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Plug and Play
Accelerator · Founded 2006 · Active in 2026
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.
Plug and Play’s biggest exits.
Plug and Play portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
Plug and Play’s selected top holdings.
An estimate of Plug and Play’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 3 companies where Plug and Play is a named shareholder, worth about $66M in estimated equity value.
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 cap tables on Dealroom →
+5 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.
The 111 Plug and Play Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA83
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Germany5
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UK4
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Israel3
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Canada3
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France2
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Spain1
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Sweden1
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Switzerland1
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Colombia1
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Brazil1
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Netherlands1
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Fintech29
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Marketing14
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Transportation14
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AI13
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Cybersecurity9
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Other B2B Software7
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Biotech & Life Sciences6
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eCommerce & Marketplaces6
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Robotics3
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Health Tech & Medtech3
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Edtech2
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Energy2
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Series B+63
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Series A11
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Seed33
Plug and Play's 111 Power Law outcomes.
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 34 peer investors — scope by startup location 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 unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsWhere Plug and Play's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
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.
Key people at Plug and Play.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Plug and Play
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Plug and Play on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
In the news
Latest news about Plug and Play
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Plug and Play — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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