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SOSV
United States
- Princeton, New Jersey
- 01/12/2022
- Pre-Seed
- $2,100,000
SOSV is a global venture capital firm that operates early stage startup development programs.
SOSV’s programs are focused on two broad areas. The first is revolutionary deep technology that promises the betterment of humanity and the planet. The second is cross-border markets, notably in Asia, that are ripe for explosive growth.
The firm’s strategy is to invest in a small number of highly promising startups and use its deeply resourced programs to accelerate product development, acquire customers, and scale. SOSV companies consistently raise funding rounds led by top tier investors. SOSV joins seed, series A, and later rounds while providing founders with ongoing support and community.
As of January 2022, SOSV had more than 1,000 portfolio companies and $1.2 billion in assets under management, reflecting a 40% increase over 2020.
SOSV’s programs include hard tech-oriented HAX and life-science driven IndieBio. Both offer deep technical and scientific expertise on-site as well as well-equipped lab and fabrication facilities and supply chain access. At Chinaccelerator and MOX, market-entry and growth experts help entrepreneurs in emerging markets around the world ramp quickly. SOSV’s latest program, dlab, fosters new players in the blockchain ecosystem.
Among the top companies in SOSV’s portfolio are NotCo, Perfect Day, Upside Foods, Yeelight, Opentrons, Shopal, Snapask, BitMEX and API3.
In March 2022, SOSV published its first annual Human Health 100, a list of the firm’s top human health investments in areas ranging from assistive robotics to therapeutics and diagnostics.
On Earth Day—April 22, 2022—SOSV published the second annual Climate Tech 100, a list of the firm’s top climate-focused investments working on solutions to climate change across five sectors: food, manufacturing, transport, energy, and building systems.
- Industry Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Website https://sosv.com/
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/sosv/people/
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Sean O'SullivanInvestor
United States -
New York City Metropolitan Area
I am Managing General Partner & founder at SOSV, a venture capital firm with more than $1B in assets under management. SOSV pioneers & runs world-leading startup development programs. We help fund, at the Pre-seed/seed stage, about 125 new startups per year out of the over 8,000 that apply to HAX, IndieBio, Orbit Startups and dlab... We follow-on invest into SOSV-backed companies with investment and marketplace traction.
TIMESAVER: SOSV DOES NOT MAKE DIRECT INVESTMENTS into startups that did not get accepted into one of the above SOSV startup development programs. Apply to these SOSV programs at http://SOSV.com/apply.
I have worked as an engineer, musician, computer programmer, software designer, marketing guy, sales guy, humanitarian worker, war photographer, cinematographer on music videos, short films & documentaries, stock picker, freelance photojournalist, small business operator, venture capitalist and writer. Co-inventor and popularizer (with my other MapInfo friends) of street mapping on personal computers. I have about 25 granted patents where I am listed as the primary inventor. I am credited with the co-invention (with George Favaloro of Compaq) of the term "cloud computing". Also coined the term "Protein farming". Passable in Spanish; pidgeon French & Arabic & Chinese.
I was a TV personality in Ireland for a few years, as an investor on the TV reality show "Dragon's Den", and founded and ran the humanitarian organization JumpStart International for a couple of years in a couple of war zones. I helped back Coderdojo and Khan Academy in their crucial early years. I'm still on the board of Khan Academy. I'm an organizing member of the Autism Impact Fund and on the social causes side I look to address breakthroughs in autism treatment options, particularly on the physiology of autism.
Specialties: helping SOSV-backed founders go further & faster; getting other people interested in things I care about; improving efficiency in processes; creating technology to solve real problems for real human beings.
I have office hours for startup founders:
Office Hours
I make myself available for 15 minute calls for entrepreneurs, you can consider signing up by looking at this URL:
http://sean-sosv.youcanbook.me.
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