500 Startups is a global venture capital seed fund with a network of startup programs headquartered in Silicon Valley with over $275M in committed capital across 4 main funds and 13 micro funds. We have invested in 1,600 technology startups all over the world since our inception in 2010 including: Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), Credit Karma, Grab, Udemy, Ipsy, TalkDesk, Intercom, MakerBot (acq’d by SSYS), Wildfire (acq’d by GOOG), and Viki (acq’d by Rakuten). Our team of 150 people based in 20 countries manage seed investments across 60 countries and speak over 25 languages.

Paidy is a new way for consumers to pay at online stores using only their mobile phone number and email address. Optimized for mobile and instant-checkout, Paidy allows consumers buy online quickly and safely and does not require a credit card or pre-registration.Like Affirm in the US and Klarna in Europe, Paidy is facilitating frictionless ecommerce payments, without the consumer having to enter information other than mobile phone number, email address and shipping address. This means fast, secure payments, translating to less cart abandonment and larger cart sizes.We have extensive underwriting knowledge and Big Data technology developed over the past… · More six years to operating AQUSH, Japan's leading P2P lending marketplace for personal loans, and are now applying it to underwriting online payments.Paidy has:- Access to more than 100 million credit files in Japan- National lending & vendor financing licenses- Securities license- FSA & METI regulated companywww.paidy.com

BizFusion is a free online accounting system that's geared towards startups, freelancers and small businesses. BizFusion has transformed accounting into simple data entry. You can now easily do your own accounting. We are essentially the Mint.com for Accounting software. Take the product tour at: www.bizfusion.nl

IDES Technologies introduces eyeDES: a next-generation fraud management analytical technology Currently, on the market there are two kinds of customized solutions available: • - Rule-based • - Analytical/statistical based eyeDES technology belongs to the analytical/statistical based group and it consists on a fusion between Statistical Pattern Recognition (SPR), Neural Networks (NN) and Genetic Algorithms (GA). There are a number of analytical technologies competing in the same market space regarding customized model building solutions. Among these, eyeDES technology has two main advantages: - fast… · More time to market delivery • - flexibility and ease of updating models • - other important advantages: o eyeDES solutions are easily scalable o eyeDES solutions deliver better fraud detection ratios and more accurate predictions o eyeDES solutions can work online or offline o eyeDES solutions have competitive prices eyeDES technology provides the ability to develop and deploy multiple risk prediction scoring/decision making models covering all payment card brands and products inclusive of credit, debit and retail banking products. eyeDES not only covers and detects the whole spectrum of fraud types, but also supports all fundamental role players, transaction processes and procedures in the payment cycle to reduce and manage fraud risk. eyeDES models can be easily integrated into client existing tools or they can work standalone.

Ticket Cake is doing for events what Salesforce does for small businesses. Event organizers track promotions, market effectively, and increase revenue for their events. Revenue comes from a fee on tickets sold and tiered pricing for consulting, online ad spend management, and marketing services.Bootstrapped in a garage for 18 months. Seed and bridge round led by the VegasTechFund and Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh.

Our product is a standardizing integration method for meshing networking home products to a singular OS platform inside a networking home. Our concept eliminates the high cost and extreme complexity associated with this market when creating a complete networking home. Our concept will allow a service provider (ex: AT&T) to manage and network the complete networking/connected home market. Eliminating high cost and extreme complexities to this market will expand this market to average consumers.

The Coursebook aggregates great learning resources and makes it easy for lifelong-learners to find the best videos, podcasts, and other resources to learn on the web and on the go. Users can easily connect with others to build their learning network and set-up their learner's profile to show off what they learned.

ScholarPRO is the first common application system for private scholarships and grants in the United States. We make it easy for students to search, find, and electronically apply for every scholarship that they qualify for-all in one place. See us at www.scholarpro.com.

CoPromote is a programmatic influncer marketing platform.We power marketing for over 800,000 creators and influencers. We match brands and content creators with like-minded influencers who amplify their social posts.

Dydra is a Database-as-a-Service for the graph database standard, RDF. Graph databases are useful for solving a wide variety of problems, such as efficiently expressing business logic like "Other items like this one" and "Customers who bought this also bought..." RDF is the only cross-vendor graph database standard.Dydra is an agile, frictionless way to use RDF. It's the only true cloud service for RDF.

Ekso Bionics™ is a pioneer in the field of robotic exoskeletons to augment human strength, endurance and mobility. The company first developed a “wearable robot” called HULC for military applications, and has evolved the technology for the medical rehabilitation field. The company’s commercially available product called Ekso™, has enabled over 500 wheelchair users to stand and walk. Please visit our website at www.eksobionics.com to learn more.

HealthTechWorks is a collaborative knowledge sharing community that breaks down silos of exchanging leading practices. Through a dynamic web-based platform, it connects health system/practice professionals, vendors and service companies seeking to transform healthcare delivery through information technology.

TrackR, an app & coin sized device, makes it easier than ever to stay organized, eliminating the panicked hunt for your keys or wallet. TrackR easily attaches to your keys or can stick to remotes or other commonly misplaced items and the corresponding TrackR app keeps track of where the item is so you can easily locate it. One of the hallmark innovations of TrackR is the Crowd Source GPS tracking. Unlike regular GPS devices, TrackR uses a new form of GPS technology called Crowd GPS. When an item goes missing with a TrackR device attached, all TrackR enabled phones will begin to search for the item. If another user comes nearby the item, that… · More user's phone will ping our server which will then update the item's owner with the new GPS coordinates. We currently have the largest crowd based GPS network and as we continue to build our network, the updates will become more & more real time.

CPUsage offers a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for high throughput and high-performance computing. Our technology allows software developers, scientists, and researchers the opportunity to distribute virtually any application, to any cloud, at any scale, in a matter of minutes.