HAX’s Unspun partners with Walmart to reduce fashion waste
Source: Unspun While energy emissions may be the biggest piece of the GHG pie, industries like food and fashion continue to contribute heavily and have costly environmental impacts as well. In its...
View ArticleCatch HAX’s Duncan Turner and Susan Schofer in Boston April 24 & 25
As the buildout of HAX’s new 35,000 square foot facility in Newark, NJ nears its official opening this spring,the HAX team is hitting the road to get the word out and meet prospective founders for the...
View ArticleCauldron Ferm lands $6.25M to revolutionize precision fermentation
Cauldron Ferm, based out of Orange, Australia, has raised $6.25 million in a Series A round led by Horizons Ventures to scale its continuous fermentation or “hyper-fermentation” tech, which deploys a...
View ArticleAnnouncing HAX’s May 1st Demo Day
Our HAX hard tech program is holding its first ever Demo Day at HAX’s new flagship office in Newark, NJ.Join us on May 1, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. to meet 20 deep tech startups working in a wide array of...
View ArticleHAX’s Neptune Robotics is creating an army of underwater robots to...
Neptune Robotics, an alum of SOSV’s hard tech program HAX, is creating an army of underwater robots to clean ship hulls—helping save fuel costs and reducing CO2 emissions. Per Bloomberg, maritime...
View ArticleAnnouncing SOSV’s VC-Founder Climate Tech Matchup April 22-May 3
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...
View ArticleVoyage Foods partners with Cargill to scale sustainable chocolate alternatives
As cocoa prices skyrocket and demand for eco-friendly food options intensifies, IndieBio alum Voyage Foods has partnered with global food giant Cargill to scale its sustainable alternatives to...
View ArticleSOSV Closes $306M Deep Tech Fund for Human and Planetary Health
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...
View ArticleAnnouncing the 2024 SOSV Climate Tech 100
Welcome to the 2024 edition of the SOSV Climate Tech 100, a list of SOSV’s top climate portfolio companies. We’re very pleased to launch this list On Earth Day as part of SOSV’s Earth Day +, which...
View ArticleSOSV’s HAX program officially opens doors to its new HQ in Newark, NJ
From left to right: NJEDA CEO Tim Sullivan; New Jersey Senator M. Teresa Ruiz; Kathleen Coviello (NJEDA); New Jersey Assemblywoman Eliana Pintor Marin; Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka; Governor Phil...
View ArticleVoyage Foods nabs $52M in fresh funding for cocoa-free chocolate
Chocolate is having a moment—or at least, the cocoa-free version is. With skyrocketing prices for cocoa amid extreme weather disruptions and increased scrutiny on sustainable (and ethical) harvesting...
View ArticleAllozymes raises $15M for its accelerated enzymatics & ML model
Finding the correct enzyme can be like searching for a needle in a haystack. Allozymes employs a proprietary microfluidics technology to build the next generation enzyme engineering platform. Its...
View ArticleProlific Machines nabs $55M for its unique optogenetic approach to growing cells
Prolific Machines’ bioreactor. Months ago, we wrote about how Prolific Machines, one of IndieBio’s fastest-growing startups and the record-holder for fastest seed round in IndieBio history—has the key...
View ArticleAnnouncing HAX’s VC-Founder Industry Hard Tech Matchup July 15-26
SOSV’s HAX is hosting its free VC-Founder Industry Hard Tech Matchup, with meetings taking place online from July 22-26 (Mon-Fri). This virtual event will bring together 100+ early stage startups and...
View ArticleArtyc has raised $14M to disrupt the cold chain with battery powered coolers
The Medstow Micro. Artyc. 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...
View ArticleGo behind the scenes at HAX in Newark
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...
View ArticleNovoNutrients raises $18M to turn carbon dioxide into protein
Source: NovoNutrients 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...
View ArticleAnnouncing the fourth annual SOSV Climate Tech Summit
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...
View ArticleIntroducing SOSV’s Ireland Biomanufacturing Fund
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. These...
View Articleunspun’s Weaving Machines Aim to Fix Apparel’s Waste and Carbon Problem
In 2013, Beth Esponnette was in yet another meeting about whether to incinerate or donate surplus goods. This is a regular dilemma in the clothing industry because brands typically place orders with...
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