Plug and Play Tech Center

Plug and Play Tech Center is a global accelerator and venture capital platform based in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2006. It runs twelve industry-focused accelerator programs twice a year, connecting startups with corporate partners, investors, and universities to accelerate growth. The organization provides funding and accelerator resources, mentorship, and access to office space, data center services, recruiting, and executive-in-residence programs. It supports seed and early-stage companies across sectors including brand and retail, financial technology, health, information technology, mobility, energy and sustainability, supply chain and logistics, and the Internet of Things, with additional verticals such as travel and hospitality and food and beverage. In addition to its accelerators, Plug and Play collaborates with a broad network of venture and corporate partners to co-invest and help startups scale globally. The company maintains a global footprint with locations and programs across multiple regions, fostering a platform that connects entrepreneurs with large corporations and investors to drive innovation.

Anas Abdelrahim

Associate

Neda Amidi

President

Amir Amidi

Managing Partner, Travel and Hospitality Practice

Saeed Amidi

Co-Founder and Co-CEO

Davis Auksmuksts

Investor

Roberto Reyes Balcorta

Partner

Agata Baryzewska

Investor

Thomas Bigagli

Partner

Wade Bitaraf

Co-Founder

Kieran Borrett

Director, United Kingdom

Noreen Brar

Associate

Kiswana Browne

Associate

Andres Carbonell

Investor

Jeff Chien

Senior Vice President, China Partnership

Kristi Choi

Investor

Matthew Claxton

Partner and Global Director of Sustainability

Alex Cobos

Director, Mexico

Nick Daley

Associate

George Damouny

Partner

Andres Diaz

Associate

Dana Diefendorf

Senior Associate

Roy Djunaidi

Investor

Tarek Elessawi

Principal

Sean Elmurib

Associate

Stefan Faistenauer

Investor

Garnett Ge

Ventures Associate, Cross Border

Eugenio Gonzalez De Pena

Principal

Omer Gozen Ph.D

Partner

Gemma Guilera

Senior Partner Success Manager

Aziz El Hachem

North Africa Director

Karima El Hakim

Country Director - Egypt

Alex Hemmerlein

Associate

Jackie Hernandez

Senior Vice President, Global Partnerships and Founding Member

Andrea Sanchez

Director

Maximillian Jungreis

Investor

Salim Laouiti

Investor

Natasha Low

Associate

Tanya Ma

Investor

Milad Malek

Senior Associate

Alireza Masrour

General Partner

Evan Matuszak

Investor

Javier Megias

Managing Partner

Omeed Mehrinfar

Managing Partner, Middle-East

Juan Naveira

Associate

Kevin Parakkattu

Principal

Alberto Pascual

Investor

Amit Patel

Investor

Blanca Ribas Pombo

Investor

Leonardo Rocchetti

Investor

Julianne Roseman

Senior Associate

Alex Roudi

Managing Partner, San Diego

Letizia Royo-Villanova

Investor

Michelle Shi

Associate

Li Shing

International Operations Associate

Noorjit Sidhu

Senior Associate

Janis Skriveris

Principal

Kohei Suzuki

Associate

Erena Estellés Tatay

Ventures Analyst

Saleh Tavajoh

Investor

Pouya Tehranian

Director, Brand and Retail

Andy Toth

Investment Director, Plug and Play Ventures

Alexander Tran

Partner

Philippe Vincent

Co-Founder, Managing Partner and Co-CEO

Carolin Wais

Partner

Zora Wang

Investor

Connie Weisman

Co-Founder, Cleveland and Director, Plug and Play Enterprise 2.0

Fan Wen

Associate

Kevin Withstandley

Vice President, Partner Success

Claire Xiong

Director

Vanessa Yang

Investor

Ivan Zgomba

Partner

Chen Zhao

Managing Partner, China and Senior Technology Analyst

Lindsay Lebahn

Senior Program Manager and Director

Rouzbeh Borhani

Head of Semiconductors

Darren (Yaodong) Yang

Associate

Past deals in Fraud Detection

Neural Payments

Non Equity Assistance in 2025
Neural Payments, Inc. is a company based in Mason, Ohio, that specializes in providing payment solutions for financial institutions. Founded in 2019, it aims to facilitate the adoption of innovative payment technologies while helping its clients remain competitive in a rapidly evolving market. The company's services focus on enhancing digital adoption, reducing transaction costs, minimizing fraud exposure, and simplifying technology integrations. By offering these essential services, Neural Payments enables financial institutions to effectively connect with the latest trends and technological advancements in the payment landscape.

GenLogs

Series A in 2025
GenLogs is a technology company specializing in freight intelligence. It operates a platform that uses AI and a nationwide sensor network to monitor and analyze logistics operations and supply chains. The platform identifies reliable truck carriers based on specific equipment and lane requirements, tracks shipments, trailers, and equipment, and provides insights to enhance operational efficiency, reduce fraud risks, and support informed decision-making.

AI or Not

Seed Round in 2024
AI or Not specializes in AI detection technology. Its platform analyzes images and audio files using proprietary algorithms to determine if they were generated by artificial intelligence models.

Akua

Seed Round in 2024
Akua is a technology company specializing in payment processing solutions for businesses in Latin America. It operates an "acquiring-as-a-service" platform that provides secure, efficient, and scalable payment processing services. The platform enables businesses to accept card payments using a single application programming interface, offering advanced transaction processing, fraud prevention, regional integration, data analytics, and comprehensive reporting features. Akua aims to address the challenges posed by the dominance of outdated systems and limited adoption of new payment technologies in the region's acquiring card payment markets.

GenLogs

Seed Round in 2024
GenLogs is a technology company specializing in freight intelligence. It operates a platform that uses AI and a nationwide sensor network to monitor and analyze logistics operations and supply chains. The platform identifies reliable truck carriers based on specific equipment and lane requirements, tracks shipments, trailers, and equipment, and provides insights to enhance operational efficiency, reduce fraud risks, and support informed decision-making.

Trudenty

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Trudenty operates a machine-learning driven network facilitating secure data sharing across the payments ecosystem. It initially focused on preventing first-party fraud but has since expanded to enhance payment security and personalization.

GenLogs

Seed Round in 2023
GenLogs is a technology company specializing in freight intelligence. It operates a platform that uses AI and a nationwide sensor network to monitor and analyze logistics operations and supply chains. The platform identifies reliable truck carriers based on specific equipment and lane requirements, tracks shipments, trailers, and equipment, and provides insights to enhance operational efficiency, reduce fraud risks, and support informed decision-making.

Dojah

Seed Round in 2023
Dojah is a global platform specializing in fraud prevention and know your customer (KYC) services, assisting businesses of all sizes in identity verification, fraud mitigation, and regulatory compliance. With operations in over 150 countries, Dojah provides a comprehensive API platform that allows developers and businesses to integrate multiple services seamlessly. This includes functionalities for financial services, KYC compliance, and anti-money laundering measures, enabling banks and financial institutions to manage their accounts efficiently through a unified dashboard. By prioritizing safe customer onboarding and fraud protection, Dojah enhances operational security for its clients worldwide.

Fize Technologies

Convertible Note in 2023
Developer of an insurance application software that instantly connects, verifies, and collects insurance policy data. The platform enables businesses to build websites and applications requiring personal insurance data, helping combat fraud, retrieve documents, verify information, maintain compliance, and manage business spending.

Eyst Technology

Seed Round in 2022
Eyst Technology is a company based in Puteaux, France, that specializes in developing financial software aimed at combating insurance fraud. Its platform provides a range of services, including fraud detection and data analysis, which enhance user experience and facilitate seamless integration. By enabling real-time analysis, Eyst Technology's solutions help policyholders receive their benefits without the need for cash advances, while also allowing insurers to reduce fraud through improved traceability of payments.

Togggle.io

Venture Round in 2022
Togggle offers decentralized identity verification solutions that support businesses in preventing, detecting, and resolving customer-related problems. Their algorithms protect user privacy and personal information while delivering authorization across all institutions.

MoneyHash

Pre Seed Round in 2022
MoneyHash streamlines payment processes for businesses by offering a unified API that integrates various pay-in and pay-out rails. It provides a customizable checkout experience, optimizes transaction routing to minimize fraud failures, and offers centralized reporting.

Alaffia Health

Seed Round in 2022
Alaffia Health is a healthtech company that employs machine learning and AI to proactively detect and eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse in healthcare claims. It offers an AI-driven payment integrity service to healthcare payers, helping them reduce overpayments and lower healthcare costs.

Owl.Co

Series B in 2021
Owl is an insurance claims monitoring platform designed to assist financial institutions in identifying non-eligible claims and mitigating risks associated with fraudulent activities. The platform connects to trusted data sources to automatically aggregate and synthesize relevant data points, allowing it to learn about customers and entities effectively. By detecting significant losses from exaggerated or malingering claims, Owl helps prevent unnecessary claim payments, reserve allocations, and adjusting expenses that can lead to increased premiums. This capability enables clients to enhance their fraud detection efforts, ensure compliance with Know Your Customer regulations, and make informed decisions while maintaining the security and integrity of sensitive data.

HIFI

Seed Round in 2021
HIFI is a next-generation payments infrastructure platform. The company powers a suite of modern payment APIs to enable businesses to move money faster on a global scale for the next chapter of the internet. Our payment rails powers businesses to move money instantly with near-zero cost to enhance cash flow, reduce inefficiencies, increase visibility, and combat fraud. Zach Walsh and Mohamed Afifi founded the company in New York City in 2022.

Veriply

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Veriply is a technology company specializing in AI-powered invoice anomaly detection software. It integrates with existing accounting systems to analyze invoice data for signs of fraudulent activity and errors, enabling businesses to identify and prevent accounts payable fraud in real-time.

ForMotiv

Seed Round in 2021
ForMotiv provides a software platform that analyzes end-user behavioral patterns in real-time. Its solution measures behavioral biometrics to predict future outcomes such as fraud, delinquency, profitability, and user abandonment during digital application processes.

Car IQ

Series B in 2021
Car IQ Inc. is a technology company that develops and operates a cloud-based vehicle management platform and payment gateway, primarily serving auto dealer groups, car sharing clients, and autonomous drivers. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, Car IQ's innovative payment solution allows vehicles to initiate payments directly without the need for credit cards. By leveraging telematics and vehicle data, the platform connects vehicles to service and repair providers, streamlining transactions and enhancing security. It provides detailed vehicle insights for fleet management, enabling clients to monitor transactions and reduce the risk of fraud. Additionally, Car IQ consolidates all transactions into a single ledger, simplifying reconciliation and allowing fleets to manage their expenses more effectively.

Nethone

Series A in 2021
Nethone is a Poland-based technology company specializing in risk detection solutions aimed at safeguarding the entire user journey for online merchants, from onboarding to post-payment. Founded in 2016 by a team of data scientists, developers, and security experts, Nethone utilizes its proprietary Know Your User (KYU) profiling technology and AI-powered tools to identify and block fraudulent activities without hindering legitimate users. The company's software addresses over 100 types of fraud tactics, providing real-time actionable insights to enhance user understanding. Nethone's modular approach ensures comprehensive protection against various threats, including account takeovers, bot attacks, and money laundering schemes. With a client base of over 50 global e-commerce, digital goods, and financial service providers, Nethone has established itself as a leader in the industry, recognized in 2023 as one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies. The company aims to reduce clients' rejection rates and manual review costs while maintaining a seamless user experience. In 2022, Nethone became part of the Mangopay Group, further enhancing its capabilities in the fintech landscape.

Trulioo

Series D in 2021
Trulioo is a global leader in identity verification, offering an electronic platform that enables businesses to instantly verify identities, documents, and corporate credentials online. The company's services facilitate compliance with cross-border anti-money laundering and know-your-customer regulations by assessing the risks associated with digital identities. Trulioo combines traditional methods of identity confirmation with social networking technologies to provide a robust solution for verifying identities in the online environment. Through its digital identity network, Trulioo helps businesses mitigate risks while ensuring secure transactions and accurate identity verification.

Owl.Co

Series A in 2020
Owl is an insurance claims monitoring platform designed to assist financial institutions in identifying non-eligible claims and mitigating risks associated with fraudulent activities. The platform connects to trusted data sources to automatically aggregate and synthesize relevant data points, allowing it to learn about customers and entities effectively. By detecting significant losses from exaggerated or malingering claims, Owl helps prevent unnecessary claim payments, reserve allocations, and adjusting expenses that can lead to increased premiums. This capability enables clients to enhance their fraud detection efforts, ensure compliance with Know Your Customer regulations, and make informed decisions while maintaining the security and integrity of sensitive data.

Verikai

Series A in 2020
Verikai Inc is an insurance technology company based in San Francisco, California, established in 2016. The company offers a consumer insights platform tailored for insurance and financial services, utilizing alternative data and machine learning to enhance risk assessment and underwriting efficiency. Verikai's platform provides detailed risk reports that enable insurance companies to optimize their underwriting processes, ultimately improving new business acquisition and minimizing losses. By analyzing consumer behavior on an individual basis, the platform facilitates fraud detection and offers insights into price elasticity, allowing businesses to effectively target and prioritize consumers based on their potential lifetime value. This approach aims to broaden access to a diverse range of insurance products for both consumers and businesses.

Attestiv

Seed Round in 2020
Attestiv Inc., established in 2018 and headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, specializes in a software solution that authenticates digital photos and videos for various industries such as insurance, public safety, real estate, automotive, news media, and banking. Its AI-powered platform scans existing or newly captured visual content to detect fraudulence, thereby reducing risk and enhancing customer experience across these sectors.

Authing

Seed Round in 2019
Authing is a cloud-based identity platform that specializes in managing user identities for developers and enterprises. The platform enables clients to handle identity certification and authorization, allowing for efficient user base management and enhanced fraud prevention. Authing has established itself as a leading innovator in the Chinese SaaS market, providing essential tools that facilitate secure user management for various applications.

Credit Sesame

Venture Round in 2019
Credit Sesame, Inc. operates a credit and loan management platform designed to simplify and automate consumer credit management. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in San Francisco, the company provides tools that allow users to analyze their loans, credit scores, home mortgages, and credit card debts. Credit Sesame offers free access to credit score monitoring, credit reports, and identity theft protection. It also delivers personalized recommendations for refinancing and managing various financial products, including personal loans, home loans, and credit cards. By integrating these services, Credit Sesame aims to help consumers enhance their financial wellness and improve their credit and spending power.

EvolutionIQ

Seed Round in 2019
EvolutionIQ is a company specializing in artificial intelligence solutions for insurance carriers, focusing on disability and general liability sectors. Its innovative platform enhances claims processing by effectively tracking team productivity and identifying fraud trends. By reducing reserves and losses, minimizing cycle times, and lowering operational expenses, EvolutionIQ aims to improve overall customer satisfaction. The platform also offers clients a comprehensive fraud detection dashboard, contributing to a more fair, transparent, and affordable insurance landscape. Through its technology, EvolutionIQ seeks to transform the insurance industry by making claims management more efficient and reliable.

Car IQ

Series A in 2019
Car IQ Inc. is a technology company that develops and operates a cloud-based vehicle management platform and payment gateway, primarily serving auto dealer groups, car sharing clients, and autonomous drivers. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, Car IQ's innovative payment solution allows vehicles to initiate payments directly without the need for credit cards. By leveraging telematics and vehicle data, the platform connects vehicles to service and repair providers, streamlining transactions and enhancing security. It provides detailed vehicle insights for fleet management, enabling clients to monitor transactions and reduce the risk of fraud. Additionally, Car IQ consolidates all transactions into a single ledger, simplifying reconciliation and allowing fleets to manage their expenses more effectively.

Owl.Co

Seed Round in 2019
Owl is an insurance claims monitoring platform designed to assist financial institutions in identifying non-eligible claims and mitigating risks associated with fraudulent activities. The platform connects to trusted data sources to automatically aggregate and synthesize relevant data points, allowing it to learn about customers and entities effectively. By detecting significant losses from exaggerated or malingering claims, Owl helps prevent unnecessary claim payments, reserve allocations, and adjusting expenses that can lead to increased premiums. This capability enables clients to enhance their fraud detection efforts, ensure compliance with Know Your Customer regulations, and make informed decisions while maintaining the security and integrity of sensitive data.

STACK

Seed Round in 2018
STACK delivers a smarter way to spend, save and share your money fee-free and straight from your mobile Replace your wallet with real-time notifications, effortless savings, tap-to-pay funtionality and relevant rewards.

Car IQ

Convertible Note in 2018
Car IQ Inc. is a technology company that develops and operates a cloud-based vehicle management platform and payment gateway, primarily serving auto dealer groups, car sharing clients, and autonomous drivers. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, Car IQ's innovative payment solution allows vehicles to initiate payments directly without the need for credit cards. By leveraging telematics and vehicle data, the platform connects vehicles to service and repair providers, streamlining transactions and enhancing security. It provides detailed vehicle insights for fleet management, enabling clients to monitor transactions and reduce the risk of fraud. Additionally, Car IQ consolidates all transactions into a single ledger, simplifying reconciliation and allowing fleets to manage their expenses more effectively.

Car IQ

Seed Round in 2018
Car IQ Inc. is a technology company that develops and operates a cloud-based vehicle management platform and payment gateway, primarily serving auto dealer groups, car sharing clients, and autonomous drivers. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, Car IQ's innovative payment solution allows vehicles to initiate payments directly without the need for credit cards. By leveraging telematics and vehicle data, the platform connects vehicles to service and repair providers, streamlining transactions and enhancing security. It provides detailed vehicle insights for fleet management, enabling clients to monitor transactions and reduce the risk of fraud. Additionally, Car IQ consolidates all transactions into a single ledger, simplifying reconciliation and allowing fleets to manage their expenses more effectively.

Bigstream

Venture Round in 2017
Bigstream Solutions, Inc., established in 2015 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, specializes in hyper-acceleration solutions for big data platforms. Its core offering is a run-time system that optimizes dataflow-level transformations, distributing workloads across CPU cores and/or accelerator resources. This enables real-time insights, enhancing predictive analytics, fraud detection, and risk management for enterprises. Additionally, it empowers healthcare providers to transform patient data for personalized care and detect network anomalies. Notably, Bigstream's technology delivers significant performance gains without requiring application code changes or special APIs.

Deep Relevance

Seed Round in 2016
Deep Relevance Inc. is a technology company based in Sunnyvale, California, specializing in fraud monitoring solutions. It has developed an AI-based behavior and relationship analytics platform designed to detect and prevent various forms of fraud, including individual and collusive fraud. The platform is particularly useful in procurement, addressing issues such as conflicts of interest, bidding integrity, and fraudulent invoices. Additionally, it applies to accounts receivable by identifying fictitious accounts, lapping, and sales diversion. In the realm of travel and expense management, the platform helps uncover inflated claims, duplicate expenses, and personal charges. By leveraging deep learning and artificial intelligence, Deep Relevance enables organizations to enhance their compliance and auditing processes, automating the detection of fraud and abuse that may otherwise go unnoticed. As of October 2017, Deep Relevance operates as a subsidiary of Coupa Software Incorporated.

Trulioo

Seed Round in 2012
Trulioo is a global leader in identity verification, offering an electronic platform that enables businesses to instantly verify identities, documents, and corporate credentials online. The company's services facilitate compliance with cross-border anti-money laundering and know-your-customer regulations by assessing the risks associated with digital identities. Trulioo combines traditional methods of identity confirmation with social networking technologies to provide a robust solution for verifying identities in the online environment. Through its digital identity network, Trulioo helps businesses mitigate risks while ensuring secure transactions and accurate identity verification.

Skytree

Seed Round in 2012
Skytree, Inc. is a California-based software company that specializes in developing industrial-scale machine learning solutions for organizations facing complex data analysis challenges. Founded in 2012, Skytree provides an enterprise machine learning and analytics platform that enables clients to uncover deep insights, forecast trends, and identify new markets and customer segments. Its flagship product, Skytree Server, addresses critical business needs such as churn prediction, fraud detection, and customer segmentation. The company also offers consulting services, including custom machine learning modeling, data analysis pipeline design, and machine learning training. Skytree serves a diverse range of industries, including energy, finance, healthcare, real estate, and telecommunications. The company, which became a subsidiary of Infosys in 2017, is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Credit Sesame

Series A in 2010
Credit Sesame, Inc. operates a credit and loan management platform designed to simplify and automate consumer credit management. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in San Francisco, the company provides tools that allow users to analyze their loans, credit scores, home mortgages, and credit card debts. Credit Sesame offers free access to credit score monitoring, credit reports, and identity theft protection. It also delivers personalized recommendations for refinancing and managing various financial products, including personal loans, home loans, and credit cards. By integrating these services, Credit Sesame aims to help consumers enhance their financial wellness and improve their credit and spending power.

AI or Not

AI or Not specializes in AI detection technology. Its platform analyzes images and audio files using proprietary algorithms to determine if they were generated by artificial intelligence models.

Miru Labs

Miru Labs specializes in developing advanced solutions for enterprises and retail users to detect, rank, and mitigate crypto threats. Additionally, the company offers innovative spatial computing tools designed for immersive interaction and collaboration, featuring real-time 3D visualization, multi-user environments, and spatial anchoring across devices.

Raid AI

Deepfake Audio Detection

Yofi

Yofi is a company that specializes in providing a bot-identifying platform for retailers, aimed at enhancing customer understanding and experience. The platform operates by analyzing purchase data in real-time, ensuring minimal disruption for users while automatically correcting inaccurate information. By prioritizing genuine consumers over automated bots, Yofi enables retailers to safeguard their profit margins and improve the quality of customer interactions. This approach helps prevent the exploitation of retail policies by malicious actors, ultimately allowing businesses to deliver the products that their loyal customers need.
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