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500 Startups is an early-stage venture firm and accelerator founded by Dave McClure and Christine Tsai. 500 Startups is a seed accelerator and related investment fund McClure founded in 2010. The fund admitted a first "class" of twelve startups to its incubator office in Mountain View, California in February, 2011. They expanded to a second class of 21 in June 2011 and a third class of 34 in October 2011. As of August 1, 2015, 500 Startups had invested in over 1,200 companies,〔Kolodny, Lara (June 27, 2013). (Dave McClure Hits 500 ). The Wall Street Journal.〕 including Punchd, Console.FM, CoContest,〔(【引用サイトリンク】first=Kyle Russell )〕 Safe Shepherd, Markerly, idreambooks, Fileboard, myGengo, Artsicle, ChinaNetCloud, Cucumbertown Visual.ly, E la Carte, Canva, Udemy,〔Toto, Serkan, ("MyGengo Is Mechanical Turk For Translations" ). The Washington Post. 2010-01-11〕〔Shontell, Alyson, ("After Bootstrapping For A Year, Monthly Art Rental Startup Artsicle Raises $390,000 Seed Round" ). Business Insider. 2011-11-02〕〔Ha, Anthony and Lynley, Matthew, ("The coolest companies from Dave McClure’s 500Startups" ). VentureBeat. 2011-04-06〕〔Toto, Serkan,("Udemy Scores $1M In Seed Funding, Aims To Democratize Online Learning" ). TechCrunch. 2010-08-31〕 24/7 Techies.〔Lomas, Natasha, ("Remote Tech Support Firm, 24/7 Techies, Raises $600k Seed Round — Led By 500 Startups — To Ramp Up SMB Business" ). techcrunch.com. November 5th, 2012〕〔Ken, Yeung, ("24/7 Techies nabs $600k from 500 Startups and others to be the IT solution for small businesses" ). thenextweb.com 5 November 2012〕〔("24/7 Techies Profile on 500Startups" ) 500.co〕 ZipMatch,〔Huang, Elaine ("ZipMatch secures funds to scale real estate marketplace business" ) e27.co February 28th, 2014〕〔Magdirila, Phoebe, ("Philippine real estate marketplace can afford a bigger apartment with latest funding round" ) techinasia.com Feb 27th, 2014〕 and RidePal.〔Perez, Sarah. (RidePal, The “Google Bus For The Rest Of Us,” Scores $500K From 500 Startups & Others ), ''TechCrunch''. September 10th, 2012〕 Of current investments, more than 20% have participated in other incubators, 20-30% are international, and over 60 have been acquired. Some of their successful active companies are CreditKarma, Twilio,〔 GrabTaxi,〔 TalkDesk,〔 and (Intercom.io ).〔 To date, their biggest exits include $403M acquisition of Makerbot by Stratasys, $350M acquisition of Wildfire by Google, $200M acquisition of Viki by Rakuten, and $117M acquisition of Simple by BBVA. In 2012, the organization 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.〔Source:(Alta Ventures Mexico Raises $70M First Fund, Draws Support from 500 Startups )〕 500 Startups has locations in Silicon Valley, Mexico City and San Francisco.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://500.co/ )〕 In 2015, they announced they would be starting a three month growth program in London, UK as well as a pre-accelerator in Oslo, Norway. == Regional and Vertical Focused Funds == 500 Startups has several funds focused on different international regions or operational verticals. * $22M sized, 500 Durians fund managed by Khailee Ng, focused on the Southeast Asian market. * $10M sized, 500 Mobile Collective fund managed by Edith Yeung, focused on mobile app startups globally. * $15M sized, 500 Kimchi fund managed by Tim Chae, focused on the South Korean market. * $15M sized, 500 Nordics fund managed by Sean Percival, focused on the Nordic market. * $10M sized, 500 TukTuks fund managed by Natavudh “Moo” Pungcharoenpong (CEO of Ookbee) and Ruangroj “Krating” Poonpol (Founder of Disrupt University), focused on the Thailand market. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「500 Startups」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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