Plug and Play Tech Center

Plug and Play Tech Center, established in 2006, is a global innovation platform that connects startups, investors, and corporations. Based in Sunnyvale, California, with operations in 22 locations worldwide, the company runs 12 industry-specific accelerator programs twice a year, fostering collaboration between major corporations and high-quality startups. These programs span sectors such as Fintech, Insurtech, IoT, Brand & Retail, Mobility, and Health & Wellness, among others. Plug and Play invests in seed, angel, and Series A rounds, with a focus on great teams leading emerging growth companies. Since inception, their startup community has raised over $9 billion in venture funding, with notable success stories including Dropbox, PayPal, and LendingClub.

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 Investment Banking

Jett

Non Equity Assistance in 2025
Jett is a fintech company that provides an online trading platform for individual investors to participate in the stock market. Its platform offers tools such as real-time quotes, charts, research, and portfolio management, enabling users to analyze stocks visually and track their investments' performance. Additionally, Jett offers investor card services to facilitate easy and secure transactions.

Desia

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Desia is a technology company specializing in advanced AI applications for the financial services industry. It offers an AI-driven financial insights platform that automates data analysis, providing key insights relevant to companies, markets, and potential investments. This platform enhances workflows, enabling financial institutions and professionals to focus on strategic decision-making and drive growth.

Blockbrain

Seed Round in 2024
Blockbrain is a technology company based in Hamburg, Germany, founded on May 6, 2022, by Johannes Strachwitz. It focuses on analyzing blockchain transactions to identify potential threats and opportunities for digital assets stored in crypto wallets and exchanges. The company's AI-driven platform transforms data points into a decentralized finance knowledge graph, allowing users to track key performance indicators and manage their assets securely. By providing insights into market dynamics, Blockbrain enables blockchain investors to protect their portfolios and make informed investment decisions.

Woodstock

Venture Round in 2024
Woodstock is an investment app that allows investors to invest in US stocks.

Alphanso

Seed Round in 2024
Alphanso is a financial technology and services company that offers personalized investment recommendations, portfolio strategies, and insights to investors of all levels. Alphanso's platform is designed to democratize Artificial Intelligence algorithms so everyone can access favorable financial returns.

Quantrack

Seed Round in 2023
Quantrack is a financial services company based in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 2023. It focuses on simplifying complex stock information for retail investors, enabling them to make informed decisions. The company offers a unique platform that provides investment indicators derived from publicly disclosed financial and accounting data of listed companies. This functionality supports quantitative analysis, helping users identify profitable investment opportunities. Additional features include stock valuation reports, portfolio diagnostics, and bulk ordering, all designed to enhance the investment experience for retail clients.

Quantrack

Series A in 2023
Quantrack is a financial services company based in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 2023. It focuses on simplifying complex stock information for retail investors, enabling them to make informed decisions. The company offers a unique platform that provides investment indicators derived from publicly disclosed financial and accounting data of listed companies. This functionality supports quantitative analysis, helping users identify profitable investment opportunities. Additional features include stock valuation reports, portfolio diagnostics, and bulk ordering, all designed to enhance the investment experience for retail clients.

Kredibank

Seed Round in 2022
Kredi is a neo bank building Africa's one-stop shop for digital financial services. Kredi is a platform that eliminates all the challenges of using multiple applications and allows users to manage all aspects of their financial lives. We are fully licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria. We provide access to digital financial services such as savings, credit, payment, investments, and insurance to all consumers in Nigeria in one place.

Vint

Seed Round in 2022
Vint is an investment platform that enables individuals to invest in high-quality wines and spirits through fractional ownership. By securitizing investment-grade collections with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Vint provides a structured avenue for investors to purchase shares in curated wine and spirit assets. The company employs data models and analytics, supported by a team of industry experts, to source these collections effectively. Once the assets are acquired, Vint securely stores them in a network of cellars until market conditions are favorable for sale. At that point, Vint collaborates with merchant partners, auction houses, and private buyers to sell the assets and distribute the returns to investors on a pro-rata basis, thus allowing diversification in investment portfolios through the wine market.

Edda

Venture Round in 2022
Edda is a developer of a software suite designed for the investment management sector, catering to venture capital firms, corporate ventures, private equity, family offices, and investment banks. The platform offers tools for managing deal flow, tracking portfolio performance, and providing real-time insights into investments. Edda focuses on enhancing communication with portfolio companies and ensuring that limited partners are kept informed about new deals and existing investments. By streamlining these processes, Edda enables businesses to effectively manage their investment activities and assess the value and impact of their portfolios.

Built AI

Seed Round in 2022
Built AI is a developer of an advanced real estate investment analysis platform aimed at enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of commercial property evaluations for real estate professionals. The platform leverages artificial intelligence and natural language processing to provide tools for screening and prospecting, investment analysis, and risk assessment. It also offers insights into historical deal pipelines and existing portfolios, as well as key local factors that influence investment decisions. By streamlining the analysis process, Built AI enables clients to gain a competitive edge in the challenging real estate market.

Luca Japan

Angel Round in 2022
Luca Japan specializes in providing digital access to alternative investments, including private equity, real estate, hedge funds, and private credit. The company has developed a platform aimed at simplifying the investment process, making it faster and more accessible for a broader range of qualified investors. Through this platform, users can compare, invest in, and manage various alternative investment products, such as private equity funds, hedge funds, venture capital opportunities, and pre-IPO companies. This approach enhances the efficiency of alternative investments, catering to the needs of a diverse investor base.

Unifimoney

Seed Round in 2022
Unifimoney is a digital wealth management platform designed for community banks and credit unions, providing a comprehensive solution for everyday money management. The platform supports over 70 cryptocurrencies and facilitates both passive and active investment in more than 10,000 equities and ETFs, as well as precious metals. Unifimoney seamlessly integrates with existing digital banking infrastructures, specifically with systems like Q2 and Jack Henry Banno, enhancing the financial institutions' offerings. The company's software aims to automate money management while maximizing passive income, allowing customers to efficiently manage their wealth for long-term growth through a single, low-cost application. By streamlining various financial services—including investing, trading, insurance, and credit—Unifimoney presents an accessible and effective option for financial institutions looking to enhance their customer service.

Icon

Seed Round in 2022
Icon Savings Plan, operated by Icon Savings Corporation, Inc., offers innovative online retirement saving plans tailored for both businesses and individuals. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, the company specializes in providing recordkeeping, employee onboarding solutions, and investment options. Its proprietary technology facilitates a portable and universally accessible workplace savings plan, designed to meet the needs of the modern workforce. By delivering a simpler and more cost-effective alternative to traditional retirement plans, Icon Savings Plan enables employers to offer comprehensive retirement solutions that enhance financial literacy and support retirement savings for all employees.

CreateNU

Pre Seed Round in 2022
CreateNU is a venture capital firm that has developed an evaluation platform aimed at standardizing and democratizing the private sector. The firm utilizes proprietary technology to streamline and automate the analysis of early-stage startups, offering a fully automated evaluation process that includes real-time monitoring and due diligence reporting. Through its AI-based platform, CreateNU simulates investment scenarios, enabling investors and founders to make informed decisions. Additionally, CreateNU operates Peachscore, a data-driven accelerator platform that supports startups globally by providing structured education, networking opportunities, and capital connections. Peachscore features an AI-powered recommendation engine that benchmarks startups against a vast database, offering insights into their strengths and weaknesses. The program is equity-free and culminates in graduation certificates and demo days, ensuring that enrollees receive comprehensive support from the idea stage through to Series A funding.

CreateNU

Seed Round in 2022
CreateNU is a venture capital firm that has developed an evaluation platform aimed at standardizing and democratizing the private sector. The firm utilizes proprietary technology to streamline and automate the analysis of early-stage startups, offering a fully automated evaluation process that includes real-time monitoring and due diligence reporting. Through its AI-based platform, CreateNU simulates investment scenarios, enabling investors and founders to make informed decisions. Additionally, CreateNU operates Peachscore, a data-driven accelerator platform that supports startups globally by providing structured education, networking opportunities, and capital connections. Peachscore features an AI-powered recommendation engine that benchmarks startups against a vast database, offering insights into their strengths and weaknesses. The program is equity-free and culminates in graduation certificates and demo days, ensuring that enrollees receive comprehensive support from the idea stage through to Series A funding.

Bolsapp

Convertible Note in 2021
BolsApp provides information about the Argentine financial market. The application has the technology for the region and provides live quotes of all financial assets, including stocks, bonds, futures, and currencies. They also provide the latest news about the economy, finance, technology, currency, and bitcoin. The users can create and personalize their investment portfolios for tracking and analysis of their positions.

Parrot Finance

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Parrot unlocks institutional investing strategies, traditionally hidden behind expensive and exclusive wealth advisors

Ndovu

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Ndovu is a financial advisory platform that provides personalized and cost-effective investment solutions for users seeking to engage with both local and global financial markets. The company employs advanced technology and expert financial advisors to simplify investment processes, making them more accessible to a broader audience. Ndovu's platform features curated investment funds and tailored investment plans that align with individual risk tolerance and financial goals, empowering customers to navigate the complexities of investing and enhance their wealth-building potential.

Edda

Convertible Note in 2021
Edda is a developer of a software suite designed for the investment management sector, catering to venture capital firms, corporate ventures, private equity, family offices, and investment banks. The platform offers tools for managing deal flow, tracking portfolio performance, and providing real-time insights into investments. Edda focuses on enhancing communication with portfolio companies and ensuring that limited partners are kept informed about new deals and existing investments. By streamlining these processes, Edda enables businesses to effectively manage their investment activities and assess the value and impact of their portfolios.

Ndovu

Seed Round in 2021
Ndovu is a financial advisory platform that provides personalized and cost-effective investment solutions for users seeking to engage with both local and global financial markets. The company employs advanced technology and expert financial advisors to simplify investment processes, making them more accessible to a broader audience. Ndovu's platform features curated investment funds and tailored investment plans that align with individual risk tolerance and financial goals, empowering customers to navigate the complexities of investing and enhance their wealth-building potential.

CreateNU

Convertible Note in 2021
CreateNU is a venture capital firm that has developed an evaluation platform aimed at standardizing and democratizing the private sector. The firm utilizes proprietary technology to streamline and automate the analysis of early-stage startups, offering a fully automated evaluation process that includes real-time monitoring and due diligence reporting. Through its AI-based platform, CreateNU simulates investment scenarios, enabling investors and founders to make informed decisions. Additionally, CreateNU operates Peachscore, a data-driven accelerator platform that supports startups globally by providing structured education, networking opportunities, and capital connections. Peachscore features an AI-powered recommendation engine that benchmarks startups against a vast database, offering insights into their strengths and weaknesses. The program is equity-free and culminates in graduation certificates and demo days, ensuring that enrollees receive comprehensive support from the idea stage through to Series A funding.

Vesttoo

Seed Round in 2020
Vesttoo Ltd is a Tel Aviv-based company that operates an artificial intelligence-driven financial risk management platform. Established in 2018, Vesttoo focuses on creating a marketplace for non-catastrophic insurance-based risk transfer and investments, connecting insurance companies with institutional investors. Its proprietary technology enhances risk transfer and liquidity in the life and property & casualty insurance markets by facilitating faster deal structuring, risk modeling, pricing, and index calculation. Vesttoo provides a range of solutions that cater to the legal, regulatory, and accounting needs of its clients, which include insurers, reinsurers, and pension funds. By offering asset managers access to diverse, uncorrelated investment options linked to insurance and reinsurance premiums, the company positions itself as a significant alternative to traditional reinsurance models. Vesttoo's innovation has garnered recognition through participation in prestigious fintech accelerators and collaborations with industry leaders, further establishing its role in merging insurance with capital market dynamics.

Ndovu

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Ndovu is a financial advisory platform that provides personalized and cost-effective investment solutions for users seeking to engage with both local and global financial markets. The company employs advanced technology and expert financial advisors to simplify investment processes, making them more accessible to a broader audience. Ndovu's platform features curated investment funds and tailored investment plans that align with individual risk tolerance and financial goals, empowering customers to navigate the complexities of investing and enhance their wealth-building potential.

CreateNU

Convertible Note in 2020
CreateNU is a venture capital firm that has developed an evaluation platform aimed at standardizing and democratizing the private sector. The firm utilizes proprietary technology to streamline and automate the analysis of early-stage startups, offering a fully automated evaluation process that includes real-time monitoring and due diligence reporting. Through its AI-based platform, CreateNU simulates investment scenarios, enabling investors and founders to make informed decisions. Additionally, CreateNU operates Peachscore, a data-driven accelerator platform that supports startups globally by providing structured education, networking opportunities, and capital connections. Peachscore features an AI-powered recommendation engine that benchmarks startups against a vast database, offering insights into their strengths and weaknesses. The program is equity-free and culminates in graduation certificates and demo days, ensuring that enrollees receive comprehensive support from the idea stage through to Series A funding.

QuantumX

Convertible Note in 2020
QuantumX operates a workflow management platform that connects financial institutions, companies, asset managers with investors. The platform automates financial market processes, ensuring efficient issuance, custody, trading, and administration of financial instruments while maintaining regulatory compliance.

Unifimoney

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Unifimoney is a digital wealth management platform designed for community banks and credit unions, providing a comprehensive solution for everyday money management. The platform supports over 70 cryptocurrencies and facilitates both passive and active investment in more than 10,000 equities and ETFs, as well as precious metals. Unifimoney seamlessly integrates with existing digital banking infrastructures, specifically with systems like Q2 and Jack Henry Banno, enhancing the financial institutions' offerings. The company's software aims to automate money management while maximizing passive income, allowing customers to efficiently manage their wealth for long-term growth through a single, low-cost application. By streamlining various financial services—including investing, trading, insurance, and credit—Unifimoney presents an accessible and effective option for financial institutions looking to enhance their customer service.

Gatsby

Seed Round in 2020
Gatsby Digital, Inc., established in 2018 and headquartered in New York, operates a commission-free stock and options trading platform. It offers Gatsby, a user-friendly platform enabling users to trade stocks and options in companies and ETFs with as little as $10, without any fees. Gatsby rewards users with points for every trade, redeemable for gift cards. It also fosters a social network, allowing users to react to market news and leverage collective knowledge. Gatsby Digital is a subsidiary of ViewTrade Securities Inc.

Gatsby

Seed Round in 2019
Gatsby Digital, Inc., established in 2018 and headquartered in New York, operates a commission-free stock and options trading platform. It offers Gatsby, a user-friendly platform enabling users to trade stocks and options in companies and ETFs with as little as $10, without any fees. Gatsby rewards users with points for every trade, redeemable for gift cards. It also fosters a social network, allowing users to react to market news and leverage collective knowledge. Gatsby Digital is a subsidiary of ViewTrade Securities Inc.

Albert

Series A in 2018
Founded in 2015, Albert is a fintech company based in Culver City, California. It offers a mobile platform providing accessible and affordable financial advice through direct chat with experts, personalized financial plans, automated investing, budgeting tools, and features like Albert Instant for paycheck advances.

Gatsby

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Gatsby Digital, Inc., established in 2018 and headquartered in New York, operates a commission-free stock and options trading platform. It offers Gatsby, a user-friendly platform enabling users to trade stocks and options in companies and ETFs with as little as $10, without any fees. Gatsby rewards users with points for every trade, redeemable for gift cards. It also fosters a social network, allowing users to react to market news and leverage collective knowledge. Gatsby Digital is a subsidiary of ViewTrade Securities Inc.

FundGuard

Seed Round in 2018
FundGuard Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-powered cloud-based platform for investment management and administration. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel, FundGuard's platform assists asset and fund managers in administering a variety of investment vehicles, including mutual funds, ETFs, hedge funds, insurance, and pensions. The platform employs advanced AI and cloud technology to identify financial anomalies, automatically resolve exceptions, and recommend operational improvements. This functionality allows asset managers and fund administrators to enhance their product offerings and provide real-time transparency in their operations.

Jacobi

Series A in 2018
Jacobi develops a technology platform offering customizable tools for modeling and visualizing multi-asset portfolios. Its platform streamlines investment processes, facilitates portfolio design and analysis, and enhances client engagement through intuitive dashboards.

Albert

Seed Round in 2018
Founded in 2015, Albert is a fintech company based in Culver City, California. It offers a mobile platform providing accessible and affordable financial advice through direct chat with experts, personalized financial plans, automated investing, budgeting tools, and features like Albert Instant for paycheck advances.

Koyfin

Seed Round in 2018
Founded in 2016, Koyfin operates an online platform offering sophisticated investment research tools at a fraction of the cost of premium alternatives. Its platform enables financial professionals to track and analyze macro data across various asset classes, including equities, ETFs, mutual funds, fixed income, indices, currencies, commodities, and global economic data through dashboards and data visualizations.

Prattle Analytics

Seed Round in 2017
Prattle Analytics is a developer of an investment analytics platform that focuses on measuring sentiment and predicting the market impact of publicly available content. The company utilizes proprietary technology, including Natural Language Processing and machine learning, to analyze complex communications from various sources, such as corporate announcements and central bank statements. By transforming this information into real-time, quantitative data, Prattle enables asset managers to better understand and anticipate market movements. This innovative approach helps investment professionals strengthen their investment theses and make informed trading decisions, addressing the challenges faced by equity analysts who often lack the time and resources to thoroughly evaluate the language influencing stock prices.

Quiet Signal

Seed Round in 2016
Quiet Signal is a financial institution that leverages domain expertise and advanced analytical technology to deliver data solutions tailored for the financial industry. The company has developed an online platform that offers cloud-based tradable data, integrating expert knowledge with proprietary text analysis algorithms. This platform provides portfolio managers with real-time, unbiased signals, facilitating the identification and anticipation of macroeconomic trends. Quiet Signal aims to enhance clarity in a complex data landscape, catering to the needs of professionals seeking concise and actionable insights.

AIFI

Seed Round in 2016
AIFI, established in May 1986, is an association dedicated to promoting and representing venture capital and private equity activities in Italy. The organization comprises a diverse range of members, including Italian and international banks, industrial investment firms, closed-end funds, and public financial institutions. AIFI focuses on the direct investment of funds and the management and advisory of independent funds, targeting unquoted companies for acquisition, management, and eventual divestment. The association has evolved alongside the growing significance of the private equity and venture capital sectors. In addition to its representation functions, AIFI offers institutional research and educational programs designed to enhance awareness of financial industries and support the development of the venture capital landscape in Italy.

Grain

Convertible Note in 2015
Grain helps new investors take their first steps in building their own portfolio. Our vision is to be the place where you go to take complete control of your investments, without feeling overwhelmed by piles of data and confusing reports. First, learn how to build a diversified portfolio by easily comparing the best investments (U.S. listed stocks and ETFs) at-a-glance. Second, personalize your portfolio by finding investments that define your values and beliefs. Grain’s search tool powered by IBM Watson allows you to discover investments by searching any concept or keyword. Lastly, invest with your friends and family (think Venmo-style activity feed). You’re not in this alone, so you shouldn’t feel that way! You can open your own investing account in less than 2 minutes (powered by Third Party Trade LLC, member FINRA & SIPC), or simply link a pre-existing account with a major U.S. broker.

9+ Program

Venture Round in 2013
9+ Program is focused on nurturing and investing in talented entrepreneurs. Founded by Peter Relan in Silicon Valley, the program leverages his extensive experience in successfully creating significant value through various ventures. Relan has a proven track record of generating over $120 million in value through successful exits. He has assembled a dedicated team of builders who share his vision of identifying and developing innovative ideas and exceptional individuals. The primary objective of 9+ is to support and launch cohorts of entrepreneurs, guiding them in bringing impactful products and solutions to market. Through this initiative, 9+ aims to foster a new generation of entrepreneurial talent and drive meaningful advancements in the industry.
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