Raised US interest rates could stunt the growth of startup businesses
The decision to raise US interest rates for the first time in seven years could have negative effects on established startup businesses, investors have said, marking the start a new era of more...
View ArticleWe will stay as long as Nikesh Arora keeps the faith: 500 Startups founder...
Silicon Valley-based accelerator 500 Startups has expanded its team in India to focus on investments in the country and plans to invest in at least two dozen early-stage Indian startups from its global...
View ArticleDave McClure of 500 Startups on KVIE
Super Angel Investor Dave McClure is a founding partner of 500 Startups, a seed accelerator and related investment fund. Dave McClure sits down with host Scott Syphax to talk about the partnership and...
View ArticleVenture Capitalists Plan To Bet On Sacramento Entrepreneurs
Dave McClure is a founder of 500 Startups. He says the company has invested $200 million in 1,500 companies worldwide since 2010 and will invest more in Sacramento. He says startups are volatile, which...
View ArticleTech’s Annual Awards Show Was So Self-Aware It Hurt
The tech industry was on its best dang behavior last night at the Crunchies, an annual awards show hosted by the blog TechCrunch. The post Tech’s Annual Awards Show Was So Self-Aware It Hurt appeared...
View ArticleWhat the World Could Look Like in 2040
“The best way to build the future is to create it” the quote from Peter Drucker best explains Singularity Universities vision for the world of tomorrow. Earlier last month I had the opportunity to...
View ArticleVC Unlocked with Stanford CPD is Back!
Applications are now open for our highly sought-after Venture Capital Unlocked investor education program. It will be held July 24th – August 4th in Silicon Valley. An early admission rate of 21K is...
View Article#500FAMILY
Recently, a 500 colleague posted this on social media: “Diversity and equality is NOT about women who succeed because they sacrifice everything else so they “have nothing else to do but work”. It’s...
View Article500 Startups Launches its First Distro Bootcamp in Israel
500 Startups has launched its first “distro bootcamp” in Israel in partnership with Google, Amazon AWS, Poalim Hi-Tech, Meitar and WeWork and has selected 9 B2B companies for its first cohort. Distro...
View ArticleAnnouncing Diversity Scholarship for VC Unlocked with Stanford CPD
Diversity is in our DNA Anyone familiar with 500 Startups knows diversity is one of our core values. We are concerned with the current “mostly male, mostly white” panorama in the VC world. According...
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