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Unlocking Human Potential: Driving Change Through Automation

Automating industrial processes is nothing new. Some industries like agriculture have been progressively automating for centuries. In fact…

3 min readJul 20, 2022

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Unlocking Human Potential: Driving Change Through Automation

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Agency Over Biology: Rationally Designing and Engineering Next-Gen Therapeutics & Instrumentation

The life sciences portfolio we’ve been constructing currently has two prominent themes: The first is investments in platform therapeutics…

4 min readJul 14, 2022

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Agency Over Biology: Rationally Designing and Engineering Next-Gen Therapeutics & Instrumentation

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Pouring New Foundations: The Trillion Dollar Opportunity in Building Networks of The Future

The word “infrastructure” usually conjures up images of roads, bridges, and rails that connect the physical world and drive civilization…

3 min readJun 27, 2022

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The Transbay Tube is an underwater rail tunnel that connects four transbay lines under San Francisco Bay between the cities of San Francisco and Oakland in California.

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Beyond Moore’s Law

There is an exponentially growing gap between our appetite for computation and what Moore’s Law can deliver. Our civilization is based on…

5 min readJun 21, 2022

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Beyond Moore’s Law

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Fresh Out of Stealth: Ultima Genomics Brings The $100 Genome To The Marketplace

We’re excited to welcome Ultima Genomics out of stealth after six years of quietly building a proprietary, high-quality NGS DNA sequencing…

3 min readJun 9, 2022

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Fresh Out of Stealth: Ultima Genomics Brings The $100 Genome To The Marketplace

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Optimal and Efficient AI Inference: A Better Approach to Hyperscale Computing

Why We Invested In d-Matrix

4 min readApr 20, 2022

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Optimal and Efficient AI Inference: A Better Approach to Hyperscale Computing

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For Your Information: A New Approach to Connectivity—Why We Invested in Mangata Networks

We’re excited to announce our lead investment in the $33 million Series A funding round of Mangata Networks alongside Singapore’s sovereign…

4 min readFeb 9, 2022

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For Your Information: A New Approach to Connectivity—Why We Invested in Mangata Networks

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Playground Global’s Tech Predictions 2021: Seizing The Opportunity in Decarbonization

As a new year approaches and we continue to grapple with the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, we once again look ahead to new themes…

8 min readDec 7, 2021

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Playground Global’s Tech Predictions 2021: Seizing The Opportunity in Decarbonization

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Make No Small Plans: Why Venture Capital Needs to Return to Big Bets on Deep Technology

By Peter Barrett

5 min readJan 19, 2021

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Make No Small Plans: Why Venture Capital Needs to Return to Big Bets on Deep Technology

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Playground Global’s Predictions for the Decade Ahead: Reclaiming Agency Over Our World

It’s been an undeniably turbulent year. More than nine months after the coronavirus first erupted in the U.S., we are still in the throes…

8 min readDec 8, 2020

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Playground Global’s Predictions for the Decade Ahead: Reclaiming Agency Over Our World

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Playground Global is a venture firm that partners with entrepreneurs working at the intersection of atoms, bits, and AI. https://playground.global/

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