STARTUPS

backing founders that build big.

SOSV aims to be the first institutional investment into startups and continue to invest as they grow. The HAX program is designed to support pre-seed hard tech startups across all geographies and working in three focus areas : industrial, health and consumer.

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R-Zero Raises $15M Series-A to Bring Disinfection to Schools, Offices, and Restaurants

Trends & Insights

How We Invest in Hard Tech

Trends & Insights

Lessons on automation from our investment in xRobotics, and notes on why Zume failed

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Industrial
Health
Consumer
Industrial
2020

R-Zero

R-zero is tackling the transmission of pathogens: from COVID to common cold.
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Industrial
Industrial
2018

Somatic

Robotics for commercial bathroom cleaning.
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Industrial
Industrial
2020

Green Li-ion

Deep clean technology that fully rejuvenates Lithium-Ion batteries
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Industrial
Industrial
2011

Formlabs

Low Force Stereolithography (LFS) and selective laser sintering (SLS) 3D printers for professionals.
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Industrial
Health
2014

Opentrons

Revolutionizing laboratories with open-source automation technology.
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Health
Consumer
2016

Nura

Personalized sound that adapts to your individual hearing to deliver a revolutionary experience.
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Consumer
Industrial
2018

AI Sight

Sensors for machine metric monitoring and predictive maintenance.
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Industrial
Industrial
2013

Particle

A fully-integrated IoT platform, giving developers everything they need to connect products to the cloud.
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Industrial
Industrial
2015

Simbe Robotics

Autonomous robotics for retail, keeping stores and supply chains up to date.
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Industrial
Consumer
2013

Makeblock

Themed hardware that brings coding and STEAM education to life for children and young adults.
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Consumer
Industrial
2017

RockMass

Improving the efficiency of capture and analysis for structural orientation data in mines and underground environments.
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Industrial
Industrial
2020

Butlr

Non invasive indoor intelligence systems.
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Industrial
Industrial

Elephant Robotics

Elephant Robotics is building a next generation co-bot for factory floors and production lines.
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Industrial
Industrial
2016

VoltStorage

VoltStorage is building the future of battery storage technology.
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Industrial
Consumer
2017

Unspun

Custom built jeans - just for you.
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Consumer
Industrial

Smartex

Building a computer vision solution for detecting faults in fabric at the production stage.
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Industrial
Industrial
2014

Avidbots

Autonomous robots for cleaning and sanitization in commercial settings.
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Industrial
Health
2017

Bisu

Smart urine analytics platform, giving users granular insight into personal nutrition data.
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Health
Industrial
2020

Allozymes

Transforming ingredients manufacturing by unlocking enzyme potential.
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Industrial
Industrial
2017

Amper

Real time machine analytics for factory owners.
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Industrial
Industrial
2017

Youibot

Autonomous robotic solutions, seamlessly integrated for enterprise customers.
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Industrial
Consumer
2017

ViaBot

Viabot is building autonomous robotics for outdoor maintenance tasks.
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Consumer
Industrial
2018

Tensorfield Agriculture

Agricultural robotics with a focus on applications for specialty row crops.
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Industrial
Industrial

Back Bar

Backbar’s is using robotics to help restaurants get the most out of their bar.
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Industrial
Health
2016

Japet

Flexible exoskeleton, aimed at restoring lower back mobility and relieving pain.
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Health
Health
2016

Flow

At home brain stimulation for depression treatment, designed to be medication free and non addictive.
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Health
Consumer
2015

Bartesian

The Keurig for cocktails.
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Consumer
Health
2019

Strados labs

Remote stethoscope monitoring platform for lung diagnostics
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Health
Health
2016

Feel

Feel helps people build better and lasting emotional health.
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Health
Consumer
2013

Yeelight

The leading designer of smart lighting for the home and office.
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Consumer
Health
2018

Axem Neurotech

Giving therapists and patients enhanced insight into brain function during the rehabilitation process.
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Health
Consumer
2014

Minut

Non-invasive monitoring for the home
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Consumer
Consumer
2013

Petcube

Bringing humans and pets closer together through connected pet products.
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Consumer
Industrial
2016

Wazer

The world’s first desktop waterjet.
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Industrial
Health
2016

Intelligent Implants

Wireless implantable electronics that induce, steer and monitor bone growth in real-time.
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Health
Industrial
2019

Seppure

A membrane-based separation processes for sustainable food.
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Industrial
Industrial
2016

AmberAg

Automated agricultural asset management, from field to market.
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Industrial
Industrial
2016

Kniterate

A smart digital intelligent knitting machine, for prototyping prints and designs.
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Industrial
Industrial
2016

Rovenso

Autonomous outdoor monitoring, for complex terrain and environments.
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Industrial
Industrial
2017

Breezi

Commercial HVAC monitoring system.
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Industrial
Health
2017

Zio health

Biological testing platform for consumer and enterprise use
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Health
Industrial
2017

PushMe

Battery recharging infrastructure suited for micro-mobility
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Industrial
Consumer
2017

Oyalabs

All-in-one platform to monitor and improve child's early cognitive development.
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Consumer
Health
2016

Sana

Innovating audiovisual stimulation to accelerate physical recovery and improve mental well-being.
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Health
Industrial
2018

Notifai

Enterprise asset protection against mold, water damage, and natural disasters.
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Industrial
Health
2018

Bold Diagnostics

Mobile and cuffless blood pressure monitoring solution
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Health
Consumer
2018

Presso

Automated dry cleaning for hotels, businesses, and Hollywood.
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Consumer
Consumer
2016

Eno

Smart headphones that increase your productivity, and recognize when you’ve become distracted, nudging you back to focus.
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Consumer
Industrial
2018

Shapemeasure

Automating measuring and cutting for complex construction tasks.
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Industrial
Industrial
2017

WakeCap

Improving safety and productivity at construction sites through IoT-based enterprise solutions.
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Industrial
Industrial
2020

Qzense Labs

Transforming the fresh food supply chain with data.
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Industrial
Consumer

FoodMarble

Foodmarble helps people dial in on their personal gut health
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Consumer
Consumer

Robo Wunderkinds

Robo Wunderkinds makes STEM and coding education fun and easy for children.
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Consumer
Industrial
2017

Nordetect

Nordetect is building a chemical analytics platform for more accurate usage of agricultural inputs.
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Industrial
Industrial

Mechasys

A laser projector that makes laying out construction plans faster and easier.
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Industrial
Health

CRIAMTech

CRIAM creates diagnostics devices, starting with a POC blood diagnositcs for emergency transfusions
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Health
Health

DARMA

Darma is the world’s first “inactivity tracker” - non-invasive fiberoptic technology for human analytics.
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Health
Industrial

Digi Bio

Digi-bio is building a desktop system that can control and perform biological experimentation.
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Industrial
Consumer

Flair

Flair is a system of connected vents, sensors and software that brings room level control to heating and cooling systems.
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Consumer
Consumer

Grobo

Grobo develops smart growing systems that are capable of naturally changing the physical appearance and chemical properties of plants.
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Consumer
Consumer

HabitAware

Keen by HabitAware is a smart bracelet that uses custom gesture detection and awareness training to help people break bad habits like hair pulling, nail biting, and skin picking.
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Consumer
Industrial

Hearth Labs

Hearth Labs makes sensors to control buildings more effectively and efficiently by measuring the missing half of thermal comfort.
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Industrial
Industrial

IQinetics

IQ Motion Control brings advanced motor control technology to a wide range of robotics fields without adding significant cost to production.
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Industrial
Consumer

Kegg

kegg is the world’s first fertility tracking kegel device to pinpoint your fertile window and predict ovulation 5 to 7 days in advance.
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Consumer
Consumer

Kokoon

Kokoon’s ergonomic headphones feature a range of sensors, customizing individual audio for specialized situations.
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Consumer
Industrial

Mesh++

Mesh++ has created solar powered wifi routers with a proprietary mesh protocol that ensures a minimal loss of throughput with each jump, thus, enabling massively efficient outdoor wifi.
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Industrial
Consumer

Motion Metrics

Motion Metrics Limited creates hardware and software to teach you how to perform and improve during physical activity.
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Consumer
Health

Nerv Technology

NERv is creating the first ever platform to detect post-operative complications in real-time.
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Health
Industrial

Pulse Industrial

Pulse Industrial is digitizing chemical plants with AI-powered sensor networks.
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Industrial
Consumer

Ray IoT

RIoT Solutions, Inc has created the first and only non-contact wellness and sleep tracker for babies.
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Consumer
Consumer

Robomart

Robomart has created the fastest way to shop. Tap a button to hail a store on wheels and get all your grocery essentials in under ten minutes.
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Consumer
Industrial

Smart Shepherd

SmartShepherd’s mission is to enable farmers to breed better livestock.
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Industrial
Industrial

Unbox Robotics

We envision a world where space efficient Robotics and Automation technologies will make the warehousing spaces smaller and bring them closer to the customers to have much faster deliveries.
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Industrial
Industrial

Volatile.AI

Volatile AI is building electronic AI driven smell technology to monitor flavor, odor and gas. We solve objective flavor testing for food production, and are transforming the brewery and coffee industries with enhanced quality control technology.
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Industrial
Industrial

Voltera

Voltera’s circuit board printer enables electronics to be prototyped within minutes, eliminating the frustrations with traditional fabrication processes and drastically reducing hardware development time.
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Industrial
Industrial

xRobotics

xRobotics is automating pizzerias through robotics. We’re rolling out our solution to over 100 locations over the next year, which automates 80% of pizza preparation and baking, reduces labor costs by 75%, and has an ROI of only 12 months.
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Industrial
Consumer

Zennea

Zennea Technologies is a medical device company conducting clinical trials to make ZENS the first clinically-proven, therapeutic wearable for chronic snoring and mild OSA.
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Consumer
Consumer

Lief Therapeutics

Lief is a wearable that helps you combat stress.
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Consumer
Consumer
2015

Livin Farm

The world´s smallest footprint of protein production.
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Consumer
Consumer
2017

Moona

Moona's smart pillow helps regulate temperature and improve sleeping habits
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Consumer
Consumer
2015

Auroma Brewing

Auroma is unlocking the ultimate bespoke coffee at home.
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Consumer
Consumer
2012

Sassor

Electricity consumption monitoring platform.
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Consumer
Consumer
2013

Roadie

Roadie's handheld device automatically tunes and diagnoses any stringed instrument in seconds.
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Consumer
Consumer
2020

The Last Gameboard

Board game console that seamlessly integrates both physical and digital game play.
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Consumer
Consumer
2015

Preemadonna

Automated robotics for the beauty industry.
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Consumer
Consumer
2017

Lilu

Automated breast compression for lactating mothers
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Consumer
Consumer
2016

Joy

Joy's smartwatch reinforces good habits in children.
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Consumer
Industrial
2019

Rebartek

Rebartek is building robotics for the rebar industry
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Industrial
Industrial
2017

Nuada

Nuada's is building an exoskeletal glove for industrial workers
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Industrial
Industrial
2020

Haus Bots

Haus Bots is building robots that can scale buildings.
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Industrial
Industrial

M5stack

M5Stack builds development tools and platforms for IoT devices.
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Industrial
Industrial

Reest

Robotics for mushroom production and harvesting.
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Industrial
Industrial

ASIOT

Supporting future IoT by developing artificial intelligence applications and 'edge AI' technology.
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Industrial
Industrial

Skygauge

Reinventing the drone to perform work not possible with drones today.
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Industrial
Industrial

InBolt

Tracking tech for industrial hand-held tools and robotic arms
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Industrial
Industrial

Robo Deck

RoboDeck is developing an autonomous robot for cleaning and staining outdoor wooden decks.
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