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 Data Visualization

Abstract

Funding Round in 2022
Increasing Government Transparency

Vector ML Analytics

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Vector ML is a financial analytics tool used by executives and analysts at banks and lending institutions to increase return, lower risk, and manage liquidity. It combines treasury, credit risk, FP&A, and capital market features in a single application using AI and automation, allowing for a 360-degree view of the balance sheet. Visit us at www.vectormla.com

Abstract

Convertible Note in 2021
Increasing Government Transparency

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.

Quo Finance

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

Carto

Venture Round in 2020
From smartphones to connected cars, location data is changing the way we live and the way business happens. CARTO is the platform that turns spatial data into more efficient delivery routes, better behavioral marketing, strategic store placements, and much more. Data Scientists, Developers, and Analysts solve spatial problems using CARTO’s data and analysis to understand where and why things happen, optimize business processes, and predict future outcomes through the power of Spatial Data Science. Backed by leading VC firms Accel Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Earlybird Ventures, and Kibo Ventures, CARTO is the world’s leading Location Intelligence platform. Founded in 2012 by an environmental scientist and visualization experts, CARTO is headquartered in New York City with offices in Madrid, Seville and Washington DC. CARTO has a team of 130 employees, a portfolio of 2,500 customers including BBVA, BCG, New York City, and Twitter and more than 350,000 users around the globe - and has regularly been recognized by Gartner and Forrester for its innovation in the Location Intelligence space.

Brighthive

Seed Round in 2019
BrightHive helps companies link their data to empower decision making.

Quo Finance

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

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.

StreetLight Data

Series C in 2018
StreetLight Data brings mobility patterns to light for planners, modelers, and engineers by giving them on-demand access to the Big Data resources and processing software for transportation. Their online platform, StreetLight InSight lets its users turn anonymous location data from millions of mobile devices into customized, actionable analytics. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Koyfin

Seed Round in 2018
Koyfin, Inc. operates an online financial data and analytics platform that provides market insights through tools focused on dashboards, graphs, and other data visualizations to financial and investment professionals. Its platform enables investors to track and understand macro data across various asset classes, including equities, exchange-traded funds (ETF), mutual funds, fixed income, indices, currencies, commodities, and global economic data. Koyfin, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Kodiak Data

Seed Round in 2017
Kodiak Data operates as data virtualization company. The company is headquartered in the United States.

DreamQuark

Venture Round in 2017
DreamQuark develops innovative data analysis technologies around deep representation learning to help insurance, financial services, and healthcare professionals take better advantage of the data they have stored. DreamQuark puts its intelligence into developing algorithms, to detect, very efficiently, rare, and otherwise invisible phenomena in a vast variety of data types like images, texts, audio files, and more. DreamQuark facilitates access to this expertise of large datasets analysis by offering a transparent solution, with results accessible to all types of business users.

DataCulture

Seed Round in 2017
DataCulture

Wuliang Data

Seed Round in 2016
Wuliang Data

iCharts

Series B in 2016
iCharts is the 2016 NetSuite SuiteApp of the Year. We provide best-in-class Real-Time Visual Analytics and Reporting for NetSuite and Google Cloud Platform. Learn more at http://icharts.net iCharts is the unrivaled leader in Collaborative Visual Intelligence. Their cloud-based Foresight Visual Analytics Platform empowers rapid visualization of complex business information, large-scale research and dynamic data sets. Their simple, easy to implement solutions empower users to rapidly create, distribute and collaborate via comprehensive dashboards, interactive reports and intuitive charts. Data insights and intelligence are rapidly distributed and disseminated, delivering knowledge and empowering decisions.

Kiana Analytics

Convertible Note in 2015
Kiana Analytics Their founding team's experience in Big Data analytics has driven Their technology goals towards providing an entirely new depth of customer understanding through Presence Analytics. Kiana can help retailers increase store performance and sales conversion by matching web-based vendor capabilities to analyze customer traffic before the Point of Sale.

Graphext

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Graphext Labs, S.L. is a Madrid-based company that offers a platform designed to transform digital data feeds into actionable insights. By simplifying complex data analysis, Graphext enables users to conduct tasks that traditionally required programming skills in languages such as Python or R. The platform bridges the gap between machine learning and visual analytics, making it accessible for a broader audience to create and analyze information contexts effectively.

iCharts

Series B in 2014
iCharts is the 2016 NetSuite SuiteApp of the Year. We provide best-in-class Real-Time Visual Analytics and Reporting for NetSuite and Google Cloud Platform. Learn more at http://icharts.net iCharts is the unrivaled leader in Collaborative Visual Intelligence. Their cloud-based Foresight Visual Analytics Platform empowers rapid visualization of complex business information, large-scale research and dynamic data sets. Their simple, easy to implement solutions empower users to rapidly create, distribute and collaborate via comprehensive dashboards, interactive reports and intuitive charts. Data insights and intelligence are rapidly distributed and disseminated, delivering knowledge and empowering decisions.

Qwalytics

Seed Round in 2014
Qwalytics is a user-friendly self-service analytics tool designed to simplify reporting needs by enabling users to query data using plain English. It serves as a powerful alternative to traditional Excel functionalities and offers a time-saving enhancement for Salesforce users. With a focus on accessibility, Qwalytics minimizes the learning curve, making it an efficient solution for everyday analytics tasks.

Orbital Insight

Seed Round in 2014
Orbital Insight, Inc. is a geospatial analytics company based in Palo Alto, California, established in 2013. The company operates a cloud-based platform that utilizes artificial intelligence, computer vision, and data science to analyze vast amounts of geospatial data. This data includes satellite imagery, synthetic aperture radar, and other sources such as unmanned aerial vehicles and geolocation signals. Orbital Insight's technology provides insights into societal and economic trends that are not easily visible, helping organizations understand complex interactions between natural and human activities. Its product offerings include solutions designed for various sectors, such as consumer traffic analysis and monitoring energy supply and infrastructure. The company serves a diverse clientele, including businesses, governments, and humanitarian organizations, enabling them to make informed decisions based on actionable intelligence derived from extensive geospatial data analysis.

Ducksboard

Series A in 2014
Ducksboard is a real-time dashboard which helps users visualize and monitor data in one single place. Optimized for large screens, it makes it easy to connect all SaaS apps and create a stunning display to keep and eye on the company's growth. With so many KPIs and metrics to watch over, Ducksboard provides users with an elegant dashboard to display the company's up-to-date information. Ducksboard's user experience and impressive design make it easy for any business to pull their KPIs into their own customized dashboard and control their metrics.

Qwalytics

Seed Round in 2014
Qwalytics is a user-friendly self-service analytics tool designed to simplify reporting needs by enabling users to query data using plain English. It serves as a powerful alternative to traditional Excel functionalities and offers a time-saving enhancement for Salesforce users. With a focus on accessibility, Qwalytics minimizes the learning curve, making it an efficient solution for everyday analytics tasks.

NGDATA

Series A in 2013
NGDATA develops data management systems. The company offers Lily, a big data management system that extracts business insights in real-time and benefits from enriched data in real-time. It serves retail and e-commerce; news, publishing, and media; finance, credit, and insurance; and telecom domains. The company is based in Ghent, Belgium with an additional office in Singapore; and Paris, France.

Graphdive

Series A in 2013
GraphDive’s API gives you actionable insights into your users’ top interests and key demographic data. Their personalization platform parses through billions of social data points to truly understand users and show them what they really want.

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.

Viewics

Seed Round in 2013
Viewics, Inc. offers Software as a Service (SaaS) business intelligence and analytics solutions tailored for the healthcare industry in the United States and Canada. The company provides the Viewics Data Platform, which integrates with various enterprise systems and supports multiple data formats for efficient data management. Among its key products are Viewics Health Insighter, which delivers interactive dashboards for clinical, operational, sales, and marketing teams, and Viewics Pulse, a web-based platform designed for data transparency and sharing among clients, patients, payors, and providers. These solutions facilitate operational insights, financial management, and compliance analytics, among other applications, and are utilized by a range of healthcare organizations, including clinical laboratories and hospitals. Established in 2010 and based in Sunnyvale, California, Viewics operates as a subsidiary of Roche Holding AG.

iCharts

Convertible Note in 2013
iCharts is the 2016 NetSuite SuiteApp of the Year. We provide best-in-class Real-Time Visual Analytics and Reporting for NetSuite and Google Cloud Platform. Learn more at http://icharts.net iCharts is the unrivaled leader in Collaborative Visual Intelligence. Their cloud-based Foresight Visual Analytics Platform empowers rapid visualization of complex business information, large-scale research and dynamic data sets. Their simple, easy to implement solutions empower users to rapidly create, distribute and collaborate via comprehensive dashboards, interactive reports and intuitive charts. Data insights and intelligence are rapidly distributed and disseminated, delivering knowledge and empowering decisions.

NGDATA

Seed Round in 2012
NGDATA develops data management systems. The company offers Lily, a big data management system that extracts business insights in real-time and benefits from enriched data in real-time. It serves retail and e-commerce; news, publishing, and media; finance, credit, and insurance; and telecom domains. The company is based in Ghent, Belgium with an additional office in Singapore; and Paris, France.

iCharts

Series A in 2012
iCharts is the 2016 NetSuite SuiteApp of the Year. We provide best-in-class Real-Time Visual Analytics and Reporting for NetSuite and Google Cloud Platform. Learn more at http://icharts.net iCharts is the unrivaled leader in Collaborative Visual Intelligence. Their cloud-based Foresight Visual Analytics Platform empowers rapid visualization of complex business information, large-scale research and dynamic data sets. Their simple, easy to implement solutions empower users to rapidly create, distribute and collaborate via comprehensive dashboards, interactive reports and intuitive charts. Data insights and intelligence are rapidly distributed and disseminated, delivering knowledge and empowering decisions.

Graphdive

Convertible Note in 2011
GraphDive’s API gives you actionable insights into your users’ top interests and key demographic data. Their personalization platform parses through billions of social data points to truly understand users and show them what they really want.

Graphdive

Seed Round in 2011
GraphDive’s API gives you actionable insights into your users’ top interests and key demographic data. Their personalization platform parses through billions of social data points to truly understand users and show them what they really want.