🌐 500 Global Companies Directory — Global Accelerator Alumni Database

Pull the entire 500 Global portfolio (formerly 500 Startups) — every batch, every regional program, every alumni since 2010 — straight from the official 500.co portfolio backend. 2,200+ portfolio companies across 9 programs: Mountain View HQ (Global Accelerator 1 through GA 34 + Distro), 500 MENA (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Morocco), 500 LatAm (Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Chile), 500 SEA (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia), 500 Korea, 500 Taiwan, 500 Vietnam, 500 Thailand, and 500 Eurasia (Georgia, Kazakhstan). No login, no flaky CSS selectors, no captchas. Each company arrives as one clean structured row ready for your CRM, lead-gen pipeline, BI warehouse or ML feature store.

If you sell to startups, recruit from startups, invest in startups, write about startups, or vendor-to startups — the 500 Global alumni roster is one of the most expensive datasets in private markets ($60k+/year on Bloomberg, PitchBook or CB Insights). 500 Global was the most prolific seed investor of the 2010s, has backed Canva, Credit Karma, Talkdesk, Udemy, Twilio (early), GitLab (early), Grab, Carousell, Intercom, Wildfire (Google), MakerBot (Stratasys) and another 2,000+ active alumni. This Actor delivers the whole portfolio for $0.05 per company.

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💰 Pricing

Event	Price	When
Actor start	$0.01	Once per run, when Actor begins
500 Global company record	$0.05	Per company pushed to the dataset

Example runs

Run size	Cost
10-row smoke test	$0.51
1 cohort year (~170 companies)	~$8.50
Top 5 regional programs (~1,400 companies)	~$70
Full alumni dump (2,224 companies)	~$111

Compare that to $24,000+ for one Crunchbase Pro seat, $25,000+ for CB Insights, $30k–$80k for PitchBook, or $24,000+ per Bloomberg Terminal seat. This Actor pays for itself the first time a single qualified lead converts.

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🎯 Who buys this

• VC associates sourcing seed and Series A deals from 500 Global graduating classes (this is the #2 most-prolific seed accelerator after Y Combinator, with deeper MENA + LatAm + SEA + Korea coverage than any US-centric source)
• Corporate development / M&A teams hunting acquisition targets — 500 Global has 675+ exited portfolio companies (acquired or IPO'd)
• Sales & BD at startup-tooling vendors (Stripe, Brex, Mercury, Ramp, AWS, Vercel, Datadog, Snowflake competitors) building target lists of 2–10 year-old companies past PMF
• Recruiters sourcing operators with accelerator pedigree — 500 Global alumni founders are a known strong signal
• Regional VCs and family offices mapping the MENA / LatAm / SEA / Korea / Taiwan startup ecosystems where 500 Global has unique deal-flow access
• Founders running competitive analysis or partnership outreach to portfolio peers
• Journalists & analysts writing accelerator-cohort retrospectives, regional ecosystem reports, exit-rate studies
• Academics & researchers studying startup outcomes by program, geography, business model

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📊 What every row contains

{
  "id": 3270,
  "name": "9fin",
  "legal_name": "9FIN Limited",
  "slug": "9fin",
  "description": "Developer of a data analytics platform designed to provide AI-powered financial data...",
  "batch": "GA 17",
  "batches": ["GA 17"],
  "program": "global",
  "programs": ["global"],
  "cohort_year": 2017,
  "first_investment_date": "2017-05-02T00:00:00.000Z",
  "industry": "Real Estate",
  "industries": ["Real Estate", "FinTech"],
  "sector": "Real Estate, FinTech",
  "business_model": "B2B",
  "stage": "Series C",
  "funding_status": "Series C",
  "country": "United Kingdom",
  "region": "Europe",
  "location": "United Kingdom, Europe",
  "team_size": null,
  "founders": ["Steven Hunter", "Huss EL-Sheikh"],
  "logo_url": "https://founder-hub-public.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/...",
  "website": "https://9fin.com",
  "linkedin_url": null,
  "500global_url": "https://500.co/portfolio",
  "data_source": "500.co/api/startups"
}

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🛠️ Input filters

All optional — leave empty to dump the full alumni roster.

Field	Type	Example	Effect
programs	list[str]	["mena","korea"]	Tenant slug match: global / mena / latam / sea / korea / taiwan / vietnam / thailand / ee
batches	list[str]	["GA 25","Mena 1"]	Substring match against batch brand names (GA 1–34, Distro 1, Mena 1–9, Korea 1–12, Vietnam 1, etc.)
cohortYears	list[str]	["2023","2024"]	Earliest-investment-year filter
industries	list[str]	["FinTech","AI"]	Substring match against industry tags
countries	list[str]	["United States","Saudi Arabia"]	Country-of-operation match
fundingStatus	list[str]	["Exited"] or ["Series B","Series C"]	Pre-Seed / Seed / Series A–D+ / Exited / Active / Writeoff / Dissolved
businessModel	list[str]	["B2B"]	B2B / B2C / B2A / D2C / Fund
limit	int	100	Max companies to return (1–3000)

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🆚 vs. Bloomberg / Crunchbase Pro / PitchBook / CB Insights

Capability	This Actor	Bloomberg	Crunchbase Pro	PitchBook	CB Insights
500 Global-specific filtering	✅ native	⚠️ tags only	⚠️ tags only	⚠️ tags only	⚠️ tags only
Cohort-year + batch granularity	✅ exact	❌	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️
Regional program slicing (MENA, LatAm, SEA, Korea, Taiwan...)	✅ native	❌	❌	❌	❌
Founder names per row	✅	⚠️ extra add-on	⚠️ limited	⚠️ paid add-on	⚠️ paid add-on
Business-model + stage filter	✅ both	⚠️ stage only	⚠️ stage only	⚠️ stage only	⚠️ stage only
Pay-per-record pricing	✅ $0.05	❌ $24k+/yr	❌ $24k+/yr	❌ $30–80k/yr	❌ $25k+/yr
Annual minimum	❌ none	$24k+	$7k+	$30k+	$25k+
Self-service (no sales call)	✅	❌	⚠️	❌	❌
Raw structured JSON export	✅	⚠️ Excel only	⚠️ limited	⚠️ paid add-on	⚠️ paid add-on
API access	✅ Apify API	$$$ extra	$$$ extra	$$$ extra	$$$ extra
Free trial credit	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌

For one-shot 500 Global sourcing this Actor is 100×–1000× cheaper than the incumbents and exposes the batch + program + business-model metadata that the big platforms bury under generic "accelerator backed" tags. MENA / LatAm / SEA / Korea / Taiwan coverage is particularly thin on US-centric incumbents — 500 Global is the canonical source for those ecosystems.

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⚡ Performance

• No anti-bot friction. The /api/startups endpoint serves the same JSON the public portfolio page renders — no token, no rate limits beyond polite request pacing.
• Full dump in <30 seconds. 2,224 companies arrive in a single HTTP response (~2.4 MB JSON).
• Idempotent. Re-runs are safe; the Actor de-duplicates by company_id within a run.
• Daily refresh ready. Schedule a daily run via Apify Schedules — 500 Global updates the portfolio as new investments close, exits announce, and cohorts onboard.

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🧪 Quick-start examples

Just the 2024 cohort (~109 companies, ~$5.46):

{ "cohortYears": ["2024"], "limit": 500 }

Every 500 Global exit (~675 companies, ~$33.76):

{ "fundingStatus": ["Exited"], "limit": 1000 }

MENA fintech alumni (~50 companies, ~$2.51):

{ "programs": ["mena"], "industries": ["FinTech"], "limit": 200 }

Saudi Arabia + UAE + Egypt founders, all years (~187 companies, ~$9.36):

{ "countries": ["Saudi Arabia","United Arab Emirates","Egypt"], "limit": 500 }

Korea + Taiwan B2B SaaS (~150 companies, ~$7.51):

{ "programs": ["korea","taiwan"], "businessModel": ["B2B"], "industries": ["SaaS","Developer Tools"], "limit": 500 }

Series B–C growth stage globally (~200 companies, ~$10.01):

{ "fundingStatus": ["Series B","Series C"], "limit": 500 }

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🧱 Schema notes

• program (tenant slug) buckets each company into one of nine 500 Global units: global (Mountain View HQ, the Global Accelerator and Distro batches), mena (Riyadh / Cairo / Dubai), latam (Mexico City / São Paulo), sea (Singapore), korea (Seoul), taiwan (Taipei), vietnam (HCMC), thailand (Bangkok), ee (Eurasia — Tbilisi / Almaty). A handful of companies pass through multiple programs and will show all tenant slugs in programs[].
• batch is the cohort brand name — most common values are GA 1 through GA 34 (Global Accelerator at HQ), Distro 1 (Distribution series), Mena 1 through Mena 9, Korea 1 through Korea 12, Vietnam 1, etc.
• cohort_year is derived from the earliest initialInvestDate across all investments. The raw API has some companies with a 1970 epoch sentinel — those are filtered out.
• stage reflects the latest known stage label. funding_status is a tidy bucket: Exited, Dead (Writeoff / Dissolved), Active, or the literal stage name (Series A, Seed, etc.).
• business_model is 500 Global's own tag: B2B (~54%), B2C (~36%), B2A (B2G / B2-Admin), D2C, Fund.
• founders[] is parsed from the org positions[] list — each entry is a firstName lastName string.
• website is normalized to include the https:// scheme.

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🔗 Sister actors in the NexGenData fleet

If you bought 500 Global alumni, you'll likely want these adjacent datasets:

• YC Companies Directory Scraper — Y Combinator alumni, every batch since S05 (5,000+ companies). The other tier-1 accelerator alumni database.
• Techstars Companies Directory — Techstars portfolio: 5,500+ alumni from 128 city- and vertical-specific accelerators (Boulder, NYC, London, Berlin, Tel Aviv, plus Music, Space, Sports, Climate).
• Startup Funding Tracker — round-by-round funding events, lead investors, valuations from SEC, TechCrunch, YC, and Crunchbase signals.
• SEC Form 13F Holdings Tracker — quarterly institutional holdings disclosures from SEC EDGAR; track which VCs are public-equity adjacent.
• Hacker News Show HN Tracker — early-signal indie product launches from HN's "Show HN" stream; many YC and 500 Global founders post here pre-batch.
• Finance MCP Server — Claude / ChatGPT MCP server bundling the entire NexGenData finance fleet for natural-language sourcing queries.

Buy them together and you have the same coverage as a six-figure-per-year Bloomberg / PitchBook / CB Insights stack — for pennies per record. The YC + Techstars + 500 Global tri-pack is the canonical "global accelerator alumni universe" and unlocks ~13,000 founders sourced from the three highest-pedigree programs in the world.

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🧭 Why 500 Global specifically?

500 Global is the most globally distributed major accelerator on Earth. While Y Combinator is overwhelmingly US-centric and Techstars is US + Europe heavy, 500 Global has spent fifteen years building deep deal-flow networks in:

• MENA: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Kuwait — the only major US accelerator with consistent Riyadh / Dubai / Cairo coverage
• LatAm: Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Argentina — anchored by 500 LatAm in Mexico City
• SEA: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines
• Korea: dedicated Korea fund since 2015, 86+ portfolio companies
• Taiwan: dedicated Taiwan fund, 809+ portfolio companies (largest regional program)
• Eurasia: Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan — frontier markets others ignore

If your thesis touches non-US founders, 500 Global is the canonical proprietary dataset. Bloomberg and Crunchbase have spotty coverage of regional accelerator programs in MENA / SEA / LatAm — this Actor surfaces them with native batch + tenant metadata.

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