Plug And Play Selects 140 Startups For Silicon Valley Fall 2026 Batches

Plug and Play has selected 140 startups from 20 countries and territories across 13 programs for its Silicon Valley Fall 2026 batches, with artificial intelligence emerging as the strongest theme across industries ranging from financial services and retail to agriculture, insurance, healthcare, travel, and advanced hardware.

The startups will participate in Plug and Play’s accelerator programs before presenting to investors, corporate partners, and industry leaders at the Silicon Valley November Summit from November 3 through November 5, 2026.

Participating programs include Agtech, Animal Health, Brand & Retail, Enterprise & AI, Fintech, Food & Beverage, Global Overseas Acceleration & Learning, Health & Longevity, Insurtech, New Materials & Packaging, and Travel & Hospitality, along with the Mobility & Advanced Hardware: Korea to U.S. program and XDC AI Agents & Blockchain Accelerator.

Plug and Play said companies were selected based on program fit, traction, and interest from corporate partners, many of which participated directly in final screening.

A major change compared with earlier AI accelerator cohorts is the maturity of the products entering the programs.

Plug and Play said many participating AI startups are no longer arriving with technologies that corporations simply want to experiment with. Instead, a growing number already have customers using their products in production environments.

That shift is changing what Plug and Play’s corporate partners expect from the accelerator.

The emphasis is increasingly moving from proving whether AI technology works toward determining how quickly it can be deployed inside real operating environments.

AI is appearing in different forms across virtually every industry represented in the fall batches.

Enterprise startups are developing autonomous digital workers and AI infrastructure, while financial technology companies are building systems for agentic banking, compliance, wealth management, and financial operations.

Retail startups are exploring agentic commerce, customer intelligence, automated creative workflows, demand forecasting, and autonomous negotiation.

Insurance companies are examining AI agents for claims, customer service, policy administration, and underwriting emerging technologies such as autonomous vehicles, robots, and drones.

Travel companies are applying AI to booking, disruption management, loyalty, operations, and airfare search, while agriculture and advanced hardware startups are combining AI with robots, sensors, autonomous equipment, and other physical systems.

The cohort also highlights Plug and Play’s increasingly international startup network.

About 55% of the 140 participating startups are headquartered outside the United States, with South Korea representing the largest non-U.S. group at approximately 30% of the entire cohort.

Companies are also participating from markets across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North America, South America, and Australia.

Among the companies is Michigan-based PakItGreen, which develops environmentally friendly coating technologies for packaging.

The cohort also includes AgriDynamics Robotics of East Lansing, Michigan, which is developing physical AI for agriculture beginning with robotic apple harvesting.

Over the three-month programs, founders will participate in mentor-led workshops, private deal-flow sessions, and curated introductions to corporations.

Plug and Play’s accelerator programs are equity-free, allowing participating startups to pursue commercial pilots, proofs of concept, partnerships, and potential investments from Plug and Play’s internal venture capital operation without surrendering equity simply for joining the program.

The full roster of companies selected for the Silicon Valley Fall 2026 batches is:

Agtech: AgriDynamics Robotics, Supercool Earth, Hermes Vision, Upstream Biotechnology, Inc., and KissanAI.

Animal Health: Pawbud Health, BioClé, Animal Biome, Phiex Technologies, Inc., Umami Bioworks, and Loom.

Brand & Retail: Hotbox, Gather, American Spend, Skyfire, FLORA, Vody, Rwazi, convey, Pogo, NegotiateAI, Gumloop, omnifold.ai, and Rehearsals.

Enterprise & AI: convey, Edra, Kindo AI, Pavo AI, webAI, Modoo, and Graphene.

Fintech: Alinia, Asset, Primitive, Astraeus Wealth Tech, Titan AI, ComplyCo, Rehearsals, AIRRIVED, StitcherAI, and Measurement Labs.

Food & Beverage: Lembas, Mmimetika Biosciences ApS, NuCicer, Vireo Ag, Metanovas Biotech, Novella, anomalybio.com, PFx Biotech, and BetterSeeds Ltd.

Global Overseas Acceleration & Learning – KOSME Batch: Haebom, BeyondMedicine, Muaheng Co., Ltd, theyouthlab, MedInTech, Colorful Solution, 180project, Solive Ventures, tacticalist, Joodra, Intellectus, lehosah, PhyxUp Health, Versework, superpaw, Farmkit, Vision Space, ebitglobal, meocompany, Splab, Youngand, oddlysatisfine, SEEKHAN, GREENAI, manyfast, shopyalla, ifnewworld, gemgem, Robotable, Onebyzero, Rovify Lab, Bean Crunchy, Won International, PetFresh, New Heritage, Hooa, Hwiran, Moqous, and East to West.

Global Overseas Acceleration & Learning – Standard Batch: Carbon Atlas, EdGame, SudoSpace, ZPeer, Anlyvis Limited, and BUYBLE. Health & Longevity: Kivira, glidepathhealth, implexis, Intertwined Biosciences, biobase, and Xpressive AI.

Insurtech: Pacific Machines, graphon, Valgo, Wavvest, Waniwani, Sent, Handle, and Avallon.

Mobility & Advanced Hardware, Korea to U.S.: koolmicro, Deep Fusion AI, WiPowerOne, MONA, WIM Robotics, and Eflow.

New Materials & Packaging: Fibtray, Nfinite Nanotechnology, Celwise AB, and PakItGreen.

Travel & Hospitality: Movmo, pAIback, Travel Smarter, Opfyx, Zerolook, Travel Ledger, Altitude AI, ReLUGG, and Avon AI.

XDC AI Agents & Blockchain Accelerator: t54, BlockRun.AI, Hinkal, Synergetics.ai, Keyban, Vishwa, ICTI, Rupi, Quote.Trade, XDC AI, AstraSync, and bond.credit.

Several startups illustrate how deeply agentic AI is permeating vertical business workflows.

Skyfire gives autonomous agents verified identity and payment credentials so they can purchase goods and services online, while Primitive is developing an operating system for banks to create, orchestrate, govern, and measure AI agents.

Astraeus Wealth Tech is building agentic infrastructure for wealth management, Avallon is targeting claims operations with AI agents, and Avon AI provides technology to monitor and adjust enterprise AI agents.

The XDC accelerator takes the concept further into blockchain and financial infrastructure.

Companies in the program are developing technologies for agent-initiated payments, agent identity, autonomous capital, tokenized financial products, privacy, compliance, and AI-agent underwriting.

Physical AI is another significant theme.

AgriDynamics Robotics is developing agricultural robots, Deep Fusion AI is working on sensor fusion and 4D imaging radar for autonomous vehicles and other systems, WiPowerOne is developing wireless charging for physical AI mobility, and Rovify Lab combines robotics with 3D spatial analytics for mining and heavy-industry safety.

The portfolio also extends well beyond AI.

Food and beverage companies are developing crop genetics, alternative proteins, metabolic-health ingredients, and engineered bio-ingredients, while the New Materials & Packaging group includes technologies spanning cellulose fiber packaging, nanocoatings, molded fiber, and environmentally friendly coatings.

Plug and Play currently operates in more than 60 locations across more than 25 industries and accelerates over 2,500 startups annually.

Its investment history includes companies such as Dropbox, Guardant Health, Honey, Lending Club, N26, PayPal, and Rappi.

The fall batches will culminate at the Silicon Valley November Summit, where participating companies will pitch across industry-specific sessions alongside keynotes, exhibitions, and deal-flow meetings.

Plug and Play also plans to use the event to announce additional developments across its global platform, including new corporate partnerships and locations.

“A year ago, founders came to us with AI products that companies wanted to test. Now they arrive with customers already in production. That changes what our partners need from us. The work is less about proving the technology and more about moving fast enough to deploy it.”

Saeed Amidi, Founder And CEO Of Plug And Play

“The Plug and Play team went above and beyond to facilitate highly targeted introductions, connecting our cohort with invaluable partners and industry leads.”