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 Video Games

Gameboard

Seed Round in 2023
Gameboard is a technology company focused on revolutionizing tabletop gaming with its innovative board game console. This device features a 16” x 16” screen equipped with patented SenseScreen Touch technology, allowing players to use their own dice, cards, and miniatures while facilitating gameplay both in-person and online. By merging physical, digital, and augmented reality elements, Gameboard aims to enhance social interactions through gaming, enabling users to enjoy a wide variety of tabletop games without the need for specific game items. Through this platform, Gameboard seeks to foster meaningful connections among players, whether they are gathered together or participating from remote locations.

Gameboard

Convertible Note in 2023
Gameboard is a technology company focused on revolutionizing tabletop gaming with its innovative board game console. This device features a 16” x 16” screen equipped with patented SenseScreen Touch technology, allowing players to use their own dice, cards, and miniatures while facilitating gameplay both in-person and online. By merging physical, digital, and augmented reality elements, Gameboard aims to enhance social interactions through gaming, enabling users to enjoy a wide variety of tabletop games without the need for specific game items. Through this platform, Gameboard seeks to foster meaningful connections among players, whether they are gathered together or participating from remote locations.

Monogram Creative Console

Convertible Note in 2023
Monogram Creative Console specializes in manufacturing a modular hardware interface that allows users to create custom controllers for various software applications. This innovative product consists of magnetically connecting tactile components, including sliders, dials, and buttons, which facilitate precise and intuitive editing for photographers, videographers, and other creative professionals. Users can design a personalized control setup, known as a Palette, to enhance their workflow in popular programs such as Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Audition. The system is available for purchase through the company's website and select retail partners, shipping to over 46 countries. Founded by Ashish Bidadi and Calvin Chu, Monogram Creative Console has received recognition for its user experience design, winning a Gold award at the User Experience Design Awards in 2015.

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.

esportsXO

Convertible Note in 2023
esportsXO is a tournament discovery platform that connects professional esports players, gaming enthusiasts, and content creators within a single ecosystem. The company specializes in online esports tournament management, allowing users to launch and manage virtual gaming competitions seamlessly. With a significant portfolio of tournament intellectual properties and the country's first dedicated gaming house, XOspace, esportsXO facilitates an environment where brands and small communities can organize and participate in tournaments and weekly scrimmages. This platform serves as a hub for collaboration and content creation, enhancing the overall esports experience for its users.

ASOBU

Seed Round in 2022
ASOBU is a company focused on enhancing the gaming experience for both players and parents. It provides a platform that allows gamers to easily try, own, and trade game assets without the complexities of blockchain registration. Additionally, ASOBU has developed a parental app aimed at helping parents monitor their children's digital activities while promoting quality time spent together. This app incorporates metaverse technology and offers game assets targeted at adults, creating an interactive environment for family engagement in the digital space. Through its innovative solutions, ASOBU seeks to bridge gaming and parental oversight, making it easier for families to navigate the evolving landscape of digital entertainment.

esportsXO

Seed Round in 2021
esportsXO is a tournament discovery platform that connects professional esports players, gaming enthusiasts, and content creators within a single ecosystem. The company specializes in online esports tournament management, allowing users to launch and manage virtual gaming competitions seamlessly. With a significant portfolio of tournament intellectual properties and the country's first dedicated gaming house, XOspace, esportsXO facilitates an environment where brands and small communities can organize and participate in tournaments and weekly scrimmages. This platform serves as a hub for collaboration and content creation, enhancing the overall esports experience for its users.

Gameboard

Seed Round in 2021
Gameboard is a technology company focused on revolutionizing tabletop gaming with its innovative board game console. This device features a 16” x 16” screen equipped with patented SenseScreen Touch technology, allowing players to use their own dice, cards, and miniatures while facilitating gameplay both in-person and online. By merging physical, digital, and augmented reality elements, Gameboard aims to enhance social interactions through gaming, enabling users to enjoy a wide variety of tabletop games without the need for specific game items. Through this platform, Gameboard seeks to foster meaningful connections among players, whether they are gathered together or participating from remote locations.

Gameboard

Seed Round in 2020
Gameboard is a technology company focused on revolutionizing tabletop gaming with its innovative board game console. This device features a 16” x 16” screen equipped with patented SenseScreen Touch technology, allowing players to use their own dice, cards, and miniatures while facilitating gameplay both in-person and online. By merging physical, digital, and augmented reality elements, Gameboard aims to enhance social interactions through gaming, enabling users to enjoy a wide variety of tabletop games without the need for specific game items. Through this platform, Gameboard seeks to foster meaningful connections among players, whether they are gathered together or participating from remote locations.

Lootcakes

Seed Round in 2020
Lootcakes was founded with the mission of helping video game players to unlock the value of their game activity data, particularly their in-game purchasing and social data. With the surging popularity of free-to-play games, game publishers have become increasingly dependent on the minority of players who actually spend money, and on those whose social engagement (with clans, friends, etc.) attracts new players. These high-value players have great power and influence, but haven’t had the means to take full advantage of it – until now.

L2P Limited

Seed Round in 2020
Learn2Play is an international eSports EdTech company offering gamers a platform to improve their skills, which make use of AI and ML technology building a personal educational track for each user, combining individual post-match feedback, meta tactical insights, video lessons made by PRO players and in-game tasks into a solid solution for player’s improvement. So far, Learn2Play got over 1.5 million subscribed users on its products for 2 games, has analysed over 60 million matches and produced over 2,000 videos. In the near future it is looking to cover another 6 games, and enter 7 new language markets.

Vivid Vision

Series A in 2020
Vivid Vision, Inc. is a company that develops interactive and immersive 3D games aimed at treating vision disorders, particularly amblyopia and strabismus, commonly known as lazy eye and crossed eyes. The company offers a software suite that includes interactive tests for various visual assessments such as eye dominance, suppression, and contrast sensitivity. This suite enables clinicians to monitor and manage patient experiences through a touchscreen interface. By utilizing virtual reality technology, Vivid Vision's system measures eye muscle imbalances and presents tailored images to each eye, facilitating effective treatment and assessment of binocular vision. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, Vivid Vision primarily serves eye clinics across North America.

Monogram Creative Console

Convertible Note in 2020
Monogram Creative Console specializes in manufacturing a modular hardware interface that allows users to create custom controllers for various software applications. This innovative product consists of magnetically connecting tactile components, including sliders, dials, and buttons, which facilitate precise and intuitive editing for photographers, videographers, and other creative professionals. Users can design a personalized control setup, known as a Palette, to enhance their workflow in popular programs such as Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Audition. The system is available for purchase through the company's website and select retail partners, shipping to over 46 countries. Founded by Ashish Bidadi and Calvin Chu, Monogram Creative Console has received recognition for its user experience design, winning a Gold award at the User Experience Design Awards in 2015.

PODD

Seed Round in 2019
game and mobile development firm

Goama

Seed Round in 2019
Goama is a mobile game company based in Singapore, established in August 2018. It offers a subscription-based gaming platform that allows users to enjoy a variety of smartphone games without advertisements or in-app purchases. This model provides a seamless gaming experience, enabling players to access unlimited casual games for a straightforward one-time fee. Goama aims to enhance user enjoyment by eliminating interruptions commonly associated with mobile gaming, focusing on providing frictionless access to its portfolio of games.

Vivid Vision

Convertible Note in 2018
Vivid Vision, Inc. is a company that develops interactive and immersive 3D games aimed at treating vision disorders, particularly amblyopia and strabismus, commonly known as lazy eye and crossed eyes. The company offers a software suite that includes interactive tests for various visual assessments such as eye dominance, suppression, and contrast sensitivity. This suite enables clinicians to monitor and manage patient experiences through a touchscreen interface. By utilizing virtual reality technology, Vivid Vision's system measures eye muscle imbalances and presents tailored images to each eye, facilitating effective treatment and assessment of binocular vision. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, Vivid Vision primarily serves eye clinics across North America.

Goama

Seed Round in 2018
Goama is a mobile game company based in Singapore, established in August 2018. It offers a subscription-based gaming platform that allows users to enjoy a variety of smartphone games without advertisements or in-app purchases. This model provides a seamless gaming experience, enabling players to access unlimited casual games for a straightforward one-time fee. Goama aims to enhance user enjoyment by eliminating interruptions commonly associated with mobile gaming, focusing on providing frictionless access to its portfolio of games.

Lootcakes

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Lootcakes was founded with the mission of helping video game players to unlock the value of their game activity data, particularly their in-game purchasing and social data. With the surging popularity of free-to-play games, game publishers have become increasingly dependent on the minority of players who actually spend money, and on those whose social engagement (with clans, friends, etc.) attracts new players. These high-value players have great power and influence, but haven’t had the means to take full advantage of it – until now.

Vivid Vision

Seed Round in 2017
Vivid Vision, Inc. is a company that develops interactive and immersive 3D games aimed at treating vision disorders, particularly amblyopia and strabismus, commonly known as lazy eye and crossed eyes. The company offers a software suite that includes interactive tests for various visual assessments such as eye dominance, suppression, and contrast sensitivity. This suite enables clinicians to monitor and manage patient experiences through a touchscreen interface. By utilizing virtual reality technology, Vivid Vision's system measures eye muscle imbalances and presents tailored images to each eye, facilitating effective treatment and assessment of binocular vision. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, Vivid Vision primarily serves eye clinics across North America.

Monogram Creative Console

Convertible Note in 2015
Monogram Creative Console specializes in manufacturing a modular hardware interface that allows users to create custom controllers for various software applications. This innovative product consists of magnetically connecting tactile components, including sliders, dials, and buttons, which facilitate precise and intuitive editing for photographers, videographers, and other creative professionals. Users can design a personalized control setup, known as a Palette, to enhance their workflow in popular programs such as Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Audition. The system is available for purchase through the company's website and select retail partners, shipping to over 46 countries. Founded by Ashish Bidadi and Calvin Chu, Monogram Creative Console has received recognition for its user experience design, winning a Gold award at the User Experience Design Awards in 2015.

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.

The Tap Lab

Venture Round in 2015
The Tap Lab is a mobile gaming company located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, focused on developing innovative games for a new generation of players. The company creates engaging mobile experiences that encourage players to explore and interact with their surroundings in unique ways. By blending imaginative gameplay with real-world elements, The Tap Lab aims to captivate game enthusiasts and expand the possibilities of mobile gaming.

Vivid Vision

Seed Round in 2014
Vivid Vision, Inc. is a company that develops interactive and immersive 3D games aimed at treating vision disorders, particularly amblyopia and strabismus, commonly known as lazy eye and crossed eyes. The company offers a software suite that includes interactive tests for various visual assessments such as eye dominance, suppression, and contrast sensitivity. This suite enables clinicians to monitor and manage patient experiences through a touchscreen interface. By utilizing virtual reality technology, Vivid Vision's system measures eye muscle imbalances and presents tailored images to each eye, facilitating effective treatment and assessment of binocular vision. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, Vivid Vision primarily serves eye clinics across North America.

The Tap Lab

Seed Round in 2014
The Tap Lab is a mobile gaming company located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, focused on developing innovative games for a new generation of players. The company creates engaging mobile experiences that encourage players to explore and interact with their surroundings in unique ways. By blending imaginative gameplay with real-world elements, The Tap Lab aims to captivate game enthusiasts and expand the possibilities of mobile gaming.

Dustcloud

Seed Round in 2014
Dustcloud is a provider of gaming infrastructure focused on competitive outdoor gaming experiences. The company has developed a mobile, first-person shooter game that allows players to engage in laser tag in real-world environments. Its innovative gaming system utilizes Dusters, mobile game controllers designed to enhance gameplay, which operate through i-Beacon meshnets. Dustcloud's platform incorporates augmented reality headsets and IoT beacon zones, providing an immersive gaming experience. The Dusters were initially developed in China as part of the Haxlr8r hardware accelerator program, and the company has plans for manufacturing and shipping its products.

Monogram Creative Console

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Monogram Creative Console specializes in manufacturing a modular hardware interface that allows users to create custom controllers for various software applications. This innovative product consists of magnetically connecting tactile components, including sliders, dials, and buttons, which facilitate precise and intuitive editing for photographers, videographers, and other creative professionals. Users can design a personalized control setup, known as a Palette, to enhance their workflow in popular programs such as Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Audition. The system is available for purchase through the company's website and select retail partners, shipping to over 46 countries. Founded by Ashish Bidadi and Calvin Chu, Monogram Creative Console has received recognition for its user experience design, winning a Gold award at the User Experience Design Awards in 2015.

Dustcloud

Seed Round in 2013
Dustcloud is a provider of gaming infrastructure focused on competitive outdoor gaming experiences. The company has developed a mobile, first-person shooter game that allows players to engage in laser tag in real-world environments. Its innovative gaming system utilizes Dusters, mobile game controllers designed to enhance gameplay, which operate through i-Beacon meshnets. Dustcloud's platform incorporates augmented reality headsets and IoT beacon zones, providing an immersive gaming experience. The Dusters were initially developed in China as part of the Haxlr8r hardware accelerator program, and the company has plans for manufacturing and shipping its products.

IQ Friends

Seed Round in 2013
IQ Friends is a company that specializes in developing 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 began with an online IQ test created in collaboration with researchers from SRH University Heidelberg, which set the foundation for its subsequent offerings. IQ Friends combines scientific principles with engaging gameplay to create social brain training experiences that can also aid in delaying or preventing Alzheimer's disease. The platform emphasizes user experience by integrating psychometric testing with gamification, making brain training enjoyable and interactive on mobile devices. Additionally, IQ Friends provides a series of workouts aimed at building cognitive reserves, promoting a healthy and productive lifestyle.

Dustcloud

Seed Round in 2013
Dustcloud is a provider of gaming infrastructure focused on competitive outdoor gaming experiences. The company has developed a mobile, first-person shooter game that allows players to engage in laser tag in real-world environments. Its innovative gaming system utilizes Dusters, mobile game controllers designed to enhance gameplay, which operate through i-Beacon meshnets. Dustcloud's platform incorporates augmented reality headsets and IoT beacon zones, providing an immersive gaming experience. The Dusters were initially developed in China as part of the Haxlr8r hardware accelerator program, and the company has plans for manufacturing and shipping its products.

MavenHut

Series B in 2012
MavenHut Ltd is an Irish-based company focused on transforming classic single-player games into engaging social experiences. Established by a founding team with extensive experience in the social gaming industry, MavenHut aims to develop an online platform that enhances multiplayer gameplay, particularly in the solitaire genre. The company's offerings allow game enthusiasts to connect and enjoy their favorite games in a social context, fostering interaction and community among players. As a StartupBootcamp 2012 alumni, MavenHut is committed to innovating in the gaming space by blending traditional gaming elements with modern social features.

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.
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