SOSV

SOSV is a global venture capital firm based in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1995. It specializes in early-stage investments, focusing on deep technology innovations that address human and planetary health. The firm operates startup development programs, notably HAX and IndieBio, which provide resources, facilities, and lab equipment to accelerate the growth of promising startups. SOSV supports companies from their inception through various funding stages, including seed and series A rounds, while offering ongoing assistance to help them scale and attract additional investors. By concentrating on revolutionary technologies and cross-border markets, particularly in Asia, SOSV aims to foster significant advancements that benefit humanity and the environment.

Hugh Bowen

Associate

Shawn Broderick

General Partner

Stephen Chambers

Partner

Westley Dang

Principal

Katie Hoffman

General Partner

Stephen McCann

CFO and General Partner

Carthach McCarthy

CFO

Paul Monaghan

Principal

Brian Murphy

Finance Director

Sean O'Sullivan

Managing General Partner and Founder

Eric Ramsay

Analyst

Sabriya Stukes Ph.D

Partner

Duncan Turner

General Partner

Past deals in Entertainment

MixRift

Seed Round in 2024
MixRift is a gaming company focused on creating interactive and mixed-reality gaming experiences. It operates a gaming studio that develops a variety of entertainment games, including survival and puzzle genres. The company's offerings aim to provide immersive experiences that seamlessly blend virtual and real-world elements, enhancing the overall engagement for gamers.

League of Play

Seed Round in 2023
League of Play is an interactive entertainment platform based in Los Angeles, California, that was founded in 2023. The platform focuses on creating competitions that unite top creators and athletes, aiming to bridge the gap between the online creator economy and live sports. By facilitating these competitions, League of Play generates interactive and viral content while offering substantial monetization opportunities through e-commerce, betting, and content licensing.

KulturShift

Seed Round in 2022
KulturShift is a business focused on the distribution of celebrity-owned brands, specializing in beauty, fragrance, apparel, and lifestyle products. By operating in Asia, the company facilitates connections between American celebrities and their Asian fans, allowing these celebrities to launch and sell their products effectively. KulturShift aims to bridge cultures through art, entertainment, and commerce, providing a platform for celebrities to reach new markets while offering diverse products that resonate with different cultural audiences.

Flickstree

Series A in 2022
Flickstree is a company that specializes in creating and aggregating short, engaging videos for various platforms, including publishers, OTT services, and telecom companies. By embedding Flickstree's video player, publishers can enhance user engagement and monetize their traffic without any upfront investment. The video content includes entertainment, performance marketing, and user-generated pieces, all localized in multiple languages. Entertainment videos are monetized through branding campaigns featuring pre-roll and mid-roll ads, leveraging Flickstree's extensive reach to help brands achieve their marketing goals. Performance marketing videos utilize a Cost Per Sale (CPS) model, offering competitive affiliate commissions on product sales across diverse categories. The company is supported by notable investors, including Samsung Ventures, SOSV, and various others, enhancing its capabilities in video commerce and artificial intelligence-driven affiliate marketing.

Bolo Live

Seed Round in 2022
Bolo Live is a live streaming platform based in Gurgaon, India, that enables users to broadcast their daily activities and engage in various topics, including life, relationships, and technology. Founded in 2019 as Bolo Indya and rebranded in 2021, the platform allows content creators to monetize their streams through virtual gifting, facilitating financial independence for its users. Bolo Live supports content creators in managing their digital presence and encourages interaction among individuals with shared interests. The platform not only fosters community engagement but also enables users to convert virtual gifts into real cash, enhancing the overall user experience.

Bolo Live

Seed Round in 2021
Bolo Live is a live streaming platform based in Gurgaon, India, that enables users to broadcast their daily activities and engage in various topics, including life, relationships, and technology. Founded in 2019 as Bolo Indya and rebranded in 2021, the platform allows content creators to monetize their streams through virtual gifting, facilitating financial independence for its users. Bolo Live supports content creators in managing their digital presence and encourages interaction among individuals with shared interests. The platform not only fosters community engagement but also enables users to convert virtual gifts into real cash, enhancing the overall user experience.

Zebra Labs

Convertible Note in 2021
Zebra Labs is a digital entertainment platform that focuses on bringing celebrities and artists into the Metaverse by creating virtual characters and digital content. The company specializes in the development of celebrity avatars and offers a range of media formats, including gamified concerts, immersive short films, and social media content. By leveraging its expertise in intellectual property incubation and content production, Zebra Labs aims to facilitate the entry of celebrities into the Metaverse, allowing them to engage with fans in innovative ways. The platform cultivates audiences for these virtual idols, enabling effective monetization of their fan bases and enhancing the overall digital entertainment experience.

ARO Entertainment

Seed Round in 2021
ARO Entertainment is a unique provider of celebrity retail and brand management services in China, facilitating the entry of celebrity brands into the world's largest e-commerce market. By serving as a direct-to-consumer platform, ARO Entertainment allows Western celebrities to market and sell their products to a vast audience of 120 million fans in China. The company offers a comprehensive range of services, including market positioning, brand strategy, product design and development, as well as supply chain logistics and operations management. This positions ARO Entertainment as a crucial player in the rapidly growing celebrity brand sector, enabling celebrities to successfully navigate the complexities of the Chinese market.

247tickets

Convertible Note in 2020
247tickets is a one-stop-shop for tickets to the best events, movies, experiences and trips in China and around SE Asia. With offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen & Beijing, 247tickets aims to present customers with endless options of events, experiences, trips, tours and movies, with personalised recommendations, all the best deals and the best customer service and concierge agents in the business. Tickets can be booked on their easy to use mobile/desktop website, via a WeChat concierge service or via distribution partners, including websites such as TimeOut China and City Weekend Shanghai. With an emphasis on the best in entertainment and experiences, 247tickets have sold tickets to tens of thousands of plays, sports events, musicals, tours, movies, trips and more. In 2017 they acquired the trip and experience provider Travelers Society, stating their intent to join the high growth markets of inbound and outbound tourism in China.

Contents First

Series A in 2020
Contents First, Inc. is a South Korean company that specializes in market research consulting and offers a range of services including press and public relations, social network marketing, and translation and localization. The company is best known for its online platform, Tappytoon, which serves as a digital-first comics and webnovel destination for over 8 million readers across more than 190 countries. Since its launch in 2016, Tappytoon has consistently ranked among the top comics apps by gross revenue on major app stores in numerous countries. The platform features a diverse library available in English, French, and German, showcasing exclusive, licensed content from prominent publishers in Korea and Asia. Tappytoon provides both premium and free digital comics and webnovels, including popular titles like "Solo Leveling" and "What's Wrong with Secretary Kim." Additionally, the platform collaborates with creators to produce original titles for various media formats, ensuring support for artists and storytellers.

Flickstree

Series A in 2020
Flickstree is a company that specializes in creating and aggregating short, engaging videos for various platforms, including publishers, OTT services, and telecom companies. By embedding Flickstree's video player, publishers can enhance user engagement and monetize their traffic without any upfront investment. The video content includes entertainment, performance marketing, and user-generated pieces, all localized in multiple languages. Entertainment videos are monetized through branding campaigns featuring pre-roll and mid-roll ads, leveraging Flickstree's extensive reach to help brands achieve their marketing goals. Performance marketing videos utilize a Cost Per Sale (CPS) model, offering competitive affiliate commissions on product sales across diverse categories. The company is supported by notable investors, including Samsung Ventures, SOSV, and various others, enhancing its capabilities in video commerce and artificial intelligence-driven affiliate marketing.

eFanswer

Seed Round in 2019
eFanswer is the living community that gives you a chance to interact with your idols, discover all the curiosity and create a unique ebook with your FASK (questions).

Goblin

Seed Round in 2019
Goblin is a New York-based company that specializes in a content delivery network aimed at enhancing how site owners stream and monetize premium content. The platform delivers content through a user-facing widget, which minimizes the potential for abuse or blocking. By offering an alternative revenue stream that bypasses traditional advertising and paywalls, Goblin enables site owners to effectively engage their audience while also facilitating resource sharing and cryptocurrency payments. This innovative approach to content distribution positions Goblin as a transformative player in the digital content landscape.

WhatsCut Pro

Pre Seed Round in 2019
WhatsCut Pro is the most advanced platform to create and share interesting videos / audios status / stories for multiple social media platforms and chat messengers: Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook, IMO , Whatscutpro Wall. You can record the special moments of your life and share the same with the world. Record an Audio Status with pictures, frames, Text and songs. Let people experience your voice and hear your story in your own voice : it could be song, rythm, bhajan, jingles etc. Millions of stories and status about events, celebrations, travel etc.are created everyday on WhatsCut Pro platform. WhatsCut Pro wall will make it easy for you to discover the interesting content. It will also motivate you to make your own WhatsApp status and story. New version is packed with powerful features : * Advanced Video Story Making Features: Choose background music while recording, trim a video to a suitable length, share directly from your gallery to create an everlasting impression. * Be the first to create an Audio Story: Use frames, effects, music and a background image to create audio story with WCP - First application across the globe for audio stories. Your friends can listen to your story and enjoy . Audio story could be your fav. song, rythm, jingle, bhajan etc. * Interactive WhatscutPro wall: Create a following by sharing your stories on WCP wall. Be a star by creating interesting inspiring and interesting stories for the world to follow. Create video or audio stories like : about travel videos , shopping , weddings , music festivals, special occasions, etc. Inspire people to follow you everyday , let them like, comment or share the same on various platforms. * Integrates with multiple social & chat messenger platforms Create status or story at one place and share using Whatscutpro application at your favorite social or chat messenger platforms like : whatsapp , Instagram, Facebook, IMO etc. * Live video recording with Music Before start recording select the music file you want to play with respect to the mood of video , it could be : fun, entertaining , inspiring , classic, party, sports etc. * Interactive Frames for Audio Stories * To make an interesting audio , we have powered them with collection of frames and sametime, you can choose favorite picture as your own audio story . Kindly share your feedback or experience along with us : dev@whatscutpro.com For regular interactions or be our active member, join us on Telegram : https://t.me/whatscutpro We are more than happy to assist you.

Project 5

Seed Round in 2019
Project5 is a new digital platform providing artists with tools to build their own sub-communities within the music ecosystem to support them in pursuing their passion in music. A one stop shop where you can find mentors, coaches and bring all family, friends and fans to support your career. Project 5 Team has been co-founders and key core team members whom have created some of the top music related projects in China including the first reality music show in China (Wo Xing Wo Xiu), Battle of the Bands, the #1 festival in China, and more. Project5 is hosting a contest for young aspiring music artists! Top 5 vote getters will win a chance to compete in packed live house with key music industry professionals, media and KOLs and many young professional fans.

Flickstree

Seed Round in 2018
Flickstree is a company that specializes in creating and aggregating short, engaging videos for various platforms, including publishers, OTT services, and telecom companies. By embedding Flickstree's video player, publishers can enhance user engagement and monetize their traffic without any upfront investment. The video content includes entertainment, performance marketing, and user-generated pieces, all localized in multiple languages. Entertainment videos are monetized through branding campaigns featuring pre-roll and mid-roll ads, leveraging Flickstree's extensive reach to help brands achieve their marketing goals. Performance marketing videos utilize a Cost Per Sale (CPS) model, offering competitive affiliate commissions on product sales across diverse categories. The company is supported by notable investors, including Samsung Ventures, SOSV, and various others, enhancing its capabilities in video commerce and artificial intelligence-driven affiliate marketing.

Escapex

Funding Round in 2018
Escapex is an internet company that specializes in creating personally owned platforms (POPs) for celebrities and influencers, allowing them to enhance their online presence. The company offers an alternative to traditional social media platforms, enabling users with significant followings to establish unique brands at no cost. These platforms facilitate revenue generation through various means, including advertisements, subscriptions, in-app purchases, and contests. By providing a space where creators retain control and profit from their content, Escapex reimagines social media as a tool for artists to connect with fans while maintaining financial independence.

247tickets

Seed Round in 2018
247tickets is a one-stop-shop for tickets to the best events, movies, experiences and trips in China and around SE Asia. With offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen & Beijing, 247tickets aims to present customers with endless options of events, experiences, trips, tours and movies, with personalised recommendations, all the best deals and the best customer service and concierge agents in the business. Tickets can be booked on their easy to use mobile/desktop website, via a WeChat concierge service or via distribution partners, including websites such as TimeOut China and City Weekend Shanghai. With an emphasis on the best in entertainment and experiences, 247tickets have sold tickets to tens of thousands of plays, sports events, musicals, tours, movies, trips and more. In 2017 they acquired the trip and experience provider Travelers Society, stating their intent to join the high growth markets of inbound and outbound tourism in China.

GoBone

Convertible Note in 2017
GoBone is an entertainment device made for you and your dog. Automatically keep your pup active while you’re busy. Enjoy new ways to play when you’re together via app control.

247tickets

Convertible Note in 2017
247tickets is a one-stop-shop for tickets to the best events, movies, experiences and trips in China and around SE Asia. With offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen & Beijing, 247tickets aims to present customers with endless options of events, experiences, trips, tours and movies, with personalised recommendations, all the best deals and the best customer service and concierge agents in the business. Tickets can be booked on their easy to use mobile/desktop website, via a WeChat concierge service or via distribution partners, including websites such as TimeOut China and City Weekend Shanghai. With an emphasis on the best in entertainment and experiences, 247tickets have sold tickets to tens of thousands of plays, sports events, musicals, tours, movies, trips and more. In 2017 they acquired the trip and experience provider Travelers Society, stating their intent to join the high growth markets of inbound and outbound tourism in China.

Contents First

Seed Round in 2017
Contents First, Inc. is a South Korean company that specializes in market research consulting and offers a range of services including press and public relations, social network marketing, and translation and localization. The company is best known for its online platform, Tappytoon, which serves as a digital-first comics and webnovel destination for over 8 million readers across more than 190 countries. Since its launch in 2016, Tappytoon has consistently ranked among the top comics apps by gross revenue on major app stores in numerous countries. The platform features a diverse library available in English, French, and German, showcasing exclusive, licensed content from prominent publishers in Korea and Asia. Tappytoon provides both premium and free digital comics and webnovels, including popular titles like "Solo Leveling" and "What's Wrong with Secretary Kim." Additionally, the platform collaborates with creators to produce original titles for various media formats, ensuring support for artists and storytellers.

eFanswer

Seed Round in 2017
eFanswer is the living community that gives you a chance to interact with your idols, discover all the curiosity and create a unique ebook with your FASK (questions).

Cinemood

Seed Round in 2016
Cinemood is a company that specializes in the development of portable mini-cinema projectors aimed primarily at children. These projectors are designed to project content onto any surface and come equipped with features such as a rechargeable battery, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, a built-in speaker, and internal memory. They also support mobile device screen mirroring, allowing users to access a curated selection of movies, cartoons, audio stories, and digital books. Headquartered in San Francisco and Moscow, Cinemood has established a presence in 150 countries and has achieved significant revenue, reflecting its growing popularity in the market.

NeoNan

Seed Round in 2016
Tech-driven media brands of men's consumer verticals

247tickets

Seed Round in 2016
247tickets is a one-stop-shop for tickets to the best events, movies, experiences and trips in China and around SE Asia. With offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen & Beijing, 247tickets aims to present customers with endless options of events, experiences, trips, tours and movies, with personalised recommendations, all the best deals and the best customer service and concierge agents in the business. Tickets can be booked on their easy to use mobile/desktop website, via a WeChat concierge service or via distribution partners, including websites such as TimeOut China and City Weekend Shanghai. With an emphasis on the best in entertainment and experiences, 247tickets have sold tickets to tens of thousands of plays, sports events, musicals, tours, movies, trips and more. In 2017 they acquired the trip and experience provider Travelers Society, stating their intent to join the high growth markets of inbound and outbound tourism in China.

NeoNan

Convertible Note in 2016
Tech-driven media brands of men's consumer verticals

17Live

Seed Round in 2016
17LIVE Inc. operates a live streaming platform that serves markets in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New Taipei City, Taiwan, the company provides live streaming services under the 17 Media brand and online dating services through its Paktor and Goodnight brands. The platform enables users to share their life stories and talents while fostering social connections through live video interactions. In addition to its main headquarters, 17LIVE has offices in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Jakarta, and Kuala Selangor. The company, previously known as M17 Entertainment Limited, rebranded to 17LIVE Inc. in October 2020, reflecting its focus on integrating instant audio and video technologies to connect users globally.

Contents First

Seed Round in 2016
Contents First, Inc. is a South Korean company that specializes in market research consulting and offers a range of services including press and public relations, social network marketing, and translation and localization. The company is best known for its online platform, Tappytoon, which serves as a digital-first comics and webnovel destination for over 8 million readers across more than 190 countries. Since its launch in 2016, Tappytoon has consistently ranked among the top comics apps by gross revenue on major app stores in numerous countries. The platform features a diverse library available in English, French, and German, showcasing exclusive, licensed content from prominent publishers in Korea and Asia. Tappytoon provides both premium and free digital comics and webnovels, including popular titles like "Solo Leveling" and "What's Wrong with Secretary Kim." Additionally, the platform collaborates with creators to produce original titles for various media formats, ensuring support for artists and storytellers.

Ezeecube

Seed Round in 2016
EzeeCube is a modular home media device that connects to your TV and automatically syncs photos, videos and contacts from your iOS and Android phones or tablets. EzeeCube hardware is built from ground up and is powered by XBMC, an open source media center application.

Harmonix Music Systems

Venture Round in 2015
Harmonix Music Systems is a videogame development company that offers Beatles and Rock Band music games in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. It is the developer of Rock Band and Dance Central, as well as the original developer of the Guitar Hero series up until Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, which Neversoft developed, along with future Guitar Hero titles. Harmonix Music Systems was founded in 1995 by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy. It is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Kountermove

Venture Round in 2015
Kountermove is an online platform for fantasy games that covers UFC, Bellator MMA, World Series of Fighting, Invicta FC, Boxing, WWE Professional Wrestling, GLORY Kickboxing, and Metamoris Pro Jiu-Jitsu. The platform counts many names in mixed martial arts as partners, including Tommy Toe Hold, Sherdog, Bloody Elbow, Fight Network, MMA OddsBreaker, and Renato Laranja. Kountermove is the Fantasy Sports Trade Association Rookie of the Year Product 2015 and FSTA Elevator Pitch runner-up 2014. The platform’s fans have the ability to win cash prizes by picking teams of MMA fighters in salary cap-style fantasy games. Beyond that, it also provides an entertainment platform for in-depth interaction between fighters and fans. Kountermove was launched in 2010 by [Aaron Ard](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/aaron-ard#/entity) and [Brian Knapp](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/brian-knapp#/entity), Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belts and IBJJF competitors. Its president, Christie Sullivan, is an internationally ranked IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu competitor and award-winning women’s instructor based out of San Francisco.

Magnet Technologies

Seed Round in 2015
Magnet Technologies, Inc. is a company based in Walnut, California, that specializes in developing solutions to enhance visitor engagement across a variety of locations, including retail, entertainment, hospitality, and more. By leveraging location-aware technologies, such as beacons, the company provides personalized, on-demand services that help brands connect with customers at critical moments. This approach enables businesses to deliver tailored information, reduce wait times, and ultimately increase revenue while gaining insights into customer behavior through detailed analytics. Magnet Technologies aims to create VIP experiences for users, fostering community and commerce in diverse settings.

NeoNan

Venture Round in 2015
Tech-driven media brands of men's consumer verticals

Wityu.fm

Seed Round in 2014
Wityu.fm has many stations for all kinds of music, selected by people with great taste, and they are getting better everyday. Wityu.fm curates music stations by genre, activities, time, and mood, from global labels, local studios to individual artists. Have an idea? Add a song or vote. Or add your station and let others help suggesting songs! It's more fun listening together.

NeoNan

Venture Round in 2014
Tech-driven media brands of men's consumer verticals

Blinkiverse

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Blinkiverse is an interactive hardware company that has developed open source building blocks to control LED strips in very imaginative ways. Blinkiverse is designed to enhance the theater experience - giving artists and designers creative license with Lego-like pieces to create an interactive light show—suitable for enthusiasts and professionals alike.

Harmonix Music Systems

Venture Round in 1998
Harmonix Music Systems is a videogame development company that offers Beatles and Rock Band music games in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. It is the developer of Rock Band and Dance Central, as well as the original developer of the Guitar Hero series up until Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, which Neversoft developed, along with future Guitar Hero titles. Harmonix Music Systems was founded in 1995 by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy. It is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Harmonix Music Systems

Venture Round in 1996
Harmonix Music Systems is a videogame development company that offers Beatles and Rock Band music games in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. It is the developer of Rock Band and Dance Central, as well as the original developer of the Guitar Hero series up until Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, which Neversoft developed, along with future Guitar Hero titles. Harmonix Music Systems was founded in 1995 by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy. It is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Arris Group

Venture Round in 1995
ARRIS Group, Inc., a global communications technology company, provides integrated broadband network solutions. The company develops, manufactures and supplies cable telephony, video and high-speed data equipment. The company provides products and equipment principally to cable system operators and, more specifically, to Multiple System Operators (MSOs). ARRIS is a global innovator in IP, video and broadband technology. They have continually worked with their customers to transform the experience of entertainment and communications for millions of people around the world. The people of ARRIS are dedicated to the success of their customers, bringing a passion for invention that has fueled their history: They created digital TV, delivered the first wireless broadband gateway and are pioneering the standards and pathways for tomorrow's personalized, Ultra HD, multiscreen, and cloud services. They are dedicated to meeting today's challenges and preparing for the tasks the future holds. Collaborating with their customers, ARRIS will continue to solve the most pressing challenges of 21st century communications. Together, they are inventing the future.
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