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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.

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440 N. Wolfe Rd, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, US

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 Robotics

WAKU Robotics

Seed Round in 2022
WAKU Robotics is a supplier-independent, SaaS-enabled procurement platform for mobile robots for warehouses and production facilities. We help our end-customers to make the best robot selection through our online comparison site lotsofbots.com and our online Robot Solution Designer. Once our customers are set-up we provide them with AI software to monitor, quantify and optimise their robot workforce.

Thread Robotics

Series A in 2021
Thread Robotics provides medical devices and services with a focus on fertility care. It was founded in 2020 and operates in Mountain View, California.

Automation Hero

Series B in 2021
Automation Hero goes beyond traditional RPA by natively integrating AI to form an enterprise-ready intelligent process automation platform. By intelligently automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks, Automation Hero improves information worker productivity and drives more successful, optimized business outcomes. Its powerful backend focuses on three key areas: augmenting employee decision making, eliminating repetitive and time-consuming tasks and automating common customer asks. The platform offers both unattended and attended automations. Its attended version is personified by Robin, a proactive, adaptive and interactive AI assistant to create an approachable integration between AI and humans. Automation Hero empowers organizations to modernize legacy systems without adding heavy IT resources through seamless integration.

Automation Hero

Series B in 2021
Automation Hero goes beyond traditional RPA by natively integrating AI to form an enterprise-ready intelligent process automation platform. By intelligently automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks, Automation Hero improves information worker productivity and drives more successful, optimized business outcomes. Its powerful backend focuses on three key areas: augmenting employee decision making, eliminating repetitive and time-consuming tasks and automating common customer asks. The platform offers both unattended and attended automations. Its attended version is personified by Robin, a proactive, adaptive and interactive AI assistant to create an approachable integration between AI and humans. Automation Hero empowers organizations to modernize legacy systems without adding heavy IT resources through seamless integration.

iLife

Convertible Note in 2021
Headquartered in Shenzhen, It have R&D centers in both Shenzhen and Hong Kong, and two large manufacturing bases in Shenzhen and Dongguan, which make ILIFE ranking top among China' s leading companies in intelligent cleaning robot industry.

Zadar Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Zadar is an ultimate sensing solution for autonomous robots.

Flexiv

Series B in 2020
Flexiv Ltd. is a global leading general-purpose robotics company, focusing on developing and manufacturing adaptive robots which integrate industrial-grade force control, computer vision and AI technologies. The company provides innovative turnkey solutions and services based on Flexiv robotic systems to customers in a variety of industries. Founded in 2016, Flexiv has established offices in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, and Foshan.

Zadar Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Zadar is an ultimate sensing solution for autonomous robots.

WAKU Robotics

Pre Seed Round in 2020
WAKU Robotics is a supplier-independent, SaaS-enabled procurement platform for mobile robots for warehouses and production facilities. We help our end-customers to make the best robot selection through our online comparison site lotsofbots.com and our online Robot Solution Designer. Once our customers are set-up we provide them with AI software to monitor, quantify and optimise their robot workforce.

WAKU Robotics

Seed Round in 2020
WAKU Robotics is a supplier-independent, SaaS-enabled procurement platform for mobile robots for warehouses and production facilities. We help our end-customers to make the best robot selection through our online comparison site lotsofbots.com and our online Robot Solution Designer. Once our customers are set-up we provide them with AI software to monitor, quantify and optimise their robot workforce.

Orca-Tech

Series A in 2020
Orca-Tech develops aquatic self-driving technology products. The company’s products include “ORCA SMURF”, water garbage cleaning robots. Orca-Tech was founded in 2017 and is based in Xi'an, China.

YOURIKA

Convertible Note in 2020
YOURIKA combines years of AI research from the University of Waterloo (Top 5 in AI) with our proprietary technology and domain expertise to make smarter and more connected learning products. This includes our own platform, ORBITS, that liberates teenage students to work smarter when learning remotely.

Seyo

Seed Round in 2020
Seyo enables machines to cooperate autonomously in extreme environments without the internet.

Zadar Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Zadar is an ultimate sensing solution for autonomous robots.

Qibus

Seed Round in 2019
Making Autonomous Mobility a Reality

Semblr Technologies

Venture Round in 2019
Semblr believes the next big innovation in building construction will be increased automation on construction sites. Design has already gone digital with BIM, but construction processes are still analogue and manual. It is this disconnection that has led construction to fall behind other industries in productivity. Semblr's Robot-Oriented BIM workflow, combined with teams of on-site construction robots allow a fully digital construction process from design to fabrication to completion. They reduce manual labour by 90% and offer time-specific as-built documentation of the construction process.

AutoX

Series A in 2019
AutoX, Inc. is a self-driving car startup based in San Jose, California, founded in 2016. The company focuses on developing software solutions for autonomous vehicles, utilizing a camera-based system combined with artificial intelligence to achieve level 5 full autonomy. AutoX aims to enhance universal access to transportation by offering AI drivers that navigate challenging and dynamic urban traffic scenarios. By leveraging low-cost sensors and advanced AI technology, AutoX provides safe, reliable, and affordable autonomous delivery services, facilitating the transition to fully driverless cars and improving the convenience of everyday life for users.

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.

Seyo

Venture Round in 2019
Seyo enables machines to cooperate autonomously in extreme environments without the internet.

Wutton

Angel Round in 2019
Wutton develops and manufactures artificial intelligence based robots for children's education. The company offers a set of three small squares embedded with sensors and chips to sense child's gestures for interactive display and content playback. Wutton was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, China.

Tend.ai

Seed Round in 2019
Tend.ai Inc. develops cloud robotics software for machine tending. The company offers in.view, a cloud-based intelligent view software that allows users to remotely monitor and analyze the performance of their production robots in real time from any location through a cloud-based application on their mobile device. Its software enables users to train, control, and monitor their robots using an iPad, iPhone, or Android device. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Bend, Oregon.

Southie Autonomy

Convertible Note in 2019
Southie Autonomy develops a robot software that enables any industrial robot to be re-purposed and re-deployed by any person even without robotics expertise or even computer skills. It aims to help businesses recoup ROI faster by lowering time, cost, and skill barriers, in applications like kitting, palletizing, and simple assembly. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

6d bytes

Series A in 2019
6d bytes inc., also known as Blendid, specializes in developing autonomous robotic stations designed for blending drinks and smoothies in foodservice settings. Founded in 2015 and based in Sunnyvale, California, the company utilizes advanced technologies such as robotics, machine vision, and artificial intelligence to create kiosks that prepare and serve fresh smoothies without human intervention. These plug-and-play kiosks offer a variety of blended drinks made from ingredients like mango, spinach, blueberry, coconut water, kefir, banana, and ginger, effectively transforming the food and beverage industry's approach to healthy food preparation and serving.

Ximpatico

Convertible Note in 2019
Ximpatico is a robotics company.

Ottopia

Seed Round in 2018
Ottopia's vision is to provide the first automotive-grade teleoperation platform. Ottopia's proprietary platform enables humans to control any type of vehicle from remote, in a manner that is safe and cyber-secure. Ottopia is the only teleoperation company that researches, develops, tests and provides all critical technologies to provide a reliable teleoperation platform.

Gideon

Convertible Note in 2018
Gideon Brothers d.o.o. is a robotics engineering company that specializes in developing autonomous, mobile, collaborative, and modular robots designed for unstructured, indoor human environments. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia, with an additional office in Osijek, the company focuses on creating robot platforms and autonomy technologies applicable across various industries. Gideon Brothers is recognized as one of the largest robotics engineering firms in Central and Southeastern Europe, highlighting its significant role in advancing robotic solutions for complex industrial settings.

Gideon

Seed Round in 2018
Gideon Brothers d.o.o. is a robotics engineering company that specializes in developing autonomous, mobile, collaborative, and modular robots designed for unstructured, indoor human environments. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia, with an additional office in Osijek, the company focuses on creating robot platforms and autonomy technologies applicable across various industries. Gideon Brothers is recognized as one of the largest robotics engineering firms in Central and Southeastern Europe, highlighting its significant role in advancing robotic solutions for complex industrial settings.

6d bytes

Seed Round in 2017
6d bytes inc., also known as Blendid, specializes in developing autonomous robotic stations designed for blending drinks and smoothies in foodservice settings. Founded in 2015 and based in Sunnyvale, California, the company utilizes advanced technologies such as robotics, machine vision, and artificial intelligence to create kiosks that prepare and serve fresh smoothies without human intervention. These plug-and-play kiosks offer a variety of blended drinks made from ingredients like mango, spinach, blueberry, coconut water, kefir, banana, and ginger, effectively transforming the food and beverage industry's approach to healthy food preparation and serving.

ZhenRobotics

Seed Round in 2016
ZhenRobotics, founded in 2012 and based in Beijing, China, specializes in the development of package delivery robots. The company integrates artificial intelligence into its technology, aiming to enhance logistics solutions for the last mile of delivery. Its team comprises experts from prestigious institutions such as ETH Zurich, Imperial College London, Tsinghua University, and Alibaba, reflecting a strong foundation in both academia and industry. Through its innovative approach, ZhenRobotics strives to improve efficiency and reliability in package delivery services.

6d bytes

Convertible Note in 2016
6d bytes inc., also known as Blendid, specializes in developing autonomous robotic stations designed for blending drinks and smoothies in foodservice settings. Founded in 2015 and based in Sunnyvale, California, the company utilizes advanced technologies such as robotics, machine vision, and artificial intelligence to create kiosks that prepare and serve fresh smoothies without human intervention. These plug-and-play kiosks offer a variety of blended drinks made from ingredients like mango, spinach, blueberry, coconut water, kefir, banana, and ginger, effectively transforming the food and beverage industry's approach to healthy food preparation and serving.

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.

Replica Labs

Seed Round in 2014
Replica Labs is a technology company focused on transforming everyday smartphones into high-quality 3D scanners through advanced computer vision techniques. Its flagship product, Rendor, allows users to easily digitize objects and environments, democratizing access to 3D scanning capabilities. By developing software that harnesses the power of mobile devices, Replica Labs aims to make three-dimensional scanning accessible to a broader audience, enhancing the way individuals and businesses interact with digital representations of the physical world.