500 Emerging Europe

We want to help the best companies from Emerging Europe scale globally.

500 aims to help the talented entrepreneurs of the region in building explosive businesses. Our mission is to back defensible technology companies fueling talent arbitrage and help create global powerhouses.

LEARN ABOUT 500-BRANDED ACTIVITIES IN EMERGING EUROPE

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Emerging Europe is a hotbed for talent.

Thanks to the region’s highly skilled human capital, all of the unicorns from Emerging Europe target global markets from the get-go! Bridging these ecosystems globally, creates an opportunity for many more.

BillionToOne

RAISED

$200M+

FOUNDED

2016

SELECT PORTFOLIO COMPANIES

Biotech

Health

Biotech

Health

Customer Success

Marketing

Customer Success

Marketing

Customer Finance

Fintech

Kaan Gunay

FOUNDER OF FIREFLY

"500 Emerging Europe was extremely helpful in recruiting our country head in Istanbul and enabling us to make our first key hires. Whenever we had trouble with our hardware manufacturing and needed to change suppliers and facilities, one of the introductions we received from Enis led to a direct conversion in us switching our entire hardware manufacturing and assembly process. 500 was very helpful with potential client introductions to us such as Turkish Airlines, Peak Games and Carbon Health.

They've helped us establish both a backend development and also a client-facing sales team in Turkey."

Hande Cilingir

FOUNDER OF INSIDER

"We are proud of being a 500 Emerging Europe portfolio company because when we go to new countries in our expansion journey, 500's global offices help us a lot in terms of strategy and reaching out to the right people.

Second thing is, we believe in the power of working with good people. Entrepreneurs are romantics, working with people you love is important and we love you guys. You are the investor with the fastest response rate. I haven't seen that response rate in any investor. It is a huge support. 500 made Insider's and its cofounder's lives easier in the journey."

Kaan Gunay

FOUNDER OF FIREFLY

"500 Emerging Europe was extremely helpful in recruiting our country head in Istanbul and enabling us to make our first key hires. Whenever we had trouble with our hardware manufacturing and needed to change suppliers and facilities, one of the introductions we received from Enis led to a direct conversion in us switching our entire hardware manufacturing and assembly process. 500 was very helpful with potential client introductions to us such as Turkish Airlines, Peak Games and Carbon Health.

They've helped us establish both a backend development and also a client-facing sales team in Turkey."

Hande Cilingir

FOUNDER OF INSIDER

"We are proud of being a 500 Emerging Europe portfolio company because when we go to new countries in our expansion journey, 500's global offices help us a lot in terms of strategy and reaching out to the right people.

Second thing is, we believe in the power of working with good people. Entrepreneurs are romantics, working with people you love is important and we love you guys. You are the investor with the fastest response rate. I haven't seen that response rate in any investor. It is a huge support. 500 made Insider's and its cofounder's lives easier in the journey."

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