Plug and Play

Plug and Play Tech Center, founded in 2006 and based in Sunnyvale, California, operates as a global accelerator and venture capital firm focusing on early-stage and seed investments in technology startups. It runs 12 industry-specific accelerator programs twice a year, providing a platform for startups to connect with major corporations and investors. The firm emphasizes collaboration and innovation across various sectors, including fintech, health technology, retail, and sustainability. Plug and Play also offers resources such as funding, mentorship, office space, and networking opportunities to support startups in refining their business models and gaining market traction. With a presence in multiple locations worldwide, the firm has cultivated a vast network of entrepreneurs, investors, and industry leaders, facilitating significant investments and fostering technological advancement.

Neda Amidi

President

Amir Amidi

Managing Partner of Travel and Hospitality Center of Innovation

Saeed Amidi

CEO

Wade Bitaraf

Founder, Energy and Sustainability

Kristi Choi

Investor

Matthew Claxton

Global Director

George Damouny

Partner

Tarek Elessawi

Principal

Philip Engelhardt

EIR, Senior Advisor and Investment Partner

Gemma Guilera

Senior Partner Success Manager

Karima El Hakim

Country Director - Egypt

Jackie Hernandez

VP of Operations

Alireza Masrour

General Partner

Javier Megias

Managing Partner, EMEA VC Fund

Omeed Mehrinfar

Managing Partner, Middle-East

Kevin Parakkattu

Senior Associate, Ventures

Blanca Ribas Pombo

Investor

Noorjit Sidhu

Ventures Associate

Erena Estellés Tatay

Ventures Analyst

Connie Weisman

Corporate Partnerships - Innovation

Kevin Withstandley

Senior Director, Partner Success

Ivan Zgomba

Partner

Past deals in Germany

WAKU Robotics

Seed Round in 2022
WAKU Robotics GmbH is a technology company that offers a software solution called WAKU Care for maintenance and after-sales management of AGV & AMR fleets. WAKU Care is utilized by WAKU Robotics' international customers for efficient maintenance and spare part management, repairs, analysis, process improvement, and coordination of their service teams.

CELUS

Series A in 2022
CELUS provides a cloud-based software platform designed to streamline the electronics development process for businesses. As demand for electronics and embedded systems rises, the shortage of qualified electronics engineers poses a challenge. CELUS addresses this issue by offering automation tools that facilitate parts selection, schematic development, PCB design, and embedded software creation. By integrating these interdependent tasks, CELUS aims to reduce the time and complexity involved in developing electronic products, thereby supporting companies in navigating the evolving landscape of electronics engineering.

Una Health

Convertible Note in 2022
Una Health uses mobile technology, biosensors, AI and behavioral science to provide the most effective algorithm-based Digital Therapy to reverse metabolic dysfunction. Una Health is a remote-first company incorporated in Berlin, Germany.

Mercanis

Convertible Note in 2022
Mercanis offers you one place to interact, communicate and jointly manage the buying process with your colleagues.

DasLab

Seed Round in 2022
DasLab provides digital workflows for medical tests and vaccinations for patients, doctors, and laboratories. DasLab was founded in 2020.

NODE Robotics

Seed Round in 2022
Flexibility and autonomy are core requirements for the factory of the future. In the field of intralogistics, AMRs are the key to meeting these requirements. However, the current patchwork of incompatible and inadequate SW solutions for AMRs on the market prevents the spread of this key technology and puts fleet operators further into vendor lock-in situations. With NODE.OS, we provide an end-to-end software solution for operating multi-vendor and heterogeneous AMR fleets with high autonomy and minimal commissioning efforts which can be seamlessly integrated into every production plant.

EVOCAL Health

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
What if we could early detect diseases and monitor health with nothing more than our voice? We are on our mission to unlock the human voice as a prognostic and diagnostic marker for the early-detection of diseases and enable humanity to life a longer and healthier life. EVOCAL Health is developing sophisticated Healthcare Intelligence Algorithms based on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, that uses Vocal Biomarkers like voice-, breathing- and coughing noises to detect diseases. Vocal Biomarkers have the potential to transform the way we detect and treat diseases through their accuracy, speed and cost-effectiveness. Unlike conventional testing methods, our vision is to use cost-effective everyday technologies like smartphones and enable a broad part of the population to detect and be diagnosed with Vocal Biomarkers on-scale, globally and wherever they are.

SPARETECH

Seed Round in 2021
SPARETECH creates a collaboration platform for manufacturing companies to digitize their spare part inventories, calculate their true demand, compare parts from various suppliers, and source the appropriate part outside or within their production network. The software compares spare part lists from clients to the product database and generates standardized data sets for ERP systems. They allow the customer to leverage sourcing and usage within the production network.

Taktile

Seed Round in 2021
Taktile is a software platform that enables businesses to build, run, and evaluate automated decision flows efficiently using data-driven approaches. It supports companies in bringing products to market faster, reducing risk in decision-making, adapting to change, and optimizing margins. The platform allows decision-makers to modify complex decision flows without engineering support, back-test changes to assess their impact, and iterate before implementation. Taktile also processes decision logs and historical data, providing risk managers with tools to analyze market conditions and evaluate changes before deployment.

Truckoo

Seed Round in 2021
Truckoo digitizes the truck trade by connecting sellers and buyers worldwide. By converting one of the final offline procedures to a digital one, they influence the future of the commercial vehicle trade. They create a digital platform that links international sellers and merchants. Today's commercial vehicle trade requires a lot of time, money, and danger, as well as lengthy downtime, trips of up to 2000 km for on-site inspections, and a global market reach.

Virtonomy

Seed Round in 2021
At Virtonomy, we stand at the forefront of the digital patient twin revolution, offering a comprehensive platform that seamlessly integrates digital twin models, AI, multi-physics simulations, and predictive analytics. By leveraging cutting-edge technology, we empower the medical industry accelerate development of innovative devices and evaluate clinical interventions in a virtual environment.

Etvas

Seed Round in 2021
Etvas is a digital marketplace for value-added services helps businesses to bring more diversity and empathy into the everyday life of their customers.

Hypatos

Seed Round in 2020
Hypatos is a process automation startup. It is applying language processing AI and computer vision tech to speed up financial document processing for business use cases such as invoices, travel and expense management, loan application validation and insurance claims

WAKU Robotics

Pre Seed Round in 2020
WAKU Robotics GmbH is a technology company that offers a software solution called WAKU Care for maintenance and after-sales management of AGV & AMR fleets. WAKU Care is utilized by WAKU Robotics' international customers for efficient maintenance and spare part management, repairs, analysis, process improvement, and coordination of their service teams.

NATIX Network

Venture Round in 2020
NATIX Network is building an open geospatial Intelligence network using their proprietary AI and smartphone cameras. The existing geospatial data collection solutions suffer from limited data types, low update frequency, high costs to gather data, and even higher prices charged to business customers. NATIX uses driver assistant apps (e.g. dashcam and navigation), token incentives, Computer Vision AI, and smartphone cameras to crowdsource real-time data and create a digital twin of our world. The network enables a new era of real-time applications ranging from autonomous driving to smart city services. With over 100k registered drivers and over 33M km covered in only 12 months, NATIX is one of the fastest-growing geospatial networks globally.

presize.ai

Seed Round in 2020
50% of fashion products are returned. 75% of them due to wrong size and bad fit. Fashion eCommerce shops lose money every day and online shoppers are annoyed by returns. Our solution: presize allows web-shoppers to turn around in front of their smartphone camera once with normal clothes (you can wear jeans and t-shirt while doing it), and automatically get their best fitting clothing size recommended. We use a pipeline of Deep Learning algorithms to create a 3D human body model and match this to a database of sizing charts, fits and sewing patterns from our partner webshops and the internet. Your size persists on all partner webshops.

doctorly

Convertible Note in 2020
Doctorly is a health tech company that offers a cloud-based practice management platform for doctors. The company has a regulated, cloud powered, fully centralised, practice management platform for doctors, a fully connected health app for patients, and an integration platform for the wider industry to natively connect their tools and workflows directly with our doctors & patients. Doctorly is driven by a desire to make positive and meaningful changes to the healthcare industry internationally.

Vara

Series A in 2020
Developed, tested, and proven in Germany, Vara is a leading AI-powered breast cancer screening company on a mission to find every deadly breast cancer early. Vara’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is embedded within the German Breast Cancer Screening Program and is backed by some of the most respected institutions in breast cancer screening in the world including Cambridge (UK), Memorial Sloan (US), and Karolinska (Sweden). Vara’s clinical evidence has also been published in Lancet Digital Health, demonstrating that Vara-assisted radiologists significantly outperform average radiologists and are able to find cancers that would otherwise have been missed. Vara works with healthcare stakeholders, radiology service providers, and medical doctor networks to improve access to high-quality screening in Germany, Egypt, India and Mexico.

AX Semantics

Venture Round in 2020
axite is the data-driven Content Operations platform from AX Semantics, developed specifically for copywriting teams in e-commerce and retail. It offers content managers measurability of the success of their product content strategy and combines tools for quality assurance, automation, generative AI and API workflows axite helps retailers to optimize their rankings, conversions, return rates and customer satisfaction in all markets and languages.

2trde

Seed Round in 2020
2trde develops a software solution designed for B2B car trade and mobility providers.

Bella & Bona

Convertible Note in 2020
Bella & Bona venture-capital-backed food-tech business offering a workplace food program that office workers love and look forward to every day. Our scalable dark kitchen operations and investments in data and technology automation allow to consistently deliver high-quality food, optimize health and nutritional values, while lowering cost, and considerably reducing food waste and CO2 emissions. The company raised in January 2020 a $3 million round led by Plug and Play, with additional funding from Rovagnati, Ambrosi, and other investors with a strong entrepreneurial background (former or current Mckinsey, Google, Auto1, BCG, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Rocket Internet, Foodora).

CELUS

Funding Round in 2020
CELUS provides a cloud-based software platform designed to streamline the electronics development process for businesses. As demand for electronics and embedded systems rises, the shortage of qualified electronics engineers poses a challenge. CELUS addresses this issue by offering automation tools that facilitate parts selection, schematic development, PCB design, and embedded software creation. By integrating these interdependent tasks, CELUS aims to reduce the time and complexity involved in developing electronic products, thereby supporting companies in navigating the evolving landscape of electronics engineering.

SPARETECH

Seed Round in 2020
SPARETECH creates a collaboration platform for manufacturing companies to digitize their spare part inventories, calculate their true demand, compare parts from various suppliers, and source the appropriate part outside or within their production network. The software compares spare part lists from clients to the product database and generates standardized data sets for ERP systems. They allow the customer to leverage sourcing and usage within the production network.

Bella & Bona

Seed Round in 2020
Bella & Bona venture-capital-backed food-tech business offering a workplace food program that office workers love and look forward to every day. Our scalable dark kitchen operations and investments in data and technology automation allow to consistently deliver high-quality food, optimize health and nutritional values, while lowering cost, and considerably reducing food waste and CO2 emissions. The company raised in January 2020 a $3 million round led by Plug and Play, with additional funding from Rovagnati, Ambrosi, and other investors with a strong entrepreneurial background (former or current Mckinsey, Google, Auto1, BCG, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Rocket Internet, Foodora).

Flip

Seed Round in 2020
Flip is the employee app empowering all employees from firstline to desktop. It does so by combining top-down and bottom-up communication tools such as newsfeed and chat with intuitive integrations in the existing corporate HR and IT landscape. Flip empowers employers by enabling them to reach all employees at the same time with just two clicks. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Stuttgart, Germany.

IDnow

Series C in 2019
IDnow provides advanced machine-learning technology for its Identity-as-a-Service platform that can verify identities in real time. The company's solutions guarantee legal security throughout Europe and the highest level of data security. The company provides a legally secure solution without additional hardware in the area of video identification of customers and electronic signatures. The company's offer is directed at all business customers who would like to provide customer identification and contract conclusion online, such as banks, telecommunications companies, Fintechs, etc. Its customer portfolio includes renowned firms such as Commerzbank, UBS, Sixt neuwagen, Telefónica, and N26. IDnow was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Ducktrain

Convertible Note in 2019
Multiple vehicles (we call them ducks) can form a train for efficient transportation on longer distances within cities and industry areas. Ducktrain provides vehicle platforms and automation technology that will change urban and industrial logistics.

AX Semantics

Series A in 2019
axite is the data-driven Content Operations platform from AX Semantics, developed specifically for copywriting teams in e-commerce and retail. It offers content managers measurability of the success of their product content strategy and combines tools for quality assurance, automation, generative AI and API workflows axite helps retailers to optimize their rankings, conversions, return rates and customer satisfaction in all markets and languages.

presize.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2019
50% of fashion products are returned. 75% of them due to wrong size and bad fit. Fashion eCommerce shops lose money every day and online shoppers are annoyed by returns. Our solution: presize allows web-shoppers to turn around in front of their smartphone camera once with normal clothes (you can wear jeans and t-shirt while doing it), and automatically get their best fitting clothing size recommended. We use a pipeline of Deep Learning algorithms to create a 3D human body model and match this to a database of sizing charts, fits and sewing patterns from our partner webshops and the internet. Your size persists on all partner webshops.

i2x

Series A in 2019
Real-time conversation analytics and continuous coaching. At i2x they are working to radically improve the human-to-human interaction between companies and their customers. They do this by providing real-time insights on business calls for managers on one side, and supporting agents with continuous communication training on the job on the other. i2x enables companies to leverage data and understand what makes their team successful and customers happy - all in real-time and powered by AI. With i2x, the black box of phone calls is decrypted for the first time. Traditionally, contact center success metrics are based on a limited set of data, including call attempts and duration. Built on a fit-for-purpose ASR (automatic speech recognition), i2x opens the doors to deeper, more meaningful insights. The platform evaluates complex speech parameters in real-time to determine the dynamics of a customer conversation. This includes customizable words and phrases, pauses, rate of speech, and speech-to-listen ratio. i2x analyzes sales and service team calls and identifies which approach works best for a specific customer or prospect group. Data-driven best practices are automatically shared with all team members. As a result, managers gain deeper insights into customer interactions, the skills of existing employees evolve and brand experience improves. i2x makes call data analyzable and actionable. “They do not automate, they augment the human intelligence, elevate customer interactions and amplify sales.”

Recogni

Convertible Note in 2018
Recogni develops AI-based inference processing solutions for Generative AI and intelligent autonomous platforms. Recogni delivers solutions for high compute, low power, and scalability.

Mavie Work Deutschland

Seed Round in 2018
Mavie Work Deutschland (formerly wellabe) is a leading provider of innovative corporate health solutions, specializing in holistic prevention and mental health support. The company offers tailored health programs, including corporate health check-ups, live online courses, 1:1 coaching, and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP). By combining modern diagnostics, personalized interventions, and digital platforms, Mavie Work Germany promotes the long-term health and well-being of employees. With a scalable ecosystem, the company serves employers, insurers, and individual users, delivering measurable value to organizations and their workforces.

AX Semantics

Seed Round in 2018
axite is the data-driven Content Operations platform from AX Semantics, developed specifically for copywriting teams in e-commerce and retail. It offers content managers measurability of the success of their product content strategy and combines tools for quality assurance, automation, generative AI and API workflows axite helps retailers to optimize their rankings, conversions, return rates and customer satisfaction in all markets and languages.

Toposens

Seed Round in 2018
They are Toposens. It is their mission to provide the world with 3D ultrasonic sensors, substituting expensive and outdated technologies that no longer fit their advanced technological needs. They work together with well-known industrial and high tech companies to bring 3D ultrasonic technology to automotive, smart buildings, robotics and many other industries.

Talentwunder

Seed Round in 2018
Talentwunder automates the headhunting process and integrates the social graph of employees into the candidate search. Passive methods of recruiting - like job advertisements - just dont work any more for some industries. Many many companies try to hire a small amount of people. Talentwunder is a specialized search engine that finds massive amounts of matching candidates by searching all the big social networks with just one click. So with us you find skilled people exactly where they spend their time every day.

Cobalt

Series A in 2018
Cobalt infuses pentesting with speed, simplicity, and transparency. Our award-winning Pentest as a Service (PtaaS) model empowers organizations to keep pace with modern software development lifecycles in an agile world. Thousands of customers and hundreds of partners rely on Cobalt’s SaaS platform and closed community of more than 400 testers. We deliver pentests that support business drivers, maximize internal resources, and create stronger security programs so that organizations can maintain their competitive edge and velocity of innovation.

Xapix

Pre Seed Round in 2018
For e-commerce brand leaders, Xapix provides a suite of tools including a personal Amazon AI Operations Assistant. We combine sophisticated financial and operational analysis, together with alerts, actions and optimizations - so that brands can increase sales and profitability.

omni:us

Seed Round in 2018
omni:us is the leading provider of intelligent insurance claim automation. The omni:us Digital Claims Adjuster enables seamlessly integrated end-2-end claims automation within existing insurance systems, such as Guidewire, Sapiens or legacy applications. Integrated reference claims processes for seven property and casualty lines of business, as well as a comprehensive, AI-powered claims decision catalog, help substantially reduce process costs - while noticeably increasing customer satisfaction and efficiency.

Relimetrics

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Relimetrics is a full stack computer vision and machine learning software providing audit-proof quality inspection and process control for Industry 4.0 Applications. We use real-time image processing and video analytics to automate and digitize visual inspections, making them easy, connected, and insightful. We are located in Sunnyvale, CA and Berlin, Germany.

Vanishtale

Seed Round in 2016
Vanishtale produces Snapchat Stories and Social videos for publishers and brands and help to sustainable increase the range to Snapchat.

TechSpaghetti

Seed Round in 2016
TechSpaghetti is an e-learning company that provides an educational software focused on language apps for kids aged 4+. TechSpaghetti apps are based on the educational methodology developed by co-founder and teacher Leah Hinton over a decade in international classrooms.

Trill

Seed Round in 2016
Trill is a location based language teaching application.

Weps

Venture Round in 2016
Weps is a website builder that uses a chatbot to make building a website more intuitive. This allows people with no web skills to get their website up and running in less than 30 minutes. Weps’ Chatbot builds websites by asking yes-or-no questions with zero coding or drag’n’drop interface. Weps structures and designs the website and users only need to fill in the blanks with pictures and content. Hosting, unique domain, and support are all offered. Weps works on any device. Check it out for yourself at www.getweps.com

Retime

Seed Round in 2016
Retime ia an international company combining skills and experience in IT und HR. Retime manages and creates paperless real time company operations like time, place and project tracking, location tracking, order management, ticketing, payroll data, reports, instant messages and digital ID.

Pivii Technologies

Seed Round in 2016
Pivii Technologies is an AI powered digital assistant that analyzes visual content posted on Instagram in one easy-to-use web-app. The company gives meaningful, accurate and measurable recommendations to boost engagement. Using Pivii, anyone can understand what works for him/her on Instagram and find out the right images to engage your audience. Building a strong Instagram marketing strategy is a must. Pivii is based on data and visuals first. • Developed to help you getting real data backed advice. • Designed to understand colors, objects, lights and many more image characteristics.

MusicNow SAS

Seed Round in 2016
MusicNow is a live video streaming service for musicians. It allows them to stream concerts using smartphones with: high quality of sound; multi-camera & 360 streaming; and synchronization streams from the audience with official stream. Also musicians cover all their fans as they can stream directly to Facebook Live and YouTube Live. Finally we work with labels, who will use MusicNow data to assess and sign musicians.

Lineupr

Seed Round in 2016
LineUpr is a do it yourself web platform to create a mobile event app. It's goal is to provide a tool for every organizer to create a content- and feature-rich app to support their own event without requiring a big marketing budget. LineUpr was founded in 2016 and is based in Dresden, Germany.

Foodguide

Seed Round in 2016
Foodguide is a social network for food to share and explore dishes to find the best restaurants and hot spots nearby. With Foodguide users can explore new restaurants in their vicinity, use search and filter functions, order food through delivery services, pay online, and last but not least, become Foodguides themselves by sharing own content. Foodguide helps restaurant owners to enter social media and reach the influential target group generation Y by triggering a measurable return of new customers.

Atameo

Seed Round in 2016
Atameo allows travellers to capture their trips in a completely new way. It records your route, adds your photos, videos and music and turns your adventures into your personal travel profile. Have all your travel experiences in one place and find out more about your travel style by diving into your personal travel statistics: How far did you travel last year? What’s the highest point you have been to? How much of the world have you seen? Inspire others to go out and explore, while getting inspired by some of the most daring journeys of our time. Explore. Capture. Inspire.

Aaron.ai

Seed Round in 2016
Aaron.ai is the Doctor Assistant powered by conversational AI. The software-as-a-service product bridges the widening gap between a shortage of health care staff and an increasingly demanding, ageing population. Thousands of doctors already use our conversational phone assistant, which also supports the German Federal Ministry of Health and the National Medical Association in fighting the pandemic.

Deckard

Seed Round in 2016
Deckard Intelligence is the AI engine that learns about the structure and performance of a software development team and substitutes hundreds of hours of imprecise human work with reliable and objective: estimations, alerts and benchmarks.

Timble.us

Seed Round in 2016
Timble.us is a tracking tool that works with project management software.

OEEX

Seed Round in 2016
OEEX creates a platform to connect producers and consumers of renewable energies. The company is an independent platform to implement innovative energy concepts. Its community is the first step towards virtually networking producers and consumers.

ZALVUS

Venture Round in 2016
ZALVUS is a digital recruitment service allowing candidates to apply for suitable jobs in a burden-free, cross-platform manner. They circumvent burdensome application processes and time-consuming conversations with recruiters and rather establish direct contact between the applicant and company with just one click.

Get a Camp

Seed Round in 2016
Get a Camp is a platform for campsite holidays where clients can find and book the best and most beautiful campsites.

Girafi

Seed Round in 2016
Girafi is a marketing tool which help online businesses to convert their website visitors faster. It helps e-commerce sites, bloggers, and artists increase their social activities, create buzz and drive sales by running contests/challenges with engaging interactions. The company is on a mission to change the way how brands incentivize their clients, engage them, and run promotion campaigns. Girafi means ease of use, hassle-free, personalized experience, and improved customer journey.

kraftwerk

Seed Round in 2015
Kraftwerk Inc. specializes in the production of innovative energy solutions through its proprietary technology, which converts various fuels, including natural gas, liquefied gas, gasoline, and kerosene, into electricity. The company's key product, the kraftwerk TUBE, is a nanocoated metallic tube designed for compact fuel cell applications. These tubes enable the development of lightweight and highly efficient energy sources suitable for mobile applications in automotive and aerial vehicles. By directly transforming fuels into electricity, Kraftwerk Inc. aims to enhance energy efficiency and promote the use of cleaner energy systems in various industries.

KptnCook

Seed Round in 2015
Easy & healthy cooking with the free KptnCook app! Discover three tasty recipes from food bloggers every day, which will definitely be a success within 30 minutes thanks to the help of our step-by-step instruction.

KptnCook

Venture Round in 2014
Easy & healthy cooking with the free KptnCook app! Discover three tasty recipes from food bloggers every day, which will definitely be a success within 30 minutes thanks to the help of our step-by-step instruction.

Beaming

Seed Round in 2014
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N26

Pre Seed Round in 2013
N26 offers mobile banking solutions to customers in the European Union through its subsidiary. It provides international money transfer, investment, overdraft, and cash withdrawal and deposits at stores. N26 provides mobile banking services for customers. Its mobile banking services offer online banking that includes making and handling of current accounts, fixed accounts, and other banking services, letting customers manage and control their banking details via a smartphone application easily. Maximilian Tayenthal and Valentin Stalf founded Papayer in February 2013, which later became N26, with its headquarters in Berlin in Germany.
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