“Intelligent life has arisen not from an abundance of resources but from a lack of it.” Nicely put by hardmaru and the team at Sakana AI. 🚀 🐠

Traditional patent drafting is too slow and costly for how fast teams innovate. Not anymore. @tradespace_io has acquired Paragon Patents, adding attorney-grade AI to the IP workflow and becoming the first AI-powered platform to support the full IP lifecycle. Congrats to the team!

Dr Alaa Murabit during the first session at the Dubai Future Forum: "I think the future in 10 years is the one that we have the courage, capacity, and frankly the accountability to build. It’s not going for the low handing fruit, it’s saying we’re actually going to build in human

Congrats Hydroleap for winning 3rd place at the #NTTStartupChallenge 2025! Their electrochemical wastewater tech is helping data centers run cleaner, cut OPEX, and boost ESG — exactly what the AI era’s infrastructure needs. Excited for what’s ahead! bit.ly/4i5Uad3

One of the most exciting new AI companies is Sakana AI in our opinion. Their CTO and their Co-founder Llion Jones Llion Jones is now saying it's time to move beyond transformers even though he was one of the 8 original inventors at Google. They are now investigating the

Didn't expect Jensen Huang to serve me hot green tea. (No, the video isn’t AI-generated). He spoke about SF, AI, Trump. I asked him about venture capital. But there is more to the story than what he said. Why he said it, who was there, and what happened during the opera:

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We are hosting a luncheon for researchers next week and there’s already over 500 RSVPs! If you’re at NeurIPS2025, please join us. I’ll be moderating a panel with some of the leading AI researchers, and meet others in the field. RSVP in link below! 500 Global

This week's Divot conversation is with Christine Tsai, the CEO & Founding Partner of 500 Global and one of the most resilient people in Silicon Valley. We talk about backing 3,000+ companies, why innovation comes from everywhere, and leading through volatility.

Marketing teams don’t need more AI that answers questions. They need AI that executes, and Iterable just shipped it. With 90% of customers already using AI agents, the launch of their open-sourced MCP server marks a major shift in how technical marketers build and scale

One of the most exciting uses of AI today: turning conversations into credit. Aviva just secured US$50M to scale exactly that. This marks the company’s first international institutional lending partnership and strengthens their path toward Series A. With 100+ cities

Gaining momentum in the US is a milestone. Turning that momentum into global scale is the next test. Translating domestic success internationally often requires founders to rethink the playbook, challenge assumptions, and approach expansion with a fresh lens. That’s where 500

In today’s AI landscape, the most underrated founder trait might just be 'useful naivete'. AI startups are scaling faster than traditional software — reaching $1M ARR sooner and jumping from $2M to $30M revenue at 5x speed. But they’re also failing faster. Principal of our

US$60M in fresh capital is propelling Flex toward one of the biggest opportunities in fintech: delivering an AI-powered CFO for the millions of mid-sized businesses long underserved by financial tools. Flex is doubling down on their mission to become the 'AI CFO' for

Cloud- and AI-powered simulation is entering a new era of accessibility, portfolio company EverySim is helping lead that shift. EverySim has raised new seed funding from 500 Global to expand their EveryDrone browser-based platform that allows even non-specialist engineers

What a week we had at NeurIPS Conference, the epicenter of cutting-edge AI research! From over 1,000 applications, 500 Global's U.S. investment team selected 60 exceptional researchers at the frontier of AI from Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Princeton University, and leading labs at Google DeepMind,

The hardware cost of robotics has been commoditized — the bottleneck is the brain, and the brain needs data.” — Lucas Ngoo, Founder of CortexAI. Building on that insight, Cortex AI has raised US$6M to build the data engine that robots depend on to learn. They capture

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"We want to build AI models that actually understand Japanese context: Japanese culture, Japanese society." — Tarin Clanuwat, Sakana AI research scientist. AI that understands Japanese culture doesn’t just serve Japan. It becomes a tool for cultural continuity, setting a

As AI reshapes the internet, trust is quickly becoming one of its scarcest resources, and also one of its most valuable. Verisoul is tackling that challenge head-on by helping companies confidently distinguish real users from fraud, fakes, and bots. Since commercialization,