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

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

Phillip Vincent

Managing Partner, East Asia

Chen Zhao

Managing Partner, China

Past deals in Crowdsourcing

Peachscore

Seed Round in 2022
Peachscore is an innovative evaluation platform developed by Createnu Ventures, designed to standardize and democratize the private sector. By leveraging proprietary technology, it aims to provide a comprehensive and accessible assessment system that enhances transparency and facilitates decision-making for investors and businesses alike. This platform addresses the challenges of evaluating private companies, offering a systematic approach that empowers users with valuable insights and benchmarks. Through its unique features, Peachscore seeks to transform the landscape of venture capital and private investments, making it easier for stakeholders to navigate and understand the complexities of the market.

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.

TroopTravel S.L.

Series A in 2021
TroopTravel S.L. is a travel agency founded in 2017 and located in Villanueva del Pardillo, Spain. The company specializes in optimizing meetings and events for large organizations, utilizing Big Data analytics to make informed decisions on logistics. By analyzing factors such as cost, carbon footprint, safety, visa requirements, and VAT reclaim, TroopTravel assists clients in planning efficient gatherings, often resulting in substantial savings of approximately 40%. The agency primarily serves Fortune 500 companies, providing them with a data-driven approach to enhance their event planning processes.

Wareclouds

Seed Round in 2021
Wareclouds puts ecommerce products in their customers hands in a fast and cheap way, by using peoples idle space and time. This people store products and assemble orders in their house, and move packages in their free time.

Peachscore

Convertible Note in 2021
Peachscore is an innovative evaluation platform developed by Createnu Ventures, designed to standardize and democratize the private sector. By leveraging proprietary technology, it aims to provide a comprehensive and accessible assessment system that enhances transparency and facilitates decision-making for investors and businesses alike. This platform addresses the challenges of evaluating private companies, offering a systematic approach that empowers users with valuable insights and benchmarks. Through its unique features, Peachscore seeks to transform the landscape of venture capital and private investments, making it easier for stakeholders to navigate and understand the complexities of the market.

CrowdPass

Convertible Note in 2021
CrowdPass is a SaaS-based, event technology platform focused on enhancing experiences, efficiencies through our core of access, cashless, data, health, registrations, socials, & more.

Lifo

Seed Round in 2021
We enable influencers

Peachscore

Convertible Note in 2020
Peachscore is an innovative evaluation platform developed by Createnu Ventures, designed to standardize and democratize the private sector. By leveraging proprietary technology, it aims to provide a comprehensive and accessible assessment system that enhances transparency and facilitates decision-making for investors and businesses alike. This platform addresses the challenges of evaluating private companies, offering a systematic approach that empowers users with valuable insights and benchmarks. Through its unique features, Peachscore seeks to transform the landscape of venture capital and private investments, making it easier for stakeholders to navigate and understand the complexities of the market.

SecondNature.io

Series A in 2020
SecondNature helps transcription companies overcome the uncertainty of managing virtual workers by providing real time insights into their workforce’s accuracy and reliability levels.

Talentwunder

Seed Round in 2018
Talentwunder UG is a Berlin-based online application designed to streamline the headhunting process by leveraging the social networks of employees in candidate searches. The platform addresses the challenges of traditional recruiting methods, particularly in industries where passive recruitment strategies, such as job advertisements, are ineffective. By functioning as a specialized search engine, Talentwunder allows employers to efficiently discover a large pool of suitable candidates across major social networks with a single click. This innovative approach enables companies to identify skilled individuals who are actively engaged in the digital spaces where they spend their time.

Talentia

Seed Round in 2015
Talentia is a cloud platform to share knowledge with your community.

Ranktab

Seed Round in 2015
Group decision-making is old and broken. Endless discussions, introverts unwilling to contribute ideas, and people with authority imposing decisions. Today, we have the same problem over large email threads or long teleconferences. Online surveys don’t help, they just capture people preferences but not deeper knowledge such as intuition or experience. Ranktab is a web application that collects individual judgments to calculate and visually reveal a group’s smartest decision.

Whale Path

Seed Round in 2014
Whale Path is a crowdsourced market intelligence platform that connects corporate customers with a network of over 13,000 analysts who compete to provide reliable market data and analysis. Customers initiate research projects by launching challenges that specify a reward range for each data point and an overall budget. Analysts conduct research, submit data points, and offer insights through the platform. Whale Path rigorously reviews submissions for accuracy and validity, ensuring that only high-quality information is delivered to clients. This process allows customers to receive multiple submissions for each request and to compensate analysts based on the value of the information provided. By leveraging this innovative model, Whale Path empowers businesses to make informed decisions with proprietary market insights.

Right Relevance

Convertible Note in 2014
algorithmic topical influencers mining applied to information search and discovery at scale. extracting relevance from big data via machine learning, NLP

Crowdpac

Seed Round in 2014
Crowdpac is the first crowdfunding platform designed for politics helping candidates, organizations, and ordinary citizens fund the change they want to see. They use the best technology and objective data to boost political participation, helping citizens to vote, by understanding the candidates on their ballot; to fund political change through crowdfunding tools, and helping anyone run for office by raising money and mobilizing support independent of big donors and special interests. It was founded is 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.