Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Venture Beat: Plug and Play startup incubator eyes $20M for seed fund

By Camille Ricketts

The Plug and Play Tech Center, a Palo Alto, Calif., accelerator program that provides office space, mentorship and a fundraising springboard for about 200 startups in the Silicon Valley, says it plans to raise $20 million for its own seed investment fund, to be called Plug and Play LLC. And it’s looking to its partners and several other capital firms — Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Sequoia Capital among them — to make it happen.
It seems the time is ripe for this type of operation, with many larger firms opting to provide small, early-stage amounts to young companies. (more)

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