SOSV At The Close Of 2024
The past year has been remarkable year for SOSV. In April, we announced SOSV’s $306 million Fund V, our largest yet.
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Announcing SOSV’s Biomanufacturing VC-Founder Matchup – April 21-25, 2025 (Virtual, Free)
Welcome to the Biomanufacturing Matchup Event, where biology meets bold ambition. EXPECTED > 200 startups | 200 investors | 1 week of virtual meetings | FreeUPDATE (APR.14) > There are already 250+ startups and 250+ investors registered! From sustainable jet fuel to protein production, from next-gen pharmaceuticals to high-performance biomaterials—there are few limits to what […]

How Ten63 turned an academic project into an AI platform for drugging “undruggable” cancers
Bruce Donald, Marcel Frenkel and Mark Hallen are analyzing over 19,290,123 compounds per second at quantum accuracies to develop drugs to previously incurable cancers.

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

NotCo’s plant-based foods are on store shelves, but its AI engine “Giuseppe” is the real business
While it might look like a plant-based food company, NotCo is in the data and AI business—and aims to disrupt R&D in many industries that use animal and plant ingredients.

Prolific Machines Has The Key to Affordable Cultured Meat
While volunteering in a Syrian refugee camp, stem cell biologist Deniz Kent saw what climate change could do to humanity at a massively greater scale. He co-founded Prolific Machines with Max Huisman and Declan Jones to address a top source of greenhouse gas emissions: livestock.

Smartex is Creating the Textile Factory of the Future
Gilberto Loureiro grew up inspecting fabrics in a Portuguese textile factory. With Smartex, he and co-founders Antonio Rocha and Paulo Ribeiro are eliminating textile defects—and their enormous cost both to manufacturers and the environment.

RxAll’s Life-Saving Deep Tech for African Pharmacies
Adebayo (“Ade”) Alonge and Amy Kao, co-founders of RxAll had invented a handheld scanner for detecting counterfeit prescription drugs—an illicit, multibillion-dollar industry that kills an estimated 1 million people annually around the world and 100,000 in Africa.

From Freshmen to Founders With a $40 Million Series A
Tesh Mbaabu rarely showed up to his freshman computer science class at the University of Nairobi. His classmate Mesongo Sibuti noticed.

Chiu Chau Reboots a Robot into a Billion Dollar Business
It was 2015, and Chiu Chau was on the ropes. He had pitched nearly 150 venture capital firms. No one would invest. Everyone doubted the startup with the open-source laboratory robot.

How a pandemic pivoted Prellis from laser-printed organs to in vitro immune systems
In December 2021 Prellis raised a $14.5 million Series B and has signed partnerships with pharmaceutical behemoths including Bristol Myers Squibb and Sanofi.

Upside Foods Serves Up a Sustainable Future
To find the future of food, you may have to look no further than Emeryville, CA, a small city by the San Francisco Bay, where Upside Foods has built a 53,000-square-foot production facility for cultivated meat.