500 Startups is an accelerator and venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm makes minority seed, early-stage, and later-stage investments. The firm invests in media, consumer services, computer hardware, software, commercial services, Software-as-a-Service, mobile, FinTech, Big Data, Internet of Things, e-Commerce, AgTech, and audio tech sectors in the United States, Europe, Southeast Asia, Japan, and India.