SOSVentures
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| Private | |
| Industry | Venture Capital and Private equity |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Founder | Sean O'Sullivan |
| Headquarters | Princeton, NJ |
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Number of locations
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Offices in Ireland, United States and China |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
| AUM | $300M+ |
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Number of employees
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51-100 |
| Website | www.sosv.com |
SOSV is a venture capital and investment management firm that provides seed, venture and growth stage funding to startup companies in the technology sector. The company's focus is on accelerating startups via their market specific seed accelerator programs located in Europe, Asia and the USA. The firm is made up of 7 investment partners, 45+ full-time support staff and hundreds of mentors. SOSV is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, with back office operations based in Cork, Ireland, and flagship offices in San Francisco, Shenzhen, Shanghai and New York.
SOSV (formerly SOS Ventures) was founded in 1995 by Sean O'Sullivan,. As of June 2017, the firm had funded over 680 startups, and continues to fund over 150 startups per year. In 2017 it became the world's third most active seed fund.
SOSV invests in the areas of Hardware, Software, Consumer Services and Life Sciences markets. Portfolio companies include: Harmonix, developers of the Guitar Hero series, Carma,Netflix,Leap Motion,Pembient, Kindara, Storyful, Muufri,Breather, MavenHut, Spark (now Particle) and GIROPTIC.
SOSV runs six seed accelerator programs: Chinaccelerator, MOX,HAX Accelerator, HAX Boost,IndieBio and FOOD-X. The programs focus on startup development in the areas of hardware, software, biotechnology and food business.
SOSV has taken an interest in furthering innovation in Education and Computing.
The O'Sullivan Foundation supports the Khan Academy, the not-for-profit online learning platform whose goal is to change education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere. The Khan Academy is the brainchild of Salman Khan, who brought the idea of educating young people, self-starters & people who learn at their own pace — online. The educational startup now counts over 2,600 videos in its library, with sessions or classes on everything from arithmetic to physics, including 211 practice exercises, to let students watch videos and learn at their leisure.
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