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SOSV

SOSV is a global venture capital firm founded in 1995 and headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. Specializing in seed-to-growth stage investments, SOSV operates multiple accelerator programs worldwide, including HAX for hardware, IndieBio and RebelBio for life sciences, Chinaccelerator and MOX for cross-border internet ventures, Food-X for innovative food solutions, and dlab for blockchain technology. The firm focuses on investments in revolutionary deep technologies aimed at improving human and planetary health, as well as cross-border markets, particularly in Asia. SOSV invests in approximately 150 startups annually, providing support through its resources to accelerate product development and scaling. Over its two-decade history, SOSV has established a strong reputation, consistently ranking among the top venture capital firms globally.

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Audrey Chen

Investor Relations Manager

Daniel Eichner

Partner

Sheng Ge

Partner

Benjamin Joffe

Partner

Kelly Kirkpatrick

Director of Investor Relations

Vivian Law

Senior Associate

Steve McCann

Chief Financial Officer & General Partner

Sean O'Sullivan

Founder & Managing General Partner

Duncan Turner

General Partner

Qiyu Wu

Operations Director

Past deals in Food and staples retailing

24seven.pk

Seed Round in 2022
24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.

MarketForce

Series A in 2022
MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.

LiveKuna

Series A in 2021
A vertically-integrated superfood company working directly with Ecuadorian farmers to create food that's healthy, tastes good and does good.

MarketForce

Seed Round in 2021
MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.

Pricepally

Seed Round in 2021
Pricepally operates an e-commerce platform focused on food and grocery shopping, founded in 2019 and based in Lagos, Nigeria. The platform aims to provide access to affordable, nutritious, and secure food items in urban areas across Africa. Pricepally functions as a digital food cooperative, allowing consumers to connect directly with local farmers, wholesalers, and producers. It enables users to buy food in bulk or share bulk purchases with others, leveraging collective bargaining power to reduce costs. The online store offers a wide range of products, including groceries, baby products, packaged food, and various ingredients, ensuring that customers have access to fresh and high-quality food items.

Supplynote

Seed Round in 2021
Supplynote is India's leading restaurant procurement platform providing a unique stack of SAAS and E-commerce to solve the procurement problem of HoReCa, With a vision to create automation for procurement in F&B industry, Supplynote offers end-to-end supply chain management solutions to restaurants, enabling them to understand purchasing trends, plan production, anticipate stock outs dates, set low-stock alerts and auto-create purchase orders. The USP of the product is, simplifying how restaurants order from vendors and enable faster and simpler communication with vendors onto the platform. With capabilities like SmartCart ordering and our AI-based approach instead of a rule-based system delivers probabilistic forecast which helps automate replenishment decisions.

Supplynote

Seed Round in 2021
Supplynote is India's leading restaurant procurement platform providing a unique stack of SAAS and E-commerce to solve the procurement problem of HoReCa, With a vision to create automation for procurement in F&B industry, Supplynote offers end-to-end supply chain management solutions to restaurants, enabling them to understand purchasing trends, plan production, anticipate stock outs dates, set low-stock alerts and auto-create purchase orders. The USP of the product is, simplifying how restaurants order from vendors and enable faster and simpler communication with vendors onto the platform. With capabilities like SmartCart ordering and our AI-based approach instead of a rule-based system delivers probabilistic forecast which helps automate replenishment decisions.

Supplynote

Seed Round in 2021
Supplynote is India's leading restaurant procurement platform providing a unique stack of SAAS and E-commerce to solve the procurement problem of HoReCa, With a vision to create automation for procurement in F&B industry, Supplynote offers end-to-end supply chain management solutions to restaurants, enabling them to understand purchasing trends, plan production, anticipate stock outs dates, set low-stock alerts and auto-create purchase orders. The USP of the product is, simplifying how restaurants order from vendors and enable faster and simpler communication with vendors onto the platform. With capabilities like SmartCart ordering and our AI-based approach instead of a rule-based system delivers probabilistic forecast which helps automate replenishment decisions.

Zasket

Seed Round in 2021
Zasket is an online supermarket where customers can purchase all of their supplies at a low cost and have them delivered for free.

Pricepally

Convertible Note in 2021
Pricepally operates an e-commerce platform focused on food and grocery shopping, founded in 2019 and based in Lagos, Nigeria. The platform aims to provide access to affordable, nutritious, and secure food items in urban areas across Africa. Pricepally functions as a digital food cooperative, allowing consumers to connect directly with local farmers, wholesalers, and producers. It enables users to buy food in bulk or share bulk purchases with others, leveraging collective bargaining power to reduce costs. The online store offers a wide range of products, including groceries, baby products, packaged food, and various ingredients, ensuring that customers have access to fresh and high-quality food items.

Pricepally

Convertible Note in 2021
Pricepally operates an e-commerce platform focused on food and grocery shopping, founded in 2019 and based in Lagos, Nigeria. The platform aims to provide access to affordable, nutritious, and secure food items in urban areas across Africa. Pricepally functions as a digital food cooperative, allowing consumers to connect directly with local farmers, wholesalers, and producers. It enables users to buy food in bulk or share bulk purchases with others, leveraging collective bargaining power to reduce costs. The online store offers a wide range of products, including groceries, baby products, packaged food, and various ingredients, ensuring that customers have access to fresh and high-quality food items.

Pricepally

Seed Round in 2021
Pricepally operates an e-commerce platform focused on food and grocery shopping, founded in 2019 and based in Lagos, Nigeria. The platform aims to provide access to affordable, nutritious, and secure food items in urban areas across Africa. Pricepally functions as a digital food cooperative, allowing consumers to connect directly with local farmers, wholesalers, and producers. It enables users to buy food in bulk or share bulk purchases with others, leveraging collective bargaining power to reduce costs. The online store offers a wide range of products, including groceries, baby products, packaged food, and various ingredients, ensuring that customers have access to fresh and high-quality food items.

Supplynote

Convertible Note in 2021
Supplynote is India's leading restaurant procurement platform providing a unique stack of SAAS and E-commerce to solve the procurement problem of HoReCa, With a vision to create automation for procurement in F&B industry, Supplynote offers end-to-end supply chain management solutions to restaurants, enabling them to understand purchasing trends, plan production, anticipate stock outs dates, set low-stock alerts and auto-create purchase orders. The USP of the product is, simplifying how restaurants order from vendors and enable faster and simpler communication with vendors onto the platform. With capabilities like SmartCart ordering and our AI-based approach instead of a rule-based system delivers probabilistic forecast which helps automate replenishment decisions.

MarketForce

Convertible Note in 2021
MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.

MarketForce

Seed Round in 2021
MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.

LiveKuna

Convertible Note in 2021
A vertically-integrated superfood company working directly with Ecuadorian farmers to create food that's healthy, tastes good and does good.

24seven.pk

Seed Round in 2021
24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.

24seven.pk

Convertible Note in 2021
24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.

Supplynote

Seed Round in 2020
Supplynote is India's leading restaurant procurement platform providing a unique stack of SAAS and E-commerce to solve the procurement problem of HoReCa, With a vision to create automation for procurement in F&B industry, Supplynote offers end-to-end supply chain management solutions to restaurants, enabling them to understand purchasing trends, plan production, anticipate stock outs dates, set low-stock alerts and auto-create purchase orders. The USP of the product is, simplifying how restaurants order from vendors and enable faster and simpler communication with vendors onto the platform. With capabilities like SmartCart ordering and our AI-based approach instead of a rule-based system delivers probabilistic forecast which helps automate replenishment decisions.

Fieldcraft

Convertible Note in 2020
Fieldcraft is a B2B ingredient marketplace that streamlines marketing and sourcing from farm to foodtech, locally and globally. Buyers include thousands of emerging brands to 6 of the 10 largest food companies in the world like Nestle and PepsiCo, as well as retail chains like Whole Foods Market. Suppliers range from a 50 acre orchard to a 40,000 acre operation, and from global manufacturers to consumer brands. Fieldcraft is where innovation starts. Our platform is making it easier to do business along the supply chain and across borders and cultures. As we continue to expand, our team is building even more tools to help buyers simplify sourcing from discovery to delivery and empower the next generation of food.

Kravve.co

Seed Round in 2020
Kravve Enterprise operates Kravve.co, an online marketplace, which enables people to sell or buy homemade food. It offers products in the categories of cookies, snacks, and candies; spreads, jams, and honey; nutritional remedies; noodles and grains; condiments, spices, and bakes; breakfast, bread, and bakery; milk, dairy, and cheese; soups and beverages; deli meats; and frozen food. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Supplynote

Seed Round in 2020
Supplynote is India's leading restaurant procurement platform providing a unique stack of SAAS and E-commerce to solve the procurement problem of HoReCa, With a vision to create automation for procurement in F&B industry, Supplynote offers end-to-end supply chain management solutions to restaurants, enabling them to understand purchasing trends, plan production, anticipate stock outs dates, set low-stock alerts and auto-create purchase orders. The USP of the product is, simplifying how restaurants order from vendors and enable faster and simpler communication with vendors onto the platform. With capabilities like SmartCart ordering and our AI-based approach instead of a rule-based system delivers probabilistic forecast which helps automate replenishment decisions.

YourLocal

Convertible Note in 2020
YourLocal operates a marketplace that connects food vendors with local customers, allowing them to sell excess inventory in real-time. By utilizing the app, customers can purchase meals that would otherwise go to waste and conveniently pick them up at the respective shops. This model not only supports local businesses by providing an additional revenue stream but also helps reduce food waste and promotes cost savings for consumers. Through its innovative approach, YourLocal fosters a community-oriented platform that benefits both food vendors and customers alike.

Kravve.co

Convertible Note in 2019
Kravve Enterprise operates Kravve.co, an online marketplace, which enables people to sell or buy homemade food. It offers products in the categories of cookies, snacks, and candies; spreads, jams, and honey; nutritional remedies; noodles and grains; condiments, spices, and bakes; breakfast, bread, and bakery; milk, dairy, and cheese; soups and beverages; deli meats; and frozen food. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Kravve.co

Seed Round in 2019
Kravve Enterprise operates Kravve.co, an online marketplace, which enables people to sell or buy homemade food. It offers products in the categories of cookies, snacks, and candies; spreads, jams, and honey; nutritional remedies; noodles and grains; condiments, spices, and bakes; breakfast, bread, and bakery; milk, dairy, and cheese; soups and beverages; deli meats; and frozen food. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

LiveKuna

Convertible Note in 2018
A vertically-integrated superfood company working directly with Ecuadorian farmers to create food that's healthy, tastes good and does good.

Indemand

Seed Round in 2017
Indemand is a SaaS solution enabling grocers and supermarkets to sell online and offer home delivery to their customers. Customised exclusively for their brand, stores get their own Instacart-like experience, without losing control, access to customer data or selling through a third-party channel. Our solution helps them every step of the way right from the online ordering experience, through packing of the groceries to fast hourly delivery to their customers.

LiveKuna

Convertible Note in 2017
A vertically-integrated superfood company working directly with Ecuadorian farmers to create food that's healthy, tastes good and does good.

LiveKuna

Seed Round in 2017
A vertically-integrated superfood company working directly with Ecuadorian farmers to create food that's healthy, tastes good and does good.

LiveKuna

Convertible Note in 2017
A vertically-integrated superfood company working directly with Ecuadorian farmers to create food that's healthy, tastes good and does good.

Rise

Seed Round in 2017
Rise Products, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in upcycling spent barley from microbreweries into a nutritious alternative flour. Founded in 2016, Rise creates flour with significantly higher protein and fiber content compared to traditional flour, while being lower in calories and carbohydrates. Utilizing a patent-pending dehydration and milling technology, the company transforms barley mash into a completely natural product without additives. This innovative approach not only addresses the growing demand for sustainable food ingredients but also offers bakers, chefs, and food manufacturers a versatile ingredient that can be used in various applications, from cookies to pasta. By collaborating with culinary professionals, Rise aims to develop new recipes that promote health and sustainability in the food industry.

LiveKuna

Seed Round in 2017
A vertically-integrated superfood company working directly with Ecuadorian farmers to create food that's healthy, tastes good and does good.

Rise

Convertible Note in 2017
Rise Products, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in upcycling spent barley from microbreweries into a nutritious alternative flour. Founded in 2016, Rise creates flour with significantly higher protein and fiber content compared to traditional flour, while being lower in calories and carbohydrates. Utilizing a patent-pending dehydration and milling technology, the company transforms barley mash into a completely natural product without additives. This innovative approach not only addresses the growing demand for sustainable food ingredients but also offers bakers, chefs, and food manufacturers a versatile ingredient that can be used in various applications, from cookies to pasta. By collaborating with culinary professionals, Rise aims to develop new recipes that promote health and sustainability in the food industry.

GroupMall

Seed Round in 2016
GroupMall International Co., Limited operates an online platform and offers special offers and deals on imported and local food products from third party suppliers. The company is based in Shanghai, China.

Barley + Oats

Convertible Note in 2016
Barley + Oats Inc. prepares and delivers nutrition meals, and sweets and snacks to support female health in the United States. The company offers various meal packages that consist of granolas, cookies, thumbprints, teas, herbal coffees, grahams, and broths. Its products support female health in the areas of fertility, pregnancy, breastfeeding, and hormone balance. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Buffalo, New York.

Barley + Oats

Convertible Note in 2016
Barley + Oats Inc. prepares and delivers nutrition meals, and sweets and snacks to support female health in the United States. The company offers various meal packages that consist of granolas, cookies, thumbprints, teas, herbal coffees, grahams, and broths. Its products support female health in the areas of fertility, pregnancy, breastfeeding, and hormone balance. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Buffalo, New York.

Barley + Oats

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Barley + Oats Inc. prepares and delivers nutrition meals, and sweets and snacks to support female health in the United States. The company offers various meal packages that consist of granolas, cookies, thumbprints, teas, herbal coffees, grahams, and broths. Its products support female health in the areas of fertility, pregnancy, breastfeeding, and hormone balance. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Buffalo, New York.

Agrilicious.com

Seed Round in 2014
First-of-its-Kind National Destination and Marketplace For All Things Local Food and Handmade Goods. Agrilicious.com is at the heart of the food movement providing an exciting way to participate in the local food experience while expanding the family-to-farmer connection. A resource for all things local food – individuals, families, farmers, restaurants, grocery and meal delivery services, distributers, educators and experts all come together through Agrilicious to share ideas, connect, and make a difference!

AJ Team Products

Seed Round in 2012
It provides its products online; and through retailers in Virginia, Ireland.