Announcing HAX’s VC-Founder Industry Hard Tech Matchup July 15-26
This virtual event will bring together 100+ early stage startups and 100+ investors for 1:1 meetings online over a week, scheduled at mutually convenient times.
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IndieBio New York is excited to support the NY Climate Innovation Ecosystem during New York Climate Week 2024
’s IndieBio New York is proud to host and participate in New York Climate Week events throughout the week, spotlighting the transformative potential of deep tech solutions in driving sustainability across human and planetary health.
Announcing the Agenda for the SOSV Climate Tech Summit
We have just published the Agenda for the main stage of our fourth annual SOSV Climate Tech Summit. There are 17 main stage programming sessions on Oct. 16 and 17 that cover climate tech challenges, such as the investment slow down; emerging categories, including geologic hydrogen and solar engineering; and well established sectors, including batteries, […]
Mesa Quantum nabs seed funding & Space Force grant for GPS alternative
The US—and the world—is heavily reliant on fast-aging GPS satellite infrastructure for travel, location mapping, energy grids, and more. GPS is vulnerable to jamming and spoofing attacks, which opens the door to catastrophic outcomes like power grid and telecommunication disruption, failure of military operations in the field and disruptions to supply chain and transportation networks. And […]
Cocoon nabs $5.4M to transform steel production runoff into a greener cement alternative
Producing steel and cement creates 14% of global CO2 emissions, and mountains of landfilled waste. Cement only makes up around 10-15% of a concrete mix, but accounts for ~90% of its emissions. Without urgent decarbonization of both sectors, any future we build will blast past 1.5°C warming. Luckily for us, Cocoon’s technology solves for both—and […]
Announcing HAX’s Sept. 11 San Francisco Demo Day
SOSV’s HAX is holding a demo day in San Francisco on September 11. Join us to hear pitches from 25 startups categories including industrial and maritime decarbonization, critical minerals, automation, diagnostics and more. Following the founders’ pitches, investors will have an opportunity to meet 1:1 with the founders and join the founders and HAX team for a […]
Afynia raises $2 million CAD to bring endometriosis test to market
Women experiencing chronic pelvic pain and other symptoms including infertility often have to suffer through years of appointments and invasive surgeries to get an endometriosis diagnosis. There is often a diagnostic delay of 5-12 years. Afynia co-founder and CEO Lauren Foster teamed up with Jocelyn Wessels (now Afynia’s Chief Scientific Officer) to solve this, developing […]
unspun’s Weaving Machines Aim to Fix Apparel’s Waste and Carbon Problem
Funded with $57 million from DCVC, Lowercarbon Capital and SOSV, among others, unspun aims to eliminate 1% of global carbon emissions
Introducing SOSV’s Ireland Biomanufacturing Fund
SOSV recently got some press in Ireland about a new, specialized fund that we established to support what our general partner Po Bronson sees as the “second wave” of industrial biomanufacturing.
Announcing the fourth annual SOSV Climate Tech Summit
SOSV’s fourth Climate Tech Summit (Oct. 14-18) is going to be our most intense yet. Investment is down at every stage, and yet phenomenal startups are breaking through in every category, often with huge rounds.
NovoNutrients raises $18M to turn carbon dioxide into protein
NovoNutrients has raised an $18 million Series A round led by Woodside Energy and CM Venture Capital. SOSV’s IndieBio, Decarbonization Consortium, Happiness Capital, The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust, and Audacy Ventures also contributed to the round. NovoNutrients’ proprietary gas fermentation technology captures CO2 and combines it with hydrogen to produce Novotein™, a highly […]