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Playground Global is a venture fund and design studio that provides resources, mentorship and funding for startups making hardware devices. The company was founded in 2015 by Andy Rubin, Peter Barrett, Matt Hershenson and Bruce Leak. Playground offers startups support with engineering, distribution, manufacturing and financing in exchange for equity.
In 2015, the company's first investment fund raised $300 million from its limited partners including Google, HP, Foxconn, Redpoint Ventures, Seagate Technology and Tencent, among others.
In 2016, a regulatory filing revealed that the company was raising a second $500 million fund.
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Investments
To date, Playground Global has invested in at least 21 companies, including:
- CastAR
- DeepScale
- Nixie Labs
- Connected Yard
- eero
- Essential Products
- Nauto
- Nervana Systems
- SubPac
- Owl Labs
- BodyPort
- Inscopix
- Lighthouse AI
- RightHand Robotics
- uAvionix
- Devialet
- Branch Metrics
- Fathom Computing
- An unnamed quantum computing startup (with Redpoint Ventures)
- FarmWise
- Canvas Technology
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References
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