The First Check in Deep Tech®

Deep Tech for Human and Planetary Health

SOSV is a global, multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in deep tech startups, starting at pre-seed, and operates the deeply resourced HAX and IndieBio programs in New York, Newark and San Francisco.

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85,000

Sq ft Lab & Office Space

231

HAX & IndieBio Grads
2021-2024

44%

Founders with PhDs
2021-2024

$6.5B

Raised by Portfolio
2021-2024

SOSV Founders

Mark Hallen, Marcel Frenkel & Bruce Donald

Co-founders, Ten63

How Ten63 turned an academic project into an AI platform for drugging “undruggable” cancers

Bruce Donald, Marcel Frenkel and Mark Hallen are analyzing over 19,290,123 compounds per second at quantum accuracies to develop drugs to previously incurable cancers.

SOSV Founders

Walden Lam, Kevin Martin and Beth Esponnette

Co-founders, unspun

unspun’s Weaving Machines Aim to Fix Apparel’s Waste and Carbon Problem

Funded with $57 million from DCVC, Lowercarbon Capital and SOSV, among others, unspun aims to eliminate 1% of global carbon emissions

SOSV Founders

Karim Pichara and Matias Muchnik

Co-founders, NotCo

NotCo’s plant-based foods are on store shelves, but its AI engine “Giuseppe” is the real business

While it might look like a plant-based food company, NotCo is in the data and AI business—and aims to disrupt R&D in many industries that use animal and plant ingredients.

SOSV Founders

Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao

Co-founders, Novoloop

Novoloop Is Upcycling Your Future

Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao have an uncanny talent for finding value where others see waste. Their plastics upcycling company, Novoloop, just raised a $21m Series A to prove it.

SOSV Founders

Declan Jones, Max Huisman, Deniz Kent

Co-founders, Prolific Machines

Prolific Machines Has The Key to Affordable Cultured Meat

While volunteering in a Syrian refugee camp, stem cell biologist Deniz Kent saw what climate change could do to humanity at a massively greater scale. He co-founded Prolific Machines with Max Huisman and Declan Jones to address a top source of greenhouse gas emissions: livestock.

SOSV Founders

Chiu Chau

Co-Founder, OpenTrons

Chiu Chau Reboots a Robot into a Billion Dollar Business

It was 2015, and Chiu Chau was on the ropes. He had pitched nearly 150 venture capital firms. No one would invest. Everyone doubted the startup with the open-source laboratory robot.

SOSV Founders

Uma Valeti

Founder and CEO, Upside Foods

Upside Foods Serves Up a Sustainable Future

To find the future of food, you may have to look no further than Emeryville, CA, a small city by the San Francisco Bay, where Upside Foods has built a 53,000-square-foot production facility for cultivated meat.

SOSV Founders

Radhika Patil and Bharath Patil

Co-founders, Cradlewise

Sleeping Beauty

In a timeless dilemma for new parents, Radhika and her husband Bharath discovered early that their baby daughter was a fussy sleeper. The situation left them tired and frustrated; being effective at work became a challenge.

SOSV Founders

Antonio Rocha, GIlberto Loureiro, and Paulo Ribeiro

Co-founders, Smartex

Smartex is Creating the Textile Factory of the Future

Gilberto Loureiro grew up inspecting fabrics in a Portuguese textile factory. With Smartex, he and co-founders Antonio Rocha and Paulo Ribeiro are eliminating textile defects—and their enormous cost both to manufacturers and the environment. 

SOSV Founders

Adebayo Alonge and Amy Kao

Co-founders of RxAll

RxAll’s Life-Saving Deep Tech for African Pharmacies

Adebayo (“Ade”) Alonge and Amy Kao, co-founders of RxAll had invented a handheld scanner for detecting counterfeit prescription drugs—an illicit, multibillion-dollar industry that kills an estimated 1 million people annually around the world and 100,000 in Africa.

Helping hard tech founders tap into the world’s ecosystems for real-world product development, manufacturing and fundraising in Newark, NJ.

Dedicated to turning scientists into entrepreneurs determined to save lives and save the planet, based in San Francisco and New York City.

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Invest in our Companies

SOSV’s portfolio companies raise hundreds follow-on rounds each year, and the co-investors in SOSV’s 1000+ portfolio number in the 100s. SOSV aims to build a global, diverse network of investors, and new co-investors are always welcome.

Invest in our Funds

SOSV is a multi-stage VC that invests in 60 pre-seed startups each year and joins hundreds of follow-on rounds through SOSV’s core and select funds. New limited partners interested in “human and planetary health” are welcome.