This year, three SOSV portfolio companies were ranked among TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2026. Check them out: Samphire Headband Medication-free PMS management Women experiencing PMS or PMDD symptoms have two primary choices: medication or hormones. Samphire provides a third. Its brain-stimulation headband offers transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)—the 30-year-old clinical technique of using low-level […]

SOSV portfolio company Formlabs is one of the world’s leading 3D printer manufacturers, with nearly 200,000 printers in use worldwide. Until now, the company has primarily served professional customers, from manufacturers to dental practices, with printers typically priced at $2,500 or more. Now, Formlabs is expanding into a new market. The company recently spoke with […]

SOSV NY portfolio company Giraffe Bio recently announced in TechCrunch a $6.4M Seed led by Orion Industrial Ventures, with participation from BHP Ventures, Twynam, Air Capital, and Baruch Future Ventures to bring their reagents for copper mining out of the lab. Between the AI data center boom and economy-wide electrification, the world will need a […]

SOSV HAX portfolio company Danu Robotics, which is developing AI-powered robots to make recycling sorting faster and more cost-effective, was recently featured in TechCrunch ahead of its participation in the Startup Battlefield 200 competition at TechCrunch Disrupt. Recycling remains a labor-intensive industry, with much of the sorting process still relying on workers manually separating valuable […]

We’re pleased to announce that the agenda for the SOSV Deep Tech Summit (Nov. 4-6) is live! These conversations cut to the core of the massive new investment wave accelerating across all of deep tech, which a new McKinsey report calls out as the year’s big theme in tech: “”The technology story of 2026 has […]

SOSV HAX portfolio company, Blaze Energy, which develops fuel-flexible technology for combustion engines, recently announced in Heatmap a $6.5M Seed led by Propeller Ventures and Catalyzer Ventures with participation from SOSV, Safar Partners, Desai Ventures, Cartography Capital, and lomarlabs. The company is on a mission to bring ultimate fuel flexibility to maritime shipping by enabling […]

SOSV HAX portfolio company, Inbolt, which gives industrial robots the ability to see, think, and adapt in real time – letting them master any process, part, or station – recently announced $12.5M in funding, bringing it’s total funding to $34M. The round was led by new investor Shift4Good, with participation from Bridges Climate Transition Partners, […]

Can the grid keep up with AI? At SOSV Deep Tech LIVE during Climate Week NYC, Princeton’s Jesse Jenkins explored rising power demand, clean energy, and the race to connect data centers without raising everyone else’s bills.

At SOSV HAX, we believe the next generation of AI breakthroughs won’t come from ingesting more internet text. Instead, they will come from bringing unique data from the physical world into foundational models. Plasma physics is one of the most exciting examples: it’s an area genuinely ready for AI  modeling, but doing it right requires […]

SOSV portfolio company, Mesa Quantum, spoke to Tectonic about their recent 11.8M raise led by Playground Global, bringing total funding to nearly $16M. The company is developing next-generation, low cost, chip-scale atomic clocks that can seamlessly integrate into existing electronic boards. They do this through a quantum technology developed at the University of Colorado, Boulder, […]