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 Personal Health

Redi.Health

Seed Round in 2021
Redi.Health is a healthcare technology company that develops health management platforms for patients. The company aims to connect patients with chronic diseases to patient support programs. These programs are created in partnership with pharmaceutical manufacturers and are always free to the patient.

LingoHealth

Pre Seed Round in 2021
LingoHealth is a digital health platform designed to assist family members in supporting the health of their aging loved ones, particularly focusing on multilingual families. Recognizing that multilingual caregivers are significantly more involved in caregiving than their English-fluent counterparts, LingoHealth offers tools that enhance visibility into the necessary steps for appropriate care. The platform enables families to navigate healthcare options effectively and ensures that immigrant patients receive support in their preferred language and cultural context. By doing so, LingoHealth aims to improve engagement in care and promote better health management for seniors.

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.

Gabbi

Convertible Note in 2021
Gabbi is a healthcare software provider focused on empowering women to take control of their health. The platform enables women to understand their bodies better, facilitating awareness of what is normal for them, which is crucial for recognizing abnormalities. Gabbi offers a risk calculator for breast cancer identification and provides virtual chat, community support, and video appointments, fostering a supportive environment for women facing health challenges. By connecting like-minded individuals and assisting health systems in meeting quality measures, Gabbi aims to enhance health outcomes for women and promote proactive health management.

Bloomlife

Series A in 2020
Bloomlife is a women’s health company solving the most significant yet underserved global challenges today in maternal health. We combine connected devices with data analytics to increase access to care, provide personalized feedback to moms, and help doctors earlier predict and manage pregnancy complications. At the center of our solution is a prenatal wearable that tracks critical health parameters of maternal and fetal health. By addressing modifiable risk factors, detecting abnormalities, and predicting adverse events Bloomlife aims to ensure every family gets a healthy start.

Meru Health

Series A in 2020
Meru Health, Inc. develops an application that connects patients to licensed therapists for a 12-week program to treat people experiencing stress, depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues. The company provides a licensed-clinician-supported, mobile phone-based digital therapeutic program for depression and anxiety. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Mateo, California. It has additional offices in Palo Alto, California and Helsinki, Finland.

Meru Health

Seed Round in 2019
Meru Health, Inc. develops an application that connects patients to licensed therapists for a 12-week program to treat people experiencing stress, depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues. The company provides a licensed-clinician-supported, mobile phone-based digital therapeutic program for depression and anxiety. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Mateo, California. It has additional offices in Palo Alto, California and Helsinki, Finland.

Gali Health

Seed Round in 2018
Gali Health, Inc. is a health technology company based in San Francisco, California, established in 2015. The company focuses on developing a mobile application named Gali, which serves as a personal health assistant designed to support individuals with chronic conditions. By leveraging collective intelligence, Gali enables users to proactively manage their health through crowdsourced personal health data and medically-validated insights. The application employs artificial intelligence to provide highly personalized support, addressing medical, lifestyle, and psychological aspects of living with chronic diseases. Gali Health aims to empower users by ensuring they do not feel isolated or powerless in managing their health, advancing consumer-driven healthcare through innovative technology and personalized health tracking.

wellabe

Seed Round in 2018
Wellabe is a cloud-based and patient-centered prevention platform. Wellabe enables agile integration of state of-the-art medical sensors in a lab setting for on-site screenings. Participants run through the screening before and after a preventive lifestyle intervention. The re-screenings measure the impact individuals have on their own biomarkers with lifestyle changes. All assessed datasets are stored and interpreted in a cloud platform and can be assessed and enriched by patients with their smartphones. The data is presented to give the participants a comprehensive understanding about their health and keep them motivated. wellabe partners with caregivers, nutrition and sports providers that can help participants to change their markers within a defined timespan. wellabe aims to match the patients’ profiles with the most effective intervention.

Heal

Convertible Note in 2018
Heal brings technology innovation to re-humanize the practice of medicine in a way that is fulfilling for doctors and patients alike. Heal brings a licensed, background-checked pediatrician or family doctor to you, on-demand, on your schedule, for $99 or for an in-network co-pay with select insurance plans. Great doctors are available in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and San Diego from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week.

Bloomlife

Series A in 2017
Bloomlife is a women’s health company solving the most significant yet underserved global challenges today in maternal health. We combine connected devices with data analytics to increase access to care, provide personalized feedback to moms, and help doctors earlier predict and manage pregnancy complications. At the center of our solution is a prenatal wearable that tracks critical health parameters of maternal and fetal health. By addressing modifiable risk factors, detecting abnormalities, and predicting adverse events Bloomlife aims to ensure every family gets a healthy start.

Life.io

Seed Round in 2017
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.

GoGood

Seed Round in 2017
Go Good is a wellness engagement platform focused in behavior design to help employees get healthier. Our corporate platform promotes 50+ healthy habits - becoming your health benefits hub - and use a complete gamification system to increase engagement rates of healthy habits and benefits. We also reward employees with money to be donated to NGOs to generate social impact. We attested that this incentives are the most effective to increase engagement, awareness and employer branding. At PayPal Brazil, for example, we challenged the employees to reach 2,500 km/month running/walking (we track the data through Google Fit, Strava, RunKeeper, Apple Health Kit integrations). As they surpassed the goal, PayPal made a dream of a child with cancer come true through a donation to Make a Wish NGO. Imagine a platform that concentrates your Health benefits, gamifies them, automate communications through Push Notifications and Email Marketing, rewards employees with money to charity and also gives you a trustworthy data analytics focused in prevention of diseases. That is exactly what we do.

Bloomlife

Seed Round in 2016
Bloomlife is a women’s health company solving the most significant yet underserved global challenges today in maternal health. We combine connected devices with data analytics to increase access to care, provide personalized feedback to moms, and help doctors earlier predict and manage pregnancy complications. At the center of our solution is a prenatal wearable that tracks critical health parameters of maternal and fetal health. By addressing modifiable risk factors, detecting abnormalities, and predicting adverse events Bloomlife aims to ensure every family gets a healthy start.

Precision Wellness

Seed Round in 2016
The Harris Center for Precision Wellness, located within the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, embodies a new paradigm in health and medicine. The Center’s goal is to establish a solid foundation for the realization of Precision Wellness, a highly-personalized and proactive approach for maintaining optimal health and vitality and preventing disease. Towards this goal, the center will harness the recent advances in digital health, genomics, and data science to bring us bringing precision medicine by revealing how individual differences in genes, environments, and lifestyles contribute to complex human diseases, and how to apply these potent technologies to help preserve and enhance wellness.

BaseHealth

Series B in 2015
BaseHealth, Inc. is a health management platform designed for physicians and their patients, integrating genomic, medical, behavioral, and environmental data to evaluate disease risks. The platform aids physicians in formulating personalized action plans aimed at disease prevention. It serves as a clinical support tool, enhancing medical decision-making by combining physician expertise, clinical knowledge, genome interpretation, and health analytics. Additionally, BaseHealth provides tailored recommendations regarding diet and physical activity based on individual health conditions and genetic profiles. Founded in 2008, the company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and operates as a subsidiary of Genalyte, Inc. The platform employs machine learning to analyze extensive medical literature and patient records, enabling healthcare providers to identify patients at risk for 43 chronic diseases, ultimately aiming to reduce the need for costly treatments.

EsLife

Seed Round in 2014
EsLife helps his clients to find trustworthy, reliable professionals to take care of their families and homes. EsLife gives you back time to enjoy doing what you really would like to do like being with your family, hanging out with your friends or travel around.

HealthSherpa

Seed Round in 2013
HealthSherpa is a technology company that focuses on connecting individuals with health coverage. It is a Healthcare.gov certified web broker, giving consumers, employers, and nonprofits a simpler platform for enrolling individuals and families in subsidy-eligible health plans.HealthSherpa provides consumers access to tools to aid their plan selection and to make use of their insurance after they’ve enrolled.

Jugo

Seed Round in 2013
In the coming months we will launch a series of Juices target specific areas for improvement and personal growth. Their users can play to those that best suit their personal goals, or participate in all of them simultaneously competing with others in a challenging comprehensive improvement.

HealthPocket

Series A in 2012
HealthPocket is a new technology company that compares and ranks all the health plans available — all at once. HealthPocket will help you: * Find the highest quality and lowest priced health insurance * Save on your out-of-pocket costs for healthcare

BaseHealth

Series A in 2011
BaseHealth, Inc. is a health management platform designed for physicians and their patients, integrating genomic, medical, behavioral, and environmental data to evaluate disease risks. The platform aids physicians in formulating personalized action plans aimed at disease prevention. It serves as a clinical support tool, enhancing medical decision-making by combining physician expertise, clinical knowledge, genome interpretation, and health analytics. Additionally, BaseHealth provides tailored recommendations regarding diet and physical activity based on individual health conditions and genetic profiles. Founded in 2008, the company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and operates as a subsidiary of Genalyte, Inc. The platform employs machine learning to analyze extensive medical literature and patient records, enabling healthcare providers to identify patients at risk for 43 chronic diseases, ultimately aiming to reduce the need for costly treatments.