The Future Of Financial Inclusion In Africa

Outsource Monetic Is enabling Mobile Money in Francophone Africa. The Senegalese fintech is piloting KaliSpot, an independent network of ATMs, that gives customers of any bank, fintech, or mobile money service 24/7 access to their money, with an emphasis on financial inclusion.

Lolita Taub Itches to Make her Mark on Venture Capital

On December 2, 2021, 500 Global convened the global venture capital community in Miami to its PreMoney 2021 conference for an interactive experience at the nexus of culture, technology, investment and global finance.

What Founders Need to Know About Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

500 Global hosted Mariah Lichtenstern, founding partner at DiverseCity Ventures, for a fireside chat to explore why DEI matters for early stage startups and how founders can implement DEI.

How Serena Ventures Built a Portfolio With 60% Diverse Founders

Serena Ventures partner Alison Rapaport Stillman finds that VCs still ignore products and services made for audiences they’re not familiar with, even those representing massive markets.

Andreessen Horowitz’s Naithan Jones on Finding the Next P. Diddy

Nait Jones wants to identify cultural geniuses and help them build enduring and scalable businesses.

500 Startups Receives Diversity VC Certification as it Commits to Diversity and Inclusion

To better understand our diversity performance and signal our advocacy for D&I practices, we engaged Diversity VC, a non-profit organization.

The Inclusion Impact Index Project: A Call for Founders to Participate

Entrepreneurs across the United States – women, men, Black, Latine, Veterans, LGBTQ+ and more – are contributing enormously to the success of our economy. But do we know how much?

Why We’re Publishing Our Diversity & Inclusion Statistics

While we’ve always championed diversity as a critical part of our ethos, if 2020 taught us one thing, it’s that we need to do better.