Playground portfolio

Playground (Venture capital) is known to hold 48 companies, 31 of them startups. 22 of them are hiring now, with 2,271 open roles. In the last 12 months rounds in the press named it 1 times (1 as the lead). Its companies closed 8 venture rounds in 12 months, raising $997.3M. Most of them work in Processors, MCUs & AI Chips, AI Chips & Accelerators, Quantum Science & Computing.

Source: Alion Venture capital Oct 12, 2026
Investments
48
31 of them startups
Hiring now
22
2,271 open roles
Deals in 12 months
1
1 as the lead
Rounds in 12 months
8
$997.3M raised
Exits
6

Companies Playground has invested in

PicoJool Machine Learning Venture round $275M · this month portfolio pageSep 25
Element Zero Fossil Fuels Seed $10M · 1 mo ago lead portfolio page, round in the pressJan 17, 2024
Infinimmune Venture round $75M · 2 mo ago portfolio pageSep 25
Unconventional AI AI Chips & Accelerators · United States Seed $475M · 10 mo ago 10 roles portfolio pageSep 25
RapidSOS Civil Defense · United States Venture round $100M · 10 mo ago 2 roles portfolio pageSep 25
Sizable Energy United States Venture round $8.8M · 11 mo ago portfolio pageSep 25
PsiQuantum Quantum Computing Hardware · United States Series E $1B · 13 mo ago 74 roles portfolio pageSep 25
Phasecraft Quantum Science & Computing · United Kingdom Venture round $34M · 13 mo ago 10 roles portfolio pageSep 25
Databricks Data Warehouses & Lakehouses · United States Venture round $1B · 15 mo ago 858 roles portfolio pageSep 25
Snowcap Compute Processors, MCUs & AI Chips · United States Venture round $23M · 15 mo ago portfolio pageSep 25
Powerlatticeinc Analog & Power Semiconductors · United States Venture round $16.8M · 16 mo ago 8 roles portfolio pageSep 25
GigaCrop AgTech Pre-Seed $4.5M · 19 mo ago lead portfolio page, round in the pressMar 13, 2025
Anjuna Cloud Security · United States Series B $25M · 2 yr ago portfolio pageSep 25
Outpacebio Cell & Gene Therapy · United States Venture round $56M · 2 yr ago portfolio pageSep 25
xLight United States Venture round $40.6M · 2 yr ago portfolio pageSep 25
Insamo United States Seed $12M · 2 yr ago portfolio pageSep 25
Boxbot Logistics & Warehouse Robotics · United States Series A $12M · 3 yr ago lead 5 roles portfolio page, round in the pressSep 18, 2023
BOXBOT Finland Series A $12M · 3 yr ago lead round in the pressSep 18, 2023
d-Matrix Processors, MCUs & AI Chips · United States Venture round $110M · 3 yr ago 35 roles portfolio pageSep 25
Amber Seed $26M · 3 yr ago lead portfolio page, round in the pressAug 2, 2023
Saltbox Logistics · United States Venture round $35M · 3 yr ago 17 roles portfolio pageSep 25
Ideon Technologies Mining Tech Series A $16M · 4 yr ago portfolio pageSep 25
Skydio Computer Vision · United States Venture round $226.9M · 4 yr ago 140 roles portfolio pageSep 25
Relativity Space Aerospace Manufacturing · United States Venture round $650M · 5 yr ago 347 roles portfolio pageSep 25
1910 Multimodal AI · United States Venture round $25.7M · 5 yr ago portfolio pageSep 25
Robust AI Industrial Robotics · United States Venture round $15M · 5 yr ago 5 roles portfolio pageSep 25
Virta Health Telemedicine & Virtual Care · United States Venture round $93.2M · 7 yr ago portfolio pageSep 25
Nauto Fleet Management · United States Series B $159M · 9 yr ago portfolio pageSep 25
Intel Processors, MCUs & AI Chips · United States 610 roles portfolio pageSep 25
Agility Robotics Humanoid Robots · United States 68 roles portfolio pageSep 25
Velo3D 3D Printers & Additive Manufacturing · United States 36 roles portfolio pageSep 25
Ultima Genomics Laboratory Equipment · United States 15 roles portfolio pageSep 25
Alva Energy Nuclear Energy · United States 7 roles portfolio pageSep 25
Manifold Bio Drug Discovery · United States 6 roles portfolio pageSep 25
Nvision Quantum Quantum Science & Computing · Germany 7 roles portfolio pageSep 25
Strand Therapeutics Oncology Therapeutics 6 roles portfolio pageSep 25
Vertical Semiconductor Analog & Power Semiconductors · United States 4 roles portfolio pageSep 25
Atomic Drug Discovery AI · United States 1 role portfolio pageSep 25
Ayar Labs Optics & Photonic Components portfolio pageSep 25
Bodyport LLM & Generative AI · United States portfolio pageSep 25
De-Ice United States portfolio pageSep 25
Get Fabric, Inc. Field Service Management Software portfolio pageSep 25
high bandwidth High Chemical Manufacturing portfolio pageSep 25
NextSilicon Processors, MCUs & AI Chips · Israel portfolio pageSep 25
Owl Labs Unified Communications portfolio pageSep 25

Focus

Markets
Processors, MCUs & AI Chips8%
AI Chips & Accelerators8%
Quantum Science & Computing8%
Logistics & Warehouse Robotics4%
Drug Discovery4%
Drug Discovery AI4%
Computer Vision4%
Oncology Therapeutics4%
Where its companies are
United States63%
Israel2%
Germany2%
United Kingdom2%
Finland2%
Stage of its companies
Venture, series not stated61%
Pre-seed & seed18%
Series A11%
Series B7%
Series C and later4%

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Questions about Playground

How many companies has Playground invested in?

Playground is known to hold 48 companies: 31 startups, and 6 exits so far, read from its own portfolio page and the funding rounds that name it.

Is Playground investing now?

Yes: in the last 12 months 1 rounds in the press named Playground (1 as the lead), and 0 companies joined its portfolio page in 90 days.

What does Playground invest in?

The markets of the companies Playground holds: Processors, MCUs & AI Chips (8%), AI Chips & Accelerators (8%), Quantum Science & Computing (8%), Logistics & Warehouse Robotics (4%), Drug Discovery (4%).

Which Playground portfolio companies are hiring?

22 companies Playground holds are hiring now, with 2,271 open roles listed on this page.

Who does Playground invest alongside?

The investors that hold the most companies together with Playground: Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, FPV Ventures.

How this page is made

A company counts as a holding when the investor’s own portfolio page links to it, a program’s catalog lists it, or a funding round in the press names the investor. The numbers are rebuilt every night; each company shows where it came from and when it was first seen.

Sources: its portfolio page, read Oct 11; 6 rounds in the press that name it

Playground portfolio: 48 known companies. Alion, Oct 12, 2026. https://alion.io/company/playground-6/portfolio

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