DFP or DCM or whose name says credit, debt, lending, loan, bond, infrastructure or real estate. The data set has no finer label than "Funds", so a few vehicles that are not private equity or venture funds may remain. For 22 funds the data set prints an equity amount of exactly 250 (million), the same figure for some two dozen small funds; that is not a commitment to one fund, so their commitment is left blank. The other 316 commitments add up to $10411.05 million; the data set prints no total. View source

Korea Venture Investment Corp. (Foreign VC Investment Fund): Partnership Fund Status of Foreign VC Investment Fund, as of July 31, 2026. Korea Venture Investment Corp., the Korean government's fund-of-funds manager, lists on its English website every fund its Foreign VC Investment Fund has committed to, with the fund's name, its general partner, the fund's size and "KVIC's Commitment", in millions of US dollars. The commitment is shown here as printed, times one million; KVIC reports the amounts in US dollars, so nothing is converted. The fund's own size and the general partner column are not imported, and KVIC reports no vintage year, paid-in amount, distributions, value, multiple or IRR per fund, so those are blank. The page has 2 tables, all included: "Partnership Fund Status of Foreign VC Investment Fund", as of 2026-07-31, has 64 funds which add up to $521.8 million while the page prints a total of $536.9 million (the page does not explain the difference); "Partnership Fund Status of Foreign VC Investment Fund II", as of 2023-12-31, has 26 funds which add up to the printed total of $252.11 million. The as-of date here is the latest of the tables' dates. KVIC's domestic Korea Fund of Funds and its Angel Fund of Funds are not part of this list. View source