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Playground Global
Venture capital · Palo Alto, CA, United States · North America
Playground Global is a venture capital firm with $1.7 billion in assets under management that invests in early-stage deep tech startups. Based in Palo Alto, it works alongside founders to turn technical ideas into companies.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsdeep technext-gen computeautomationenergy transitionengineered biologyartificial intelligence
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Or find every investor that fitsPlayground Global lists 52 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 22 funding rounds, 17 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 41% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (36%), Healthcare & Biotech (22%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (13%). 82% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Andreessen Horowitz, DCVC and FPV.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Playground Global, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Playground Global's whole history. Rounds on record name 22 companies; its own site lists 52. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 41% |
| Series A | 27% |
| Series B | 18% |
| Growth | 14% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 1 | 0 |
| '23 | 1 | 1 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 8 | 6 |
| '26 | 11 | 9 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 85th | 52 companies |
| Recent activity | 96th | 12 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 67th | 41% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 95th | 25% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 66th | 36% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 84th | 6 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 36% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 22% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 13% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 7% | 4% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 5% | 1% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
| Education | 4% | 7% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 4% | 6% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Andreessen Horowitz | 5 |
| DCVC | 5 |
| FPV | 4 |
| Insight Partners | 4 |
| Alumni Ventures | 3 |
| Civilization Ventures | 3 |
| G Vision Capital | 3 |
| IQT | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers52100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Andreessen Horowitz
Compare Playground Global head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Playground Global| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Oct 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 24 Sept 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 15 Sept 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 15 Sept 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 11 Aug 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 21 Jul 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 16 Jul 2026 | Series C+ Led | |
| 13 May 2026 | Series B |
Round details for Playground Global
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Playground Global's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
52 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company pioneers small and large molecule therapeutics discovery by integrating massive multimodal data, frontier AI models, and high-throughput lab automation into an infrastructure for AI-enabled drug discovery. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Agility Robotics designs and deploys humanoid robots for industrial automation | Robotics & HardwareIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Alva Energy is adding 10 gigawatts to America's nuclear fleet by rewriting the economics of nuclear deployment to deliver gigawatts of clean power in years, not decades. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Feb 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Amber Bio is a biotechnology company pioneering new gene editing modalities using multi-kilobase edits to reach previously undruggable patient populations. | Healthcare & Biotech | Aug 2023Seed | Page + round | |
| Anjuna provides cloud data security and privacy preserving AI solutions | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company harnesses machine learning and structural biology for RNA drug discovery | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Ayar Labs develops and manufactures co-packaged optics for hyperscale AI infrastructure | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Bodyport develops and sells a cardiac scale for heart failure monitoring | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Boxbot makes logistics operations more productive, intelligent, and resilient by introducing automated, high-density storage that unlocks new AI-driven capabilities. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Branch provides a mobile measurement and deep linking platform for businesses | Media & EntertainmentE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| d-Matrix develops and manufactures memory-centric compute technology for AI inference | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Databricks provides a unified platform for data, analytics, and AI. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| De-Ice eliminates weather-related departure delays and carbon emissions by providing a chemical-free de-icing method for aircraft. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Delos Data develops systems and software for resilient data movement and interconnect for artificial intelligence | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Sept 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Element Zero has developed a novel approach to cost-effectively and efficiently convert metal ores to pure metal form with zero carbon emissions. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Fabric provides automated fulfillment solutions for various industries, including grocery and health and beauty | E-commerce & MarketplacesRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| GigaCrop is a team of scientists and entrepreneurs working to make agriculture both sustainable and abundant by improving crop yields through photosynthesis | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Ideon Technologies Inc. helps the world's largest mining companies reduce geologic uncertainty by identifying, mapping, and monitoring mineral deposits and other subsurface anomalies. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Infinimmune develops human-derived antibody medicines | Healthcare & Biotech | Aug 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Insamo discovers drugs for challenging diseases using a platform that designs, synthesizes, and tests cyclic-peptides | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- playground.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 21 Jun 2016
- Companies checked
- 52
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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