In this fourth edition of our list, published yearly to mark Earth Day, we highlight the companies in our portfolio that demonstrated the most momentum and greatest potential impact on decarbonization.

Announcing the 2024 Climate Tech VC-Founder Matchup, with meetings taking place online between April 22nd (Monday – Earth Day!) and May 3rd (Friday). This virtual event will bring together 1,000 startups and 1,000 investors for 1:1 meetings online over two weeks, scheduled at mutually convenient times, making it one of the largest such events worldwide […]

SOSV announced the close of its $306 million SOSV V fund, the firm’s largest fund to date. The news received coverage in TechCrunch, Bloomberg and Axios. The text below is from the press release SOSV issued on April 16th concerning the new fund. SOSV V will focus on deep tech startups in human and planetary health, […]

Welcome to the third annual SOSV Human Health 100. The list features SOSV’s 100 most exciting companies in the health category, which for SOSV ranges very widely, from assistive robotics and remote care to therapeutics and diagnostics.  In the past two years (see the 2023 and 2022 lists), venture rounds and company valuations grew strongly, […]

SOSV Founder and Managing General Partner Sean O’Sullivan delivers a 2024 message focused on deep tech investing.

iMotorbike (Orbit Startups), a Malaysia-based e-commerce platform for preowned motorcycles, raised MYR12 million ($2.6 million) in a Series A funding round led by Gobi Partners and Ondine Capital. iMotorbike enables users to buy and sell preowned motorcycles on a secure marketplace; the platform has generated over 2,500 transactions with total revenue of more than MYR […]

Get the first look at 9 breakthrough startups from the UAE, Thailand, Kenya, Singapore, India, USA ,and Colombia in climate tech, healthcare, martech, web3, mobility and more. The investor-exclusive Demo Day will take place in Dubai and online on Wednesday, Jun 21. Orbit Startups has over 12 years of investing in breakthrough companies from around […]

Solvay Ventures, the venture capital fund of Solvay, announced that the fund has joined the Genesis Consortium to support startups in SOSV’s IndieBio startup development program, which holds a portfolio of early-stage, venture-backed companies innovating in planetary and human health. The Genesis Consortium, founded by SOSV and Mayfield, is a global alliance of venture capital firms and corporations dedicated to supporting […]

After four years of building a strong portfolio of early stage startups focused on infrastructure for Web3, SOSV’s dlab startup development program has spun out as a standalone fund, effective January 1, 2023.

TechCrunch recently interviewed Onyeka Akumah, co-founder and CEO of Nigeria-based mobility-as-a-service platform Treepz (MOX12), to learn about the future of transportation tech in the article, “Treepz founder Onyeka Akumah on how to succeed in transportation tech”.  Treepz’s MaaS model includes three main verticals: “Daily Treepz,” an Uber-like service for minivans and buses with fixed daily […]

Pakistan’s premier online marketplace for electronics PriceOye (MOX 09) closed a $7.9 million seed round led by a host of investors, TechCrunch reported in the article “Peter Thiel backs electronics marketplace PriceOye in maiden Pakistan investment”. JAM Fund led the round and was joined by Atlas Ventures, Beenext, DG Daiwa, Mantis VC, HOF Capital, and […]

At SOSV, Oscar has worked closely with over 160 startups. He and William Bao Bean are responsible for Orbit Startups, which focuses on high growth companies in emerging and frontier markets. We asked Oscar a few questions about his background and work at Orbit Startups.