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.
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
Funded Companies
Synthace 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.
Pembient uses advances in biotechnology to fabricate horn and other wildlife products to combat the threat to endangered species.
Indee Labs focuses on the development of microfluidic vortex shedding for rapidly and efficiently transfecting human primary immune cells with negligible perturbation. The team is focused on developing its core technology for short turnaround chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) development and manufacturing.
A Canadian food biotech company focused on the development of hypoallergenic peanuts
Perfect Day Foods (formerly Muufri) engineered yeast capable of producing the proteins found in cows milk. They use these proteins to make their own line of animal-free dairy products.
New Wave Foods is a biotechnology company developing plant based alternative seafood products. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and was founded in 2015 by Dominique Barnes and Michelle Wolf.
Company making cultured meat based in San Francisco founded by Uma Valeti, Nicholas Genovese and Will Clem.
Geltor is a cellular agriculture company making essential proteins, such as collagen and gelatin, using microbes in their own bio-fermentation recombinant protein production facility.
Finless Foods is a biotechnology company producing cultured marine animal food products through implementing cellular agriculture and manufacturing technologies.
Clara Foods is a biotechnology company founded by two New Harvest community members David Anchel and Arturo Elizondo in 2014. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and manufactures animal- free proteins using using yeast bio-fermentation techniques fore use in food products.
A company with a car-sharing platform and hardware. It was founded in 2009 and is located in San Francisco, California.
Because Animals is a pet food and cellular agriculture technology company founded in 2016 by Shannon Falconer and Joshua Erret, and is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Because Animals makes 100% animal-free pet foods, treats, and supplements.
Prime Roots (formerly Terramino Foods) is a food company located in San Leandro, California, founded by Kimberlie Le and Joshua Nixon in 2017 producing a salmon meat substitute made from fungi.
A biotechnology company that is building a smart toilet monitor for non-invasive early detection of gastrointestinal cancers and diseases. It was founded in 2016 and is located in San Francisco, California.
A healthcare technology company that develops biomarkers and digital therapeutics. It was founded in 2015 and is located in San Francisco, California.
A company developing new ways to combat mental health issues with technology. Its first product is a medication-free depression treatment that combines a brain stimulation wearable and an app-based therapy program. It was founded in 2016 and is located in Malmö, Sweden.
Stelvio Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing therapeutics for cancer.
A company creating sustainable design solutions with biomaterials. It was founded in 2013 and is located in San Francisco, California.
Roquette is a French company focused on the production of plant-based food and nutrition ingredients for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. The company was founded in 1933 by Dominique & Germain Roquette, and is headquartered in Lestrem, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France.
Caspr Biotech is developing a CRISPR-based platform for rapid diagnostic systems for viruses, bacteria and genetic mutations
The Abbot's Butcher is a food company founded in 2016 by Kerry Song and headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, making plant-based meat alternatives.
NotCo is a food science company located in Santiago, Chile, making plant-based Greek yogurt, milk, cheese and mayonnaise, with the help of their artificial intelligence software called Giuseppe.
A startup that is building microprocessor and other types of chips with wetware biological neurons. It has applications in sensing, control and computation.
Particle (formerly Spark.io ) is a technology company that produces low cost Internet of things hardware, software, and connectivity.
Associated investment funds
People
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