Plug and Play, founded in 2006 and based in Sunnyvale, California, operates as a business accelerator and venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage and seed investments in technology startups. The firm runs 12 industry-specific accelerator programs annually, connecting startups with corporate partners and investors to foster collaboration and growth. Plug and Play's investment strategy encompasses a wide range of sectors, including fintech, health and wellness, travel, cybersecurity, and sustainability, allowing it to support diverse startups from any country. The firm provides various resources, including funding, mentorship, office space, and networking opportunities, and has a global presence with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Plug and Play has a strong track record, having helped numerous startups secure over $9 billion in funding since its inception. Its programs aim to refine business models and facilitate introductions to potential investors, ultimately contributing to the growth of the startup ecosystem.
Formotiv is an end-to-end platform for reducing online risk and improving customer experience. Our solution measures end user behavioral biometrics in real-time to detect future outcomes like fraud, delinquency, profitability, and abandonment as users engage with digital applications.
Mission: Lula helps make existing inventories mobile to meet customer’s instant needs. At the center of our heart is sustainability: to deliver happiness while saving our planet. Vision: At Lula, we’re inspired by a single goal: empowering every store to deliver locally. We will modernize stores to enable their goods to be delivered to people that need items at a moment’s notice. We will make sure every need is met reliably and as fast as possible with the best customer experience in the world.
Mission: Lula helps make existing inventories mobile to meet customer’s instant needs. At the center of our heart is sustainability: to deliver happiness while saving our planet. Vision: At Lula, we’re inspired by a single goal: empowering every store to deliver locally. We will modernize stores to enable their goods to be delivered to people that need items at a moment’s notice. We will make sure every need is met reliably and as fast as possible with the best customer experience in the world.
Idelic is a software enterprise solutions provider for transportation fleets. It is born from the trucking industry and infused with modern innovation and entrepreneurship. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
SAPIENT INDUSTRIES, INC. provides Automated Energy Management System(AEMS). The company offers tools that uses machine learning to control the power supply; reduce energy waste; and provide insights into the types of plugged in devices and their real time power consumption. It also provides outlets and occupancy sensors that collect data and learn about building and its occupants to eliminate energy waste. The company offers its services to residential and commercial building operators. SAPIENT INDUSTRIES, INC. was founded in 2017 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Adrich, Inc. is a Pittsburgh-based company that specializes in electronic packaging hardware and customized software aimed at enhancing product usage data collection and analytics. Founded in 2016, Adrich's primary offering is a post-purchase engagement platform that integrates smart packaging hardware with tailored software solutions. This platform utilizes a smart tracking system to autonomously gather and transmit real-time data on product usage, including details such as time, geolocation, and volume. By providing valuable insights into consumer behaviors and trends, Adrich enables brands and retailers to better understand, retain, and serve their customers, ultimately enhancing their market strategies and product offerings.
Life.io is the world’s first web-based platform specifically designed to help people make better decisions every moment, to take care of themselves more, to engage more, to simply live more. Delivered through insurance companies or employers, it’s always on, sharing inspired ideas on how to live better today and every day after.
Idelic is a software enterprise solutions provider for transportation fleets. It is born from the trucking industry and infused with modern innovation and entrepreneurship. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Bracketz helps marketers engage their online audiences with interactive, tournament-style marketing promotions—driving user engagement, data collection, and revenue generation. WonDay Inc.’s first product, Bracketz, builds tournament-style promotions that engage online audiences with branded content to help marketers drive user engagement, product discovery, and sales. Bracketz makes it easy for marketers to create beautiful, “sticky” promotions that consumers love and that generate repeat user engagement. Their promotions have shown to engage people for an average of 3 minutes per visit and over 50% of voters return to a contest to vote more than once. In addition, they are growing a database filled valuable consumer preference data.
Krowder is a community-powered delivery platform that helps facilitate the delivery of local items. Krowder seeks to revolutionize local commerce with our “crowd-sourced” delivery system, where delivery is provided “by the users, for the users.” By harnessing the slack time of every guy with a truck or van, we create an ultra-low cost local shipping alternative that is a quantum leap in convenience. Krowder’s couriers deliver directly to your curb, for the same or lower price than any other commercial option. More importantly, our system is disruptively easy to use. This platform builds upon research in constraint-based search and optimization performed at the Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory of the Robotics Institute at CMU.