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.

SOSV HAX portfolio company Inbolt, was profiled by The New York Times for beating a limitation that has slowed industrial automation for decades: most robots can’t see. At a Stellantis plant in Detroit, a robot arm picking panels for Dodge Durangos and Jeep Cherokees kept freezing whenever a panel was slightly out of position, sometimes […]

The AI boom is running into a constraint that has little to do with chips: power. As data centers face years-long grid interconnection queues and growing community opposition, Princeton professor and Firma Power co-founder Dr. Jesse Jenkins joins SOSV HAX’s Duncan Turner to explore a different path forward. They’ll unpack how flexible data center demand could bring AI infrastructure online years faster, which technologies from storage and grid hardware to geothermal and nuclear can deliver clean, firm power at scale, and whether the biggest barriers to powering AI are really electrons or the contracts, infrastructure, and community consent surrounding them.

Join us for a HAX Showcase during Climate Week NYC to meet the founders building a future where the materials, machines, and energy behind AI infrastructure and advanced manufacturing are sourced, built, and powered at home — clean by design, sovereign by necessity.

SOSV portfolio company, Princeton Critical Minerals, spoke to Axios following the announcement of its $16 million raise in combined equity and non-dilutive funding, including an $11 million Series A led by SOSV, plus grants from the National Science Foundation, ARPA-E, and NJEDA, to scale lithium production from brine. Their technology plugs directly into evaporation ponds […]