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, […]

A fascinated full house listened in as SOSV’s Sean O’Sullivan led a fireside chat with Professor James Rothman, Ph.D., winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Sterling Professor of Cell Biology at Yale University. The conversation moved from the molecular machinery of thought to what AI can learn from the brain – and the increasingly […]

SOSV is launching the 2026 Deep Tech Co-Founder Search, a virtual event designed to connect people building deep tech startups with talented scientists, engineers, operators, and entrepreneurs interested in joining them as co-founders.

SOSV is organizing the 2026 Deep Tech VC–Founder Matchup, a virtual event bringing together deep tech startups and investors for 1:1 meetings online, scheduled at mutually convenient times.