Rustam Minnikhanov gets familiar with work of business incubator 500 Startups

On November 11, during his working visit to the USA (November 9-11), Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met management of business incubator 500 Startups.

Founded by a businessman Dave McClure 500 Startups is one of the most famous international venture funds.

The company co-founder Christina Tsai told about the history of 500 Startups, principles of project selection, and seed investments.

The fund’s portfolio makes $200 mln. Mentors of the accelerator 500 Startups used to be top managers of PayPal, Google, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter, Apple and other companies.