Playground was created in 2015 - by entrepreneurs who conceived, built and scaled successful tech companies - to be the best early stage investment firm. We look for stellar founding teams with winning concepts in deep technology sectors as well as game-changing consumer and enterprise products. We have over $800 million to invest in extraordinary teams.  

Improving drug development through the use of artificial intelligence, computation, and biological automation.

Making manual labor safe and scalable with legged robots that go where humans go.

Protects applications at runtime with a hardware-grade security perimeter.

Automating life sciences, so that you can focus on the science, while robots do the work.

Powering high-fidelity remote collaboration during complex medical procedures.

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Using light to move data between chips delivering 1000x the bandwidth at 1/10th the power.

Managing heart disease through a data-driven virtual clinic powered by advanced cardiac monitoring.

Increasing mobile revenue with enterprise-grade deeplinks across all platforms.

Now part of Amazon, Canvas Technology provides unrivaled perception enabling robust autonomy in the most challenging environments.

Decoupling storage and compute for zero-schema log management.

Making one-hour delivery possible and profitable with an on-demand micro-fulfillment platform.

Providing farmers with sustainable solutions to feed a growing world using AI and automation.

Accelerating breakthroughs in neuroscience by imaging neural activity in vivo.

Making the cities of tomorrow possible today with open-source transportation software for local governments.

Harnessing the untapped power of lasso peptides to create an entirely new class of programmable medicines.

Empowering shippers, carriers and brokers to manage freight with unprecedented reliability using data and predictive analytics.

Transforming drug discovery into measurement-driven drug design.

Encouraging safer driver behavior in real-time with in-vehicle AI technology.

Now part of Intel, Nervana is building a full-stack solution that is optimized from algorithms down to silicon to solve machine learning problems at scale.

Freeing human knowledge from the boundaries of compute with software defined hardware.

Revolutionizing medical imaging using new advances in quantum physics.

Giving remote employees the meeting experience they deserve with IoT video conferencing hardware.

Redesigning shipping for the unique challenges of e-commerce.

Building the first useful quantum computer.

Sending life-saving data from any connected device to 9-1-1 and first responders.

Building humanity's multiplanetary future.

Powering the future of e-commerce order fulfillment with a solution that can automatically handle any item.

Creating the world’s first industrial-grade cognitive platform for robots.

Reimagining the warehouse for modern e-commerce.

Protecting online communities from hate and harassment using machine learning.

Building the most advanced flying AI to navigate the world with unparalleled autonomy.

Realizing the potential of gene therapy with the world’s first mRNA “programming language.”

Protecting the skies one drone at a time with a redefined transponder.

Fueling carbon-free flight.

Manufacturing mission critical parts using industrial 3D metal printing.

Reversing Type II diabetes with a clinically proven treatment.