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Offering

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Deep Tech®

Up to $550K pre-seed SAFE

RESIDENCY

Up to six months with full access to officers, labs, equipment, and staff

Experience

Work side-by-side every day with general partners and staff
Work tailored to each founder’s needs
1:1 intros to targeted investors and corporates
Intensive preparations for next stage raise
Demo Days and Matchups
Media support

Platform

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.

Deep Tech’s full sweep situated in Silicon Valley with its capital density, talent networks, and fast iteration with customers, partners, and follow-on investors.

Frontier hardware and physical sciences, with embedded design engineering, prototyping, and manufacturing pathways across the US and Asia.

Build

Bio-safety lab levels 1 & 2, on site.

Bio-safety lab levels 1 & 2, chem lab, and food prototyping and production labs, on site.

HAX staff engineering, design, and supply chain experts work 1:1 with founders in richly equipped labs (chem, analytics, EE, mechatronics) to iterate product and scale product development. More.

Exit Prep

SOSV’s unique Retvrn program helps founders develop compelling exit strategies.

Facilities

FLOOR SPACE

25,000 sq ft: desks (84), meeting rooms (10), lab bench seats (60), event space (150 person capacity).

25,000 sq ft: desks (79), meeting rooms (6), lab bench seats (40), event space (150 capacity).

35,000 sq ft: desks, meeting rooms, lab benches, event space (150 person capacity).

LABS

  • Biosafety Levels 1 & 2
  • Molecular & Cell Biology
  • Protein Purification & Characterization
  • Production Scale-up (1-25L)
  • Biosafety Levels 1 & 2
  • Chemistry
  • Food Prototyping
  • Food Production
  • Analytics
  • Chemistry
  • Electrical engineering
  • Mechatronics

Machines

  • Modular Bioreactor
  • Attune Flow Cytometer and Cytkick Autosampler
  • MacsQuant Tyto Cell Sorter
  • Plant Growth Chamber
  • Universal Testing Machine
  • Digital Dispenser
  • Liquid Handling Robot
  • LabChip GXII
  • Bandmate automated western blot processor
  • QuantStudio6 Pro Real Time PCR system
  • EVOS 5000 Digital inverted fluorescence microscope
  • Anaerobic workstation
  • ICP-OES Spectrometer
  • GC-TOF MS system
  • LC-MS
  • FTIR
  • 3D Printing
  • Rotary Evaporator
  • Flash Chromatography System
  • Lyophilizer
  • Texture Analyzer
  • Opentrons Liquid Handling Robots
  • Fluorescence Microscope
  • AKTA FPLC System with Fraction Collector
  • MiSeq DNA Sequencer
  • Thermofisher StepOnePlus Real Time PCR System
  • Guava EasyCyte Benchtop Flow Cytometers
  • Incubators (microbial and mammalian)
  • Anaerobic Workstation
  • Bioreactor

Fundraising

Demo Days

1-2 Demo Days in person and virtual per year at each location

100s of VCs participate from around the world

VC-Founder Matchups

VIP Access to SOSV’s 5x yearly early stage virtual matchups

100s of VCs participate from around the world

Learn more

SOSV’s Investor Network

Curated 1:1 intros to investors in SOSV’s 7,000+ investor network

Media

Founder media training and top-tier coverage

Follow-on

Portco Funds raised in 2025

$800 Million

SOSV
FOLLOW-ONS

Joins seed through Series B+ rounds

60% of SOSV’s $306 million Fund V allocated to follow on

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co-investors

ADM Ventures (4) | Breakthrough Energy (3) | Climate Capital (9) | Collaborative Fund (12) | CPT Capital (7) | DCVC (4) | Draper Associates (9) | Entrepreneur First (17) | European Innovation Council (17) | Founders Fund (8) | Foundry Group (6) | GS Group (6) | Horizons Ventures (7) | Innovate UK (13) | Kholsa Ventures (11) | Lowercarbon Capital (5) | Mayfield (6) | National Science Foundation (7) | NewLab (5) | Sequoia Capital (5) | Softbank (8) | Temasek (5) | True Ventures (9) | Y Combinator (10)  + thousands more

Select Seed

Fundings 2024-25

(80+ total)

Afynia (non-invasive endometriosis diagnostic, $5M, press| Ayrton Energy (H2 storage and transportation, $6.8M, press| Asterix Foods (bioactive animal-free proteins, $4.2M Seed, press| Cayuga Biotech (novel therapeutics for hemorrhage, $8M Seed, press| Cellens (bladder cancer detection, $6.5M, press| Level Zero (continuous hormone monitoring, $6.9M, press| Material (battery manufacturing, $7.1M Seed, press| Proton Intel (continuous potassium monitoring, $6.95M, press| Transition Biomining Solutions (boosting copper production, $6M, press| YPlasma (advanced plasma actuators, $2.5M Seed, press)

SOSV Community

Lifelong Friendships

Work side-by-side with fellow founders and the SOSV team members

FOUNDER
DEMOS

44% PhDs

82 nationalities, 58 countries

One-third of companies have a female CEO or member of founding team

Alumni Network

3000+ Alumni

Open Door Policy

Alums welcome back any time for short stays

Longterm bench and office space based on terms and availability

7 Pennsylvania Plaza

New York, NY 10001

2565 3rd Street

San Francisco, CA 94107

2 Cedar Street

Newark, NJ 07102

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