We’re thrilled to announce that Mitico, a graduate from our HAX hard tech program, has secured a $4.3 million seed round, led by Exergon with participation from AP Ventures, Deepbright Ventures, Freeflow Ventures, Halliburton Labs, the Alliance for SoCal Innovation, SOSV, and W. L. Gore & Associates’ ventures team. This funding will accelerate their innovative approach to carbon capture, utilizing a simple salt that’s been enhanced for industrial applications. 

Ottawa-based Hyperlume, a 2023 graduate of SOSV’s HAX program, has secured a $12.5 million seed funding round to advance its innovative optical interconnect solutions for AI data centers and high-performance computing systems. The round was led by BDC Capital’s Deep Tech Venture Fund and ArcTern Ventures, with participation from MUUS Climate Partners, Intel Capital, and SOSV 

Level Zero Health, a recent graduate from SOSV’s HAX hard tech program, has just secured $6.9M in a pre-seed funding round of $6.9 million led by European VC, redalpine, HAX (SOSV), Entrepreneur First (EF), and industry experts.

What do we mean by “deeply resourced?” Here’s a peek at some of the mad science machines available to our founders at the Analytics Lab in Newark, where HAX is based.

In keeping with SOSV’s commitment to deep tech for human and planetary health, SOSV is one the leading VCs in the women’s health field (#2 most active globally according to Pitchbook), with 21 startups in our portfolio, and we are excited to announce that our next virtual VC-Founder Matchup event, February 3-7, is dedicated to the women’s health tech startup ecosystem. 

Please meet Katie Hoffman, who joined SOSV as our ninth General Partner and the fourth partner at HAX. Together with Andy Gollach, Susan Schofer, our Chief Science Officer, and Ji Ke, our Chief Technology Officer, we now have a 5-strong investment team at HAX in Newark.