Plug and Play Tech Center


Plug and Play Tech Center is early stage investor, accelerator and corporate innovation platform with global headquarters in Sunnyvale, California in the Silicon Valley.
Plug and Play runs two programs per year in each industry and location and has 300 corporate partners and 200 venture capitalists in its ecosystem. It was recently named the 'Most active Silicon Valley venture capital firm' by Silicon Valley Business Journal.
Plug and Play were early investors in Google, PayPal, Dropbox, LendingClub, N26, Soundhound and Guardant Health.
According to Plug and Play's 2018 report, the company accelerated 1,107 startups in 2018. The company claims to have made 222 investments in 2018.
Its Spring 2017 programs hosted 175 startups in nine different industries:
Its Spring 2019 programs hosted 135 startups in seven different industries:
The industries the company focuses on include:
The founder is Saeed Amidi.
The company has offices in Sunnyvale, Berlin, Stuttgart, Paris, Munich, Frankfurt, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Guadalajara, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, Kyoto, São Paulo, Singapore, Valencia, Spain and Cleveland.
Plug and Play partners with corporations and exposes them to the Silicon Valley startup culture and to the startups themselves.
In January 2020, Plug and Play signed an agreement with CaixaBank, Spain's leading retail bank. The agreement aims to collectively promote new services for the banking and insurace sector through a collaboration program in Spain.

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