500px - About the company
500px is an acquired company based in Toronto (Canada), founded in 2009 by Oleg Gutsol and Evgeny Tchebotarev. It operates as a Photo sharing platform and stock photo marketplace. 500px has raised $23M in funding. The company has 318 active competitors, including 24 funded and 16 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Meitu, Instagram and Flickr.
Company Details
500px is a photographic community and a photo sharing platform. Enable users to share and discover inspiring photographs across various themes like people, landscape, nature, city, animals, and other. Allow users to follow photographer to get updated feeds & share their thoughts by liking & commenting on it. Apart from the community services, also offers a stock photo marketplace.
- Website
- 500px.com
- Social
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2009
Location
Toronto, Canada
Stage
Acquired
Total Funding
$23M in 3 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Investors
Ranked
4th among 318 active competitors
Employee Count
193 as on Jul 31, 2026
Exit Details
Acquired by Visual China Group (Feb 26, 2018)
500px's acquisition details
500px got acquired by Visual China Group on Feb 26, 2018.
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500px's funding and investors
500px has raised a total funding of $23M over 3 rounds. Its first funding round was on Jun 03, 2011. Its latest funding round was a Series B round on Jul 21, 2015 for $*****. 4 investors participated in its latest round. 500px has 10 institutional investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of 500px:
Date of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
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Jul 21, 2015 | 5398552 | Series B | 4195262 | 8605674 | 6427550 | 2648499 |
Aug 07, 2013 | 9482029 | Series A | 2688421 | 6354144 | 5172573 | |
Jun 03, 2011 | 5197473 | Series A | 1228674 | 3437827 | 4228280 |
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500px's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileThe founders of 500px are Oleg Gutsol and Evgeny Tchebotarev.
Here are the details of 500px's key team members:
- Oleg Gutsol: Co-Founder & CEO of 500px.
- Evgeny Tchebotarev: Co-Founder & CPO of 500px.
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500px's employee count trend
500px has 193 employees as of Jul 26. Here is 500px's employee count trend over the years:
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500px's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of 500px include Meitu, Instagram and Flickr. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of 500px, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
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1st | Developer of image, video, and design creation software and applications | $525M | 86/100 | ||
2nd | Instagram 2010, San Francisco (United States), Acquired | Social platform for photo and video sharing | $57M | 81/100 | |
3rd | Flickr 2004, United States, Acquired | Online photography community empowering photographers with tools, inspiration, and connection | - | 69/100 | |
4th | Photo sharing platform and stock photo marketplace | $23M | 58/100 | ||
5th | Image and video sharing social platform | $3.92M | 47/100 | ||
6th | Mobile app for sharing and organisation of photos and videos of kids | - | - | 46/100 | |
7th |  Pica Group 2018, Milano (Italy), Seed | Online photo-sharing platform | $5.87M | 46/100 | |
8th | Photographers community platform | $2.82M | 43/100 | ||
9th | Social photo sharing app | $60M | 42/100 | ||
10th | Lightbox 2010, San Francisco (United States), Acquired | Social photography app for Android | $1.1M | 41/100 |
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500px's Investments and acquisitions
500px has acquired 3 companies including Authintic, Pulpfingers and Algo Anywhere. 500px has not made any investments as of now.Here is the list of its acquisitions:
Date of Investment/Acquisition | Type | Company Name | Founded Year | Location |
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Mar 11, 2014 | Acquisition | 2012 | New York City (United States) | |
Nov 21, 2012 | Acquisition | 2011 | Strasbourg (France) | |
Jul 09, 2012 | Acquisition | 2011 | Toronto (Canada) |
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News related to 500px
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500px confirms 2018 data breach that exposed data on 15 million usersThe INQUIRER•Feb 13, 2019•500px
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Getty Images and 500px announce exclusive global distribution partnershipPR Newswire•May 31, 2018•Getty Images, 500px,
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Visual China Group Acquires 500pxPR Newswire•Feb 26, 2018•Visual China Group, 500px, Visual China Group, and 2 others
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500px Supports Searchable Wide-Gamut Images and Google’s WebP Format | Business WireBusiness Wire•Aug 22, 2017•500px
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500px launches photographer directory and unveils Adobe Stock licensing dealVentureBeat•Jan 24, 2017•500px, Adobe
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Live blog: Andreessen Horowitz partner Jeff Jordan at the GeekWire Summit 2016GeekWire•Oct 07, 2016•GeekWire, OpenTable, 500px, Airbnb and 1 other
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500px’s new app lets pros edit RAW photos, license their work and find jobsTechCrunch+•Sep 16, 2016•500px
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