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.
Investment portfolio
Companies participating in an SOSV acellerator program
Investments
Investment portfolio
Alpha Revolution Inc
San Jose, California, USA
Seed
HAX growth
Aluna Medical Diagnostics
San Francisco, California, USA
Seed
IndieBio
Leamington, Ontario, Canada
Seed
IndieBio
Amber Agriculture
Champaign, Illinois, USA
Series-A
HAX accelerator
Timeline
SOSV successfully raises $218 million for its third fund.
SOSV makes second investment in FreshSpoke.
Funded Companies
SynthaceSynthace is a software company based out of London, UK building automation software that gives biologists the ability to control and analyze the performance of lab hardware.
London
Memphis MeatsCompany making cultured meat based in San Francisco founded by Uma Valeti, Nicholas Genovese and Will Clem.
San Francisco
California
United States
GetaroundA company with a car-sharing platform and hardware. It was founded in 2009 and is located in San Francisco, California.
Sentio SolutionsA healthcare technology company that develops biomarkers and digital therapeutics. It was founded in 2015 and is located in San Francisco, California.
Leap MotionAmerican manufacturer of computer hardware sensor devices
Osiris TherapeuticsOsiris Therapeutics is a biotechnology company making stem cell products to treat medical conditions.
Columbia, Maryland
Particle (company)Particle is a San Francisco-based company founded by Zach Supalla.
Structur3dA company making specialized hardware that enables 3D printing with soft materials like silicone, polyurethane, latex, biopolymers, conductive inks, icing sugar, and Nutella.
Ontario
Waterloo, Ontario
Serenity BioworksImmune-compatible gene therapy company.
Kitchener, Ontario
Palette (company)A company offering a hardware interface for controlling software applications.
Mitaka, Tokyo
GroboA company developing smart growing systems that are capable of naturally changing the physical appearance and chemical properties of plants.
The CareVoiceThe CareVoice is a Shanghai-based early growth-stage health insurtech startup. It provides a mobile social platform with community-sourced ratings and recommendations on healthcare services.
Shanghai
DNALite TherapeuticsDNALite Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on developing prevention and treatment for gastrointestinal diseases.
Vivid VisionVivid Vision Clinical is a lazy eye treatment system. It is designed to let an optometrist have absolute control over a patients treatment and allow the patient to track progress.
Light (hardware company)Light is a hardware company founded by Joe Hollier and Kaiwei Tang.
Brooklyn
MinutMinut is a Scandinavian startup that produces home security software and hardware. Minut's product, Point, analysing sounds and the indoor environment. It can recognise things like alarms, windows breaking, or unexpected activity.
LumotuneLumotune developed transparent digital displays for digital marketing.
Canada
AvidbotsCommercial floor cleaning market with autonomous robotics.
OurotechA biotechnology company making a medical device for testing treatments on tumor samples.
Cambridge CropsA biotechnology company developing edible food coatings
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Somerville, Massachusetts
ELSA (company)ELSA is a San Francisco-based company founded by Xavier Anguera.
Forward Robotics Inc.Associated investment funds
Princeton, New JerseyPeople
Alan Clayton
Employee
Albert Wang
Employee
Alejandro Ponce
Investor
Alex Kopelyan
Partner and program director
Anant Raj Pathak
Associate
Anthony Marino
Analyst
Arvind Gupta
Managing director
Audrey Chen
Office of the managing director and investor relations
Benjamin Joffe
Partner
Bill Liao
General partner and managing director
Brad Higgins
Venture partner
Brian Murphy
Financial controller
Brooks Rao
Analyst
Bunnie Huang
Hardware guru
Caitriona Kelleher
Analyst
Carmen huang
Office manager
Cathal Garvey
Employee
Ching-Ping Lin
Director of platform services
Chris Zhang
Community accelerator
Claire Cai
Analyst
Colin Steil
Employee
Conor Walsh
Employee
Cyril Ebersweiler
General partner, SOSV and managing director
Daniel Eichner
Partner, capital development
David Frazier
Community manager
Further reading
'Humanity's future is in the hands of engineers' - entrepreneur Seán O'Sullivan
Mary Anne Carriganmcarrigan@engineersireland.ieAdministratorEngineers Journal
Web article
From Humble Start to King of the Start-Up
Joe Seldner
Web article
SOSV Targets $250 Million For Fourth Flagship Fund - Crunchbase News
Jason D. Rowley
News article
The Best Startup Accelerators Of 2017
Alex Konrad
Web article
This Startup's Recent Funding Could Be A Bridge For M'sian Businesses To Enter China
Dale John Wong
Web article
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
GetGlobal 2016 Hub Culture Interview w/ William Bao Bean, Director, SOSV VC
October 23, 2016
Sean O Sullivan SOSV - Republic Of Talk Series2
November 28, 2017
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IndieBio
Food-X
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dLab Accelerator
Carma Axlr8r
URBAN-XVenture Capital Firm attributes
Bill Liao
Arvind K Gupta
Shawn Broderick
Gatehouse Bio
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