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Plug and Play

Accelerator · Sunnyvale, USA · Founded 2006 · Active in 2026

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111 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #5 · 111 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Enterprise value ↓ 25% 5y
$354B
Unicorns ↑ 45% 5y
100
Decacorns → 5y
5
Thoroughbreds ↑ 56% 5y
109
Featured in #5Power Law Investor Ranking · Global · 2026 Top 0.1%by Seed → $100M+ revenue outcomes

Plug and Play is a corporate-innovation accelerator founded in 2006 by Saeed Amidi in Sunnyvale. Its model differs from a traditional accelerator: alongside a small Seed cheque, founders get curated introductions to Plug and Play's network of Fortune-1000 corporate partners across automotive, fintech, insurance, retail, and energy.

The firm runs over 30 vertical-specific programs in cities worldwide. The numbers on this profile cover only outcomes Dealroom measures for the Power Law ranking; the full portfolio is several times larger.

Portfolio analysis

The 111 Plug and Play Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue and above).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA83
  2. Germany5
  3. UK4
  4. Israel3
  5. Canada3
  6. France2
  7. Spain1
  8. Sweden1
  9. Switzerland1
  10. Colombia1
  11. Brazil1
  12. Netherlands1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech29
  2. Marketing14
  3. Transportation14
  4. AI13
  5. Cybersecurity9
  6. Other B2B Software7
  7. Biotech & Life Sciences6
  8. eCommerce & Marketplaces6
  9. Robotics3
  10. Health Tech & Medtech3
  11. Edtech2
  12. Energy2
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+63
  2. Series A11
  3. Seed33
01 · Portfolio market map

Plug and Play's 111 Power Law outcomes.

Toggle between a sector landscape and a world map. Both views respond to the stage and outcome-tier filters. The faded names at the bottom of bigger boxes are part of the full list — click "+ N more" to reveal them.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
111 of 111 Power Law outcomes
Logos hosted by Dealroom; click any chip to open the company in app.dealroom.co. The dot inside each chip shows the company's highest tier — red Gigacorn, violet Centicorn/Decacorn, lavender Unicorn, blue Thoroughbred, green Colt. Tiers are inclusive: a Unicorn (e.g. Klarna) also matches the Thoroughbred filter, a Decacorn also matches Unicorn and Thoroughbred, and so on up the ladder. Colt is a separate axis (high-growth, smaller revenue) and only matches itself. Map dots use the same colour code; hover for details. Sectors are mutually exclusive (priority-ordered classification). Stage entered = the round Plug and Play first invested in (where data is available — coverage 93%).
02 · Origin of portfolio founders

Where Plug and Play's founders come from — and where they study.

306 founders across the 111 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States66
India34
Israel30
China20
Romania15
South Korea12
Colombia11
Nigeria10
Germany9
Austria7
+15 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University28
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology10
Tel Aviv University10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology7
Tsinghua University6
EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne5
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania5
New York University5
Stanford University Graduate School of Business5
MIT Sloan School of Management5
+112 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google18
Microsoft16
Check Point10
Yahoo!9
Apple8
Palantir5
Informatica4
Skype4
Amazon4
LinkedIn4
+122 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company. Explore the full Sequoia infographic on Thoroughbreds & Unicorns →
03 · Key people

Key people at Plug and Play.

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04 · Compare with peers

How does Plug and Play stack up?

Plug and Play in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — filter by region or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of global unicorns minted that year — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Share of new unicorns per year

% of all global unicorns minted that year, year by year
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.

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Data as of 15 Apr 2026 · Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset · Methodology
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