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Plug and Play

Venture Capital · Founded 2006 · Sunnyvale, United States

#9 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 0.1% of investors worldwide

Global innovation platform connecting startups with corporations

1,576 Portfolio companies+70% in 5 years
100 Unicorns
7 Decacorns
1,898 Investments
Aug 2026 Last investment
02 · Biggest holdings

Plug and Play’s biggest current holdings.

Plug and Play is a named shareholder in 3 companies. Dealroom estimates those stakes are worth about $66M in total — the disclosed percentage × each company’s latest valuation. The 3 biggest are below, each sized by that estimate.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 TuringJobs Recruitment · Unicorn 2.5% $2.2B $55M
  2. 2 AiraloTravel · Unicorn 1% $1.0B $10M
  3. 3 SylveraEnterprise Software · Colt 0.17% $342M $581K

Estimated value = Plug and Play’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Plug and Play also appears inside investor groups in ApplyBoard, ComplyAdvantage, N26, Owkin, Shippo, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →

03 · Exits

Plug and Play’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Plug and Play’s transaction record.

$1.6B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $22BHealth
$20B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+Semiconductors
$10B IPO · 2019
Now $13BMedia
$45M IPO · 2011
Entered SeedNow $11BFintech
$9.2B IPO · 2018
Entered SeedNow $11BSecurity
$8.9B IPO · 2026
Now $6.3BTransportation
$2.8B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $8.3BSpace
$1.2B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $7.3BHealth
$4.5B IPO · 2024
Now $7.2BRobotics
$5.4B IPO · 2014
Entered SeedNow $1.3BFintech
$5.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $667MFintech
$4.0B acquisition · 2019
Entered SeedFintech
04 · Portfolio analysis

Where Plug and Play’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 1,576 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA2,961
  2. UK397
  3. Germany326
  4. Canada323
  5. Japan235
  6. France207
  7. Israel162
  8. Singapore143
  9. Spain116
  10. Italy84
  11. Switzerland76
  12. Brazil64
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software1,140
  2. Fintech941
  3. Health731
  4. Energy635
  5. Transportation570
  6. Marketing462
  7. Food341
  8. Security337
  9. Media262
  10. Robotics251
  11. Real Estate227
  12. Travel171
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed1,230
  2. Series A206
  3. Series B+55
By growth stageCount
  1. Early Growth4,456
  2. Breakout Stage1,274
  3. Late Growth305
  4. Mature11
05 · Portfolio market map

Inside Plug and Play’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 1,576 tracked.

Groq
Semiconductors · Decacorn
$20B
Tenstorrent
Semiconductors · Unicorn
$4.0B
Rappi
Food · Unicorn
$5.2B
N26
Fintech · Unicorn
$6.0B
Pinterest
Media · Decacorn
$13B
Hippo Insurance
Fintech
$667M
Momenta.ai
Transportation · Unicorn
$6.3B
DataRobot
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$6.3B
Bolt
Security
$300M
Arrival
Transportation
Apptronik
Robotics · Unicorn
$5.5B
Twelve
Energy · Unicorn
$2.0B
Project44
Transportation · Unicorn
$2.2B
Plus
Transportation · Unicorn
$1.5B
STORD
Transportation · Unicorn
$3.0B
Pony.ai
Robotics · Unicorn
$7.2B
Solaris
Fintech
$110M
EnerVenue
Energy · Unicorn
$1.2B
ZaiNar
Telecom · Unicorn
$1.0B
Branch
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$4.0B
InnovAccer
Health · Unicorn
$3.5B
Socure
Security · Unicorn
$4.5B
Orca Security
Security · Unicorn
$1.8B
Einride
Transportation
$802M
Dropbox
Security · Decacorn
$11B
Planet Labs
Space · Unicorn
$8.3B
Transmit Security
Security · Unicorn
$2.2B
Parloa
Marketing · Unicorn
$3.0B
ThreatLocker
Security · Unicorn
$2.0B
Guardant Health
Health · Decacorn
$22B
Quantexa
Security · Unicorn
$2.6B
Fever
Travel · Unicorn
$1.8B
TuSimple
Transportation
Xendit
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.2B
Tomorrow.io
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.0B
ApplyBoard
Education · Unicorn
$3.2B
Innoviz Technologies
Transportation
$98M
Course Hero
Education · Unicorn
$3.6B
Flutterwave
Fintech · Unicorn
$3.2B
Trulioo
Security · Unicorn
$1.8B
Blockdaemon
Fintech · Unicorn
$3.3B
Mambu
Fintech · Unicorn
$5.4B
Workato
Media · Unicorn
$5.7B
TalkSpace
Health
$783M
ZeroAvia
Energy
$580M
Flyr
Travel
$900M
Astronomer
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.1B
Owkin
Health · Unicorn
$1.0B
FINN
Transportation · Unicorn
$1.1B
MoEngage
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.1B
Platform Science
Transportation
$500M
Zest AI
Fintech
$200M
Gecko Robotics
Robotics · Unicorn
$1.3B
CloudWalk
Fintech · Unicorn
$2.2B
Wiliot
Semiconductors · Unicorn
$1.0B
Xona Space
Security
$680M
Fabric
Robotics · Unicorn
$1.0B
LendingClub
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.3B
Visby Medical
Health · Unicorn
$1.0B
SoundHound
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$3.3B
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Plug and Play’s portfolio founders come from.

200 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. United States121
  2. Israel20
  3. Germany10
  4. United Kingdom9
  5. Canada7
  6. France5
  7. China4
  8. India4
  9. Brazil3
  10. Singapore3
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University29
  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology12
  3. Harvard University8
  4. Tel Aviv University8
  5. Stanford University Graduate School of Business7
  6. Harvard Business School5
  7. Technion Israel Institute of Technology5
  8. Tsinghua University5
  9. Yale University5
  10. Carnegie Mellon University4
Previous companyCount
  1. Stanford University15
  2. Alphabet | Google11
  3. McKinsey & Company9
  4. Intel Corporation7
  5. Yahoo!7
  6. IBM6
  7. Intel NAND Memory Unit6
  8. Microsoft6
  9. Check Point5
  10. Boston Consulting Group4