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

Nick Daley

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

Andy Toth

Investment Director

Phillip Vincent

Managing Partner, East Asia

Fan Wen

Associate

Chen Zhao

Managing Partner, China

Past deals in Pre-Seed Round

kennek

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Kennek offers an end-to-end loan operating system as a SaaS, which enables a marketplace between lenders and credit investors. Kennek provides capital market, risk mitigation, document, and disbursement management solutions. The company's operating system brings together all relevant lending parties, including lenders, institutional investors, debt advisors, and loan administrators. It allows every lender and credit investor to operate smartly and cost-efficiently.

Syndi Health

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

Reefilla

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Reefilla provides a mobile and predictive charging delivery service for electric vehicles. Reefilla enables people to charge their electric vehicles wherever and whenever they want, without disrupting their daily routine. Reefilla uses 100% green energy, fully electric vans for delivery, and gets its energy from used (second-life) batteries, contributing to net-zero emission by using a circular approach.

Deal Engine

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Deal Engine LLC provides travel software solutions. Its platform utilizes proprietary search and booking algorithms and reduces corporate travel expenditure by capitalizing on fluctuating pricing. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Hammurabi

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Hammurabi develops technology to provide insurance services. It predicts health risks and uses conversation tools on dealing with clients. Hammurabi is based in California, USA.

Everest

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Everest develops logistics solutions using artificial intelligence. It uses technology to solve trucking problems and inconveniences.

G.O.A.T. Fuel

Pre Seed Round in 2022
G.O.A.T. Fuel develops and promotes health-forward products. It offers energy drinks with various flavors and nutrients to consumers. G.O.A.T. Fuel is based in Texas, USA.

Bitstack

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Bitstack's mission is to empower people to build better savings habits in a more open financial world. Bitstack rounds up your purchases and saves the spare change in bitcoin. Bitcoin is a radically new way to store and transact value. It is the first open and borderless monetary network with a fixed supply of 21 million, making bitcoin the most scarce asset ever.

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.

Helical Fusion

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Helical Fusion is a startup focused on the commercialization of fusion energy by utilizing magnetic confinement of high-temperature plasmas. The company develops helical fusion reactors that employ a superconducting helical coil with a double helix structure, akin to DNA, to stably confine plasma. This innovative approach aims to generate sustainable energy, contributing to a zero-carbon future. By harnessing fusion energy, Helical Fusion seeks to help society decrease its reliance on fossil fuels, such as oil and natural gas, thus promoting a more sustainable energy landscape.

Connect Earth

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Connect Earth builds the infrastructure for climate-conscious products, fueling a world where climate action becomes standard practice.

Piggy Capital

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Piggy is a registered money service business that allows individuals and companies to make Bitcoin to reserve currency. It builds resilient infrastructure to promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth. It gives the ability to buy a house, or car with Bitcoin.

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

GSM Holdings

Pre Seed Round in 2022
GSM Holdings is engaging in optimization and leading sustainable enablement of the global circular economy. It supports mitigating secondary market financial and material waste.

FEDML

Pre Seed Round in 2022
FEDML Nexus AI® (https://nexus.fedml.ai) is a next-generation cloud platform that enables developers and enterprises to easily, economically, and securely build, deploy, and monetize their large language models (LLMs) and other generative AI models. It provides holistic support with a large-scale distributed GPU cloud (multi-cloud and multi-provider), high-performance ML libraries, user-friendly AIOps, and LLM and AI Agent studios.

Bumpa

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Salescabal is a cloud retail application that allows merchants and retailers to collect customer data and engage with them on their different social network or via traditional media. Salescabal take business from offline to having a complete online presence with a storefront and a companion mobile app to collect customer data in their brick and mortar stores.

Qashio

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Qashio is a spend management platform that allows people to monitor costs, make payments with app credit cards, and handle payables. Qashio's solution allows users o create physical or virtual cards, disburse budgets, grant or restrict employee usage, set approval layers, and verify spending. Companies can track card usage and analyze and report spending, in real time. Qashio eliminates the challenges of managing company spending and removes outdated, manual processes. Founded in 2021 and is based in Dubai.

Only Insure

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Only Insure provides automobile insurance options that depends on their driving skills. It offers premium packages that can be customized after testing owner's way of driving through the application. Only Insure is based in Singapore.

Macai

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Macai is an online supermarket that specializes in grocery delivery services, providing customers with access to a vast selection of high-quality food and non-food products. The company operates a platform that streamlines the ordering process and ensures delivery to customers' doorsteps within 24 hours. By sourcing a diverse range of essential goods and storing them in its warehouse, Macai efficiently meets the demands of its users, allowing them to select and receive products tailored to their needs. This business model emphasizes convenience and speed in the grocery shopping experience.

Reefilla

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Reefilla provides a mobile and predictive charging delivery service for electric vehicles. Reefilla enables people to charge their electric vehicles wherever and whenever they want, without disrupting their daily routine. Reefilla uses 100% green energy, fully electric vans for delivery, and gets its energy from used (second-life) batteries, contributing to net-zero emission by using a circular approach.

Veriply

Pre Seed Round in 2021
We help you identify payment risks and transaction errors by auditing all your invoice-based spend prior to payment. Our specialized solution allows us to make intelligent predictions and create meaningful insights from your data, helping you stay secure at all times. Proud UC Berkeley-born startup.

Ndovu

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a financial advisory platform intended to invest in local and global financial markets. The company's platform offers curated investment funds and personalized investment plans based on risk tolerance and financial goals, enabling users to improve access to investment opportunities and grow their wealth.

Rownd

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Rownd is the stripe for personal data: simple, intuitive, and a super-secure platform that gives companies the benefit of accessing customer data, without the risk and regulatory requirements of storing data themselves. Be build trust so that data owners (end-users) can confidently trust data-consumers (apps), in exchange for personalized goods and services.

Stere.io

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Stere is a one-stop shop for businesses to find capacity and access digital tools to launch, improve, and grow insurance programs. It aims to empower businesses to launch and grow insurance programs with a full-stack infrastructure, by providing the right services and tools such as digital platforms, data analytics, a network of capacity providers, innovative tech, and more. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Dover, Delaware.

Wave Photonics

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Wave Photonics utilizes computational techniques to accelerate integrated photonics product designs. The company is developing a platform that provides optimized designs and streamlined integration between the supply chain using a software tool for predicting the performance and variation of a component for a given fabrication process and an optimizer to generate a foundry-specific component library. Wave Photonics is headquartered in Bristol, Bristol.

New Renaissance

Pre Seed Round in 2021
New Renaissance is a platform that enables users to buy, collect, sell, and display digital creations.

Fairphonic

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer of royalty management software designed to help content platforms to pay and manage royalty payments. The company's software offers direct matching of music, real-time royalty computation, and direct payment, enabling artists to track and manage their royalty payments.

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.

Drift Bio

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Drift Biotechnologies develops bioinformatics software for infectious disease genetic sequencing. The company was headquartered in San Francisco, California in 2020.

Pluggy

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Pluggy enables you or your company access to your digital financial data in a fast, easy, and flexible way. We mainly focus on developer experience, we believe that good software comes from good developers, so our goal is to provide the best tools.

Bankuish

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Bankuish is a technology platform where gig workers and freelancers leverage their work history data to demonstrate their creditworthiness. Users gain access to a marketplace of preapproved offers from national banks tailored to their unique profile as well as tools to grow their credit score. The company helps banks gain new customers, manage risk, and improve customer relationships. The Bankuish Score has been used to de-risk thousands of individuals while maintaining a default rate well below the industry standard. Bankuish was established in 2020 with its headquarters in New York City and Mexico City.

Castia

Pre Seed Round in 2021
acasa is a Latam based Proptech. acasa enables homeowners in Latam to move to a new home in a fast and simple manner, leveraging their current home equity. Then we sell the old home or else we buy it after 6 months.

FloVision Solutions

Pre Seed Round in 2021
FloWaste is a food analytic platform that optimizes supplier comparative analysis, meal performance, and food wastage. The platform also develops machine learning algorithms to detect food waste and offer recommendations to the user on how to reduce their "food-print" and save money. FloWaste was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in South Bend, Indiana, USA.

Amitruck

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Amitruck Limited is a Nairobi-based company that operates a mobile and web-based logistics platform designed to connect cargo owners with trucking professionals. Founded in 2018, Amitruck streamlines the delivery process by allowing customers to book shipments through its online platform. The company has developed a driver application that enables transporters to access client requests and communicate seamlessly. Users can track their deliveries in real time, receive instant quotes, and find the nearest available trucks, ensuring timely updates on their shipments. Amitruck’s innovative approach provides complete visibility throughout the delivery process, enhancing efficiency for both clients and drivers.

Unifimoney

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Optimizing your personal finance is hard, complex and boring. The conventional banking industry has become used to consumer inertia and to an extent relies on it for their massive profits. Unifimoney (www.unifi.money) has been created to solve this by integrating and automating money management so you don’t have to. Unifimoney is a single account accessed via mobile that integrated a high-interest checking account, a credit card and Robo investment platform. By doing absolutely nothing more customers model best practices in personal finance — effortlessly. Maximizing daily passive income and building a long term investment fund. Unifimoney will launch in early 2020 you can join the waitlist at www.unifi.money

Gozem

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Gozem is a transport technology platform for Francophone West and Central Africa.

Everyday Life

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Everyday Life Insurance uses technology to redefine financial security for middle income families. Its first product, Predictive Protection, saves consumers money by automatically adjusting coverage based on predictable life events like kids growing up or retirement. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Zadar Labs

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

DesignerInc

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2018, DesignerInc.com is a ground-breaking B2B sourcing and purchasing platform for the professional design industry. DesignerInc.com is the most comprehensive trade-only sourcing and purchasing platform for the professional design industry. Amassing hundreds of thousands of trade-only furniture and decor product with unprecedented depth and breadth, DesignerInc.com offers a seamless solution to source and purchase furniture and decor for interior designers. And with $77 billion of furniture and decor product purchased via designers, DesignerInc.com brings much needed efficiency to this enormous, yet low-tech, industry.

symmetrical.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Symmetrical Labs Sp. z o.o. develops financial software solutions for partners and investors. The company’s solutions allow partners to instantly deliver the right credit to their clients and employees; and institutional investors to slash client acquisition costs and provide financing directly to the end-users at a scale. The company is based in Warsaw, Poland.

presize.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2019
50% of fashion products are returned. 75% of them due to wrong size and bad fit. Fashion eCommerce shops lose money every day and online shoppers are annoyed by returns. Our solution: presize allows web-shoppers to turn around in front of their smartphone camera once with normal clothes (you can wear jeans and t-shirt while doing it), and automatically get their best fitting clothing size recommended. We use a pipeline of Deep Learning algorithms to create a 3D human body model and match this to a database of sizing charts, fits and sewing patterns from our partner webshops and the internet. Your size persists on all partner webshops.

Madlipz

Pre Seed Round in 2019
**NEW FEATURE** Now you can create even more memes and parodies using the brand new SUBTITLE feature! In a matter of seconds and with just a few taps, you sub your own Lipz! Think of the possibilities... MadLipz lets you make instant voiceover and subtitle parodies to share with everyone! You could be the creator of the next viral meme! Select from thousands of ready-to-go clips for you to dub, sub, watch and share! Your profile displays everything you've made, and you can showcase your best work in your very own reel. Lurk your friends profiles and check out their Lipz too. We want to hear all of your feedback: what you like about the new app and what could be changed or improved to make your experience better. Send your feedback to feedback@madlipz.com Don't forget to follow us on Instagram to watch hilarious Lipz! @madlipzapp

Linkana

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Linkana (YC W20) reduce risks and simplifies supplier information management for companies in LatAm.

DeepScribe

Pre Seed Round in 2019
DeepScribe is bringing the joy of care back to medicine with its artificially intelligent medical scribe. Imagine a world where you visit your patients and come back to your desk to see the entire appointment accurately documented for you in your Electronic Health Record (EHR) System. No frustrating voice dictation services. No expensive human/virtual scribes. No having to remember what you prescribed. That is what they are trying to accomplish at DeepScribe. Learn more at deepscribe.tech

Leverage

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Leverage, Inc. is a company that develops and operates an artificial intelligence-based vendor relationship management platform aimed at aiding procurement professionals. The platform provides essential data and information to facilitate supplier engagement and enhance purchasing decisions. Key features of Leverage's offerings include intelligent relationship mapping, automated supplier pages, and compliance monitoring and enforcement. By tracking and managing supplier performance throughout the supply chain, Leverage helps organizations achieve cost savings and drive continuous improvement. Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in New York, New York.

Monir

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Monir is creating an AI-driven optimization layer to digital content. Our vision is to disrupt the publishing and content marketing industries and we are starting with e-commerce. We are developing an e-commerce experience to help online retailers increase sales through tailored content created with AI.

Shrimpy

Pre Seed Round in 2018
In addition to the Shrimpy portfolio management application, Shrimpy solves the problem of exchange integration with the Shrimpy Universal Crypto Exchange APIs. These APIs take care of the user API key management, exchange integrations, trade execution logic, maintaining the asset listings, data collection, automation, server scaling, and portfolio management. This is an end-to-end solution that can be used to build robust products that rely on crypto exchanges. These APIs can be found here: https://developers.shrimpy.io/

Aumet

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients. Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other . Suppliers list their products and connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.

Newton Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Newton combines deep learning algorithms and natural language processing to help employers hire talents. Its HR experts screen all of the top-matched candidates to ensure optimal accuracy in our recommendations and to set up a smooth follow-up for the employer. By harnessing the power of AI and combining it with human expertise, Newton cuts recruitment costs for companies by over 80%. Newton is a global company with clients in the United States, Japan, and Portugal. Notable clients include Nike, Sumitomo Life Insurance, Sonae IM, amongst many amazing startups spread throughout the world. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Xapix

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Xapix, Inc. operates an online platform that enables enterprise developers to discover, integrate, and manage data and services from various providers. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Berlin, the company specializes in data orchestration, allowing users to combine data endpoints into a unified application programming interface (API). This functionality facilitates the mapping of data across different formats and supports businesses in promoting and distributing API-based products. Additionally, Xapix offers an analytics and insights platform that centralizes key data and provides artificial intelligence-powered recommendations. The platform is particularly beneficial for digital-first retailers, as it simplifies product portfolio management across marketplaces and delivers performance insights to enhance competitiveness and drive sales growth.

ImpriMed

Pre Seed Round in 2018
ImpriMed, Inc. provides drug testing services. It looks into drug responses of patient’s live cancer cells before treatment. The company collects gene and cell information from pets’ cancer cells, and translates into human oncology, and provides research insights into fighting human cancer. Its services allow veterinary oncologists to decide a final treatment regimen. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California with a branch office in Seoul, South Korea.

Relimetrics

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Relimetrics, Inc. specializes in imaging solutions aimed at enhancing materials reliability across various sectors. The company provides third-party supplier analysis for aerospace, mechanical design optimization, and parts testing for the automotive industry, as well as structural monitoring and failure prediction for the civil and construction sectors. In the medical surgical field, Relimetrics offers solutions for cancer detection and monitoring wound healing, while in life sciences, it focuses on product efficacy testing and reducing clinical trial durations. Additionally, the company delivers technical consulting services, including analysis and software development across engineering and consumer care sectors. Relimetrics utilizes advanced computer vision and machine learning to automate visual inspections and process controls, enabling businesses to identify mechanical faults and improve product reliability. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with additional operations in Berlin, Germany.

ThroughPut

Pre Seed Round in 2017
ThroughPut Inc. is a supply chain management software company based in Sunnyvale, California, focused on optimizing operational efficiency through its advanced AI-driven solution, Eli. Eli serves as an automated data consultancy that analyzes time-stamped supply chain data, identifying areas for improvement and helping organizations reduce waste. By leveraging existing data, ThroughPut aims to address operational inefficiencies across global supply chains, enabling companies to enhance output, profitability, and inventory turnover. The company's mission is to eliminate significant industrial operational waste, which it estimates to cost the global economy around $25 trillion annually. ThroughPut's solutions are particularly beneficial for logistics and manufacturing sectors, empowering organizations to reinvest their freed-up capital across various stakeholders, including investors, employees, and communities. Founded in 2016, ThroughPut was previously known as RigBasket, LLC before rebranding in March 2017.

Unicoaero

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Unicobag is the on demand baggage delivery company for airlines and passengers. Unicobag helps airlines to deliver mishandled bags and passengers to bypass baggage carousels. Unicobag's mission is to be a leading baggage service provider, so airlines, airports, and passengers never deal with bags anymore.

Beam

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Beam is a venture-backed regulatory technology (“regtech”) software company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our proprietary transaction monitoring technologies incorporate advanced machine learning and new data sources. The result? Immediate, meaningful reduction in false positives, better catch rates, and increased efficiency. Beam’s tools help our bank, credit union, and fintech customers make the financial system safer and maximize the value and utility of critical compliance resources. Beam’s end-to-end compliance solution brings new data sources and advanced machine learning models to cut false positives and enhance transaction monitoring. Our unique transparent-box approach demystifies machine learning, exposes all data sources, and is built for regulator understanding and approval. Beam is supported by an experienced group of officers, directors, advisors, and investors.

GYANT

Pre Seed Round in 2016
GYANT.com, Inc. is a technology company based in Corte Madera, California, that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-based chatbot application designed to enhance the connection between physicians and patients. The company's primary offering, the GYANT platform, assists healthcare providers by facilitating initial diagnostics, treatment recommendations, and prescription guidance through targeted patient inquiries. GYANT serves a variety of healthcare entities, including hospitals, health systems, and integrated delivery networks, aiming to streamline the patient experience. By implementing digital patient journeys, GYANT helps these organizations effectively capture new patients, improve service for existing ones, and automate various processes across their operations. Incorporated in 2016, GYANT focuses on creating solutions that navigate patients to appropriate care settings and in-network resources.

Stream Hatchet

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Stream Hatchet S.L. is a company that specializes in providing analytics and statistics for streaming platforms, notably Twitch. Founded in 2016 and based in Valencia, Spain, Stream Hatchet offers a suite of tools that delivers real-time analytics, enables users to compare streaming sessions, and generates reports to enhance streaming performance. The company also stores historical session data for user review. In addition to supporting individual streamers, Stream Hatchet provides tailored business intelligence products for companies in the esports and livestream sectors. Its technology assists in decision-making processes, manages influencer rosters, and evaluates the media value of game streaming activations. The company monitors data across multiple platforms, including Twitch, YouTube Gaming, and Facebook, among others.

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.

Runator

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Runator is an application that allows users to import their running data from multiple running apps in a social environment. It enables users to share running experiences, meet new runners, and participate in global races.