Investors / United States / Plug and Play
Plug and Play
Venture capital · Sunnyvale, CA, United States · North America
Plug and Play runs an innovation platform that connects corporations, governments, universities and investors with startups across more than 25 vertical industries. It also operates a venture capital arm and co-working spaces, and has a network of over 100,000 startups in more than 60 countries.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningFintech
In its own wordsopen innovationcorporate partnershipsstartup ecosystemventure capitalacceleratorco-working
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Or find every investor that fitsPlug and Play lists 109 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 79 funding rounds, 3 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 75% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (30%), Fintech (22%) and Cybersecurity (7%). 52% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund and Y Combinator.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Plug and Play, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundPlug and Play does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 13% |
| Seed | 75% |
| Series A | 9% |
| Series B | 3% |
| Growth | 0% |
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 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 6 | 0 |
| '25 | 24 | 0 |
| '26 | 49 | 3 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 96th | 109 companies |
| Recent activity | 100th | 52 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 85th | 88% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 52th | 30% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 99th | 19 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 30% | 18% |
| Fintech | 22% | 12% |
| Cybersecurity | 7% | 4% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 6% | 8% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 5% | 6% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 4% | 15% |
| Education | 4% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Sequoia Capital | 5 |
| SoftBank Vision Fund | 5 |
| Y Combinator | 5 |
| Cisco Investments | 4 |
| Coinvest Capital | 4 |
| Cota Capital | 4 |
| Western Technology Investment | 4 |
| Accel | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers10798%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company22%
- 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 togetherCompare Plug and Play 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 Plug and Play| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Nov 2026 | Series A | |
| 3 Nov 2026 | Series B | |
| 29 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 28 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 27 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 22 Oct 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 22 Oct 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 12 Oct 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Plug and Play
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Plug and Play's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
109 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airalo sells eSIMs for international travel | ConsumerE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Airrived provides an enterprise agentic AI platform for solving complex problems at scale | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Feb 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Angle Health provides level-funded health plans to employers and offers related administration and support services. | Healthcare & BiotechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Animoca Brands builds, invests, and accelerates technologies and ecosystems related to digital ownership and Web3 | FintechGaming | Portfolio page | ||
| ApplyBoard provides a platform for students to apply to study abroad programs at global universities and colleges. | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| The company's activities are not described on the page. | Jun 2026Seed | Funding round | ||
| Arsenale Bioyards is building Industrial Biological AI, the intelligence layer that makes industrial biology scalable, and the factory it learns from. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Feb 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Artemis provides software for energy and roofing companies to design, sell, and execute projects | EducationReal Estate & Construction | Mar 2026Round | Funding round | |
| Athanor builds infrastructure to prove or disprove computational claims about programs, circuits, or protocols. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Sept 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Axiology provides capital markets infrastructure, including issuance, custody, trading, and settlement for fixed-income instruments | FintechFintech | Feb 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Aylight develops and manufactures precision DWDM lasers for optical connectivity in AI datacenters | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Jul 2026Pre-Seed | Funding round | |
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Bitstack provides a platform for users to save, spend, and grow their money in bitcoin | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Dec 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Blockdaemon provides digital ecosystem infrastructure and services for institutions to manage and scale their digital assets and transactions. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Brink Therapeutics is engineering a platform for precise, large-scale genomic integration using programmable integrases | Healthcare & Biotech | Apr 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| The company provides an AI-powered client intelligence layer for financial services | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2024Seed | Funding round | |
| Catena Telematics provides a universal API to normalize telematics data across fleets, giving complete visibility across the entire fleet network. | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Sept 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| CBRX helps businesses adopt AI by identifying worthwhile projects, pricing them, and building them | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Oct 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Certivity provides a platform for managing regulations, standards, and internal documents to help companies with product compliance | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Jul 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| CloudWalk Inc. provides various financial and commerce services through its platforms and agents, including payment handling and financial management. | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 10 Nov 2026- Site
- plugandplaytechcenter.com
- Last read
- 10 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 26 Jul 2024
- Companies checked
- 109
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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