SOSV (formerly SOS Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Sean O'Sullivan that provides growth, seed, and venture capital funding to startups. SOSV runs six seed accelerator programs: HAX Accelerator, Chinaccelerator, MOX, IndieBio, RebelBio, and Food-X. Each accelerator offers a 3-6 month co-located incubation/accelerator program and funding to selected start ups. According to SOSV, the acceptance rate of companies applying to become a part of their accelerators is less than 5%. SOSV has headquarters in the United States (Princeton, New Jersey; New York City, New York; and San Francisco, California), Europe (Cork, Ireland and London, England), and Asia (Shenzhen, China; Shanghai, China; and Taipei, Taiwan). SOSV typically invests in technology companies that focus on hardware, software, biotechnology, energy, robotics, medical devices and food.
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SOSventures is a venture capital firm that is interested in multi-stage investments to scale and develop positive ideas. The firm was founded by Sean O'Sullivan in 1994, in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.
The firm was responsible for supplying startups with rocket fuel in the late 90s and early 2000s. The firm is interested in areas of hardware, software, biology, food, robotics, medical devices, transportation, green energy, and more. SOSventures looks to invest in companies such as Instoried, allrites.com, Mechasys, and ARKADEMI.
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'Humanity's future is in the hands of engineers' - entrepreneur Seán O'Sullivan
Mary Anne Carriganmcarrigan@engineersireland.ieAdministratorEngineers Journal
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