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 mHealth

Syndi Health

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Outcome-driven digital health support recommendation platform using machine learning and digital phenotyping - starting in mental health.

MajorBoost

Pre Seed Round in 2022
MajorBoost is to reimagine how doctor’s offices and insurance companies communicate with each other, using artificial intelligence to deal with time-consuming phone calls.

QuantActions

Seed Round in 2022
QuantActions Sàrl offers digital health platform for analyzing touch screen taps of smart phone users to detect indicators related to mental and neurological health. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Syndi Health

Seed Round in 2022
Outcome-driven digital health support recommendation platform using machine learning and digital phenotyping - starting in mental 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.

CoverUS

Convertible Note in 2020
CoverUS Inc., founded in 2017 and based in Brooklyn, New York, develops an application that empowers users to take control of their health data while facilitating engagement with the healthcare industry. The company provides mobile health payment solutions aimed at making healthcare more affordable for Americans. Its platform intelligently matches users with personalized deals on prescriptions, procedures, and health products, helping them save on medical expenses. Additionally, CoverUS offers an online marketplace where patients can earn money by participating in healthcare research surveys, all while ensuring their privacy is protected.

Helium Health

Series A in 2020
Helium Health is a technology company focused on transforming healthcare in Africa through its electronic health records and hospital management systems. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, the company provides a comprehensive suite of software tools designed to digitize medical records, manage hospital operations, and facilitate financial applications. Its platform features capabilities for managing patient visits, prescriptions, billing, and telemedicine solutions, all accessible from various devices. Additionally, Helium Health offers functionalities such as customizable forms, smart analytics, appointment management, and alerts, which help healthcare providers enhance efficiency, improve patient care, and reduce operational waste. By leveraging technology, Helium Health aspires to become the leading healthcare data exchange in Africa.

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.

Healthlane

Convertible Note in 2020
Healthlane is a healthcare technology company that operates an online application aimed at enhancing access to quality and affordable healthcare services in Africa. Established in 2020 and headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, with additional offices in Yaounde, Cameroon, and San Francisco, California, the platform facilitates users in tracking medical appointments and consolidating their health data. It offers features such as virtual medical advice on various health topics, including pregnancy, vaccinations, lab results, family planning, and insurance records. By enabling direct communication with certified doctors, Healthlane empowers individuals to make informed health decisions and efficiently monitor their health status.

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.

Medici

Series B in 2019
Medici is working to change how healthcare is delivered by recreating the doctor-patient relationship. With the secure messaging app, physicians and patients have the ability to connect via text, call, or video, from anywhere and on their schedule. This enables patients to chat with their doctor, vet, or therapist at any time, and clinicians to extend care and get paid without extra overhead or burdensome schedules. With over 20,000 doctors across the platform, Medici is leading the way in the future of healthcare. Medici also raised more funding to help combat COVID-19.

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.

Cardiomo

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Cardiomo Care, Inc. develops wearable healthcare monitoring and tracking device to record EKG, heart rate, respiratory rate, and temperature, as well as tracks body position. Further, the company offers a mobile application and algorithms to detect different events of arrhythmia, other conditions, and falls to alert users and caregivers. It sends alert notifications to the users and observers, as well as offers nonstop health monitoring. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

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.

100Plus

Seed Round in 2018
100Plus is the fastest-growing remote patient monitoring platform empowering doctors to manage their chronic patients remotely and proactively engage them to avoid expensive, episodic care and drive a higher quality of life. When a Medicare patient receives a 100Plus medical device, it’s at no cost to the patient or practice, fully configured, and ready to use out of the box — no smartphone, app, Bluetooth, or WiFi required. Reduce episodic care and improve patient care by continuously monitoring high-risk seniors in your population.

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.

Wellthie

Funding Round in 2017
Wellthie Inc., an insurance technology company, offers broker and carrier shopping tools to simplify insurance distribution for small businesses and individuals. It offers cloud-based e-commerce platform for selling tools, medical and ancillary quotes, broker management dashboard, modeling and scenario planning, online storefront, custom client proposals, distribution channels, marketplace product promotion, small group and individual analysis, market insights, and consumer engagement. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

100Plus

Seed Round in 2017
100Plus is the fastest-growing remote patient monitoring platform empowering doctors to manage their chronic patients remotely and proactively engage them to avoid expensive, episodic care and drive a higher quality of life. When a Medicare patient receives a 100Plus medical device, it’s at no cost to the patient or practice, fully configured, and ready to use out of the box — no smartphone, app, Bluetooth, or WiFi required. Reduce episodic care and improve patient care by continuously monitoring high-risk seniors in your population.

Health Gorilla

Seed Round in 2016
Health Gorilla, Inc. specializes in providing interoperability solutions that enhance data sharing across the healthcare ecosystem, including patients, payers, providers, digital health solutions, and laboratories. The company's main offering is a clinical network that aggregates and normalizes patient data, facilitates clinical orders, and delivers real-time notifications, empowering patients with access to their personal health information. By ensuring secure interoperability and supporting social determinants of health (SDOH), Health Gorilla aims to deliver high-quality, actionable data that improves healthcare delivery, clinical outcomes, and revenue cycle management for healthcare organizations. The company, originally founded as Informedika, Inc. in 2011, rebranded to Health Gorilla in April 2014 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

dr Poket

Venture Round in 2016
dr Poket Sp. z o.o. develops and markets telemedicine solutions that help users to take the right drug in the right dosage at the right time. The company’s application provides direct communication between the patients and their caregivers; finds how particular the medicine affects driving skills, pregnancy, and breastfeeding; and finds medicine interactions with alcohol. It also provides PILLBOX, an electronic pills dispenser. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Gdansk, Poland.

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.

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.

Simpathic

Seed Round in 2014
Simpathic is a provider of a training platform aimed at delivering clinical training services to medical professionals. The platform features a responsive design optimized for both desktop and mobile use, ensuring accessibility for users. It is supported by extensive evidence-based medical data and utilizes a proprietary algorithm to sort signs and symptoms, facilitating interactive clinical training. This innovative approach enables medical professionals to enhance their diagnostic skills and make accurate diagnoses efficiently.

Statim Health

Seed Round in 2014
Statim Health is a free digital platform that enables healthcare pricing transparency.

Santech

Seed Round in 2013
Santech has developed a mobile messaging platform (SMS and mobile app) and a patent pending tailoring algorithm to deliver highly tailored, personalized messages to modify behavior for healthcare organizations at a fraction of the cost of a health coach with healthy margins. The user experience is interactive and engaging and incorporates social support and reward recognition.

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.

proVITAL

Seed Round in 2012
Powering healthcare breakthroughs.

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.