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

500 Emerging Europe aims to help the talented entrepreneurs build global businesses.
Our mission is to back defensible technology companies, fueling talent arbitrage and helping create global powerhouses.

        Emerging Europe
is a hotbed for talent.         

Thanks to the region’s highly skilled human capital, unicorns from Emerging Europe target global markets from the get-go!

Bridging these ecosystems creates an opportunity for many more success stories in the region.

Unicorns & Centaurs

BilliontoOne

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RAISED
$200M+
FOUNDED
2016

Carbon Health

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RAISED
$500M+
FOUNDED
2015

Firefly

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RAISED
$160M+
FOUNDED
2017

Insider

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RAISED
$160M+
FOUNDED
2012

Plum

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RAISED
$46M+
FOUNDED
2016

€250k-2M

INITIAL TICKET

60

PORTFOLIO COMPANIES

$1.1B+

TOTAL CAPITAL RAISED

2,000

JOBS CREATED

97%

EXPORT REVENUE

33%

FEMALE FOUNDERS
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

Co-founder | 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.

Victor Trokoudes

Co-founder | Plum

500 Emerging Europe has been an important component of our success. Not only were they there on our pre-seed round, but they also continued to invest and build synergies through different funds and programs within the network.

Among the investors of the fund are organizations supported under the TÜBİTAK - Tech-InvesTR 1514 Venture Capital Support Program, which is carried out within the framework of the cooperation agreement between TÜBİTAK and the Ministry of Treasury and Finance. Detailed information on the Tech-InvesTR Program can be accessed below.

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