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SOSV is a global venture capital firm that offers multi-stage investment, starting with pre-seed startup development programs. SOSV’s core mission is to fund visionary, deep tech founders who will have a profound impact on human and planetary health. As of September 2023, SOSV had $1.5 billion in assets under management. SOSV’s top 100 climate tech companies have a valuation of $11 billion with $3.85 billion raised, and top 100 health startups had a valuation of $5.7 billion with $1 billion raised. SOSV is consistently ranked by Pitchbook as one of the most active investors in both categories; in the case of climate, SOSV ranks as the #1 most active investor in climate tech since 2017. Starting in 2021, SOSV produced the first, annual SOSV Climate Tech Summit and VC-Founder Matchup, an online event featuring top climate founders and investors across the climate ecosystem. In its third year, 2023, there were more than 5,000 participants and 100 speakers. Among the top companies in SOSV’s portfolio are NotCo, Upside Foods, Prellis, Avidbots, The EVERY company, Formlabs, Opentrons, Unspun, Smartex, R-Zero, Voltstorage, Prolific Machines, Mycoworks, Green Li-ion, Videoverse, Neptune Robotics, Novoloop, Ten63, and Perfect Day. SOSV’s startup development programs are the hard tech-oriented HAX and life sciences-driven IndieBio. Both offer deep tech founders critical technical, product, and company-building expertise in addition to well equipped lab and fabrication facilities. Founder Experience Each year, SOSV selects more than 100 highly promising seed and pre-seed startups to join its programs based in San Francisco, New York City, Newark, and Tokyo. SOSV makes an initial investment of up to $525,000, and the founders spend four-to-six months working side-by-side with the SOSV general partners as well as staff and mentors deeply expert in science and engineering, design and product development, supply chain and product-market fit. The goal in each program is to help each startup prove out their value by getting increased scientific and marketplace traction, as well as greater clarity about the product’s value and positioning in solving urgent problems. Once that’s clear, fundraising progress becomes relatively easy, and seed and Series A rounds attract top venture investors. SOSV often joins those later rounds, and SOSV general partners continue working closely with the program alums for years post-program. In 2022, SOSV portfolio companies raised $2.0 billion in follow-on rounds, and SOSV participated in over 176 of those rounds as well as 106 pre-seed rounds for startups that joined the programs. According to Pitchbook, SOSV was the most active seed and angel investor in the world in 2020 and 2021, and third most active in 2022. Background SOSV Managing General Partner Sean O’Sullivan founded SOSV in 1995, following the IPO of MapInfo, a startup he co-founded that pioneered computer-based street mapping. O’Sullivan is deeply committed to human and planetary health through entrepreneurship and technology, and he is actively involved with all the programs. Today the firm has over 80 staff, including 9 general partners. SOSV’s most recent core fund is the $277 million Fund IV, which closed in 2019. In 2021, SOSV also raised a $100 million Select Fund to support the expansion of follow-on investing in SOSV’s portfolio. SOSV’s limited partners include corporates, financial institutions, family offices, and high-net worth individuals from around the world, including Credit Suisse, Tiedemann Advisors, Davy Group, ZX Ventures (the strategic arm of Anheuser-Busch InBev), HP Ventures, and Sumitomo Corp. In SOSV’s Fund IV ($277 million), 50% of the limited partners are located in North America, 25% in Europe, and 20% in Japan and Southeast Asia. SOSV founder and managing GP O’Sullivan has donated tens of millions in profits from his investments to charitable causes, including the Khan Academy, I-ASC and CoderDojo, as well as many other educational, autism-related and humanitarian efforts. As a firm, SOSV commits 10% of SOSV profits to charity. O’Sullivan resides in Princeton, NJ. Diversity The SOSV team is made up of a highly diverse group living in Asia, North America, and Europe. Our 9 general partners represent four nationalities and our staff many more. That diversity is reflected in our global portfolio. SOSV’s 2,600 founders represent 84 nationalities and operate in 56 countries. More than 70% of the founders are from outside the US, and 30% are from low- to middle-income countries, as defined by the World Bank. SOSV also has a long-standing strong track record of investing in female entrepreneurs. SOSV has invested in over 500 women founders; at the end of 2020, 34% of SOSV portfolio companies had at least one female founder. A 2017 TechCrunch / Crunchbase analysis showed that SOSV was one of only four seed funds with a female founder in at least 30% of their portfolio companies.