In medtech, clinical adoption speed separates winners from the pack. HyIvy Health has the type of traction a Series B company would be jealous of. So while the venture market has been slow to understand how massive a market women’s health is, there is a huge unmet need that Rachel and team have hit on. […]

As investors were busy making sense of the vertical farming hype, farmers worldwide were busy embracing a more horizontal future – greenhouses and polytunnels have sprawled at a momentous pace over the past decade. Now, the benefits of the controlled environment these structures bring to a grow operation, are offset by the less than ideal […]

It’s no secret that water scarcity is massively reshaping core industries ranging from agriculture to energy.  Access to reliable precipitation is now a critical infrastructure priority with government programs, utility companies, and private capital scrambling to find solutions. Surprisingly, the problem is not from a lack of water in clouds. There’s more water in a single […]

Animal feed is one of the largest markets in our economy, it’s a $600 billion dollar industry. And there’s not a farmer on Earth who doesn’t want to improve their economics by lowering the cost of feed. At IndieBio the last few years, we’ve had great performance from our investments in the animal-ag sector. We […]

Longevity has gone from fringe to focus in the past five years. But making drugs to combat a slow process is, well, slow. Meet Post-Translational Medicines. They developed proprietary disease models that speed up the aging process – and use high speed proteomics to identify protein states that were previously undetectable.  Already, they’ve discovered many […]

Our entire biotech sector is built on the ability to control two of life’s foundational biopolymers – think DNA and proteins. Recombinant biotechnology, gene editing – being able to program life has unlocked incredible value. But controlling the third class of biopolymer has been tricky. Long chains of sugars called glycans cluster on every surface […]

What does SOSV General Partner Po Bronson see when he looks into Climate Hard Tech’s 2026 Crystal Ball? He recently broke down some thoughts for Climate Hack:

In the United States alone, an estimated $40 billion is spent every year to protect and restore coastlines, with the average beachfront resort spending one to two million every year. It’s a giant market that we’ve always been attracted to – because the current solutions like concrete seawalls don’t help marine life thrive, in fact […]

The megatrend reshaping the food and beverage industry is now crystal clear. People want everything they eat and drink to be healthier and more nutritious.   There’s a hidden piece to meeting this challenge. It turns out that the thermal pasteurization process used ubiquitously to make food safe from contamination is silently degrading flavors, aromas, colors, […]

SOSV and HAX portfolio company XFuel, a next-generation low-carbon fuel developer, was recently featured in Axios following the announcement of its $20M Series A and $9M blended-finance grant from the European Innovation Council. The funding will accelerate XFuel’s first commercial project producing ultra-low-carbon marine fuel. The round brings in major strategic partners, including Japan’s NYK […]