Playground Global

Playground Global is a deep-tech venture firm founded in 2015 by Andy Rubin and partners, backing what it calls "the actuated internet" — AI interacting with the physical world, next-generation compute, and automation. It manages approximately $1.2B in assets. In the PXS map, Playground Global enters through a sourced, direct relationship with PowerLattice, the company that raised $25M to break the AI power wall — a compute-infrastructure investment mapped to the Physical AI layer. The research map records an attributed financing relationship, not a complete portfolio or a live ownership register, and only direct, sourced relationships to existing mapped companies are captured. Playground Global is most useful as a signal of which deep-tech capital networks are backing the compute-and-power foundation of embodied intelligence, connecting the Physical AI universe to a founder-led frontier-tech franchise. Founded in 2015 by Andy Rubin and partners with roughly $1.2B in assets, Playground Global's "actuated internet" thesis makes it a direct capital expression of the Physical AI universe's compute-and-automation core.