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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Funded with $57 million from DCVC, Lowercarbon Capital and SOSV, among others, unspun aims to eliminate 1% of global carbon emissions

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.

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 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 […]

Meet SOSV’s HAX in Newark: the world’s best startup program for hard tech founders in human and planetary health. With an incredible expert team and state-of-the-art lab equipment and machinery in a lively space that fosters innovation (and friendship)—HAX is a hard tech founder’s dream. Check out the full specs of the new space here (including the […]

After successfully starting and growing EcoFlow, a unicorn battery startup based in Shenzhen, Hannah Sieber wondered where else batteries could make a big impact “Could we electrify the cold chain? And what would it look like to do battery-powered shipping?” she asked herself, after learning about the impact of refrigeration on the climate. Enter Artyc. […]