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Shenzhen is the epicenter of world’s mass manufacturing industry. This means that Shenzhen is the perfect playground for engineers. To make [...]

So you got into HAX. That’s awesome, and we are about to embark on a pretty amazing journey. We have helped bring over 100 teams through HAX now [...]

We wrote for Forbes about China being the untold winner of CES, the giant annual consumer electronics show. France had a strong presence too, [...]

Vue Smart Glasses have raised over $2.2 million in pledges on Kickstarter, surpassing the founders’ original goal of $50,000 more than 40 times [...]

How can we create a brighter urban life? Innovators from BMW and URBAN-X discussed creative solutions for the future of cities, and the role of [...]

Aneela Kumar had a secret she had kept for nearly 20 years. From friends, from her parents – even from her husband. She was a “trichster,” [...]

We were happy to share the accomplishments of 13 new biotech startups at the latest IndieBio Demo Day in February. It was a huge honor to be able [...]

As I start to look at the emerging trends of 2017 from the vantage of IndieBio, where we see hundreds of biotech startup applications and [...]

Catalog Technologies is creating a data storage platform that may make hard drives, flash drives, zip drives—and any other kind of storage drive [...]

IndieBio is excited to announce our newest class of thirteen biotech startups. These companies are bringing innovation to a host of industries, [...]

Disclaimer: Graphic content maybe disturbing to some viewers. What if you can engineer new lifeforms? What if building life can be as easy, yet [...]

IndieBio SF is preparing to bring in our fourth cohort which should include our 57th company next month. We fund larger and more frequent classes [...]

Choosing an accelerator is an important decision you will make in your company journey. Here are some of the lessons I learned during my journey [...]

Southeast Asia is a highly condensed and relatively young region with people coming online rapidly, presenting huge opportunities for internet [...]

For years, Chinese exchanges have been dominant players in the Bitcoin market, with RMB exchanges capturing up to 98% of global trade volume in [...]

Although accelerators emerged as early as 2005, and now so many startups want to be in one, most people are still confused about what [...]

In May 2015, Chinaccelerator backed Shopal, a solution provider for offline retailers and hence the Chinese name “小店宝”, meaning [...]

Double digits! It’s a rough world out there for accelerator programs. Believe it or not, most accelerators have failed. So many of them lack [...]

Photo: Dessert made with FruitCubed technology. I can’t tell you how many articles I’ve read focused on the latest and greatest trends in the [...]

As the temperatures cool and people head back from the beach, it’s time to think about your application for Food-X’s fifth cohort! We are jazzed [...]

Less than four weeks ago, we came to the end of the 14-week accelerator program focused on working with some of the most compelling food [...]

The idea for Eattiamo began when the founders had spent enough time abroad to truly miss the taste authentic Italian food from their hometown. [...]

After seeing two batches of amazing food startups graduate from FOOD-X in 2015, you’d better believe the program knows a thing or two about [...]

By Nolan English, FOOD-X Program Coordinator As FOOD-X III comes to a close, we are thankful for our friends and mentors who spent time with our [...]

When the fear of my startup going under became dread, I turned to post mortem articles. There’s a vast collection of start-up autopsies littering [...]

Here at SOSV we invest into 200 companies per annum. These investments take a variety of different formats depending on the location of the [...]

“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, [...]

Make Yourself Visible to Those Who Have the Same Beliefs Rather Than Try to Convince Others (Image: Network, 1973) If there is one thing that the [...]

I should state my own bias (if it’s not clear enough already): In an ideal case, there can be between zero and one person on your startup’s [...]

There’s this cool proverb by the famous Japanese swordsman Miyaomoto Musashi which goes, “From one thing, know ten thousand [...]

We at SOSV love to celebrate the accomplishments of founders in our portfolio. It’s especially important to tip our hats to the amazing female [...]

Kindara was launched in Shenzhen at HAX Accelerator, and it is now one of the best-known fertility tracker apps available. One of the [...]

(a.k.a. Lessons From Spiderman) TechCrunch released their first comprehensive Women In Venture Report, and SOSV ranked #1 in VC seed funding for [...]

Saving our ocean fish populations from depletion seems like a daunting task, but the founders of New Wave Foods had the idea to create an equally [...]

LIVIN Farms, the makers of the LIVIN Farms Hive, are making it easy for consumers to grow their own sustainable food in the form of insects in [...]

As business becomes more gender balanced, we’re seeing more women in high-level positions than in previous years—but there is still a ways [...]

Catalog Technologies is creating a data storage platform that may make hard drives, flash drives, zip drives—and any other kind of storage drive [...]

Vue Smart Glasses have raised over $2.2 million in pledges on Kickstarter, surpassing the founders’ original goal of $50,000 more than 40 times [...]

Aneela Kumar had a secret she had kept for nearly 20 years. From friends, from her parents – even from her husband. She was a “trichster,” [...]

In May 2015, Chinaccelerator backed Shopal, a solution provider for offline retailers and hence the Chinese name “小店宝”, meaning [...]

As the world’s cities offer more and more top-notch venues and amenities to urban dwellers, there are still many challenges to growing a [...]

As participants in an SOSV startup, the SafeMotos team knows just how exciting the startup culture is in much of the world. It seems like every [...]

SOSV, the fund behind HAX is a “B2B brand” since it creates accelerators and rarely invests directly. Until recently it wasn’t [...]

(a.k.a. Lessons From Spiderman) TechCrunch released their first comprehensive Women In Venture Report, and SOSV ranked #1 in VC seed funding for [...]

If you’re considering applying or have already applied to one of our accelerator programs, congratulations! At SOSV, we are very excited to work [...]

SOSV has been investing heavily in accelerator programs for years now, and we have over time learned many lessons both good and bad. What we have [...]

The english language expression “It’s as plain as the nose on your face” means that something is obvious, perfectly clear to see. Have you ever [...]

3 Lessons from the MATHletes Challenge & Khan Academy We at SOSV are passionate about giving back (“Should giving back be a key marker of a [...]

I should state my own bias (if it’s not clear enough already): In an ideal case, there can be between zero and one person on your startup’s [...]

Objective social variables, in terms of the social identity being construed and displayed in text and talk by language users. Influenced by [...]

To date at SOSV we have invested in almost 600 companies, with over 350 of these being in the past 18 months alone. As the CFO, I get to see a [...]

Are you an entrepreneur in need of one-on-one time with someone who knows the ins and outs of the startup world? SOSV wants to help you! We [...]

In May 2015, Chinaccelerator backed Shopal, a solution provider for offline retailers and hence the Chinese name “小店宝”, meaning [...]

A startup is a roller coaster and not your common backyard slide. We’re talking the Intimidator 305. A roller coaster is also unfortunately [...]