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 pre-seed to seed, 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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 139 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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