We invest in early-stage tech companies with incredible potential, managed by teams of passionate and capable leaders. Key focus areas include cloud, big data, enterprise software, SaaS, e-commerce, mobile, health/wellness and digital media. We look for advanced innovations, where the addressable market size is substantial and strong competitive advantages exist. Our typical investment is between $250K to $3.5 million, with reserves for follow-on investments.

$230 million venture fund focussed on helping start-ups smash it.Highly active in the accelerator area (no other VC firm is as active as SOSV), having started Haxlr8r (first & leading hardware accelerator, in Shenzhen), Synbio (Cork), IndieBio (San Francisco), Chinaccelerator (first & leading software accelerator in China, in Shanghai), Selr8r, MakersTV (Dublin) and backer of Techstars, 500 Startups and Start-up Bootcamp. Investment range is from $25k-$250k (for accelerator level investments) to $2 million, with most investments by number being at the accelerator level. Generally companies that get through the accelerators and get marketplace… · More traction will get matching funding from SOSV starting at between $100k and $2 million.SOSV is recognized as the most successful VC in crowdfunding, partly through the hardware projects that come out of Hax (see http://kickstarter.com/hax).