Plug&Play Ventures/ Startup Camp is an accelerator in California that focuses on teams leading emerging growth companies. Founded 2006 in Sunnyvale, California, United States by Saeed Amidi, it invests in early stage ventures, seed, series A, convertible notes, and series B.
Its portfolio companies include Jassby, Infinity Stones (InfStones), Adapt, Bold Health, and Tractable. As of March 2020, Plug and Play has made 985 investments. Their most recent investment was on February 29, 2020 with Adapt. Plug and Play has had 70 exits, the most notable of which include Honey, Life360, and Guardant Health. Plug and Play has raised two funds, their latest being Plug & Play Ventures. This fund was announced on January 1, 2010 and raised a total of $20M.
Timeline
Funded Companies
An insurance technology company offering cloud-based enterprise software for underwriting and quoting employee benefits.
An information technology services company that uses geospatial imagery to create property intelligence for buildings within the United States. It is located in Mountain View, California and was founded in 2014.
A company designing and building autonomous electric transportation (AET) systems for freight and cargo.
A technology company offering an artificially intelligent platform for shopping for financial products.
An Oakland-based company developing a risk analytics platform for the Property and Casualty (P&C) Insurance industry.
TeleSense is a Sunnyvale, California-based IoT sensor company providing grain storage monitoring.
UbiQD is a company developing and manufacturing semiconductor nanocrystals or quantum dots for research applications. Hunter McDaniel founded UbiQD in 2014 and is based in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
ClearAccessIP is a Palo Alto, California-based company.
People
Adam Dawkins
Employee
Alejandro Cobos
Employee
Alek Vernitsky
Mentor
Alireza Masrour
Founder
Ankur Jain
Mentor
Bill Tang
Employee
Carlo Capello
Mentor
Christian Mangstl
Mentor
Christopher Nguyen
Mentor
Edward Yip
Mentor
Gerard Brossard
Mentor
Ivan Zgomba
Employee
Jonathan Siddharth
Mentor
Kamran Elahian
Mentor
Keaton Swett
Mentor
Liz Lewis
Employee
Lou Montulli
Mentor
Mandy Salzman
Employee
Nik Seet
Mentor
Rick Yang
Mentor
Robin Ardeshir
Employee
Roman Karachinsky
Mentor
Ross Epstein
Mentor
Saeed Amidi
Founder
Salil Pradhan
Mentor
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
Adapt
Bold Health
Celus
Infinity Stones (InfStones)
Prismpop
RxAll Inc.
S4 Medical
Salus Technologies
Vymo
Wollit