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 Cyber Security

RAPIDFORT

Seed Round in 2022
RapidFort is a cloud native cybersecurity company helping organizations minimize the attack surface of their cloud workloads automatically and continuously. What normally takes weeks to months of menial, manual work with mediocre results is done in minutes with RapidFort, producing optimal results. RapidFort's mission is to Secure The Cloud - RAPIDLY, lowering zero-day exploit risks, and freeing developers to build great software instead of addressing vulnerabilities.. RapidFort is headquartered in San Francisco, USA.

Slik

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Slik operates a digital tool that provides end-to-end encryption on sharing photos. It offers a secured application of saving, sharing, and taking photos that only the owner and receiver gets to see the item.

Narya Security

Convertible Note in 2022
Narya Security is a reliable, one-click-recovery solution for Ransomware infections. It leverages proprietary machine learning algorithms to identify, extract and manage encryption keys, decrypt encrypted data, unlock paralyzed IT assets and remove Ransomware infection traces in minutes, with a single click.

Agency

Convertible Note in 2021
Agency provides enterprise-level cybersecurity for individuals and growing businesses. Agency is located in New York.

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.

Nethone

Series A in 2021
Nethone is a cybersecurity firm based in Warsaw, Poland, focused on preventing fraud in remote transactions, particularly in online payment channels. Founded in 2016 by a team of data scientists, security experts, and business executives, the company employs artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to detect and eliminate fraudulent activities, such as card-not-present fraud and account takeovers. By deep profiling online users, Nethone enables merchants to understand their customers better, ultimately enhancing the user experience and reducing friction during transactions. This risk management tool not only helps businesses protect themselves from unauthorized activities but also contributes to higher conversion rates and improved customer retention, allowing companies to develop their services more effectively.

RAPIDFORT

Pre Seed Round in 2021
RapidFort is a cloud native cybersecurity company helping organizations minimize the attack surface of their cloud workloads automatically and continuously. What normally takes weeks to months of menial, manual work with mediocre results is done in minutes with RapidFort, producing optimal results. RapidFort's mission is to Secure The Cloud - RAPIDLY, lowering zero-day exploit risks, and freeing developers to build great software instead of addressing vulnerabilities.. RapidFort is headquartered in San Francisco, USA.

Zama

Venture Round in 2020
Zama SA, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Paris, France, specializes in homomorphic encryption solutions aimed at enhancing user privacy. The company has developed an open-source framework that enables organizations to perform fast and accurate inference on encrypted data without compromising its confidentiality. This innovative approach allows companies to process customer information securely, thus mitigating the risks of data breaches and unauthorized surveillance. Zama's technology is based on a significant advancement in homomorphic encryption, which permits the evaluation of deep neural networks over encrypted datasets without altering their architecture. Co-founded by prominent figures in cryptography and entrepreneurship, Zama is committed to making privacy-enabling technologies accessible to a broad community of developers and researchers.

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.

Bodyguard

Seed Round in 2020
Bodyguard is the first app that cleverly protects you from hateful comments.

Bodyguard

Seed Round in 2020
Bodyguard is the first app that cleverly protects you from hateful comments.

zecOps

Seed Round in 2019
ZecOps is a cybersecurity automation company that finds attackers' mistakes to discover the course of action and objectives of the entire campaign, burn the threat actors exploits and persistence mechanisms, and increase the attacker's campaign costs. The company develops solutions for servers, endpoints, mobile devices, and custom devices.

BigID

Series C in 2019
BigID, Inc. is a software company focused on personal data protection and privacy compliance. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Tel Aviv and London, BigID offers a platform that employs advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help organizations protect and manage customer data. The company's solutions enable enterprises to discover and inventory personal information across diverse data types, automate access rights fulfillment, map data flows, and comply with privacy regulations such as the GDPR and CCPA. By providing tools for data minimization, consent management, and risk assessment, BigID aims to enhance data privacy practices and reduce breach risks for businesses operating at scale.

CloudVector

Seed Round in 2019
CloudVector protects an organization’s internally-developed APIs, third-party application APIs, and the data carried within them. CloudVector provides deep visibility, beyond just the endpoints, into the data transmitted within each API. This unparalleled level of data visibility allows CloudVector to protect your organization’s internally-developed APIs, third-party application APIs, and the data carried within them.

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.

GuardKnox

Series A in 2019
GuardKnox is an automotive technology company specializing in cyber security solutions for connected vehicles. Founded in 2016 and based in Rosh Haayin, Israel, with a subsidiary in Detroit, the company offers a comprehensive hardware and software platform designed to protect passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and mass transportation from cyber threats. Its core product is the Secure Network Orchestrator (SNO), a centralized electronic control unit that safeguards vehicle networks by providing security services for infotainment, telematics, and other components that communicate externally. GuardKnox's team draws on over two decades of experience in cyber security from the Israeli Air Force, focusing on delivering high-performance, scalable, and flexible technologies that enhance vehicle connectivity and customization while ensuring user safety and data protection.

Cyr3con

Convertible Note in 2019
Cyr3con is a cybersecurity company founded in 2018 and based in Tempe, Arizona, that specializes in predicting cyber-attacks using artificial intelligence. The company offers a suite of solutions that analyzes data from various online hacker communities to quantify and anticipate hacker actions before they lead to incidents. By combining insights from human analysts with advanced machine learning capabilities, Cyr3con aims to understand the threat landscape and detect emerging attacks at their earliest stages. This approach enables enterprises to identify and prevent potential cyber threats effectively.

ReSec Technologies

Series A in 2019
ReSec is an Israeli cyber security company providing organizations with the ultimate protection from file-based malware threats, both known an unknown ("zero days"). We are a gateway solution, used by large and highly sensitive organizations for protection from email, endpoint, file uploads and downloads, and transfer threats. Overcoming the limitations of conventional anti-malware detection solutions by using patented Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR) technology. ReSec’s ReSecure Platform is a multi-engine solution that treats every file as a threat, leaves the original file outside of the organization’s network, and delivers the end-user a threat-free and fully functional replica of the file in real-time. ReSec is an established product that is market tested, with dozens of enterprise customers, from large banks, military and defense organizations, government offices, airlines, oil and gas companies and more.

Zeguro

Seed Round in 2018
Zeguro Inc. develops a cyber security and cyber insurance platform. The platform enables small businesses identify their risk and then purchase corresponding insurance. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

FundGuard

Seed Round in 2018
FundGuard Inc. develops and operates artificial intelligence powered and cloud based investment funds operating system platform. It operates FundGuard, a platform that helps asset and fund managers to administer investments across mutual funds, ETFs, hedge funds, insurance, and pension. The company’s FundGuard is a SAAS platform to automatically resolve exceptions, detect unstructured financial anomalies, identify potential frauds, and recommend ways to improve operational KPIs. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Palo Alto, California with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel.

SAFE™

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
SAFE Button replaces ‘Sign-In with Facebook’ and ‘Sign in with Google.’ It is a free service provided by websites concerned for your privacy, which does not track you and never sells your data. Also, the SAFE Button does not use passwords. We send a cryptographic message to your smartphpone, and all you have to do is approve with one tap to login to your favorite sites, or register for new online accounts. You can use the extra security in your phone like FaceID to Samsung Fingerprint reader with no codes to enter! And with the SAFE Button, you never get unwanted spam emails or notifications on your phone.

zecOps

Pre Seed Round in 2018
ZecOps is a cybersecurity automation company that finds attackers' mistakes to discover the course of action and objectives of the entire campaign, burn the threat actors exploits and persistence mechanisms, and increase the attacker's campaign costs. The company develops solutions for servers, endpoints, mobile devices, and custom devices.

Trillium Secure

Series A in 2018
Trillium provides in-vehicle cybersecurity protection for connected vehicles.

NoPassword

Seed Round in 2018
NoPassword, originally known as WiActs, is a developer of an identity and access management platform focused on enhancing cybersecurity and user privacy through secure authentication solutions. The company employs an AI-based system that integrates biometrics, geo-location, public key infrastructure, and hidden signatures to facilitate password-less identities for both workforce and customers. This innovative approach allows businesses to achieve compliance with privacy and data protection regulations while eliminating the need for traditional passwords, thereby streamlining the authentication process and improving overall security.

Cyberwrite

Seed Round in 2018
Cyberwrite delivers a simple to use financial cyber risk assessment platform to using proprietary AI technology. The company serves large corporates in 4 continents for use cases including cyber insurance, 3rd party risk, and self-assessment of financial cyber risk. Cyberwrite was selected as the most innovative cyber risk modeling firm of 2020 by Frost & Sullivan. Cool Vendor by Gartner in 2018 and additional awards for its innovative technology.

Cobalt

Series A in 2018
Cobalt Labs, Inc. specializes in bitcoin application security solutions and has evolved to offer a modernized platform for penetration testing services. Originally known as CrowdCurity, the company rebranded in 2016 and has since developed a crowdsourced software-as-a-service platform that connects businesses with certified security researchers. Cobalt Central serves as a secure inbox for managing security programs, facilitating bug reports, and enabling interaction with researchers. Additionally, the company provides CrowdCurity, which focuses on bug bounty programs to enhance collaboration between organizations and security experts. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, Cobalt Labs also maintains offices in Berlin and Boston, delivering actionable insights that help organizations identify and remediate software vulnerabilities efficiently.

BigID

Series A in 2018
BigID, Inc. is a software company focused on personal data protection and privacy compliance. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Tel Aviv and London, BigID offers a platform that employs advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help organizations protect and manage customer data. The company's solutions enable enterprises to discover and inventory personal information across diverse data types, automate access rights fulfillment, map data flows, and comply with privacy regulations such as the GDPR and CCPA. By providing tools for data minimization, consent management, and risk assessment, BigID aims to enhance data privacy practices and reduce breach risks for businesses operating at scale.

Trovolone, Inc

Seed Round in 2017
Trovolone provides seamless IT cyber security to any small offices.

Join Digital

Seed Round in 2017
Cloudbus simplifies IT infrastructure by managing public and private cloud data and apps through predictive analytics engine. Cloudbus connects enterprises to their premise and public cloud data, securely, reliably, and elastically through our full-stack, cloud-first infrastructure. With Cloudbus, companies with sensitive data can reduce their IT costs without sacrificing performance, access, or data assurance. Its connectivity service reduces the attack surface of the network, encrypts and scrambles data in flight, and enforces user traffic to remain on the private network.

Civic

Seed Round in 2017
Civic's blockchain based ecosystem gives businesses and individuals the tools to control and protect identities. They believe identity should be convenient, safe and secure, and put users in control. Civic allows people to control the use of their identity information. They use cutting edge identity verification technology to secure and protect personal information transfer. Having conducted a successful token sale in June 2017, they set their sights on building identity.com, an open source, first-of-its-kind marketplace for identity verification services built on blockchain. They are a team spanning five countries with one common goal: to revolutionize identity.

Cyberwrite

Seed Round in 2017
Cyberwrite delivers a simple to use financial cyber risk assessment platform to using proprietary AI technology. The company serves large corporates in 4 continents for use cases including cyber insurance, 3rd party risk, and self-assessment of financial cyber risk. Cyberwrite was selected as the most innovative cyber risk modeling firm of 2020 by Frost & Sullivan. Cool Vendor by Gartner in 2018 and additional awards for its innovative technology.

Civic

Seed Round in 2017
Civic's blockchain based ecosystem gives businesses and individuals the tools to control and protect identities. They believe identity should be convenient, safe and secure, and put users in control. Civic allows people to control the use of their identity information. They use cutting edge identity verification technology to secure and protect personal information transfer. Having conducted a successful token sale in June 2017, they set their sights on building identity.com, an open source, first-of-its-kind marketplace for identity verification services built on blockchain. They are a team spanning five countries with one common goal: to revolutionize identity.

BigID

Seed Round in 2017
BigID, Inc. is a software company focused on personal data protection and privacy compliance. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Tel Aviv and London, BigID offers a platform that employs advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help organizations protect and manage customer data. The company's solutions enable enterprises to discover and inventory personal information across diverse data types, automate access rights fulfillment, map data flows, and comply with privacy regulations such as the GDPR and CCPA. By providing tools for data minimization, consent management, and risk assessment, BigID aims to enhance data privacy practices and reduce breach risks for businesses operating at scale.

Nullafi

Seed Round in 2016
Joinesty, Inc. operates a Web platform that aggregates a user’s ‘memberships’ and related information into a single dashboard and allows users to connect with other users of the services. Its platform enables users to manage their services from Amazon to Uber and gilt to mint, as well as online banking and online utility account; and organizes important details, such as passwords, read reviews, and snag deals into a dashboard. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

NoPassword

Venture Round in 2015
NoPassword, originally known as WiActs, is a developer of an identity and access management platform focused on enhancing cybersecurity and user privacy through secure authentication solutions. The company employs an AI-based system that integrates biometrics, geo-location, public key infrastructure, and hidden signatures to facilitate password-less identities for both workforce and customers. This innovative approach allows businesses to achieve compliance with privacy and data protection regulations while eliminating the need for traditional passwords, thereby streamlining the authentication process and improving overall security.

Bouju

Convertible Note in 2015
Bouju, Inc. specializes in Software-as-a-Service brand protection solutions designed to help organizations identify and combat online infringements globally. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Bouju offers a suite of tools that include Identify, which gathers and analyzes extensive online data to detect and prioritize brand infringements; Assess, which delivers evaluations of potential damages and losses due to infringements; and Enforce, which allows clients to implement tailored enforcement actions. The company focuses on protecting high-profile brands from unauthorized counterfeiters, helping them maintain their market share and brand integrity in an increasingly challenging digital landscape. Bouju is committed to leveraging advanced technology to address the complex issues faced by brands and their consumers in the online marketplace.

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.

Edge

Convertible Note in 2015
Edge is an SDK platform that enables its users to develop security applications for its clients. Their product range includes client-side encryption, data backup, password recovery, blockchain technology, private key authentication, IoT, financial applications, bitcoin, and private messaging. Edge (formerly Airbitz) was founded in 2014 and is based in California.

Knightscope

Series A in 2014
Knightscope, Inc. develops autonomous robots for physical security in the United States. The company’s solutions provide an autonomous physical presence, gathering data from the environment in real-time, and pushing anomalies to its user interface. It serves customers in law enforcement, healthcare, retail industries, as well as corporate campuses. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Angelcam

Convertible Note in 2014
From the Cloud, Angelcam helps people protect what matters most. NOW At the moment, Angelcam enables 100.000+ users from 200+ countries to access their security cameras online, view live streams and recordings and share them with people they trust, and easily find what happened in past. At the moment, with a smart cloud security solution, Angelcam enables our users to get remote access and easily find what happened on all your cameras. - Manage all your security cameras from one account, no matter the manufacturer. - Access your security cameras and share them with people you trust. - Get quick access to your cloud recordings and quickly find what happened. - Talk to support that understands security and speaks your language. - From your computer or mobile app. - Join more than 100.000 users in 200+ countries who already use Angelcam. COMING SOON: Real-time security in your pocket We already enable our users to easily connect any security camera and sensor (IFTTT ready or enabling email forwarding) into one platform. We're working hard on developing a mobile app that will enable our users to get rid of false alarms, let their trusted contacts verify the alarms for them and take action right from the app. FUTURE Our vision is to make this world a safer place. Once our new mobile app is up and running, we intend to work on enabling people to create a wide network of trusted contacts that will enable communities to better protect their beloved and neighbourhood.

Bouju

Convertible Note in 2014
Bouju, Inc. specializes in Software-as-a-Service brand protection solutions designed to help organizations identify and combat online infringements globally. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Bouju offers a suite of tools that include Identify, which gathers and analyzes extensive online data to detect and prioritize brand infringements; Assess, which delivers evaluations of potential damages and losses due to infringements; and Enforce, which allows clients to implement tailored enforcement actions. The company focuses on protecting high-profile brands from unauthorized counterfeiters, helping them maintain their market share and brand integrity in an increasingly challenging digital landscape. Bouju is committed to leveraging advanced technology to address the complex issues faced by brands and their consumers in the online marketplace.

Scout

Seed Round in 2014
Scout is a home security system that combines hardware designs and easy-to-use controls. It enables its users to access the device from anywhere on their phones, tablets, or computers. The company's monitoring technology gives its users peace of mind at home and away. It also allows its users to customize their responses to all alerts. Scout was founded in 2012 in Chicago, Illinois.

Clicktree

Seed Round in 2014
We analyze the traffic logs and apply machine learning algorithms to track web scraping activity. Then we help you understand your web traffic such as who's using your data and the rate at which they are scraping your site. From there we identify potential partners and offer them an API, while blocking unauthorized bot activities on your website.

CyberFlow Analytics

Seed Round in 2013
CyberFlow Analytics is a cybersecurity firm based in San Diego, California, with additional offices in Silicon Valley. The company specializes in developing FlowScape software, which provides continuous threat assessment and monitoring for enterprise security and the Industrial Internet of Things. Utilizing unsupervised machine learning and behavioral analytics, CyberFlow focuses on detecting Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and cyber breaches. The company has introduced the concept of "anomalytics," emphasizing real-time network anomaly detection through advanced analytics. CyberFlow Analytics is led by a seasoned management team, including Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi, Tom Caldwell, and Louie Gasparini.

TrustGo

Seed Round in 2012
TrustGo is a mobile security startup company focusing on the mobile app search and security in the fast growing mobile application space. TrustGo Mobile Security, an all-in-one and service free mobile security app, empowers mobile device users to search, monitor, detect and prevent harmful apps and protect mobile devices. TrustGo App Secure Search, an unique secure app search engine, helps users to Find the Apps You Can Trust. Both TrustGo Mobile Security and TrustGo App Secure Search will be released to the mobile users very soon. Founded and led by experienced Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, TrustGo has a world class team of engineers and product managers from well-known security and mobile companies including Fortinet, NetScreen, Websense and Symantec. TrustGo is funded by Northern Light Venture Capital and some angel investors.

SourceNinja

Convertible Note in 2012
SourceNinja prevents problems in applications that use open source. SourceNinja notifies developers when updates are released or problems occur. Issues we prevent include license changes, security vulnerabilities, and performance problems. SourceNinja offers a product for individual developers and large enterprises. SourceNinja was part of **[AngelPad](http://angelpad.org) #3** in 2011.