Plug and Play is an innovation platform bringing together startups and large corporations. (more)
Plug and Play is a seed and early-stage investor focused on great teams leading emerging growth companies.
Plug and Play runs 12 industry-specific accelerator programs twice a year, that acts as a platform for major corporations and high quality startups to connect and collaborate.
Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Plug and Play participates in Seed, Angel and Series A funding where they often co-invest with their strategic partners.
Through years of experience and as part of their network, Plug and Play has put together a world-class network of serial entrepreneurs, strategic investors, and industry leaders who actively assist the firm with its successful and growing investment portfolio.
SEED ROUND. Plug and Play participates in seed round investing through a program called Startup Camp. Startup Camp is a 10-week program based in Silicon Valley for top-notch entrepreneurs to work intensively on building out their business model.
Select startups will refine their business models and prototypes with help from a combination of structured workshops, speaker series and mentorship sessions, as well as active coaching from their investment team.
At the culmination of Startup Camp, founders will have crystalized their business plans and pitched their company to the venture capital community at EXPO Demo Day.''
ANGEL ROUND Plug and Play makes angel round investments throughout the year, sourced from their monthly Plug and Play Angels (PAPA) sessions.
They are partnered with local angel investors in Silicon Valley who participate in PAPA to find the most promising startups and best new technologies.
SERIES A. Series A typical Series A round is in the range of $2 million to $10 million, and is intended to provide operating capital for the company for six months to two years.
This round capitalizes the company as it develops its products, performs initial marketing and branding, acquires talent, and conducts other early-stage business operations.
It is in this stage that Plug and Play will co-invest with over 180 venture capital partners.
Plug and Play has helped grow market leaders such as PayPal, Danger, Google, DropBox, LendingClub, Zoosk, SoundHound, CreditSesame, Skytree, and has over 400 more early-stage startups in its portfolio.
Sunnyvale, United States
Sunnyvale, California, United States
FinTech, InsurTech, Retail, Smart Cities, Venture Capital
2006
https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/
Accelerator, Co Working Space, Corporate Venture Capital, University Program, Venture Capital
Automation Alley is a technology business association and business accelerator. (more)
Automation Alley is Michigan’s leading nonprofit technology and manufacturing business association, connecting industry, academia and government to fuel Southeast Michigan’s economy and accelerate innovation.
Automation Alley focuses its efforts on innovation and technology, entrepreneurship, talent development, defense and international business, providing resources, funding and actionable intelligence to help members grow and prosper in the digital age.
Troy, United States
Troy, Michigan, United States
Enterprise Software, Manufacturing, Public Relations
1999
Greentown Labs is the largest cleantech incubator in the U.S., providing entrepreneurs with the community, facilities + resources they need! (more)
Greentown Labs enables entrepreneurs to solve the world's biggest energy and environmental challenges.
Our mission is to enable a vibrant community of entrepreneurs to work on their visions and to provide access to the space, resources, and funding that allows their early-stage companies thrive.
We offer 33,000 sq. ft. of prototyping lab and co-located office space, a shared machine shop and electronics lab, immersion in a growing community of energy and clean technology entrepreneurs, and on-site events and programs designed to enable start-ups to rapidly grow their networks and their companies.
Somerville, United States
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Automotive, Clean Energy, Energy Efficiency, Incubators, Power Grid, Solar
2011
Healthbox is a healthcare advisory firm that helps an organization develop their strategies and programs. (more)
Healthbox provides advisory services. They help organizations develop their innovative strategies and programs to support exponential improvements in the service and delivery of care.
Chicago, United States
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Advice, Financial Services, Health Care
2010
Incubateur Impulse provides financial and human support to innovative projects of startups based on public research. (more)
Incubateur Impulse provides financial and human support to innovative projects of startups based on public research.
The company provides support to innovative projects based on public research and promotes the setting up of perennial companies which will create new jobs.
Supported by the Ministry of Research, the European Union, and local authorities, the intervarsity incubator Impulse is an open system aiming to leverage the results of public research by setting up new innovative businesses.
The incubator participates in the C.U.R.I.E. actions and is part of the RETIS and PACA Innovation networks.
Château Gombert, France
Château Gombert, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
Finance, Financial Services, Incubators
2000
Celo Camp is a virtual boot camp for startups building apps on the Celo blockchain. (more)
Celo Camp is a virtual boot camp for startups building apps on the Celo blockchain. It is an independent initiative managed by entrepreneurs passionate about the potential for global financial inclusion, mass adoption of digital money, and acceleration of startups that will build this vision.
Celo is an open platform that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone, and embraces a full-stack approach, reimagining technology at each layer.
Tomer Weiss and Alon Shavit founded the camp.
Tel Aviv, Israel
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Developer Tools, Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Draper Goren Holm is a fintech venture studio focused on incubating and accelerating early-stage blockchain startups. (more)
Draper Goren Holm is a fintech venture studio focused on incubating and accelerating early-stage blockchain startups, founded by Alon Goren and Josef Holm.
Josef and Alon are the same team that has built two of the world’s top blockchain investment conferences; Crypto Invest Summit (CIS) and Security Token Summit.
Westlake Village, United States
Westlake Village, California, United States
Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, FinTech
2018
Undisclosed
Accelerator, Incubator, Venture Capital
Enry's Island is the first Incubation & Acceleration Metaverse, with local companies in US, UK, Ireland, Africa, Spain and 30+ startups (more)
Enry's Island is a unique, complete incubation & acceleration platform offering a wide range of services through several branches (“nodes”) strategically placed in different countries.
Tremiti, Italy
Tremiti, Puglia, Italy
Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Incubators, Internet of Things, Web Apps
2013
BDev Ventures provides capital and accelerates B2B product and services companies, from seed to growth stages (more)
BDev Ventures is the investment arm of BairesDev, a leading nearshore technology solutions company. We invest in and accelerate B2B product and services companies by implementing the same lead generation and talent recruiting engine that has allowed BairesDev to become the largest 100% bootstrapped and organically-grown IT services company in history, and the fastest-growing software development company in the world.
As a result of our momentum with BairesDev, we created BDev Ventures to invest in and transform already promising companies into world-class organizations by powering them with the same growth framework that fuels BairesDev.
We make minority equity investments in high-potential B2B product and services companies that are operationally prepared for exponential growth with a jolt from our proprietary growth framework.
Our value-add is much more tangible and transparent than what traditional VC groups pitch, with our partnership companies seeing the top of their sales funnels expand by several orders of magnitude.
Mountain View, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
2021
Accelerator, Corporate Venture Capital, Venture Capital