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Deep Tech for Human and Planetary Health SOSV is the world’s most active deep tech venture capital firm investing at pre-seed, with deeply resourced locations for founders in New York, Newark, and San Francisco. We help startups go further, faster. 44% Founders with PhDs 2021-2025 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 READ PROFILE 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. READ PROFILE 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. READ PROFILE 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. READ PROFILE 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. READ PROFILE 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. READ PROFILE 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. READ PROFILE 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. READ PROFILE 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. READ PROFILE Each year, SOSV makes about 60 pre-seed investments of up to $550k each, as well as another 150 follow-on investments in deep tech companies. The pre-seed founders join SOSV’s General Partner-led teams at our offices and labs in San Francisco, New York City, and Newark for intensive, customized work designed to dramatically speed up product development, commercial strategy, regulatory advances, corporate connections and fund-raising. Is SOSV right for you? SOSV’s General Partners draw on deep experience as investors, entrepreneurs, operators, scientists and engineers. They operate as three teams, one at each location, and each ready for founders across the full breadth of deep tech, from physical AI to therapeutics, energy to critical minerals. Each location also has unique strengths, such as Silicon Valley’s investor networks, New York’s corporate and healthcare ecosystem, and Newark’s embedded design engineering and prototyping. SOSV founders have access to everything. In addition to being the the most active pre-seed deep tech investor, SOSV gathers fine-grain data on deep tech trends through regular VC-Founder Matchups, the annual Climate Tech Summit, and the Deep Tech Live series, which engage thousands of founders each year. SOSV is no less at home in Silicon Valley than the global ecosystem. Founders in the 800+ company portfolio hail from 82 countries and operate in 58. In addition to its US offices, SOSV has teams working in India, China, and the EU, and SOSV’s 2700+ co-investors span the globe. In the past decade, SOSV raised more than $75 million in grants to build and outfit 85,000 square feet of labs, offices and event spaces in San Francisco, New York City, Newark, and soon, Princeton. Available labs include bio-safety (BSL1 and BSL2), chemical, mechatronics, analytics, and electrical engineering, with staff experts on hand to help. Specialists in Pune, Shenzhen, and Tokyo round out SOSV’s 24/7 global innovation engine, bringing additional design, engineering, and supply chain expertise to bear. SOSV’s pre-seed check is just the start. Investor teams work with each founder to identify the best prospects in SOSV’s vast investor network, make individual introductions, and host carefully targeted demo days and matchups. SOSV joins early stage follow-on rounds, at least through Series B. SOSV also believes founders should understand exit strategies. The unique SOSV RETVRN program, free to SOSV companies, helps founders control their destinies. The startup crucible in the labs and offices of San Francisco, New York City, and Newark yield friendships and networks that last a lifetime. SOSV’s general partners and program staff remain trusted advisors long after the founders move on. SOSV continues helping founders raise investment, expand networks, make corporate contacts, and earn press coverage. Founders participate as VIPs in VC-Founder Matchups and speak on panels at the SOSV Climate Tech Summit, expos and other events. SOSV is for life. SOSV Programs Helping hard tech founders tap into the world’s ecosystems for real-world product development, manufacturing and fundraising in Newark, NJ. Learn more Apply Cutting-edge healthcare and engineering biology, with wet-lab infrastructure and deep technical, regulatory, and commercial expertise to de-risk biology and bring products toward the clinic or market. 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