Biography
Seena began his career at Baarzo, an AI company specializing in automated video tagging, which was acquired by Google in 2014 to support YouTube.
After supporting the integration, he joined Plug and Play, where he founded the New Materials & Packaging and Food & Beverage programs, expanding the company into new verticals.
In 2020, Seena moved to Europe as Managing Partner of EMEA and also joined Plug and Play’s board. While expanding the business across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, he completed an MBA in International Business from EAE.
Under his leadership, Plug and Play EMEA has grown to more than 300 employees across 25 offices and now represents 35% of the global business, delivering tailored innovation services to leading corporations across industries.
Session
- AI For GrowthSpeaker
Panel 5 - Strategic Money: How Corporates Really Invest in AI Startups
Tuesday 22 September, 13:00 – 13:40Panel StageCorporate venture money isn't chasing the same thing as a fund. A strategic investor wants synergy, access, and an eventual seat at the table, not just a return. This panel brings together the people who sit between corporates and startups to unpack how strategic AI investments and partnerships actually get picked, structured and managed: what a corporate is really underwriting beyond the cap table, where that clashes with how independent VCs think, and what founders get wrong pitching a corporate as if it were a fund. Built for founders courting strategic capital and for anyone trying to understand how big companies actually move on AI.