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Playground Global

Founders Bruce Leak Matt Hershenson Peter Barrett

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Total investments 118
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$44M
Portfolio companies 66
Rounds per year 13.11
Lead investments 32
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.43
Exits 9
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Robotics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Hardware
  • Health Care
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Insamo

$12M21 Feb 2024 Berkeley, California, United States

Element Zero

Industrial Engineering
Industrial Manufacturing
$10M17 Jan 2024 Perth City, Western Australia, Australia

Boxbot

Logistics
Robotics
Supply Chain Management
$12M18 Sep 2023 Oakland, California, United States

d-Matrix

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Infrastructure
Data Center
$110M06 Sep 2023 Santa Clara, California, United States

Phasecraft

Computer
Information Technology
Quantum Computing
Software
$17M16 Aug 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Amber Bio

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$26M03 Aug 2023 -

NVision Imaging Technologies

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$30M22 Jun 2023 Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Robust.AI

Robotics
Software
$20M20 Apr 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

Outpace Bio

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
$25M23 Mar 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States
News
Lacuna Technologies announces $16 million Series A round led by Xplorer Capital Management

– Lacuna Technologies announced a $16m Series A funding round.
– The new funding comes on the heels of $17.5m in seed funding and brings the total investment in Lacuna to $33.5m.
– The round was led by Xplorer Capital Management LLC and also includes Playground Global.
– Lacuna will use the proceeds of the round to expand its product offerings and scale its business to new markets.

Artificial Raises $21.5M to Accelerate Life Science Breakthroughs

– Artificial, a software company providing a first-of-its-kind lab automation platform, announced the close of their $21.5M Series A investment round.
– The round was led by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, along with Playground Global and AME Cloud Ventures.
– Artificial will use the investment to accelerate product development, expand their world-class team, and further their life science partnerships so that scientific breakthroughs can happen faster and more efficiently.

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Total investments 118
Average round size 44M
Rounds per year 13.11
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 32
Follow on index 0.43
Exits 9
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Insamo

$12M21 Feb 2024 Berkeley, California, United States

Element Zero

Industrial Engineering
Industrial Manufacturing
$10M17 Jan 2024 Perth City, Western Australia, Australia

Boxbot

Logistics
Robotics
Supply Chain Management
$12M18 Sep 2023 Oakland, California, United States

d-Matrix

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Infrastructure
Data Center
$110M06 Sep 2023 Santa Clara, California, United States

Phasecraft

Computer
Information Technology
Quantum Computing
Software
$17M16 Aug 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Amber Bio

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$26M03 Aug 2023 -

NVision Imaging Technologies

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$30M22 Jun 2023 Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Robust.AI

Robotics
Software
$20M20 Apr 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

Outpace Bio

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
$25M23 Mar 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States
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