"What we saw in @dMatrix is that they made an early bet on generative AI and LLM. They made the bet that that would be the dominant workload moving forward, and they were right." sasha ostojic. More on why Playground Global invested: techtarget.com/searchenterpri… via @techtargetnews

We're thrilled to share that we've led the $12m Series A for Boxbot, a company creating last-mile density at the warehouse through their vertical automation solution that sorts and stores packages for last-mile carriers. techcrunch.com/2023/09/18/box…

We are thrilled to share that Playground Global company Agility Robotics, creator of the groundbreaking bipedal robot #Digit, announced the opening of RoboFab™, a robot manufacturing facility in Oregon with the capability to produce over 10k robots per year. businesswire.com/news/home/2023…

Spotted Agility Robotics’ Digit 2.0 at #TCDisrupt2023! 🤖

The whole squad had a great time on stage today at #TCDisrupt2023

In another major milestone towards building a large-scale, fault tolerant quantum computer, PsiQuantum has announced a partnership with U.S. Department of Energy & SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to use their existing cryo infrastructure and begin to scale towards the large-scale machine.

After announcing $410m in new capital, we thought we would use the beginning of 2024 to share who we are at Playground Global and how we define investing in early-stage, deep-tech. We're not your typical venture capital firm. blog.playground.vc/the-scientific…

Today we are announcing a partnership with Manhattan Associates, the global leader in supply chain commerce. More details ⬇️⬇️

Australia will invest $940 million in Silicon Valley start-up PsiQuantum in a major bet that it will build the world’s first commercially useful quantum computer. afr.com/technology/lab…

Seeing a lot of misconceptions about how LBOs work. Yes, taking a write off on a deal is generally bad. But PE deals are structured in ways to mitigate downside. A $3.5B write off does not necessarily mean a PE firm loses $3.5B of capital (in fact, there's 0 chance of that being

Good lord. People are smart and figure out weird things ideon.ai

Bain: -Data center boom could require $2T+ in new energy resources globally -US utilities face 7-26% generation increase by 2028, biggest challenge in decades -44% of US load growth from data centers thru '28 -Utilities need 10%+ revenue requirement to fund required capex

Amorim: “Manchester is red and always will be.” 🗣️🔴 United Clip

Excited to be a part of this! GigaCrop is hacking photosynthesis with ML driven enzyme engineering to transform agriculture at its core. forbes.com/sites/stevensa…

More exciting news: I've joined Playground Global as a General Partner. I've long been passionate about investing in deep and long technologies like #quantum, #photonics and #semiconductors - exactly what Playground is doing with companies like xLight, PsiQuantum and Strand Therapeutics. I’m

Ayar Labs unveils the world’s first UCIe optical chiplet for AI scale-up architectures. Capable of achieving 8 Tbps bandwidth, the solution delivers high performance and efficiency and enables interoperability among chiplets from different vendors. bit.ly/3Yg0pCj

Excited to share the launch of Snowcap Compute, a company building the first commercially viable superconducting compute platform, backed by a $23M seed round led by Playground Global. This marks my first public investment as General Partner at Playground, and I couldn’t be more

We’ve raised over $1 billion towards our work to build the world’s first million-qubit scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers. We are thrilled to have BlackRock, Temasek, and Baillie Gifford lead this round now valuing the company at $7 billion and welcome Macquarie Group Capital,

I dunno what your office is like but Playground Global keeps it interesting

Sizable Energy is taking on two longstanding, elusive cleantech dreams: reinventing pumped hydro and harnessing the sea for clean energy. canarymedia.com/articles/energ…