Status
ACTIVE
Global HQ
Princeton, United States
Countries of investment
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Ireland
- China
- Taiwan
- Japan
- South Korea
- India
- Singapore
- Germany
- France
- Netherlands
- Israel
- Australia
- Canada
- Sweden
- Denmark
- Finland
Investment stages
- Pre-Seed
- Seed
- Series A
Industries
- DeepTech
- Climate Tech
- Biotech
- Health Tech
- Hardware
- Life Sciences
- Robotics
- Advanced Materials
- Food Tech
- Chemistry
- Emerging Markets
About
SOSV is a Princeton-based venture capital firm focused on backing deep tech founders through accelerator-driven early-stage investments. Their focus spans deep tech, biotech, climate tech, health tech, and hardware across the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore, Germany, France, Netherlands, Israel, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. The firm supports early-stage founders from pre-seed through Series A stages.
SOSV is a Princeton-based venture capital firm focused on backing deep tech founders through accelerator-driven early-stage investments. Their focus spans deep tech, biotech, climate tech, health tech, and hardware across the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore, Germany, France, Netherlands, Israel, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. The firm supports early-stage founders from pre-seed through Series A stages.
Investment Thesis
SOSV is a pre-seed to Series A stage venture capital firm deploying capital across deep tech, climate tech, biotech, health tech, and hardware sectors. They invest $250K-$500K first checks through their HAX (hard tech), IndieBio (life sciences), and Orbit Startups (emerging markets) accelerator programs, with follow-on capacity up to $10M+. The firm differentiates itself as one of the world's most active deep tech accelerator programs with 1,200+ portfolio companies, four unicorns, and hands-on operational infrastructure spanning wet labs and hardware prototyping facilities.
Manager's Experience
Founded in 1995 by Sean O'Sullivan (Managing General Partner, co-founder of MapInfo which went public and later sold to Pitney Bowes for $500M+). Cyril Ebersweiler serves as Founding General Partner (co-founder of HAX in Shenzhen, one of the world's first hardware accelerators). Duncan Turner leads HAX as Managing General Partner from Newark, New Jersey. Po Bronson leads IndieBio as Managing General Partner. William Bao Bean leads Orbit Startups (formerly Chinaccelerator and MOX). Team of 100+ operators across 8 locations globally including Newark, San Francisco, Cork, Taipei, Tokyo, Hong Kong. Manages over $1.5B AUM. Portfolio of 1,200+ companies including four unicorns and 20+ IPOs, spanning biotech, hardware, climate tech, and emerging markets. Operates HAX (hard tech), IndieBio (life sciences), and Orbit Startups (emerging markets) accelerator programs providing $250K-$500K initial checks with follow-on capacity up to $10M+.
Team
Sean O'Sullivan - Founder & Managing General Partner
Cyril Ebersweiler - Founding General Partner
Duncan Turner - Managing General Partner HAX
Po Bronson - Managing General Partner IndieBio
William Bao Bean - Managing General Partner Orbit Startups
Susan Hobbs - CFO
Sarah Naguru - Principal
Prashant Mital - Partner
Portfolio
NEXT Biomedical
Perfect Day
Upside Foods
Formlabs
Motif FoodWorks
Geltor
Notpla
Twelve
MycoWorks
Solugen
Air Company
HotBox Robotics
Nuclera
Cell-Free
New Age Meats
TeaBot
Ellex Medical
PathAI
Solum
Boom Supersonic