Plug and Play to launch $100 million fund to invest in Saudi startups

Plug and Play to launch $100 million fund to invest in Saudi startups

Source: Bloomberg

 Silicon Valley-based tech investor Plug and Play Tech Center, an early backer of firms including Dropbox Inc. and PayPal Holdings Inc., is looking to raise $100 million to invest in Saudi tech startups, potentially with backing from a unit of the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund.

Plug and Play is in talks with Jada, a $1 billion fund of funds established by the Saudi wealth fund to help kick-start the domestic venture capital industry, Saeed Amidi, the firm’s founder and CEO, said in an interview in Riyadh.