Playground Global
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Playground Global is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto that invests in early-stage deep tech startups. It focuses on areas such as AI, engineered biology, next-gen compute, and energy transition, providing capital and technical expertise to founders.
Playground Global is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, United States. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in AI, automation, energy Transition and engineered Biology. $1.7 billion under management, as it reports.
“We invest at the earliest stages of company formation, backing technical founders working at the intersection of AI, engineered biology, next-gen compute, and hard science.”
— Playground Global, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, United States
- Sectors
- AI, Automation, Energy Transition, Engineered Biology, Next-Gen Compute, Life Sciences, Infrastructure, Robotics
- Assets under management
- $1.7 billion
Team, as Playground Global publishes it
- Peter Barrett General Partner
- Jory Bell General Partner
- Pat Gelsinger General Partner
- Bruce Leak General Partner
- Benjamin Kim Partner
- Rahul Meka Principal
- Daniel Yum Principal
- Marissa Ramirez de Chanlatte Principal
- Austin Yu Investor
- Nicole Sonnert Investor
- Rasheed Auguste Investor
- Kendra Perlitz Chief Operating Officer
Names and roles exactly as listed on playground.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 139 co-investors found.
- FPV Ventures 4 shared companies: databricks.com, manifold.bio, psiquantum.com, strandtx.com
- Axevil Capital, LLC 3 shared companies: databricks.com, psiquantum.com, relativityspace.com
- Manhattan Venture Partners 3 shared companies: databricks.com, agilityrobotics.com, rapidsos.com
- Sabertooth Capital 3 shared companies: databricks.com, psiquantum.com, strandtx.com
- G Vision Capital LLC 3 shared companies: d-matrix.ai, ayarlabs.com, powerlatticeinc.com
- NTT DOCOMO Ventures 3 shared companies: ayarlabs.com, rapidsos.com, skydio.com
- Civilization Ventures 3 shared companies: infinimmune.com, insamo.com, outpacebio.com
- Marathon Venture Capital 2 shared companies: intel.com, databricks.com
- Toyota Ventures 2 shared companies: nauto.com, boxbot.io
- Lightspeed Venture Partners 2 shared companies: ultimagenomics.com, databricks.com
and 129 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Playground Global publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.playground.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status
- https://www.playground.vc/aboutaum
- https://www.playground.vc/peoplepeople
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Record 627 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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