Brief overview of 500 Startups

1. “Blowing Up Startups Since 2010”
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2. Who is 500 Startups?
Dave McClure Christine Tsai Paul Singh Christen O’Brien
Founding Partner - Investments, Partner - Investments, Accelerator, Partner - Investments, dashboard.io, Partner - BD, Sponsorships,
Fundraising Mentors, Distribution India, Data/Metrics Events & Conferences
Bedy Yang George Kellerman Sheila Goodman Melissa Grody
Venture Partner (Brazil/LatAm) Venture Partner (Japan), BD/Events Manager Exec Assistant for Dave
Fundraising/Investor Relations & Office Manager
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3. Who is 500 Startups?
César Salazar Santiago Zavala Shai Goldman Pankaj Jain
Venture Partner (Mexican.VC) Venture Partner (Mexican.VC) Venture Partner (NYC) Venture Partner (India)
Mike Greenfield Max Fram-Schwartz Bruna Maia Sabrina Ilich
Growth Hacker-In-Residence Associate Events/Content Director BD/Events Intern
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4. What is 500 Startups?
Global Seed Fund & Startup Accelerator Program
We invest in seed-stage companies...
• Focus on Internet/Web and Mobile startups
• Strong community of ~600 founders and ~200 mentors
• 256 investments to date; 10+ exits as of March 2012.
• Exits to Google, Facebook, Groupon, Amazon, LinkedIn, Twitter, Cisco,
WalMart, ReturnPath
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5. 500 Companies
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6. How 500 Invests
Investment size
ranges from $25K -
$250K. Accelerator
investment is
standard $50K.
~15% of our
investments are
international
(outside the U.S.)
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7. 500 Investment Criteria
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8. 500 Investment Themes
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9. 500 Accelerator Program
★ For companies who want to be immersed in the
500 network and get intense, hands-on 1:1
mentorship
★ 4 month program. Average is 30 companies
per batch.
★ Weekly talks, 1:1 company reviews, office hours,
design bootcamp, visits to Google & Facebook,
pitch prep. Companies work from the 500 office.
★ Concludes w/ Demo Days in Silicon Valley and
NYC.
★ Batch 6 will begin ~ April 2013. Applications
open January 2013 (TBC) at angel.co/
500startups
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10. The 500 Mentors
200 people (and growing) who commit time and
energy to help our startups. They:
• are based all over the world
• work at startups
• work at big companies
• have founded startups
• have domain expertise and real-life experience in
one or more functional areas and verticals
• do this all on a volunteer basis
• may or may not invest in startups
• are opinionated and may give “tough love”
• LOVE helping entrepreneurs
• LOVE 500 Startups
• are LOVED by 500 Startups and our founders
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11. #500STRONG
Move quickly, make
mistakes, fall down, &
get back up again FAILURE is ok
Teach others and learn from each other
TAKE RISKS
FAST IS BETTER
Open Rules. Stealth drools.
Diversity wins.
PAY IT FORWARD.
FUN AT ALL COSTS.
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12. Questions?
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