Playground Global

Summary

Playground Global is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Playground Global, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Matrix Partners, iRobot. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Redpoint, Matrix Partners, Y Combinator. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by General Motors Ventures, Toyota AI Ventures, Redpoint.

The typical startup value when the investment from Playground Global is 50-100 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Playground Global works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 38 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Consumer Electronics. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Relativity Space, Nauto, Skydio. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The current fund was established by Andy Rubin, Bruce Leak, Matt Hershenson, Peter Barrett. Besides them, we counted 8 critical employees of this fund in our database.