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What does Playground Global invest in?
Playground Global invests most often at Series A and Venture (47% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as AI, Supply-chain and Deep Learning.
Playground Global highlights
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22 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series A and Venture: 47% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 10 rounds, median $11M
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1 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Filed 2 private fund offerings with the SEC, the most recent in 2022-06From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $1.0M – $20M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries A
- Sectors
- AISupply-chainDeep Learning
- Based in
- Palo Alto, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first84 appearances
- 2026
18 rounds
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Aug
- Jul
- Jul
- Jun
- May
- May
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Mar
- Feb
- 2025
18 rounds
- Dec
- Nov
- Nov
- Nov
- Oct
- Oct
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Jan
- 2024
9 rounds
- Dec
- Nov
- Oct
- Oct
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration7 named
AEAndrew E. RubinManaging DirectoriFiling they signed
BEBruce E. LeakManaging Director of Playground Global, LLC and Playground Ventures GP, LLCiForm ADV
JBJory BellManaging Director of Playground GlobaliForm ADV
LYLaurie YolerManaging DirectoriFiling they signed
MEMatt E. HershensonManaging DirectoriFiling they signed
PGPat GelsingerManaging DirectoriFiling they signed
PEPeter E. BarrettManaging Director of Playground Global, LLC and Playground Ventures GP, LLCiForm ADV
We also hold 37 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$3.3Bgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Playground Global, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 226570
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
31 of 45 we have independently watched raise
1910geneticsAgilityroboticsAlvaenergyAnjunaAyarlabsBoxbotD-matrixDatabricksElementzeroGigacropInfinimmuneInsamoManifoldNautoNextsiliconOutpacebioOwllabsPhasecraftPicojoolPsiquantumRapidsosRelativityspaceSizableenergySkydioSnowcapcomputeSyentaSyntheticdesignlabUltimagenomicsUnconvVelo3dVirtahealthAGMAGMAmberAtomicBranchDeiceGetfabricIdeonIntelNvision-imagingPowerlatticeincRobustStudioVerticalsemi
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed1 in all
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.