Category Archives: platforms

Visiting YouTube and the Infamous Slide

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Christine Tsai| 3 Comments

Rounding out our last field trip for the year – we rendezvous’d over to San Bruno to visit YouTube HQ! Thanks to Jarek Wilkiewicz, Brian Glick, and Shiva Rajaraman for hosting us. Brian kicked it off with a presentation on … Continue reading →

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Google Friday

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Christine Tsai| Leave a comment

After a fun field trip to Facebook, next up was Google! The 500 Accelerator batch spent last Friday morning at Building 1950 on the Google campus in Mountain View, CA. We were hosted by the Google Developer Relations team. Thanks Stephanie … Continue reading →

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7 New Twilio Fund Winners: Fightin’ Crime, Helpin’ Seniors, Bringin’ Sexting Back.

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Christine Tsai| Leave a comment

This announcement is also referenced by articles in the following publications: Mashable, ProgrammableWeb. Last December, we announced the first 3 recipients of the Twilio Fund. To refresh your memories – the Twilio Fund is a new ‘microfund’ investment model for 500 … Continue reading →

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A Sense of Déjà Vu: Why focusing on monetization is critical for mobile app developers.

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Christine Tsai| 1 Comment

Meet Lucky Luke aka 500 SuperMentor and Founder Michael Oiknine (@apsalarinc).  Michael is co-founder & CEO of Apsalar, a behavioral targeting and analytics platform for mobile apps.  Prior to Apsalar, Michael was co-Founder & COO of Kefta, a SaaS provider … Continue reading →

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Twilio Fund Ends World Hunger, Makes Voicemail Fun Again, & Enlists A Few Good Superheroes! (Sort Of)

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Christine Tsai| 6 Comments

Textaurant, OrderMapper, & Voicendo are the first to receive 100 Benjamins from the Twilio Fund. BOOM! Back in September, we announced the Twilio Fund – a $250K platform micro-fund from 500 Startups that we carved out to invest in startups … Continue reading →

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Announcing the CrowdFlower Fund

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Christine Tsai| 2 Comments

We recently announced the Twilio Fund, a new investment vehicle for startups building on top of the Twilio cloud communications platform. Today we’re thrilled to welcome another addition to the 500 Startups platform micro-fund family – the CrowdFlower Fund! The … Continue reading →

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Now accepting applications for Twilio Fund

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Christine Tsai| 2 Comments

Last week, we announced the Twilio Fund for 500 Startups, a $250K platform micro-fund for investments in Twilio-powered startups. We’re now accepting applications at 500startups.com/twiliofund. All terms are the same for the Twilio Fund, except we’ve done away with the timeline. … Continue reading →

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Announcing Twilio Fund for 500 Startups

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Christine Tsai| 40 Comments

Today we’re excited to announce Twilio Fund, a $250,000 micro-fund for investments in startups that are powered by Twilio’s APIs for phone calls and text messages. Via Twilio Fund, we’ll offer investments of $10,000 in up to 10 companies for … Continue reading →

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