Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $7M
Funding Rounds 3
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 27.09.2011 | Series A | $5.25M | 500 Kobe P... |
| 20.06.2011 | - | $1M | - |
| 09.09.2010 | - | $750K | - |
Mentions in press and media 17
| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.10.2011 | The Hackathon: Your Ticket To Disrupt Beijing, Great Prizes, And More | Hackers, are you ready? The Disrupt Beijing Hackathon is almost here. Not only is this our fifth time hosting the Hackathon at TechCrunch Disrupt, but it is our very first time hosting it overseas. The Hackathon has become an incredibly pop... |
| 27.09.2011 | Human Translation Platform myGengo Raises $5.25 Million From Atomico, 500 Startups | Tokyo-based human translation service myGengo (“Mechanical Turk for translations”) has raised a Series A Round of funding. The US$5.25 million round was led by Atomico, the London-based VC firm headed by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström, a... |
| 27.09.2011 | myGengo Raises $5.25M in Series A Funding Round | myGengo, a Mountain View, CA- and Mountain View, CA-based provider of human translation services, has raised $5.25m in a Series A funding round. Backers include Atomico and 500 Startups. The company intends to use the new funding to grow ma... |
| 20.06.2011 | MyGengo Raises $1 Million To "Own" Translation | Translation service MyGengo has raised one million in seed financing from Point Nine, Mitch Kapor and Wenceslao Casares. Prior to today’s investment, the platform had raised $750k from Dave McClure’s 500 Startups. Along with the funding MyG... |
| 08.04.2011 | The Seven Most Interesting Startups At 500 Startups Demo Day (TCTV) | 500 Startups first Demo Day sprint is over and people are trickling out their rankings lists of the 23 startups, or “little monsters” as co-founder Dave McClure calls them. McClure, with a background in marketing, has a unique curator’s eye... |
| 07.04.2011 | Two Days in Silicon Valley: An inside look at 23 startups from Dave McClure’s Demo Days | I’ve been thinking a lot about passion lately — passion for ideas, teams, the shared pursuit of common goals. More and more, I believe passion is the critical differentiator between really good, and great, teams. And, at the end of the day,... |
| 06.04.2011 | 22 startups debut at 500 Startups Demo Day | Startups for students to startups for moms, social to commerce to visual to mobile: it's all here Today and tomorrow, 500 Startups is hosting its spring demo days, where all eyes are on 22 just-now-launching or soon-to-be-launching startups... |
| 05.11.2010 | Dave McClure's 500 Startups Fund Invests In Tokyo-Based P2P Lending Service AQUSH | Dave McClure‘s 500 Startups fund has just made its fourth investment in Asia. Tokyo-based Exchange Corporation, which runs a peer-to-peer lending service called AQUSH in Japan, has raised an undisclosed sum from the Silicon Valley-based fun... |
| 26.09.2010 | Dave McClure's First Investment In China: ChinaNetCloud (TCTV) | This guest post is by Dave McClure, founder of 500 Startups and GeeksOnaPlane. As we wrap up our GeeksOnaPlane video series for TechCrunch TV, I thought I’d offer a perspective on Asia from the eyes of a Silicon Valley geek and investor (no... |
| 09.09.2010 | What you need to know - Thursday 9/9/10 | NY Times going digital, $15 million for charging smart cars, Livescribe rises $39 million Ebyline, a new social media community that connects freelance journalists and syndicated news, launched on Wednesday. The site, which requires either ... |
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