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SOSV Climate Summit: How Lilac Solutions, Impossible Metals, and Still Bright are Reinventing the Supply Chain for Minerals
The world faces a mineral shortage that could derail current efforts to arrest climate change.
Still Bright
Still Bright has discovered transformative reaction chemistry to enable the local, rapid, clean, and complete recovery of copper. This enables domestic production of copper, a critical mineral for electrification.
Still Bright raises $18.7M seed round to slash copper costs
Skyrocketing demand for copper promises to push prices to new heights. As the global economy transitions away from fossil fuels, it is going to need twice as much copper in the coming years than humanity has mined throughout all of its existence. SOSV portfolio company and HAX startup development program graduate Still Bright has developed a new […]
How HAX Helps Hard Tech Founders Rapidly Prototype, De-Risk Technology & Achieve Traction
Hard tech doesn’t move at the speed of software. To change the physical world, hard tech founders need labs, highly specialized machinery, engineering and design support, supply chain expertise and, of course, capital.
Announcing the Main Stage Sessions at the 5th Annual SOSV Climate Tech Summit
We’re excited to announce the 19 main stage sessions for the 5th annual SOSV Climate Tech Summit, taking place November 3–7, 2025. We’ll explore how deep tech founders are turning scientific breakthroughs into scalable climate solutions, and how investors are navigating today’s political and funding headwinds to keep the transition moving forward. Sessions will also […]
BryoSphere Biotechnologies
Why we invested: Our investment in BryoSphere is an addition to SOSV’s next-gen biomanufacturing portfolio that spans a diversity of chassis, processes, vessels, and feedstocks. BryoSphere is one of the only companies in the world to use moss cells in photobioreactors as an expression system. These ancient plants are really good at making compounds to […]
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SOSV Deep Tech 100
We are pleased to inaugurate SOSV’s first annual Deep Tech 100, a list of our startups on course to play a huge role in the future of human and planetary health.
Duncan Turner Talks About How Trump’s Project Vault Impacts Critical Mineral Startups
Yesterday, Trump announced a $12B critical minerals stockpile program (“Project Vault”) to procure and store critical minerals in the U.S. SOSV General Partner Duncan Turner told Bloomberg that the move signals a meaningful push to build a domestic critical-minerals supply chain – opening the door for next-gen mining, processing, and refining technologies in a sector […]
SOSV’s HAX program officially opens doors to its new HQ in Newark, NJ
When you walk through HAX’s glass doors at 2 Cedar Street in Newark, New Jersey, a giant orange robot arm greets you, perched over a massive installation where Silana’s founders are working on automated robotic sewing machines.
Ten Takeaways from the 2023 SOSV Climate Tech Summit
If you missed some of the 12 hours of interviews and panels (video | podcast replays), or the 10 hours of live AMAs with investors (video replays), here is a quick take on the highlights of our third annual SOSV Climate Tech Summit. But first, we’d like to offer our heartfelt gratitude to the 100 […]
On Demand: All the SOSV Climate Tech Summit 2023 main stage sessions
We just wrapped the SOSV Climate Tech Summit! We recognize that not everyone could stay in place for 12 hours of panels and firesides over two days, so we worked over time to make each of the main stage sessions available on YouTube. Coordinates below! Here’s the complete playlist for Day One (Sept. 26) and […]
IndieBio Demo Day 15
Welcome to the investor portal for IndieBio San Francisco Demo Day 15. Investors are invited to watch the videos (click the images), review the companies’ profiles and decks as well as request meetings. Questions? Contact the IndieBio team individually through LinkedIn or this contact form.
Norm Amandi
As SOSV’s Creative Director, Norm Amandi is tasked with highlighting the great work of our programs, our startups, our entrepreneurs and the ecosystems we build globally. He is responsible for the creation of SOSV’s Youtube series, which is dedicated to introducing VCs to the entrepreneurial community. Norm Amandi is a Daytime Emmy-nominated executive producer, writer, […]
P.Happi
P.Happi’s bioactive ingredient continuously protects, restores and balances your intimate skin. Our products calm your urogenital area which can be irritated and damaged by antibiotic therapies and harmful bacteria living in your gut and colonizing women’s intimate area. Unhealthy food, irritation, and changes in pH lead to reduced urogenital comfort making it easier for bad […]
Meet the 7 SOSV Portfolio Companies Pitching at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 Startup Battlefield
We’re thrilled that seven SOSV portfolio companies have been selected for the 2025 Startup Battlefield 200, TechCrunch’s annual list of the 200 most promising early-stage startups worldwide. As TechCrunch put it: “These founders rose to the top from thousands of applications spanning every industry and geography.” Each will have the chance to exhibit at TechCrunch […]
SOSV & Tim Latimer of Fervo Energy Discuss The Future of Geothermal
To kick off Climate Week NYC, SOSV hosted a powerful conversation with Tim Latimer, CEO & Co-Founder of Fervo Energy moderated by SOSV General Partner Duncan Turner,. The discussion ranged from Tim’s personal journey (including turning down a cushy corporate job to bet it all on geothermal and finding new inspiration as a dad determined […]
Join SOSV at Climate Week NYC 2025
Climate Week NYC is one of the world’s leading global climate gatherings and it’s just around the corner! But this one feels a bit different. In past years, we came together with a sense of optimism. This year, we come with urgency. Washington’s retreat from climate programs and the venture market’s pullback from climate tech […]
Join SOSV at the 44th Annual JPM Healthcare Conference
As the healthcare industry gathers in San Francisco for the 44th Annual JPM Healthcare Conference on January 12th – 15th, SOSV is kicking off the year by convening founders, investors, and operators shaping the next generation of biotech and health innovation. Throughout the week, we’re hosting a series of curated events designed to spark real […]
Mitico raises $4.3M seed round to revolutionize CO₂ capture with ‘prehistoric chemistry’
We’re thrilled to announce that Mitico, a graduate from our HAX hard tech program, has secured a $4.3 million seed round, led by Exergon with participation from AP Ventures, Deepbright Ventures, Freeflow Ventures, Halliburton Labs, the Alliance for SoCal Innovation, SOSV, and W. L. Gore & Associates’ ventures team. This funding will accelerate their innovative […]
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.
Announcing the 2023 SOSV Climate Tech 100
In this third edition of our list, published yearly to mark Earth Day, we highlight the companies in our portfolio that demonstrated the most momentum and greatest potential impact on decarbonization.
SOSV’s IndieBio and Mayfield to Partner on Genesis Consortium for Life Sciences
Firms to invest $400 million in seed and early-stage funding over the next four years to propel the next tech revolution. In a move reflecting the shifting landscape of technology investing, SOSV and Mayfield are jointly doubling down on a commitment to early-stage life science startups. The effort, which they dub the “Genesis Consortium”, will provide a strong foundation […]
Science: An Unstoppable Force, an Unforgettable Friend
2020. What a year. From the million expected to die from the Coronavirus pandemic to “megafire” forest devastation; from global warming to the historic high in hurricanes forecast to hit our shores, 2020 has shown us time and time again the undeniable truth; that as an enemy, science is an undefeatable opponent.
Key Takeaways from the SOSV Climate Tech Summit
Two weeks ago, over 60 iconic founders and investors shared their insights on how the world can tackle the planetary “Code Red” with over 2,000 participants at the inaugural SOSV Climate Tech Summit.
The Future Tastes Great
In the battle against climate change, it’s essential to find alternatives to mass animal agriculture.
That’s why SOSV Managing partner Sean O’Sullivan, Apeiron Investment Group founder Christien Angermayer, and Good Food Institute CEO Bruce Friedrich decided to take advantage of Oscars week in Los Angeles to host a star-studded luncheon featuring remarkable culinary creations with one thing in common: ingredients from startups taking climate friendly approaches to food production.