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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 Nutrition

BioLumen

Convertible Note in 2022
BioLumen is a nutritional technology company that develops a patented dietary fiber technology platform that reduces the negative effect of a diet heavy in processed foods. BioLumen's technology is composed of insoluble dietary fiber matrix covered with a blend of food ingredients created from the latest drug delivery system research. The company's product, a nutraceutical, focuses on high risk individuals with prediabetes to help manage blood sugar levels, protect their liver from excess sugar and feed their gut microbiome, delivering health benefits. BioLumen was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Voyage Foods

Series A in 2022
Voyage Foods has made sustainable and scalable alternatives to foods that have current obstacles –environmental, social, and health alike. Our breakthrough technology provides endless opportunities to make delicious, nearly identical, versions of beloved foods, without compromising individual health or our planet. We replicated the world’s favorite foods so that we can all enjoy them, forever.

AnimalBiome

Series A in 2022
AnimalBiome helps to restore gut health to the millions of dogs and cats in the US living with chronic digestive disorders by offering microbiome-based supplements and non-invasive diagnostics.

Lypid

Seed Round in 2022
Minutri brings together a healthy, practical, tasty food, ready for consumption, and for all tastes, ages, food preferences, and times of the day. From breakfast to supper, they have ready meals, snacks, supplements, and drinks, with vegan, organic, zero sugar, low carb, and other options. The company's foods are developed with the aim of being balanced, nutritious, and very tasty. They are gluten-free and dairy-free, made with natural and selected ingredients and spices, without refined sugar, without preservatives or artificial additives.

NovoNutrients

Convertible Note in 2022
NovoNutrients is focused on converting industrial waste carbon dioxide emissions into high-value protein ingredients for food and animal feed. The company has developed a fermentation platform that utilizes proprietary microbes and advanced gas fermentation systems to transform CO2, along with hydrogen and oxygen, into complete and safe single-cell protein. This innovative approach not only provides sustainable protein sources to support a growing population but also plays a role in combating climate change through carbon capture and utilization. By addressing both food security and environmental sustainability, NovoNutrients aims to meet the increasing demand for alternative protein solutions.

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.

Uplift Food

Convertible Note in 2021
Uplift Food is a snacking company that specializes in the fields of prebiotics, gut health, and healthy snack foods. Uplift Food focuses exclusively on the mood supportive benefits of gut-healthy prebiotic fibers and resistant starches. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, United States.

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.

Lypid

Convertible Note in 2021
Minutri brings together a healthy, practical, tasty food, ready for consumption, and for all tastes, ages, food preferences, and times of the day. From breakfast to supper, they have ready meals, snacks, supplements, and drinks, with vegan, organic, zero sugar, low carb, and other options. The company's foods are developed with the aim of being balanced, nutritious, and very tasty. They are gluten-free and dairy-free, made with natural and selected ingredients and spices, without refined sugar, without preservatives or artificial additives.

Sugarlogix

Convertible Note in 2021
Sugarlogix is creating prebiotic sugars with functional benefits for your gut health. Found naturally in human breast milk, their functional sugars restore balance to the gut microbiome, thus enhancing the immune system and reducing inflammation.

AnimalBiome

Venture Round in 2021
AnimalBiome helps to restore gut health to the millions of dogs and cats in the US living with chronic digestive disorders by offering microbiome-based supplements and non-invasive diagnostics.

Abbys Better

Convertible Note in 2021
Abby’s Better Nut Butter offers healthy sweet, whether on toast, fruit, or by the spoonful.

NovoNutrients

Seed Round in 2021
NovoNutrients is focused on converting industrial waste carbon dioxide emissions into high-value protein ingredients for food and animal feed. The company has developed a fermentation platform that utilizes proprietary microbes and advanced gas fermentation systems to transform CO2, along with hydrogen and oxygen, into complete and safe single-cell protein. This innovative approach not only provides sustainable protein sources to support a growing population but also plays a role in combating climate change through carbon capture and utilization. By addressing both food security and environmental sustainability, NovoNutrients aims to meet the increasing demand for alternative protein solutions.

Harmony Baby Nutrition

Convertible Note in 2021
Harmony Baby Nutrition is a food-tech company providing next-generation of human breast milk-based formulas. Their formulas are dairy-free, allergy-free, environmentally friendly, and impact the whole baby food industry by changing the main structure of current baby products. The company is helping to improve the quality of life of babies around the world by making the next generation of baby formulas containing human breast milk proteins as the base, instead of cow’s milk. Harmony Baby Nutrition was established in 2018 and is based in Boston, MA.

Plasma Nutrition

Convertible Note in 2020
Transforming the performance of protein powders through our patent-pending Ingredient Optimization process to increase sustainability and improve health outcomes.

AnimalBiome

Convertible Note in 2020
AnimalBiome helps to restore gut health to the millions of dogs and cats in the US living with chronic digestive disorders by offering microbiome-based supplements and non-invasive diagnostics.

Lypid

Seed Round in 2020
Minutri brings together a healthy, practical, tasty food, ready for consumption, and for all tastes, ages, food preferences, and times of the day. From breakfast to supper, they have ready meals, snacks, supplements, and drinks, with vegan, organic, zero sugar, low carb, and other options. The company's foods are developed with the aim of being balanced, nutritious, and very tasty. They are gluten-free and dairy-free, made with natural and selected ingredients and spices, without refined sugar, without preservatives or artificial additives.

Lypid

Convertible Note in 2020
Minutri brings together a healthy, practical, tasty food, ready for consumption, and for all tastes, ages, food preferences, and times of the day. From breakfast to supper, they have ready meals, snacks, supplements, and drinks, with vegan, organic, zero sugar, low carb, and other options. The company's foods are developed with the aim of being balanced, nutritious, and very tasty. They are gluten-free and dairy-free, made with natural and selected ingredients and spices, without refined sugar, without preservatives or artificial additives.

Sugarlogix

Convertible Note in 2020
Sugarlogix is creating prebiotic sugars with functional benefits for your gut health. Found naturally in human breast milk, their functional sugars restore balance to the gut microbiome, thus enhancing the immune system and reducing inflammation.

Farma Genetix

Seed Round in 2019
Farma Genetix is a Boston-based company that specializes in the manufacture of genetically tailored natural supplements and personalized diet plans aimed at addressing chronic health conditions. The company collaborates with researchers from Harvard Medical School's Genomics department to develop nutritional supplements designed to support cardiovascular health, including the maintenance of healthy blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Through its customized diet plans, Farma Genetix promotes a holistic approach to health that reinforces overall well-being and a healthy lifestyle.

BioLumen

Seed Round in 2019
BioLumen is a nutritional technology company that develops a patented dietary fiber technology platform that reduces the negative effect of a diet heavy in processed foods. BioLumen's technology is composed of insoluble dietary fiber matrix covered with a blend of food ingredients created from the latest drug delivery system research. The company's product, a nutraceutical, focuses on high risk individuals with prediabetes to help manage blood sugar levels, protect their liver from excess sugar and feed their gut microbiome, delivering health benefits. BioLumen was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

YoFiit

Convertible Note in 2019
YoFiit is a food and beverage company dedicated to providing customers with plant-based nutrition. It creates a range of products in different key categories that offer consumers with possible solutions in said categories.

YoFiit

Seed Round in 2019
YoFiit is a food and beverage company dedicated to providing customers with plant-based nutrition. It creates a range of products in different key categories that offer consumers with possible solutions in said categories.

ai nutrition

Seed Round in 2019
ai nutrition develops an AI that automates online grocery shopping and precision nutrition for better health outcomes.

Pando Nutrition Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Pando Nutrition, Inc., an animal microbiome company, develops probiotics to accelerate the transition towards antibiotic-free livestock production. It offers Panbiotics, a platform that is used to identify and control methane emissions for improved feed efficiency and profitability; and promotes livestock growth without the use of human drugs. The company also develops poultry pathogen Coccidiosis. Pando Nutrition, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Mori

Seed Round in 2019
Mori, officially known as Cambridge Crops, Inc., specializes in the development of an innovative biopolymer coating designed to extend the shelf life of perishable foods. Established in 2016 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company utilizes a unique process that extracts protein from natural silk using salt and water. This edible and natural coating forms a protective layer over various food items, including fruits, vegetables, meat, and seafood, effectively slowing down spoilage. Through its technology, Mori aims to enhance the freshness of food while promoting sustainability in the food supply chain.

Uplift Food

Seed Round in 2019
Uplift Food is a snacking company that specializes in the fields of prebiotics, gut health, and healthy snack foods. Uplift Food focuses exclusively on the mood supportive benefits of gut-healthy prebiotic fibers and resistant starches. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, United States.

NovoNutrients

Seed Round in 2019
NovoNutrients is focused on converting industrial waste carbon dioxide emissions into high-value protein ingredients for food and animal feed. The company has developed a fermentation platform that utilizes proprietary microbes and advanced gas fermentation systems to transform CO2, along with hydrogen and oxygen, into complete and safe single-cell protein. This innovative approach not only provides sustainable protein sources to support a growing population but also plays a role in combating climate change through carbon capture and utilization. By addressing both food security and environmental sustainability, NovoNutrients aims to meet the increasing demand for alternative protein solutions.

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.

Sugarlogix

Seed Round in 2018
Sugarlogix is creating prebiotic sugars with functional benefits for your gut health. Found naturally in human breast milk, their functional sugars restore balance to the gut microbiome, thus enhancing the immune system and reducing inflammation.

AnimalBiome

Funding Round in 2018
AnimalBiome helps to restore gut health to the millions of dogs and cats in the US living with chronic digestive disorders by offering microbiome-based supplements and non-invasive diagnostics.

Uplift Food

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Uplift Food is a snacking company that specializes in the fields of prebiotics, gut health, and healthy snack foods. Uplift Food focuses exclusively on the mood supportive benefits of gut-healthy prebiotic fibers and resistant starches. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Abbys Better

Seed Round in 2017
Abby’s Better Nut Butter offers healthy sweet, whether on toast, fruit, or by the spoonful.

Mori

Seed Round in 2017
Mori, officially known as Cambridge Crops, Inc., specializes in the development of an innovative biopolymer coating designed to extend the shelf life of perishable foods. Established in 2016 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company utilizes a unique process that extracts protein from natural silk using salt and water. This edible and natural coating forms a protective layer over various food items, including fruits, vegetables, meat, and seafood, effectively slowing down spoilage. Through its technology, Mori aims to enhance the freshness of food while promoting sustainability in the food supply chain.

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.

Phyteau

Seed Round in 2017
Phyteau is developing a new class of therapeutics for diabetes, obesity, weight-loss, and related metabolic condition like NAFLD and NASH. The company's therapeutics work in the intestines where they trigger key cellular receptors causing the release of therapeutic levels of key metabolic hormones, like GLP-1, PYY and CCK. The hormones work naturally and safely to control blood sugar, appetite, food intake, and metabolism. The company continues to develop new solutions to help people around the world suffering from metabolic diseases. Phyteau was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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.

Sugarlogix

Seed Round in 2017
Sugarlogix is creating prebiotic sugars with functional benefits for your gut health. Found naturally in human breast milk, their functional sugars restore balance to the gut microbiome, thus enhancing the immune system and reducing inflammation.

All Beauty

Convertible Note in 2017
All Beauty® Water is a skincare drink® formulated to help hydrate and nourish you skin. Their mission is to change the beauty conversation and make it about beauty from within– what you put into your body will affect your skin, not just what you put on topically. Proper hydration and nutrition impact how our skin health, yet most of us are likely not getting the proper amounts of water and nutrients in any given day.

All Beauty

Pre Seed Round in 2017
All Beauty® Water is a skincare drink® formulated to help hydrate and nourish you skin. Their mission is to change the beauty conversation and make it about beauty from within– what you put into your body will affect your skin, not just what you put on topically. Proper hydration and nutrition impact how our skin health, yet most of us are likely not getting the proper amounts of water and nutrients in any given day.

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.

AnimalBiome

Seed Round in 2016
AnimalBiome helps to restore gut health to the millions of dogs and cats in the US living with chronic digestive disorders by offering microbiome-based supplements and non-invasive diagnostics.

Unibiome

Seed Round in 2016
Unibiome develops fermentative microbes that produces vitamins and other healthy compounds and designed to be used with any fermentation-based food to increase its nutritional value. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Paris, France.

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.

Plasma Nutrition

Convertible Note in 2016
Transforming the performance of protein powders through our patent-pending Ingredient Optimization process to increase sustainability and improve health outcomes.

Ageria

Seed Round in 2016
Ageria Ltd. is a biotechnology company focused on developing yogurt enriched with health-promoting compounds, specifically targeting anti-aging benefits. Incorporated in 2015 and based in Vienna, Austria, Ageria utilizes a longevity compound known as Spermidine in its yogurt production. The company employs naturally engineered yogurt bacteria to enhance the health benefits of its products. With a commitment to advancing human longevity and well-being, Ageria aims to provide consumers with yogurt that supports a longer and healthier life.

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.

Uira BioenergEthic

Seed Round in 2016
Uira BioenergEthic Pty Ltd is an Australian company that focuses on the development and production of functional foods and nutraceutical supplements derived from microalgae and aquatic plants. Established in 2014 and located in Manly, the company aims to create high-quality Omega-3 and DHA/EPA supplements that support normal metabolism while minimizing environmental impact. Utilizing innovative and eco-friendly methodologies, Uira BioenergEthic operates within the nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals sectors, emphasizing sustainability in its practices. The company’s holistic biotechnology approach allows for the efficient growth of microalgae and aquatic plants, facilitating the production of plant and animal oils and proteins that cater to the nutraceutical and sustainable commodities markets.

Rawk Fit

Seed Round in 2016
RAWK is the provider in Shanghai of tailor-made, macro nutrition based fitness food, delivered daily. Macro-nutrition is a proven concept in western fitness markets and we are the first company bringing this to China. Our service is based upon great taste, precision, and result. RAWK makes healthy eating and structured dieting a part of your lifestyle.

Plasma Nutrition

Seed Round in 2016
Transforming the performance of protein powders through our patent-pending Ingredient Optimization process to increase sustainability and improve health outcomes.

BioNascent

Seed Round in 2016
BioNascent, Inc., established in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, focuses on developing human breast milk formulas for infants. The company's mission is to create the safest and most nutritious infant formula without relying on traditional farm animals. Recognizing that babies require human breast milk rather than alternatives like cow's or goat's milk, BioNascent aims to address the limitations of existing substitutes that only partially mimic human milk. By innovating beyond conventional dairy products, the company seeks to provide a formula that more closely aligns with the nutritional profile of breast milk, thereby offering a viable option for parents when breastfeeding is not possible.

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.

9th Dimension Biotech

Venture Round in 2015
PLANTING THE SEEDS OF HUMAN HEALTH.

Ageria

Seed Round in 2015
Ageria Ltd. is a biotechnology company focused on developing yogurt enriched with health-promoting compounds, specifically targeting anti-aging benefits. Incorporated in 2015 and based in Vienna, Austria, Ageria utilizes a longevity compound known as Spermidine in its yogurt production. The company employs naturally engineered yogurt bacteria to enhance the health benefits of its products. With a commitment to advancing human longevity and well-being, Ageria aims to provide consumers with yogurt that supports a longer and healthier life.

Training Meals

Seed Round in 2014
Training Meals is a meal delivery service that focuses on providing nutritious, sous-vide frozen meals tailored for individuals pursuing fitness and health goals. The company emphasizes the importance of quality nutrition alongside physical activity, offering a diverse range of meals designed for pre-workout, post-workout, and everyday consumption. By sourcing the purest ingredients, Training Meals aims to create recipes that not only fuel the body effectively but also enhance overall well-being. Their approach combines culinary expertise with a commitment to health, ensuring that consumers can enjoy wholesome, convenient meals that support their active lifestyles.