Plug and Play

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.

Saeed Amidi

Co-Founder & Co-Chief Executive Officer

Kiswana Browne

Associate

Nick Daley

Associate

Gabriela Dow

Co-Founder and Partner

Matt Helmers

Director of Strategy and Innovation

Alex Roudi

Managing Partner, San Diego

Marc Steiner

General Counsel

Jupe Tan

Managing Partner, Asia Pacific & Senior Vice President, Global Operations

Andy Toth

Investment Director

Phillip Vincent

Managing Partner, East Asia

Fan Wen

Associate

Chen Zhao

Managing Partner, China

Past deals in Southern US

Ridendock

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Ridendock is a company that specializes in providing electric vehicles for rent, alongside a network of innovative charging stations designed for electric and robotic personal mobility devices. Founded in 2017 and based in Miami, Florida, Ridendock aims to integrate personal transportation into residential environments. The company's docking stations, developed in collaboration with renowned design firm Pininfarina, are exclusively distributed in leading residential rental apartments. This unique approach not only enhances the amenities offered to residents but also generates additional revenue for property owners. By offering beautifully designed docking solutions and light electric vehicles, Ridendock facilitates on-demand personal mobility while helping residents reduce their monthly transportation costs.

G.O.A.T. Fuel

Pre Seed Round in 2022
G.O.A.T. Fuel develops and promotes health-forward products. It offers energy drinks with various flavors and nutrients to consumers. G.O.A.T. Fuel is based in Texas, USA.

REPOWR

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a networking marketplace designed for business-to-business truck and trailer rentals. The company's marketplace brings visibility and value to untapped equipment supplies and also makes it available to carriers, on-demand, enabling logistics companies to lease and share assets to reduce waste and underutilization.

Instant Teams

Series A in 2022
The future of work is remote and we’re creating the #1 Platform for remote workforces of untapped talent pools. Our software enables companies to create remote teams of agile, marketing and administrative talent while providing a management platform for payroll, compliance, time tracking and reporting. Our unique advantage is bringing untapped talent pools to companies to grow their distributed teams. We have a unique positioning with the military community and partnerships with the DOD to place talented professionals with transient lifestyles.

Stere.io

Seed Round in 2021
Stere is a one-stop shop for businesses to find capacity and access digital tools to launch, improve, and grow insurance programs. It aims to empower businesses to launch and grow insurance programs with a full-stack infrastructure, by providing the right services and tools such as digital platforms, data analytics, a network of capacity providers, innovative tech, and more. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Dover, Delaware.

Upsurance

Convertible Note in 2021
Upsurance operates a mid-market commercial insurance platform that enhances the speed and efficiency of insurance transactions. By utilizing a risk matching algorithm, the platform connects insurers with retail brokers, facilitating a streamlined process for browsing marketplace offerings and completing transactions. Upsurance's technology ensures a secure, auditable trail for all interactions, significantly improving the return on investment for insurers and providing brokers with unparalleled access to commercial insurance solutions.

Rownd

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Rownd is the stripe for personal data: simple, intuitive, and a super-secure platform that gives companies the benefit of accessing customer data, without the risk and regulatory requirements of storing data themselves. Be build trust so that data owners (end-users) can confidently trust data-consumers (apps), in exchange for personalized goods and services.

Stere.io

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Stere is a one-stop shop for businesses to find capacity and access digital tools to launch, improve, and grow insurance programs. It aims to empower businesses to launch and grow insurance programs with a full-stack infrastructure, by providing the right services and tools such as digital platforms, data analytics, a network of capacity providers, innovative tech, and more. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Dover, Delaware.

TackleHack

Pre Seed Round in 2021
TackleHack is a peer-to-peer marketplace where users can shop, sell, and share the gear that will improve the quality of outdoor adventures. The company aims to create a marketplace that its members can unite under to form a powerful alternative to the modern retail industry while allowing them to buy and sell securely between one another. It is located in Louisville, Kentucky and was founded in 2017.

BokDoc

Convertible Note in 2021
BokDoc is one of the leading companies aims to improve the healthcare system. Our digital platform allows users to book their appointments with doctors, in hospitals, and with any registered healthcare service provider, and get reminders for upcoming appointments. BokDoc additionally provide more than appointment, Bokdoc also provides online consultations that save time and effort for patients and doctors, booking surgeries and medical tourism for native patients. As our vision is to improve healthcare industry, our platforms gives the users the most simple and smoothest experience that patients need and deserve either the mobile app or website. Bokdoc will help patients to have the best healthcare services that they already deserve.

REPOWR

Convertible Note in 2021
Developer of a networking marketplace designed for business-to-business truck and trailer rentals. The company's marketplace brings visibility and value to untapped equipment supplies and also makes it available to carriers, on-demand, enabling logistics companies to lease and share assets to reduce waste and underutilization.

Live Chair

Convertible Note in 2021
Live Chair offers an app that encourages and inspires barbers and their clients to become more aware of their health, catching signs of heart issues by checking their blood pressure, and discussing other potential issues. This requires no extra cost and no extra time for the clients, many of whom have likely not seen a doctor in years. By equipping barbers with tools for checking blood pressure, BMI, and HRA, Live Chair Health is championing an assertive strategy to support African-American men’s long-term health.

Agrellus

Seed Round in 2021
Agrellus, Inc. operates an online marketplace that connects buyers and sellers of agricultural inputs and commodities. Its online marketplace features fertilizers, seeds, herbicides, nutrients, adjuvants, desiccants/defoliants, insecticides, attractants/pheromones, bait, rodenticide, growth regulators, fungicides, and more. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Brownfield, Texas.

REPOWR

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a networking marketplace designed for business-to-business truck and trailer rentals. The company's marketplace brings visibility and value to untapped equipment supplies and also makes it available to carriers, on-demand, enabling logistics companies to lease and share assets to reduce waste and underutilization.

Hyfe

Convertible Note in 2021
Hyfe is a Cough Detection Algorithm that runs on a smartphone and tracks coughs. Using machine learning algorithms trained on millions of labeled sounds, it can detect coughs from ambient sound and track them over space and time. The end goal is to improve it to the point where it can distinguish between different types of coughs and become a powerful diagnostic tool.

Quo Finance

Seed Round in 2020
Nillify employs powerful data analytics to allow users to build a financial backup plan with just their data.

Journey Foods

Venture Round in 2020
Journey Foods is a bold, machine learning-powered software platform for food companies. The company builds enterprise technology that improves product monitoring and development for CPG companies, ingredient suppliers, and manufacturers. With a focus on saving companies money and time, Journey Foods' tools accelerate innovation to improve their decision-making and operations with AI nutrition and supply chain insights embedded in integrative software. Journey Foods IO software enables food companies to quickly grow from new ideas, or new improvement, to commercialization by configuring desired consumer preferences, generating improved product formulations through ingredient tagging, receiving automated compliance and supply chain insights on nutrition and sustainability indicators, and seamless integrations to global ERP tools. The JourneyAI industry 4.0 solution gives management teams significantly faster data to make better strategic decisions and increase the ease of monitoring products for the 3 trillion dollar packaged foods market. The Journey Foods database retains an extensive and standardized database to extract data from millions of ingredients for algorithms to dynamically analyze and methodically recommended optimized portfolio recommendations based on pricing, supply chain, and nutrition parameters. To date, the company has established a database comprised of over 1 billion ingredient insights and learnings from our in-house prototyping product ‘Journey Bites’.

Secberus

Seed Round in 2020
Secberus, Inc. is a Miami-based company that specializes in cloud security technologies. Founded in 2017, it offers a platform called SECBERUS, which focuses on real-time cloud security posture management (CSPM) and compliance reporting. This platform allows organizations to audit and enforce their security configurations across various public cloud environments. Secberus provides enterprises and managed security service providers with tools to manage cloud risk effectively, supporting a continuous adaptive risk and trust assessment strategy. By embedding security and compliance into the continuous integration and deployment pipeline, the platform helps clients reduce instances of cloud misconfiguration and enhances their overall security posture. The company was established by experienced entrepreneurs in cloud security, aiming to increase confidence in cloud computing for businesses.

Richr

Venture Round in 2020
Richr provides a commission-free one-stop-shop homeownership experience by providing title, insurance, and loans with zero real estate commission fees.

Babylon Micro-Farms

Seed Round in 2020
Babylon Micro-Farms Inc. is a company based in Charlottesville, Virginia, founded in 2017, that specializes in indoor farming solutions for leafy greens, herbs, microgreens, and edible flowers. The company provides a smart, scalable indoor farm system designed to meet the unique needs of its clients. By leveraging remote management technology, Babylon is creating a comprehensive indoor farming platform aimed at establishing a distributed network of micro-farms across North America. The founders, Alexander Olesen and Graham Smith, initially developed a low-cost micro-farm while studying at the University of Virginia, with the goal of providing nutritious produce to food-insecure populations. Their vision focuses on making sustainable hydroponic farming accessible and efficient, automating the complexities of indoor agriculture to benefit a broader audience.

Buddy

Seed Round in 2019
Buddy Technology, Inc. provides insurance brokerage services. It offers health and accidental insurance plans to customers who are involved in risky outdoor activities. The company also operates an online platform to provide the insurance plans and interact with customers. Buddy Technology, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Richmond, Virginia.

Rugged Robotics

Seed Round in 2019
Rugged Robotics Inc. designs and develops robotic platforms for commercial construction industries. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Medici

Series B in 2019
Medici is working to change how healthcare is delivered by recreating the doctor-patient relationship. With the secure messaging app, physicians and patients have the ability to connect via text, call, or video, from anywhere and on their schedule. This enables patients to chat with their doctor, vet, or therapist at any time, and clinicians to extend care and get paid without extra overhead or burdensome schedules. With over 20,000 doctors across the platform, Medici is leading the way in the future of healthcare. Medici also raised more funding to help combat COVID-19.

Sorcero

Convertible Note in 2019
Sorcero, Inc. develops and offers office suite software. The company's no code platform enables deploying of AI (artificial intelligence) powered decision support and knowledge management applications. Sorcero, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Washington, District Of Columbia.

Neuralys

Venture Round in 2019
Neuralys is a cybersecurity platform that allows businesses to overcome security issues faster and easier than ever before. We simplify the risk mitigation process by providing enterprises transparency, accountability, and governance to improve collaboration between security teams and business units, leveraging on existing tools, making them better, and drastically reducing risk mitigation times.

Pryon

Series A in 2019
Pryon Inc. is an artificial intelligence company headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, that specializes in augmented intelligence solutions for enterprises. Founded in 2017, Pryon has developed a platform that enhances the capabilities of employees by facilitating access to knowledge and streamlining workflows. The platform intelligently orchestrates information across various channels and sources, utilizing advanced AI techniques such as natural language processing and context awareness. This enables organizations to navigate unstructured data more effectively, improve decision-making, and reduce operational complexities and costs. Through its innovative approach, Pryon aims to support businesses in their digital transformation efforts by making knowledge more accessible and actionable.

Quo Finance

Convertible Note in 2019
Nillify employs powerful data analytics to allow users to build a financial backup plan with just their data.

Felix Homes

Convertible Note in 2019
Felix Homes is a low commission real estate brokerage based in Nashville. For sellers, we charge a 1% commission. For buyers, we reduce our commission to 1.5%. Our average client saves $8,100 in realtor commission fees.

Ximpatico

Convertible Note in 2019
Ximpatico is a robotics company.

finally

Seed Round in 2019
Back Office is a technology-based company that helps small businesses by automating their bookkeeping and accounting. It is a one-stop source for building a strong and vital company back office. Small and medium-sized businesses looking for administrative and operations services, including on-demand experts and back-office personnel turn to them for help succeeding with their businesses each and every day. Back Office.co was founded in 2018 and is based in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States.

Shep

Convertible Note in 2019
Shep’s browser extension-based tool provides travel programs with an easy way to capture employee bookings made on consumer travel sites, messaging employees about the travel policy, while capturing those off-channel bookings for the travel team.

Ario

Seed Round in 2019
Ario LLC is an information technology company specializing in augmented reality solutions for web and mobile applications. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, Ario develops tools that enhance training and operational efficiency for frontline workers. Its platform enables organizations to capture and distribute expert knowledge, facilitating improved employee performance and skill development. By leveraging augmented reality, Ario's solutions help businesses, including Fortune 500 companies and the U.S. military, reduce human error, enhance worker confidence, and ultimately save costs while increasing revenue.

Dobby

Convertible Note in 2018
Dobby, operated by Halos Insurance, Inc., is an AI-driven home maintenance platform designed to automate home upkeep tasks. Launched in 2018 and based in Washington, D.C., Dobby offers a mobile application called CallDobby, which connects homeowners with local service providers and facilitates seamless home maintenance management. The platform aims to simplify the maintenance process by leveraging artificial intelligence and community resources. Dobby serves a diverse clientele, including homeowners, service providers, and real estate partners, ensuring a streamlined experience in managing home care. The company was co-founded with Techstars, which has a proven track record of launching successful startups, and has garnered investment from notable firms like MetLife and Plug and Play Ventures.

Datasembly

Seed Round in 2018
Datasembly, Inc. is a data analytics company based in Washington, D.C., founded in 2014. It specializes in processing web data into structured formats, focusing on grocery and retail pricing information. By aggregating data from numerous grocery delivery and online shopping platforms, Datasembly collects detailed pricing records for products sold in stores on a daily basis. This information is crucial for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, retailers, and quick-service restaurants, allowing them to make informed and efficient business decisions. Utilizing advanced technologies, including natural language processing and machine learning, Datasembly transforms complex, volatile data into customized reports. This data services model supports various applications, including market research and economic indicators, ultimately empowering organizations to navigate the retail landscape effectively.

Sudu

Seed Round in 2018
Sudu Logistics Inc. owns and operates a logistics technology platform. The company offers an end-to-end platform that matches shippers and carriers based upon route optimization. The platform identifies transportation methods by road, sea, rail, and air. The company caters to multiple industries, such as consumer goods, energy and infrastructure, pharmaceutical & health care, government & nonprofits, industrial goods, retail, and others along with fortune 1000 companies. Sudu Logistics Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

FiscalNote

Series D in 2018
FiscalNote is a privately-held company that uses artificial intelligence and big data to deliver immediate predictive analytics of governmental action to pinpoint impact. FiscalNote's flagship platform provides real-time legislative predictive capabilities as well as enterprise collaboration and visualization tools for data on campaign finance, demographics, news, and open data to government relations professionals to help them make faster decisions.

Dauber

Seed Round in 2018
Dauber Applications, LLC develops a mobile application and an online platform which provides information about material transportation to contractors, truckers, and material suppliers. The application allows construction trucking companies track shipments, track and analyze data such as load information, and sign for orders digitally. Dauber Applications, LLC also develops an application which allows customers to track their deliveries. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Antonio, Texas.

Travelstride

Seed Round in 2018
Travelstride, incorporated in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, operates a comprehensive reviews marketplace that connects travelers with a variety of pre-planned travel experiences, including guided tours, adventure travel packages, and small ship and river cruises. The platform allows users to search for trips by destination, activity type, and travel company, facilitating the discovery of suitable travel options. With over 50,000 professionally planned trips available worldwide, Travelstride caters to diverse preferences and budgets, offering itineraries crafted by more than 1,500 local experts and global companies. The company aims to enhance travel experiences by fostering a community that encourages exploration and connection through well-planned journeys. Travelstride has influenced over three million travelers, supported by a team with extensive backgrounds in the travel and tech industries, and has received recognition as a leading resource for tours and travel technology innovation.

Whiff

Seed Round in 2017
Whiff is the leading provider of courier services to recreational cannabis merchants on the East coast. The Whiff mobile application serves as a platform to facilitate transactions between our trusted merchants and their/our customers.

Chiron Health

Seed Round in 2017
Chiron Health, Inc. is a web-based platform that facilitates secure video conferencing between physicians and patients, primarily for routine follow-up appointments. Founded in 2013 and based in Austin, Texas, the company focuses on enhancing telemedicine for primary care, behavioral health, and other specialties. Chiron Health uniquely enables physician practices to receive reimbursement for video consultations, converting previously unpaid follow-up calls into billable telemedicine encounters. By addressing the complexities of state medical board compliance and HIPAA regulations, Chiron Health provides a comprehensive solution that allows practices to navigate the challenging reimbursement landscape. Additionally, the platform includes a proprietary database to verify patients' insurance eligibility for telemedicine services. As a result, Chiron Health presents an economically viable telemedicine option that supports practices in generating significant additional revenue. The company operates as a subsidiary of Medici Technologies, LLC, and has established itself as a leader in the outpatient telemedicine sector.

Stackfolio

Seed Round in 2017
Founded by Pavleen Thukral and Allen Nance in 2015, Atlanta-based Stackfolio is a fintech startup that uses modern technology to serve a vibrant online marketplace for loan trading between financial institutions. The integrated data research platform helps institutions make sophisticated trading decisions.

Lapetus Solutions

Seed Round in 2017
Lapetus Solutions, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Wilmington, North Carolina, established in 2014. The company focuses on developing online biodemographics and facial analytics technology, creating innovative tools and platforms that aim to enhance life event prediction. By leveraging advancements in information technology and life sciences, Lapetus Solutions seeks to provide industries such as insurance with alternatives to traditional assessment methods, thereby improving accuracy and efficiency in predicting life events.

Fourstay

Seed Round in 2017
4stay is an online marketplace connecting students with property managers near your campus. They currently have dozens of open rooms looking for students. Their rooms are affordable, their process is easy to use and their platform allows students to know exactly what each room looks like and what amenities they have so that nothing is a surprise!

DRAFT

Venture Round in 2016
Draft offers a modern suite of analytics and communication tools built to help wealth advisors win and retain assets. With their new tool, Draft Insights, an advisor is able to quickly and securely gain access to account data and analyze the holistic portfolio of a client or prospect regardless of where the assets are held. Draft Insights is designed to surface opportunities for the advisor such as high fees, unnecessary risk, poor performance, diversification gaps and low quality products. The advisor can use this actionable insight to win new clients suffering from poor portfolio management, or to build trust with existing clients. Since Draft was built to analyze millions of portfolios simultaneously, Draft Insights offers even greater potential for financial institutions at scale across an entire user base. The proprietary technology can analyze data for advised accounts or leverage data from aggregation services like Yodlee and ByAllAccounts. Compelling use cases include: DoL fiduciary compliance and liability analysis, targeted and automated marketing campaigns, and integration with customized portfolio checkup tools.

Safely

Seed Round in 2016
Safely. Trust insured. Safely answers the two most pressing questions in the vacation home rental industry: Who is staying in my house? What happens when something goes wrong? Combining a rigorous guest verification program with the most comprehensive insurance available, Safely gives property managers and homeowners peace of mind that their homes are safe and protected.

FiscalNote

Series C in 2016
FiscalNote is a privately-held company that uses artificial intelligence and big data to deliver immediate predictive analytics of governmental action to pinpoint impact. FiscalNote's flagship platform provides real-time legislative predictive capabilities as well as enterprise collaboration and visualization tools for data on campaign finance, demographics, news, and open data to government relations professionals to help them make faster decisions.

EIE Materials

Seed Round in 2015
EIE Materials specializes in nanotechnology and LED phosphors. EIE Materials was founded in 2013 by Jonathan Melman and Rob Nordsell.

Rank & Style

Convertible Note in 2015
Founded in 2013, Rank & Style is the premiere upscale shopping platform that uses technology to provide trusted recommendations on fashion, beauty and lifestyle products to make shopping simple again. We feature “Top 10” lists of the products women and men want most in clothing, beauty, shoes, accessories and home categories. Our unbiased lists are created using our proprietary technology that analyzes the best of what people are searching for the most. We respect people, their time and their health, and our goal is to help everyone spend less time online by being their trusted shopping destination. We believe sustainable online retail has the power to reduce people’s digital consumption and create a more present, engaged and balanced society, and we’re committed to promoting a healthier digital future.

Pulse

Seed Round in 2015
They are fully committed to your security and privacy. They do their very best to ensure your identity is protected and will never reveal any information about your content, identity, or organization to anyone. All information and messages are encrypted in their database and network traffic is encrypted with SSL. They implemented an ACL and role system with strict permissions so that any content created by a person in an organization is only seen by other verified employees of that company.

Zoomvy

Series A in 2014
Zoomvy is the first of its kind mobile co-browsing solution that people can use to shop together, watch videos together and interact live

EIE Materials

Seed Round in 2014
EIE Materials specializes in nanotechnology and LED phosphors. EIE Materials was founded in 2013 by Jonathan Melman and Rob Nordsell.

EIE Materials

Seed Round in 2013
EIE Materials specializes in nanotechnology and LED phosphors. EIE Materials was founded in 2013 by Jonathan Melman and Rob Nordsell.

FiscalNote

Convertible Note in 2013
FiscalNote is a privately-held company that uses artificial intelligence and big data to deliver immediate predictive analytics of governmental action to pinpoint impact. FiscalNote's flagship platform provides real-time legislative predictive capabilities as well as enterprise collaboration and visualization tools for data on campaign finance, demographics, news, and open data to government relations professionals to help them make faster decisions.

Indigio Technologies

Seed Round in 2011
Indigio Technologies

Avalon Global Solutions

Seed Round in 2010
Avalon Global Solutions provides wireline and wireless telecommunications lifecycle management services. The company offers managed services, including telecommunication device and asset management, telecommunications expense management, helpdesk services, telecom expense optimization, invoice billing, management, and payment services. It provides asset management services, comprising wireless equipment rental, replacement and repair, and wireless warranty services. Avalon Global Solutions is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2009. The company was acquired by WidePoint on January 4, 2012.