Clayton Bryan is a Partner at 500 Global, an early stage venture investor and operator. He has built expansive online communities, scaled marketplace businesses, and facilitated million dollar deals. At Yahoo he worked on award winning products. Later, at Payvment, he helped a team pioneer a new set of tools that started the social commerce movement.

With Diversity as a guiding principle, Clayton has spent the entirety of his career within venture capital focused on supporting underrepresented founders.  In 2016, Clayton and four others launched a non-profit organization, Transparent Collective, tasked with coaching and connecting underrepresented founders with investors.  Companies to have gone through Transparent Collective's program have raised tens of millions of dollars in early stage financings.

Clayton has invested in over 40 companies, including Butlr, EMTECH, Public Goods, EcoCart, Printify, Silk+Sonder, JusticeText, Pariti, and Fintor.

 Regina has been with 500 Global since 2019 and is a Partner for the Latin American fund. She leads the investment and portfolio management teams and has been involved in the investment decisions for over 100 companies. As an advisor to portfolio companies, she assists with strategy, product development, operations, team management, and fundraising.

Pedro Santos Vieira founded and sold GoodGuide, a notable digital health venture, achieving a successful exit.

 
Following this, he established West to West, a non-profit organization in the United States dedicated to supporting Portuguese and EU entrepreneurs in thriving within Silicon Valley.

 
Now, as a Partner at 500 Global, he actively co-designs and oversees acceleration initiatives.

Pedro is a hands-on mentor, connecting startups with a vast network of global and local investors.

Abdulrahman AlJiffry is a Partner at 500 Global, focusing on the MENA Accelerator Fund to help scale the region's most promising startups.

He is also an active angel investor with a diverse portfolio in Saudi Arabia and beyond, and he serves on the board of Oqal Angel Investor Network, the first and largest network of angels in KSA.

Prior to 500 Global, he headed the Startup Programs at King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST). The flagship program, TAQADAM, is the largest accelerator in the region, investing in up to 60 startups per cohort with up to $140,000 per startup. Another key initiative is Destination DeepTech, which helps international DeepTech companies establish a presence in Saudi Arabia and access the market and infrastructure to grow their companies and further develop the DeepTech ecosystem in MENA