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 Video Games

MixRift

Pre Seed Round in 2024
MixRift is a gaming company specializing in designing and developing interactive mixed-reality gaming experiences. It offers survival and puzzle games, aiming to provide immersive entertainment that bridges the gap between virtual and real-world gaming.

MixRift

Seed Round in 2024
MixRift is a gaming company specializing in designing and developing interactive mixed-reality gaming experiences. It offers survival and puzzle games, aiming to provide immersive entertainment that bridges the gap between virtual and real-world gaming.

Last Gameboard

Seed Round in 2023
Last Gameboard is a technology company developing the world's first board game console. Its patented SenseScreen Touch technology enables players to use their own dice, cards, and miniatures, facilitating in-person and online gameplay.

Last Gameboard

Convertible Note in 2023
Last Gameboard is a technology company developing the world's first board game console. Its patented SenseScreen Touch technology enables players to use their own dice, cards, and miniatures, facilitating in-person and online gameplay.

Monogram Creative Console

Convertible Note in 2023
Monogram Creative Console is a company that specializes in designing modular hardware interfaces for creative software, enabling users to create personalized controllers using sliders, dials, and buttons. Their innovative product allows photographers, videographers, and other creatives to enhance their editing processes through a tactile and intuitive interface. The system consists of magnetically connecting components that facilitate efficient control of software applications, including popular programs like Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro. Founded by Ashish Bidadi and Calvin Chu, Monogram Creative Console seeks to improve workflow versatility and productivity for its users. The company's products are widely available through various retail partners and are shipped to over 46 countries. Monogram has received recognition for its design excellence, including a Gold award at the User Experience Design Awards in 2015.

League of Play

Seed Round in 2023
Founded in 2023, League of Play is an interactive entertainment platform based in Los Angeles, California. It connects creators and athletes to produce engaging content with integrated e-commerce features.

Esports XO

Convertible Note in 2023
Esports XO is a comprehensive tournament discovery platform that caters to the esports community, featuring the largest pool of content creators and professional players. The company specializes in developing online tournament management systems that facilitate the organization and execution of virtual gaming competitions. This allows professional players, gaming enthusiasts, brands, and creators to converge in one platform for tournaments, weekly scrims, and content creation. Additionally, Esports XO owns several tournament intellectual properties and operates XOspace, the country's first and largest gaming house, enhancing the gaming experience for both participants and organizers.

Monogram Creative Console

Seed Round in 2022
Monogram Creative Console is a company that specializes in designing modular hardware interfaces for creative software, enabling users to create personalized controllers using sliders, dials, and buttons. Their innovative product allows photographers, videographers, and other creatives to enhance their editing processes through a tactile and intuitive interface. The system consists of magnetically connecting components that facilitate efficient control of software applications, including popular programs like Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro. Founded by Ashish Bidadi and Calvin Chu, Monogram Creative Console seeks to improve workflow versatility and productivity for its users. The company's products are widely available through various retail partners and are shipped to over 46 countries. Monogram has received recognition for its design excellence, including a Gold award at the User Experience Design Awards in 2015.

Last Gameboard

Seed Round in 2022
Last Gameboard is a technology company developing the world's first board game console. Its patented SenseScreen Touch technology enables players to use their own dice, cards, and miniatures, facilitating in-person and online gameplay.

ASOBU

Seed Round in 2022
ASOBU is a company focused on enhancing the gaming experience through innovative technology. It allows gamers to easily try, own, and trade game assets without the complexities often associated with blockchain technology. In addition to catering to gamers, ASOBU develops a parental app designed to help parents monitor and engage with their children's digital activities. This app features interactive elements based on metaverse technology, aiming to provide a fun and engaging platform for both parents and children. By combining gaming and parental oversight, ASOBU addresses the needs of adults in the gaming ecosystem while fostering quality time between parents and their children.

Esports XO

Seed Round in 2021
Esports XO is a comprehensive tournament discovery platform that caters to the esports community, featuring the largest pool of content creators and professional players. The company specializes in developing online tournament management systems that facilitate the organization and execution of virtual gaming competitions. This allows professional players, gaming enthusiasts, brands, and creators to converge in one platform for tournaments, weekly scrims, and content creation. Additionally, Esports XO owns several tournament intellectual properties and operates XOspace, the country's first and largest gaming house, enhancing the gaming experience for both participants and organizers.

Last Gameboard

Seed Round in 2021
Last Gameboard is a technology company developing the world's first board game console. Its patented SenseScreen Touch technology enables players to use their own dice, cards, and miniatures, facilitating in-person and online gameplay.

Last Gameboard

Seed Round in 2020
Last Gameboard is a technology company developing the world's first board game console. Its patented SenseScreen Touch technology enables players to use their own dice, cards, and miniatures, facilitating in-person and online gameplay.

Lootcakes

Seed Round in 2020
Lootcakes Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2012 that provides an online platform focused on gaming data, particularly for free-to-play games. The platform allows players to consolidate their gaming activity and social engagement across different platforms. By utilizing in-game purchasing and social data, Lootcakes connects high-value players—those who spend money and engage socially with others—to game publishers. This connection is essential as game publishers increasingly rely on these players, who drive revenue and attract new users through their social interactions. Lootcakes aims to empower gamers by helping them unlock the value of their game activity data, enabling them to benefit from their influence within the gaming community.

Vivid Vision

Series A in 2020
Vivid Vision is a technology company that develops a virtual reality based therapy platform for vision disorders such as amblyopia (lazy eye) and strabismus. The core offering, the Vivid Vision software suite, provides interactive tests for eye dominance, suppression, angle of deviation, and contrast sensitivity, and allows clinicians to monitor and control a patient's experience from a touchscreen interface. The system measures eye muscle imbalance and delivers different images to each eye to assess binocular vision and treat amblyopia, enabling ophthalmologists to treat strabismus and convergence disorders effectively. The platform is designed for use in eye clinics, primarily in North America. The company was founded in 2014 in San Francisco and later renamed from Apollo VR to Vivid Vision in 2015.

Monogram Creative Console

Convertible Note in 2020
Monogram Creative Console is a company that specializes in designing modular hardware interfaces for creative software, enabling users to create personalized controllers using sliders, dials, and buttons. Their innovative product allows photographers, videographers, and other creatives to enhance their editing processes through a tactile and intuitive interface. The system consists of magnetically connecting components that facilitate efficient control of software applications, including popular programs like Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro. Founded by Ashish Bidadi and Calvin Chu, Monogram Creative Console seeks to improve workflow versatility and productivity for its users. The company's products are widely available through various retail partners and are shipped to over 46 countries. Monogram has received recognition for its design excellence, including a Gold award at the User Experience Design Awards in 2015.

PODD

Seed Round in 2019
game and mobile development firm

Vivid Vision

Convertible Note in 2018
Vivid Vision is a technology company that develops a virtual reality based therapy platform for vision disorders such as amblyopia (lazy eye) and strabismus. The core offering, the Vivid Vision software suite, provides interactive tests for eye dominance, suppression, angle of deviation, and contrast sensitivity, and allows clinicians to monitor and control a patient's experience from a touchscreen interface. The system measures eye muscle imbalance and delivers different images to each eye to assess binocular vision and treat amblyopia, enabling ophthalmologists to treat strabismus and convergence disorders effectively. The platform is designed for use in eye clinics, primarily in North America. The company was founded in 2014 in San Francisco and later renamed from Apollo VR to Vivid Vision in 2015.

Lootcakes

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Lootcakes Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2012 that provides an online platform focused on gaming data, particularly for free-to-play games. The platform allows players to consolidate their gaming activity and social engagement across different platforms. By utilizing in-game purchasing and social data, Lootcakes connects high-value players—those who spend money and engage socially with others—to game publishers. This connection is essential as game publishers increasingly rely on these players, who drive revenue and attract new users through their social interactions. Lootcakes aims to empower gamers by helping them unlock the value of their game activity data, enabling them to benefit from their influence within the gaming community.

Vivid Vision

Seed Round in 2017
Vivid Vision is a technology company that develops a virtual reality based therapy platform for vision disorders such as amblyopia (lazy eye) and strabismus. The core offering, the Vivid Vision software suite, provides interactive tests for eye dominance, suppression, angle of deviation, and contrast sensitivity, and allows clinicians to monitor and control a patient's experience from a touchscreen interface. The system measures eye muscle imbalance and delivers different images to each eye to assess binocular vision and treat amblyopia, enabling ophthalmologists to treat strabismus and convergence disorders effectively. The platform is designed for use in eye clinics, primarily in North America. The company was founded in 2014 in San Francisco and later renamed from Apollo VR to Vivid Vision in 2015.

Arduboy

Seed Round in 2016
Arduboy manufactures a credit card-sized video game player powered by Arduino technology. It features a capacitive four-way digital controller, two buttons, and a tiny OLED display, running on a single coin-cell battery for up to nine hours.

Monogram Creative Console

Convertible Note in 2015
Monogram Creative Console is a company that specializes in designing modular hardware interfaces for creative software, enabling users to create personalized controllers using sliders, dials, and buttons. Their innovative product allows photographers, videographers, and other creatives to enhance their editing processes through a tactile and intuitive interface. The system consists of magnetically connecting components that facilitate efficient control of software applications, including popular programs like Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro. Founded by Ashish Bidadi and Calvin Chu, Monogram Creative Console seeks to improve workflow versatility and productivity for its users. The company's products are widely available through various retail partners and are shipped to over 46 countries. Monogram has received recognition for its design excellence, including a Gold award at the User Experience Design Awards in 2015.

Harmonix Music Systems

Venture Round in 2015
Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. is a video game development studio based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1995 by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy. The company specializes in creating music-oriented video games that allow users to engage with music through gameplay across various platforms, including console, PC, and mobile. Harmonix is well-known for its successful franchises, such as Rock Band and Dance Central, and was the original developer of the Guitar Hero series up until Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. The studio focuses on providing interactive entertainment that enables players, regardless of musical background, to experience the joy of making music.

The Tap Lab

Venture Round in 2015
The Tap Lab is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based social mobile gaming company that develops ambitious mobile games designed for a new generation of gamers. Their games innovatively explore novel ways for players to interact with their surroundings and integrate gameplay into the real world, fostering imagination and creativity among users.

Arduboy

Seed Round in 2015
Arduboy manufactures a credit card-sized video game player powered by Arduino technology. It features a capacitive four-way digital controller, two buttons, and a tiny OLED display, running on a single coin-cell battery for up to nine hours.

Monogram Creative Console

Seed Round in 2014
Monogram Creative Console is a company that specializes in designing modular hardware interfaces for creative software, enabling users to create personalized controllers using sliders, dials, and buttons. Their innovative product allows photographers, videographers, and other creatives to enhance their editing processes through a tactile and intuitive interface. The system consists of magnetically connecting components that facilitate efficient control of software applications, including popular programs like Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro. Founded by Ashish Bidadi and Calvin Chu, Monogram Creative Console seeks to improve workflow versatility and productivity for its users. The company's products are widely available through various retail partners and are shipped to over 46 countries. Monogram has received recognition for its design excellence, including a Gold award at the User Experience Design Awards in 2015.

Vivid Vision

Seed Round in 2014
Vivid Vision is a technology company that develops a virtual reality based therapy platform for vision disorders such as amblyopia (lazy eye) and strabismus. The core offering, the Vivid Vision software suite, provides interactive tests for eye dominance, suppression, angle of deviation, and contrast sensitivity, and allows clinicians to monitor and control a patient's experience from a touchscreen interface. The system measures eye muscle imbalance and delivers different images to each eye to assess binocular vision and treat amblyopia, enabling ophthalmologists to treat strabismus and convergence disorders effectively. The platform is designed for use in eye clinics, primarily in North America. The company was founded in 2014 in San Francisco and later renamed from Apollo VR to Vivid Vision in 2015.

The Tap Lab

Seed Round in 2014
The Tap Lab is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based social mobile gaming company that develops ambitious mobile games designed for a new generation of gamers. Their games innovatively explore novel ways for players to interact with their surroundings and integrate gameplay into the real world, fostering imagination and creativity among users.

Dustcloud

Seed Round in 2014
Dustcloud is a developer of innovative gaming infrastructure designed for competitive outdoor gaming experiences. The company specializes in creating a mobile, first-person shooter game that combines elements of traditional laser tag with modern technology. Its flagship product, the Duster, is a mobile game controller designed for use within a network of i-Beacon meshnets, allowing players to engage in immersive gameplay enhanced by augmented reality headsets and Internet of Things (IoT) beacon zones. Dustcloud aims to revolutionize outdoor gaming by providing a unique and interactive platform for gamers to enjoy. The company's products were developed in China as part of a hardware accelerator program, and they are poised for manufacturing and distribution.

Ten Ton Raygun

Seed Round in 2014
Ten Ton Raygun, LLC is a multimedia development company based in Venice, California, specializing in creating applications, games, and Flash components. The company offers a range of products, including customizable Flash components such as loan calculators, video players, and banner rotators, as well as an innovative presentation viewer application called PresenTweetion, designed for use at events like trade shows and music festivals. In addition to these offerings, Ten Ton Raygun has developed a platform that gamifies rehabilitation, focusing on enhancing physical therapy for stroke and accident victims through interactive environments and data visualization tools. The company's products are available online, catering to a diverse audience looking for engaging and functional multimedia solutions.

Gamer Guides

Seed Round in 2014
Gamer Guides is a publisher based in Manchester, UK, specializing in creating interactive digital strategy guides for video games. The company provides these guides through its iOS app and website, offering gaming professionals and enthusiasts a comprehensive source for strategies, walkthroughs, and game information.

Oomba

Debt Financing in 2013
Oomba is a company that operates within the growing eSports sector, offering a comprehensive cloud-based platform designed for tournament management and live streaming. By providing large-scale venues and innovative solutions, Oomba facilitates the organization of tournaments and leagues for players, organizers, and gaming leagues globally. The company aims to streamline the gaming experience by effectively managing player statistics, results, and rankings in the cloud. Based in Irvine, California, Oomba was founded by Michael Williams, who previously established Planetwide Games and Tremor Entertainment, with the creative guidance of co-founder Nolan Bushnell, a noted video game developer and founder of Atari. Oomba's platform supports a multi-faceted ecosystem that includes teams, leagues, governing bodies, and game publishers, and it enhances value for both B2B clients and consumers. The company gained recognition for its innovative tournament organization and social networking capabilities, notably breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament during its official launch at Gen Con 2014.

Oomba

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Oomba is a company that operates within the growing eSports sector, offering a comprehensive cloud-based platform designed for tournament management and live streaming. By providing large-scale venues and innovative solutions, Oomba facilitates the organization of tournaments and leagues for players, organizers, and gaming leagues globally. The company aims to streamline the gaming experience by effectively managing player statistics, results, and rankings in the cloud. Based in Irvine, California, Oomba was founded by Michael Williams, who previously established Planetwide Games and Tremor Entertainment, with the creative guidance of co-founder Nolan Bushnell, a noted video game developer and founder of Atari. Oomba's platform supports a multi-faceted ecosystem that includes teams, leagues, governing bodies, and game publishers, and it enhances value for both B2B clients and consumers. The company gained recognition for its innovative tournament organization and social networking capabilities, notably breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament during its official launch at Gen Con 2014.

Monogram Creative Console

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Monogram Creative Console is a company that specializes in designing modular hardware interfaces for creative software, enabling users to create personalized controllers using sliders, dials, and buttons. Their innovative product allows photographers, videographers, and other creatives to enhance their editing processes through a tactile and intuitive interface. The system consists of magnetically connecting components that facilitate efficient control of software applications, including popular programs like Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro. Founded by Ashish Bidadi and Calvin Chu, Monogram Creative Console seeks to improve workflow versatility and productivity for its users. The company's products are widely available through various retail partners and are shipped to over 46 countries. Monogram has received recognition for its design excellence, including a Gold award at the User Experience Design Awards in 2015.

Dustcloud

Seed Round in 2013
Dustcloud is a developer of innovative gaming infrastructure designed for competitive outdoor gaming experiences. The company specializes in creating a mobile, first-person shooter game that combines elements of traditional laser tag with modern technology. Its flagship product, the Duster, is a mobile game controller designed for use within a network of i-Beacon meshnets, allowing players to engage in immersive gameplay enhanced by augmented reality headsets and Internet of Things (IoT) beacon zones. Dustcloud aims to revolutionize outdoor gaming by providing a unique and interactive platform for gamers to enjoy. The company's products were developed in China as part of a hardware accelerator program, and they are poised for manufacturing and distribution.

IQ Friends

Seed Round in 2013
IQ Friends is a company that specializes in the development of brain training games designed to enhance cognitive abilities such as logic, memory, visual perception, arithmetic, reaction speed, and mental flexibility. Founded in 2007 and based in Sofia, Bulgaria, the company initially launched an online IQ test created in collaboration with researchers at SRH University Heidelberg, which emphasized both scientific rigor and user enjoyment. Building on this foundation, IQ Friends expanded its offerings to include a variety of psychometric tests and social brain games that combine elements of casual gaming with cognitive training. By integrating insights from neurologists and game designers, IQ Friends aims to make brain training engaging and accessible, helping users maintain a healthy, active lifestyle while also delaying or preventing conditions like Alzheimer’s disease.

Gamer Guides

Seed Round in 2013
Gamer Guides is a publisher based in Manchester, UK, specializing in creating interactive digital strategy guides for video games. The company provides these guides through its iOS app and website, offering gaming professionals and enthusiasts a comprehensive source for strategies, walkthroughs, and game information.

Dustcloud

Seed Round in 2013
Dustcloud is a developer of innovative gaming infrastructure designed for competitive outdoor gaming experiences. The company specializes in creating a mobile, first-person shooter game that combines elements of traditional laser tag with modern technology. Its flagship product, the Duster, is a mobile game controller designed for use within a network of i-Beacon meshnets, allowing players to engage in immersive gameplay enhanced by augmented reality headsets and Internet of Things (IoT) beacon zones. Dustcloud aims to revolutionize outdoor gaming by providing a unique and interactive platform for gamers to enjoy. The company's products were developed in China as part of a hardware accelerator program, and they are poised for manufacturing and distribution.

Gamer Guides

Venture Round in 2012
Gamer Guides is a publisher based in Manchester, UK, specializing in creating interactive digital strategy guides for video games. The company provides these guides through its iOS app and website, offering gaming professionals and enthusiasts a comprehensive source for strategies, walkthroughs, and game information.

Harmonix Music Systems

Venture Round in 1998
Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. is a video game development studio based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1995 by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy. The company specializes in creating music-oriented video games that allow users to engage with music through gameplay across various platforms, including console, PC, and mobile. Harmonix is well-known for its successful franchises, such as Rock Band and Dance Central, and was the original developer of the Guitar Hero series up until Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. The studio focuses on providing interactive entertainment that enables players, regardless of musical background, to experience the joy of making music.

Harmonix Music Systems

Venture Round in 1996
Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. is a video game development studio based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1995 by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy. The company specializes in creating music-oriented video games that allow users to engage with music through gameplay across various platforms, including console, PC, and mobile. Harmonix is well-known for its successful franchises, such as Rock Band and Dance Central, and was the original developer of the Guitar Hero series up until Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. The studio focuses on providing interactive entertainment that enables players, regardless of musical background, to experience the joy of making music.
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