Playground
Playground last closed a fund in June 2025 — 17 months ago.
Playground has raised 3 times about every 58 months. The last was Playground Ventures IV, L.P. That points to Oct 2029.
Historically about 1 in 8 firms this early in their cycle filed within a year. The month is approximate — how often this is right.
This firm closed a fund in the last 18 months, so it has money to put to work now.
Still filing with the SEC: July 2026. That is an amendment to an existing offering, not a new fund - which is what an evergreen structure looks like in this data.
- Funds on file
- 15
- Capital raised
- $2.06B
- Latest close
- June 2025
- Based in
- CA
Vehicles on file
| Vehicle | First close | Amount | Filings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Playground Omega 2, L.P. | June 2025 | $2M | 0002072280 ↗ |
| Playground Helix, L.P. | May 2025 | $5M | 0001936736 ↗ |
| Playground Omega, L.P. | May 2025 | $4M | 0002069677 ↗ |
| Playground Ventures IV, L.P. | December 2024 | $475M | 0002043278 ↗ |
| Playground Leader Fund, L.P. | September 2022 | $200M | 0001855981 ↗ |
| Playground Ventures Affiliates III, L.P. | June 2022 | $5M | 0001918729 ↗ |
| Playground Acquire, L.P. | March 2022 | $31M | 0001868067 ↗ |
| Playground Ventures III, L.P. | February 2022 | $500M | 0001859529 ↗ |
| Playground Genomics, L.P. | May 2021 | $15M | 0001861388 ↗ |
| Playground Compute, L.P. | May 2021 | $10M | 0001861451 ↗ |
| Playground Ventures, L.P. | April 2015 | $242M | 0001636153 ↗ |
| Playground Global, LLC | April 2015 | $48M | 0001638842 ↗ |
| Playground Ventures II, L.P. | — | $500M | 0001690302 ↗ |
| Playground Ventures Affiliates II, L.P. | — | $15M | 0001710770 ↗ |
| Playground Quantum Fund, L.P. | — | $10M | 0001721821 ↗ |
Each row links to that vehicle’s Form D filings on EDGAR — the name, date and amount above should match what is filed there.
Named on filings
Bruce Leak, Peter Barrett, Matt Hershenson, Jory Bell, Andrew Rubin, Laurie Yoler, Pat Gelsinger
What Playground invests in
- Typical fund
- $15M median, pre-seed / seed scale
- Says it invests in
- AI · health/bio · deeptech · climate/energy
- Says it invests at
- early-stage
- Cheque size, in its words
- $
- Website
- playground.vc
Sector and stage are quoted from the firm’s own website, not inferred, and dated.
Service providers
- Fund administrator
- None reported — the adviser answered “no administrator” for 7 of 7 funds
- Auditor
- Deloitte (5 funds)
From Form ADV filed by PLAYGROUND GLOBAL, LLC CRD 226570 ↗, latest filing April 2026, covering 7 funds linked to this firm by Form D file number. Form ADV is filed once a year, so a provider may have changed since. How this is matched.
What this is. Every figure on this page comes from Form D filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — public records, reproduced here as filed. Service providers, where shown, come from the adviser’s Form ADV and are dated.
What it is not. Single-deal SPVs, feeder vehicles and GP or employee commitment funds are listed but excluded from fund counts and capital totals: an SPV is one investment, a feeder holds the same capital as its master, and a “Principals” or “Entrepreneurs” fund closes alongside a main fund rather than being raised in its own right. Capital deployed from a family office, a corporate balance sheet or an evergreen structure never arrives as a fund close, so a firm doing that looks quiet here. Amounts are as of the last amendment and go stale. Dates are the date of first sale — a fund's first close, not its final one. Funds filed as “Indefinite” are excluded from totals rather than counted as zero, so a total is a floor.
“No recent fund” is a statement about filings. It is not a statement about whether a firm is solvent, investing, or still in business.