SOSV

Founded in 1995, SOSV is a global venture capital firm headquartered in New Jersey. It focuses on seed-to-growth stage investments in deep tech innovations, primarily in bio-tech/life sciences and hardware/robotics sectors, with a commitment to human and planetary health.

Michael Aberman

Partner

William Bao Bean

General Partner

Hugh Bowen

Associate

Shawn Broderick

Venture Partner

Stephen Chambers

General Partner

Past deals in MENA

Asterix Foods

Convertible Note in 2024
Asterix Foods is a biotechnology company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 2022. The company specializes in developing protein production through plant-cell culture techniques, focusing on the creation of bioactive proteins for food applications. Asterix Foods aims to provide scalable, functional, and complex proteins that are derived from plant cell cultures, offering an animal-free alternative for consumers.

Exosomm

Seed Round in 2024
Exosomm is an innovative foodtech start-up focused on developing nutritional solutions derived from natural milk exosomes. The company was founded based on research from Hadassah Medical Center, led by Prof. Reif's team. Exosomm's flagship product is a specialized food formula designed for patients suffering from inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. This product utilizes a patented active anti-inflammatory ingredient sourced from milk exosomes, which are isolated using a natural and environmentally friendly process. By targeting health and immunity, Exosomm aims to provide effective solutions for individuals with specific dietary needs.

Ingrediome

Seed Round in 2024
Founded in 2022, Ingrediome specializes in producing natural, identical animal muscle proteins using precision fermentation from blue-green algae. This innovative process enables the creation of meat and seafood alternatives with minimal environmental impact.

Diptera.ai

Convertible Note in 2023
Diptera.ai develops mosquito control technology that uses the sterile insect technique to reduce mosquito populations. It offers a ready-to-use module that releases sterile male mosquitoes over a period of weeks, enabling ongoing suppression without on-site rearing or sorting facilities. The system combines advanced optics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence to prepare and deploy sterile insects, allowing municipal authorities to conduct large-scale vector control more affordably and efficiently. Based in Jerusalem, Israel, the company aims to make sterile insect technique accessible for urban pest management by eliminating the need for traditional rearing infrastructure and simplifying deployment. The solution is designed to be integrated into existing public health programs to curb disease-carrying mosquitoes while reducing operational complexity.

Savvy Technologies

Convertible Note in 2023
Savvy Technologies operates as a gig marketplace that helps businesses and individuals with their digital needs by matching them with suitable freelancers. The platform mainly caters to the MENA and South Asia regions.

Carbonade

Seed Round in 2023
Founded in 2022, Carbonade is an innovative chemical manufacturing company based in Ness Ziona, Israel. It specializes in patented Electro-Chemical CO2 reduction solutions, aiming to disrupt the industry and mitigate climate change by converting chemical compounds into sustainable carbon-based products.

Asterix Foods

Seed Round in 2023
Asterix Foods is a biotechnology company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 2022. The company specializes in developing protein production through plant-cell culture techniques, focusing on the creation of bioactive proteins for food applications. Asterix Foods aims to provide scalable, functional, and complex proteins that are derived from plant cell cultures, offering an animal-free alternative for consumers.

Ingrediome

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2022, Ingrediome specializes in producing natural, identical animal muscle proteins using precision fermentation from blue-green algae. This innovative process enables the creation of meat and seafood alternatives with minimal environmental impact.

Bizbaz

Seed Round in 2022
Bizbaz provides comprehensive financial intelligence solutions tailored for financial institutions, fintech firms, e-commerce, and telecommunications companies across Asia. Their offerings include risk assessment, alternative credit scoring, fraud detection, electronic Know Your Customer (eKYC) services, financial product aggregation, and recommendation systems.

Nearpeer.org

Seed Round in 2022
Nearpeer is an Ed-tech platform that aims to provide high-quality education at a low price through technology in Pakistan and the Middle East. Having started with the vision of improving the educational landscape of Pakistan, Nearpeer has already been expanding globally within the first few years of its journey. Students get highly customized and engaging video lectures, a lot of practice material, 24/7 community access, and assignments to solve, once they enroll in the online courses. With 90% students from Pakistan, Nearpeer has crafted a distinguished brand in the test prep market by offering full preparation program of MCAT, CSS, SAT, CA, ACCA, and others - and then it expanded into other domains like Intermediate and high-school secondary tuition market, skill-based courses, and B2B partnership. After Pakistan, the company aims to expand into middle eastern countries with similar opportunity and market dynamics in place. It is a BYJUS from Pakistan with even better content production speed and Blitzscale in its core DNA.

Savvy Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
Savvy Technologies operates as a gig marketplace that helps businesses and individuals with their digital needs by matching them with suitable freelancers. The platform mainly caters to the MENA and South Asia regions.

Bizbaz

Seed Round in 2021
Bizbaz provides comprehensive financial intelligence solutions tailored for financial institutions, fintech firms, e-commerce, and telecommunications companies across Asia. Their offerings include risk assessment, alternative credit scoring, fraud detection, electronic Know Your Customer (eKYC) services, financial product aggregation, and recommendation systems.

Bizbaz

Convertible Note in 2021
Bizbaz provides comprehensive financial intelligence solutions tailored for financial institutions, fintech firms, e-commerce, and telecommunications companies across Asia. Their offerings include risk assessment, alternative credit scoring, fraud detection, electronic Know Your Customer (eKYC) services, financial product aggregation, and recommendation systems.

viACT

Seed Round in 2021
viAct is an innovative AI company that specializes in providing scenario-based vision intelligence solutions tailored for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Established in 2016, viAct has successfully implemented hundreds of deployments, utilizing its proprietary AI algorithms to deliver detailed insights into job sites. The company's suite of over 30 pre-built AI modules empowers stakeholders to enhance personnel safety, minimize accidents, optimize operational costs, and monitor compliance with environmental regulations. By tracking site activities and assessing safety measures, viAct plays a crucial role in improving efficiency and safety standards within the construction sector.

Diptera.ai

Seed Round in 2021
Diptera.ai develops mosquito control technology that uses the sterile insect technique to reduce mosquito populations. It offers a ready-to-use module that releases sterile male mosquitoes over a period of weeks, enabling ongoing suppression without on-site rearing or sorting facilities. The system combines advanced optics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence to prepare and deploy sterile insects, allowing municipal authorities to conduct large-scale vector control more affordably and efficiently. Based in Jerusalem, Israel, the company aims to make sterile insect technique accessible for urban pest management by eliminating the need for traditional rearing infrastructure and simplifying deployment. The solution is designed to be integrated into existing public health programs to curb disease-carrying mosquitoes while reducing operational complexity.

viACT

Seed Round in 2020
viAct is an innovative AI company that specializes in providing scenario-based vision intelligence solutions tailored for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Established in 2016, viAct has successfully implemented hundreds of deployments, utilizing its proprietary AI algorithms to deliver detailed insights into job sites. The company's suite of over 30 pre-built AI modules empowers stakeholders to enhance personnel safety, minimize accidents, optimize operational costs, and monitor compliance with environmental regulations. By tracking site activities and assessing safety measures, viAct plays a crucial role in improving efficiency and safety standards within the construction sector.

Diptera.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Diptera.ai develops mosquito control technology that uses the sterile insect technique to reduce mosquito populations. It offers a ready-to-use module that releases sterile male mosquitoes over a period of weeks, enabling ongoing suppression without on-site rearing or sorting facilities. The system combines advanced optics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence to prepare and deploy sterile insects, allowing municipal authorities to conduct large-scale vector control more affordably and efficiently. Based in Jerusalem, Israel, the company aims to make sterile insect technique accessible for urban pest management by eliminating the need for traditional rearing infrastructure and simplifying deployment. The solution is designed to be integrated into existing public health programs to curb disease-carrying mosquitoes while reducing operational complexity.

viACT

Angel Round in 2020
viAct is an innovative AI company that specializes in providing scenario-based vision intelligence solutions tailored for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Established in 2016, viAct has successfully implemented hundreds of deployments, utilizing its proprietary AI algorithms to deliver detailed insights into job sites. The company's suite of over 30 pre-built AI modules empowers stakeholders to enhance personnel safety, minimize accidents, optimize operational costs, and monitor compliance with environmental regulations. By tracking site activities and assessing safety measures, viAct plays a crucial role in improving efficiency and safety standards within the construction sector.

VeriSmart

Seed Round in 2020
VeriSmart is an innovative company focused on developing an identity blockchain platform aimed at automating and standardizing the Know Your Customer (KYC) and compliance processes for various institutions. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in Dubai and Delhi, the company offers a range of services including cognitive assessments, anti-money laundering checks, instant transaction verification, and user behavior predictions. Its platform enables institutions such as banks, telecom companies, and educational organizations to streamline identity verification, eliminating the need for repetitive KYC procedures across multiple platforms. By creating a seamless integration that functions like a simplified sign-up process, VeriSmart enhances user experience while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. The company has garnered significant traction in markets across India, the UAE, and the US, collaborating with multiple banks and financial institutions to establish a robust network for identity sharing and verification.

viACT

Seed Round in 2019
viAct is an innovative AI company that specializes in providing scenario-based vision intelligence solutions tailored for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Established in 2016, viAct has successfully implemented hundreds of deployments, utilizing its proprietary AI algorithms to deliver detailed insights into job sites. The company's suite of over 30 pre-built AI modules empowers stakeholders to enhance personnel safety, minimize accidents, optimize operational costs, and monitor compliance with environmental regulations. By tracking site activities and assessing safety measures, viAct plays a crucial role in improving efficiency and safety standards within the construction sector.

Guiddoo World

Venture Round in 2019
Guiddoo World Travels Pvt Ltd. is a travel technology company based in Mumbai, India, with additional offices in Dubai and San Francisco. Founded in 2013, the company specializes in developing mobile applications tailored for tour operators, tourism boards, travel startups, and online travel agencies. These applications facilitate various functions, including offering promotions, communicating with customers during their trips, and selling tours and activities. Guiddoo World focuses on providing unique and customized travel packages specifically for Chinese and Indian travel agencies, catering to the increasing number of independent travelers from China. By leveraging intelligent data from over 4,000 travel agents and analyzing more than one million trend points from the internet and social media, the company creates smart itineraries. Additionally, Guiddoo has established partnerships to offer over 5,000 excursions across 14 destinations in Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

Sempo

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Sempo is dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable communities through the implementation of cash transfer solutions. The organization focuses on providing direct financial assistance to individuals in need, recognizing that unconditional cash transfers empower recipients by allowing them to choose what they truly require. This approach addresses a common shortfall in humanitarian aid, where resources are often misallocated. Sempo's end-to-end cash transfer platform is specifically designed for refugees who lack access to traditional banking services, as well as for non-governmental organizations and small businesses in remote areas. By facilitating smooth transactions without the need for bank details, Sempo aims to enhance the effectiveness of aid, promote dignity among recipients, and foster long-term self-sufficiency in affected communities.

Olly Smart Credit Card

Seed Round in 2018
Olly is a digital credit card for India's working masses and young people. Today, Olly has come full-circle in Egypt extending the product offering to the youth market here and its been well received by the Egyptian student audience.

MIFON

Seed Round in 2018
MIFON Labs PTE. Ltd., founded in 2016 and based in Singapore, is an Insurtech security company that specializes in mobile security applications designed to assist users in recovering lost or stolen mobile phones without requiring power or internet connectivity. The company primarily targets mobile-first users across India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, currently protecting over 300,000 smartphones. Its user base consists of approximately 75% B2B partnerships with handset brands and mobile carriers, while 25% are organic users. MIFON employs machine learning algorithms to process billions of data points, enhancing user safety and security. The majority of its users, about 70%, are located in India, with 10% in the USA and the remaining 15% spread across South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa. MIFON is backed by notable investors, including VC SOSV, Mobile Only Accelerator MOX, and General Mobi from Mediatek.
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