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

Lindsay Atkenson

Analyst

Hugh Bowen

Associate

Shawn Broderick

Venture Partner

Stephen Chambers

General Partner

Navin Danapal

Director, South East Asia

Cyril Ebersweiler

General Partner

Hiruy Ephrem

Analyst

Sheng Ge

Partner

Weichang Ge

Analyst

TR Harrington

Partner

Bradford Higgins JD

Venture Partner

Mohan S. Iyer

General Partner

Benjamin Joffe

Partner

Stephen McCann

CFO and General Partner

Carthach McCarthy

CFO

Yuan-Ting Meng

Analyst

Paul Monaghan

Principal

Brian Murphy

Finance Director

Sean O'Sullivan

Managing Partner

Oscar Ramos

General Partner

Eric Ramsay

Analyst

Susan Schofer Ph.D

Partner

Parikshit Sharma

Principal

Sabriya Stukes Ph.D

Partner

Duncan Turner

General Partner

Pae Wu

General Partner

Past deals in Ontario

Hyperlume

Seed Round in 2025
Hyperlume Inc., based in Ottawa, Canada, specializes in developing advanced optical connectivity solutions. The company focuses on high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and high-end processors, aiming to enhance data transfer speeds and enable scalable optical interconnects for edge computing platforms.

Contextere

Series A in 2024
Contextere is an Ottawa-based software company that develops industrial IoT and AI-powered solutions for the connected workforce. Its platform uses an insight engine to extract, structure, and fuse maintenance, repair, and operations data and applies machine learning to provide immediate, actionable guidance to frontline workers, boosting productivity and safety while reducing equipment downtime in manufacturing and other heavy industries.

Swap Robotics

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2019, Swap Robotics is a Canadian company specializing in the manufacture of electric, autonomous robots for utility-scale solar installations. Their robots are designed to cut grass and clear snow from sidewalks, adhering to a robotics-as-a-service concept.

Spindle Biotech

Seed Round in 2022
Spindle Biotech Inc., founded in 2017 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, specializes in the development and commercialization of synthetic RNA technologies. The company focuses on a proprietary RNA polymerase that enhances large-scale mRNA vaccine production, reflecting the increasing relevance of synthetic RNA in biotechnological applications. Leveraging advances in mRNA technology, Spindle Biotech aims to facilitate high-throughput ribonucleoprotein (RNP)-based CRISPR and RNA screening. Utilizing advanced enzymes and microfluidic technology, it creates RNA arrays with high fidelity, which are vital for gene-editing and drug discovery initiatives. Through these innovations, Spindle Biotech seeks to support biotechnology companies in harnessing the transformative potential of synthetic RNA.

Treepz

Seed Round in 2022
Treepz is a technology-driven transportation company focused on enhancing mobility across Africa. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Ontario, Canada, Treepz operates in Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, and Kenya, providing users with a reliable and comfortable commuting experience. Its application allows users to book trips for daily, inter-city, or corporate travel at the tap of a button. The platform offers features such as vehicle assistants, licensed drivers, and e-wallet payments, ensuring that users can book and pay for fast and convenient trips in real-time. Through its innovative approach, Treepz aims to create a safer and more efficient transportation system for commuters in the region.

Ceragen

Convertible Note in 2022
Ceragen is a biotechnology company that helps farmers increase crop yields through plant microbiome engineering. It develops precision microbiome engineering via inoculant products tailored for controlled environment agriculture, enabling crops to respond to environmental stress and to produce more in limited space with an all-natural solution. Ceragen was established in Kitchener, Ontario.

Swap Robotics

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2019, Swap Robotics is a Canadian company specializing in the manufacture of electric, autonomous robots for utility-scale solar installations. Their robots are designed to cut grass and clear snow from sidewalks, adhering to a robotics-as-a-service concept.

Treepz

Convertible Note in 2021
Treepz is a technology-driven transportation company focused on enhancing mobility across Africa. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Ontario, Canada, Treepz operates in Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, and Kenya, providing users with a reliable and comfortable commuting experience. Its application allows users to book trips for daily, inter-city, or corporate travel at the tap of a button. The platform offers features such as vehicle assistants, licensed drivers, and e-wallet payments, ensuring that users can book and pay for fast and convenient trips in real-time. Through its innovative approach, Treepz aims to create a safer and more efficient transportation system for commuters in the region.

Ardra Bio

Convertible Note in 2021
Ardra Inc. is a renewable chemicals company based in Toronto, Canada, specializing in the production of petroleum-free specialty chemicals for the personal care and cosmetics industry. Utilizing technology developed at the University of Toronto, Ardra employs model-guided metabolic engineering and synthetic biology to create biocatalysts that convert renewable resources into essential chemicals. The company's flagship product is 1,3-butanediol, a sustainable alternative to petroleum-based counterparts, which is utilized in various applications including cosmetics, food, polymers, and pharmaceuticals. With the cosmetics sector relying heavily on petroleum chemicals, valued at approximately $2.6 billion, Ardra aims to provide environmentally friendly solutions that stabilize and sustain the supply chain while reducing ecological impact.

Treepz

Seed Round in 2021
Treepz is a technology-driven transportation company focused on enhancing mobility across Africa. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Ontario, Canada, Treepz operates in Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, and Kenya, providing users with a reliable and comfortable commuting experience. Its application allows users to book trips for daily, inter-city, or corporate travel at the tap of a button. The platform offers features such as vehicle assistants, licensed drivers, and e-wallet payments, ensuring that users can book and pay for fast and convenient trips in real-time. Through its innovative approach, Treepz aims to create a safer and more efficient transportation system for commuters in the region.

Ceragen

Convertible Note in 2021
Ceragen is a biotechnology company that helps farmers increase crop yields through plant microbiome engineering. It develops precision microbiome engineering via inoculant products tailored for controlled environment agriculture, enabling crops to respond to environmental stress and to produce more in limited space with an all-natural solution. Ceragen was established in Kitchener, Ontario.

Ceragen

Seed Round in 2021
Ceragen is a biotechnology company that helps farmers increase crop yields through plant microbiome engineering. It develops precision microbiome engineering via inoculant products tailored for controlled environment agriculture, enabling crops to respond to environmental stress and to produce more in limited space with an all-natural solution. Ceragen was established in Kitchener, Ontario.

Mobio Interactive

Seed Round in 2020
Mobio Interactive is a digital health company that develops tools for performance and health improvement in consumer and clinical populations. It offers an AI-powered digital theragnostic platform that delivers clinically validated psychotherapy programs personalized to each patient using digital biomarkers to quantify brain states without relying on wearables. Its mobile health stack enables private, remote delivery of therapy across multiple indications. The company also provides mindfulness applications Am Mindfulness, Wildflowers Mindfulness, and Actify Mindfulness that deliver medical-grade mindfulness training and objectively assess efficacy through mood, stress, and physiological signals captured by computer vision, such as heart rate, heart rate variability, breathing rate, and relative oxygen saturation. Founded in 2014, Mobio Interactive is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Zurich and Shanghai.

Aquova

Seed Round in 2020
Aquova offers adaptive AI-based sensors and power controllers that unlocks the potential of data in the electrochemical industry. Its patent-pending Advanced Data Management (ADM) technology is a combination of hardware and software working seamlessly together to enhance the performance of electrochemical processes, thereby reducing the energy consumption of electrochemical operations. The company was established in 2017 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.

Rize Health

Seed Round in 2019
Rize Health operates a virtual marketplace and patient management platform for clinical trials, connecting patients with suitable studies and enabling digital participation. The platform supports onboarding, scheduling, and remote data capture to streamline enrollment and reduce dropout rates for researchers, while improving trial efficiency. Headquartered in London, Ontario, the company focuses on patient engagement through a patient-centric interface that matches individuals to appropriate trials.

Spindle Biotech

Seed Round in 2019
Spindle Biotech Inc., founded in 2017 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, specializes in the development and commercialization of synthetic RNA technologies. The company focuses on a proprietary RNA polymerase that enhances large-scale mRNA vaccine production, reflecting the increasing relevance of synthetic RNA in biotechnological applications. Leveraging advances in mRNA technology, Spindle Biotech aims to facilitate high-throughput ribonucleoprotein (RNP)-based CRISPR and RNA screening. Utilizing advanced enzymes and microfluidic technology, it creates RNA arrays with high fidelity, which are vital for gene-editing and drug discovery initiatives. Through these innovations, Spindle Biotech seeks to support biotechnology companies in harnessing the transformative potential of synthetic RNA.

NeuroQore

Convertible Note in 2018
NeuroQore, Inc. is a Canadian company based in Ottawa, founded in 2012, that specializes in developing innovative neuromodulation treatment systems aimed at addressing treatment-resistant depression and related neurobehavioral conditions. The company's flagship product is a monophasic repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation system that utilizes a unique semiconductor switch to emit a novel magnetic pulse. This technology is designed to help patients overcome challenges associated with major depressive disorder and suicidality, ultimately improving their quality of life. NeuroQore collaborates with leading universities and research clinics globally, reflecting its commitment to advancing the field of neuromodulation and transforming the lives of those affected by these debilitating disorders.

Mobio Interactive

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Mobio Interactive is a digital health company that develops tools for performance and health improvement in consumer and clinical populations. It offers an AI-powered digital theragnostic platform that delivers clinically validated psychotherapy programs personalized to each patient using digital biomarkers to quantify brain states without relying on wearables. Its mobile health stack enables private, remote delivery of therapy across multiple indications. The company also provides mindfulness applications Am Mindfulness, Wildflowers Mindfulness, and Actify Mindfulness that deliver medical-grade mindfulness training and objectively assess efficacy through mood, stress, and physiological signals captured by computer vision, such as heart rate, heart rate variability, breathing rate, and relative oxygen saturation. Founded in 2014, Mobio Interactive is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Zurich and Shanghai.

Proteorex Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2017
Proteorex Therapeutics Inc. is a biotechnology company focused on developing innovative therapeutics for diseases with significant unmet medical needs. Founded in 2014 and based in Toronto, Canada, the company specializes in manufacturing small molecule drugs that target challenging diseases. Utilizing a proprietary platform technology, Proteorex integrates novel synthesis design strategies, computational modeling, and patient-derived cell-based screening to identify and develop new lead compounds. This approach enables the company to unlock druggable targets that have previously been considered undruggable, particularly in the field of oncology. Proteorex also maintains an office in San Francisco, further enhancing its capabilities in drug discovery and development.

Contextere

Seed Round in 2017
Contextere is an Ottawa-based software company that develops industrial IoT and AI-powered solutions for the connected workforce. Its platform uses an insight engine to extract, structure, and fuse maintenance, repair, and operations data and applies machine learning to provide immediate, actionable guidance to frontline workers, boosting productivity and safety while reducing equipment downtime in manufacturing and other heavy industries.

NeuroQore

Convertible Note in 2016
NeuroQore, Inc. is a Canadian company based in Ottawa, founded in 2012, that specializes in developing innovative neuromodulation treatment systems aimed at addressing treatment-resistant depression and related neurobehavioral conditions. The company's flagship product is a monophasic repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation system that utilizes a unique semiconductor switch to emit a novel magnetic pulse. This technology is designed to help patients overcome challenges associated with major depressive disorder and suicidality, ultimately improving their quality of life. NeuroQore collaborates with leading universities and research clinics globally, reflecting its commitment to advancing the field of neuromodulation and transforming the lives of those affected by these debilitating disorders.

NeuroQore

Seed Round in 2016
NeuroQore, Inc. is a Canadian company based in Ottawa, founded in 2012, that specializes in developing innovative neuromodulation treatment systems aimed at addressing treatment-resistant depression and related neurobehavioral conditions. The company's flagship product is a monophasic repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation system that utilizes a unique semiconductor switch to emit a novel magnetic pulse. This technology is designed to help patients overcome challenges associated with major depressive disorder and suicidality, ultimately improving their quality of life. NeuroQore collaborates with leading universities and research clinics globally, reflecting its commitment to advancing the field of neuromodulation and transforming the lives of those affected by these debilitating disorders.

Tapplock

Seed Round in 2016
Tapplock designs and markets smart fingerprint padlocks that store up to 500 fingerprints per lock and can be unlocked by fingerprint, smartphone, or backup morse-code. The devices are managed via the Tapplock app, which enables sharing and revoking access for multiple users. The company targets both consumers and enterprise clients with a fast, easy, and secure locking system backed by a biometric sensor and encrypted smartphone integration. The exterior is tempered martensitic stainless steel with a sleek finish, and certain models include a built-in phone charger. Founded in 2016 and based in Toronto, Canada, Tapplock emphasizes straightforward access control through the app in addition to traditional physical unlock methods.

Cell Reserves

Seed Round in 2016
Cell Reserves is a Canadian biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of protein and peptide-based therapeutics. It employs molecular shields to enhance the bio-availability and longevity of these therapies, aiming to improve treatment outcomes for autoimmune diseases and excessive inflammation.

Ardra Bio

Seed Round in 2016
Ardra Inc. is a renewable chemicals company based in Toronto, Canada, specializing in the production of petroleum-free specialty chemicals for the personal care and cosmetics industry. Utilizing technology developed at the University of Toronto, Ardra employs model-guided metabolic engineering and synthetic biology to create biocatalysts that convert renewable resources into essential chemicals. The company's flagship product is 1,3-butanediol, a sustainable alternative to petroleum-based counterparts, which is utilized in various applications including cosmetics, food, polymers, and pharmaceuticals. With the cosmetics sector relying heavily on petroleum chemicals, valued at approximately $2.6 billion, Ardra aims to provide environmentally friendly solutions that stabilize and sustain the supply chain while reducing ecological impact.
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