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 PaaS

Pitchit.ai

Seed Round in 2024
Pitchit is a technology company that provides an AI-driven platform designed to enhance the fundraising process for both founders and investors. By facilitating connections between these two groups, Pitchit helps investors identify and engage with potential startups more efficiently, enabling faster deal closures. The platform utilizes advanced lead qualification capabilities to manage inbound leads from various channels, automating tasks such as addressing pricing inquiries, overcoming common objections, and scheduling meetings. This hands-free approach integrates seamlessly with existing sales operations, allowing users to execute scalable, multichannel marketing campaigns and improve engagement with prospective clients. Overall, Pitchit focuses on streamlining the fundraising journey through innovative AI solutions.

Poko

Venture Round in 2022
Poko is a technology company that specializes in facilitating payment solutions for the web3 ecosystem, focusing on games, creators, and merchants. Its platform provides a software development kit (SDK) that allows web3 builders to integrate fiat-to-crypto onramping using over 100 local payment methods. This solution significantly lowers onramping costs by up to 70% and enhances transaction success rates by as much as five times through intelligent routing and a streamlined integration process. Additionally, Poko offers a Direct Checkout solution that simplifies purchasing from smart contracts, resulting in a 79% increase in user conversion. With a team that includes experienced professionals from prominent financial institutions and blockchain initiatives, Poko aims to enable seamless engagement with web3 technologies while ensuring that users can transact using their preferred payment methods.

Castia

Debt Financing in 2021
Castia is a Latin American proptech company that facilitates seamless home transitions. It enables homeowners to leverage their current home equity to move into new properties quickly and easily. Castia provides mortgage loans for down payments on new homes, ensuring the sale of the old property within six months.

Castia

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Castia is a Latin American proptech company that facilitates seamless home transitions. It enables homeowners to leverage their current home equity to move into new properties quickly and easily. Castia provides mortgage loans for down payments on new homes, ensuring the sale of the old property within six months.

Lyrid

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Lyrid is a managed cloud platform that leverages Kubernetes technology to facilitate the development and scaling of solutions across various data center infrastructures. The platform is designed to be user-friendly, allowing developers to start building applications without requiring prior cloud or Kubernetes experience. By aggregating resources from multiple cloud providers, Lyrid offers an end-to-end experience for coding, deploying, and managing web applications in a serverless environment. This approach enables users to achieve significant cost savings—up to 60%—by partnering with regional data centers, all while maintaining reliability and performance without the need for additional staffing.

Clusterone

Seed Round in 2019
Clusterone, formerly known as Good AI Lab, Inc., is a Seattle-based company that specializes in developing a cloud platform designed to aggregate computational resources and facilitate machine learning processes. Founded in 2016, Clusterone offers a distributed machine learning platform that optimizes the training of models using the TensorFlow framework. The company provides a serverless AI operating system that alleviates the burden of infrastructure management from IT teams, allowing them to concentrate on developing AI models instead of handling operational tasks. By enabling data scientists to run machine learning and deep learning workloads efficiently across various infrastructures, Clusterone enhances automation and optimization in deploying AI systems.

Clusterone

Seed Round in 2018
Clusterone, formerly known as Good AI Lab, Inc., is a Seattle-based company that specializes in developing a cloud platform designed to aggregate computational resources and facilitate machine learning processes. Founded in 2016, Clusterone offers a distributed machine learning platform that optimizes the training of models using the TensorFlow framework. The company provides a serverless AI operating system that alleviates the burden of infrastructure management from IT teams, allowing them to concentrate on developing AI models instead of handling operational tasks. By enabling data scientists to run machine learning and deep learning workloads efficiently across various infrastructures, Clusterone enhances automation and optimization in deploying AI systems.

Factom

Series A in 2017
Factom Inc. is a blockchain software company that specializes in providing solutions for enterprises, government agencies, and non-profits. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, with additional offices in California, China, and the United Kingdom, Factom develops a range of products designed to enhance data integrity and streamline processes. Its offerings include Factom Harmony, which integrates with existing document management systems to create secure records for final loan documents; Factom Acolyte, which enables the creation of Oracles for smart contracts; and Factom Apollo, a real-time auditing and verification engine. The company also provides the Factom Iris platform for Internet of Things devices and Factom Hera, which delivers custom private distributed ledgers. Factom's Blockchain-as-a-Service platform allows clients to secure data, demonstrate compliance, and automate transactions while avoiding exposure to cryptocurrency and minimizing infrastructure costs.

Factom

Series A in 2016
Factom Inc. is a blockchain software company that specializes in providing solutions for enterprises, government agencies, and non-profits. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, with additional offices in California, China, and the United Kingdom, Factom develops a range of products designed to enhance data integrity and streamline processes. Its offerings include Factom Harmony, which integrates with existing document management systems to create secure records for final loan documents; Factom Acolyte, which enables the creation of Oracles for smart contracts; and Factom Apollo, a real-time auditing and verification engine. The company also provides the Factom Iris platform for Internet of Things devices and Factom Hera, which delivers custom private distributed ledgers. Factom's Blockchain-as-a-Service platform allows clients to secure data, demonstrate compliance, and automate transactions while avoiding exposure to cryptocurrency and minimizing infrastructure costs.

Wodby

Seed Round in 2015
Wodby is a developer of a cloud deployment platform that simplifies application management for businesses. The company provides a unified platform to deploy and configure web applications across major cloud providers, integrating seamlessly with Kubernetes and various managed database services. Wodby's solution facilitates smooth third-party service integrations for logging and monitoring, positioning the company as a reliable partner for organizations seeking to establish a robust cloud infrastructure.

Stretchr

Seed Round in 2014
Stretchr, Inc. is a data management platform company based in Longmont, Colorado, founded in 2013. It specializes in providing a cloud or private cloud-based service layer designed for NoSQL environments, addressing common challenges enterprises face with unstructured data. Stretchr offers a RESTful interface and flexible querying options, enabling users to maintain nested relationships typically lost in NoSQL transitions. Its platform features capabilities such as data reorganizing, caching, sharding, indexing, and fine-grained control over data access, along with a comprehensive authorization and authentication system to ensure secure data access. The architecture is horizontally scalable, allowing for efficient deployment adjustments without downtime, making it suitable for a wide range of web-enabled devices.

Skypaz

Seed Round in 2013
Skypaz is a cloud integration platform that enables businesses to interact with cloud data as if it were an ordinary database, facilitating the automation of business processes traditionally managed on-premise. The company provides a collaborative environment, allowing users to design, run queries, and manage services both in the cloud and on-premise. Skypaz also offers a marketplace for cloud connectors and value-added services, which helps to expedite implementation times. By delivering a unified workspace for designing, configuring, publishing, and testing integration services, Skypaz aims to enhance IT delivery processes for businesses of all sizes, maximizing performance and supporting sustainable growth and profitability.

Mapana

Mapana is a technology company specializing in agriculture. It develops a platform that uses advanced technology to optimize plant health and agricultural processes. The platform enables swift and precise assessment of plant health in fields, allowing stakeholders to apply fertilizers efficiently and at the right time and location. This helps farmers maximize crop yield and quality.
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