# 500 Startups (slim)

> 500 Startups's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Intercom, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/500-startups/index.md (~500 tokens) · this version ~430 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/500-startups/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/500-startups/
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-28
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

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Website: https://500.co

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Intercom**, Seed, January 2012, valued at $3.6B, the purchase price, Acquisition by Salesforce, June 2026
  - [Intercom API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/intercom.md), graded BB, 71.6/100
  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2012/01/25/biz-stone-500-startups-and-others-put-1m-in-social-crm-for-web-businesses-intercom/

## Where they invest

- Customer support & helpdesk, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Eoghan McCabe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/eoghan-mccabe/), Intercom
- [Des Traynor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/des-traynor/), Intercom
- [Ciaran Lee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ciaran-lee/), Intercom
- [David Barrett](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/david-barrett-2/), Intercom

## Questions

### Which AI tools has 500 Startups invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Intercom backed by 500 Startups.

### How are 500 Startups's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Intercom API + MCP (BB, 71.6).

Investors are named from the companies' own announcements, the investors' own pages, Y Combinator's company pages, public filings and news reports of a round, each with its source.