SOSV

SOSV, established in 1995 and headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, is a global venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments. It focuses on deep tech innovations in the health and environmental sectors, supporting founders with breakthrough technologies through its HAX and IndieBio startup development programs. SOSV provides resources, facilities, and lab equipment to accelerate product development and scale, with a track record of helping its portfolio companies secure subsequent funding rounds led by top-tier investors.

Hugh Bowen

Associate

Weichang Ge

Analyst

Bradford Higgins

Venture Partner

Katie Hoffman

General Partner

Mohan Iyer

General Partner

Benjamin Joffe

Partner

Ji Ke

Partner

Stephen McCann

CFO and General Partner

Carthach McCarthy

CFO

Paul Monaghan

Principal

Brian Murphy

Finance Director

Eric Ramsay

Analyst

Sabriya Stukes Ph.D

Partner

Past deals in InsurTech

iMotorbike

Series A in 2023
iMotorbike is the leading online e-commerce platform for motorbikes in Southeast Asia, offering a diverse range of products including motorcycles, parts, and accessories. The marketplace aims to revolutionize motorcycle sales by providing an extensive selection of brands and models, along with a user-friendly search engine to help customers find motorcycles based on specific criteria such as make, model, and location. In addition to facilitating the purchase of motorbikes, iMotorbike enhances the user experience by offering services like insurance and financing, creating a comprehensive ecosystem for motorbike enthusiasts, owners, and professionals. The platform is dedicated to delivering a fast, secure, and straightforward online experience, distinguishing itself in the competitive market.

Ignatica

Convertible Note in 2023
Ignatica is a provider of a cloud-based software platform tailored for the insurance industry, aiming to enhance efficiency and flexibility for insurers and brokers. The platform simplifies the management of complex and customized insurance products, allowing for the swift migration of existing offerings from outdated systems at minimal cost and risk. By alleviating the burdens associated with product launches and policy administration, Ignatica empowers insurers to deliver niche and affordable insurance solutions to a broader audience. This innovative approach opens up significant revenue opportunities while meeting the demand for digital services and speed that modern customers expect.

BizBaz

Seed Round in 2022
BizBaz specializes in providing financial intelligence solutions tailored for financial institutions, fintech companies, e-commerce platforms, and telecommunications firms across Asia. With teams located in Singapore, Israel, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia, the company offers a comprehensive range of services that includes risk assessment, alternative credit scoring, fraud detection, eKYC, and financial product aggregation and recommendation systems. These solutions aim to empower businesses by enhancing their ability to engage with unbanked and underserved populations, thereby improving decision-making processes through reliable financial and customer intelligence.

Moveit

Seed Round in 2022
MoveIt is a technology-driven logistics startup aiming to transform the intra-city logistics landscape in Pakistan. The local logistics sector currently faces challenges such as fragmentation, inefficiency, and a lack of standardized pricing and formal booking processes for cargo pick-up. MoveIt seeks to create an asset-light logistics marketplace that facilitates direct interaction between customers and drivers, allows for load tracking, and provides cargo insurance options. By validating its business model through manual processes, MoveIt is now focused on developing a comprehensive tech platform designed to enhance the efficiency and reliability of logistics services for medium to large goods deliveries, ultimately providing businesses with cost-effective shipping solutions.

PhableCare

Series B in 2022
PhableCare creates an ecosystem of patients, doctors, hospitals, health devices, insurance, and patient care service providers. In India, 1 in 4 people suffer from chronic ailments. Meanwhile, 80% of patients cannot comply to the treatment plan provided by the doctor leading to even more complications. This poses a huge burden on the healthcare system. Phable solves this by making care autonomous and predictive. Our AI-enabled health assistant significantly improves health outcomes by enabling disease-specific guidance and continuous monitoring.

iMotorbike

Seed Round in 2021
iMotorbike is the leading online e-commerce platform for motorbikes in Southeast Asia, offering a diverse range of products including motorcycles, parts, and accessories. The marketplace aims to revolutionize motorcycle sales by providing an extensive selection of brands and models, along with a user-friendly search engine to help customers find motorcycles based on specific criteria such as make, model, and location. In addition to facilitating the purchase of motorbikes, iMotorbike enhances the user experience by offering services like insurance and financing, creating a comprehensive ecosystem for motorbike enthusiasts, owners, and professionals. The platform is dedicated to delivering a fast, secure, and straightforward online experience, distinguishing itself in the competitive market.

iMotorbike

Convertible Note in 2021
iMotorbike is the leading online e-commerce platform for motorbikes in Southeast Asia, offering a diverse range of products including motorcycles, parts, and accessories. The marketplace aims to revolutionize motorcycle sales by providing an extensive selection of brands and models, along with a user-friendly search engine to help customers find motorcycles based on specific criteria such as make, model, and location. In addition to facilitating the purchase of motorbikes, iMotorbike enhances the user experience by offering services like insurance and financing, creating a comprehensive ecosystem for motorbike enthusiasts, owners, and professionals. The platform is dedicated to delivering a fast, secure, and straightforward online experience, distinguishing itself in the competitive market.

The CareVoice

Series B in 2021
The CareVoice Limited is a Shanghai-based health insurtech company founded in 2013, with an additional office in Hong Kong. It specializes in developing a mobile-based, data-driven software as a service (SaaS) solution that provides community-sourced ratings and recommendations for healthcare services in China. The platform enables patients to share their medical experiences through ratings and reviews, facilitating informed decision-making about hospitals, doctors, and treatments. By consolidating insights from users undergoing similar health journeys, The CareVoice aims to enhance the healthcare experience, making it more consumer-centric. The company is backed by prominent venture capital and healthcare investors, and it focuses on digitalizing the healthcare and insurance landscape to improve patient engagement and outcomes.

BizBaz

Seed Round in 2021
BizBaz specializes in providing financial intelligence solutions tailored for financial institutions, fintech companies, e-commerce platforms, and telecommunications firms across Asia. With teams located in Singapore, Israel, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia, the company offers a comprehensive range of services that includes risk assessment, alternative credit scoring, fraud detection, eKYC, and financial product aggregation and recommendation systems. These solutions aim to empower businesses by enhancing their ability to engage with unbanked and underserved populations, thereby improving decision-making processes through reliable financial and customer intelligence.

BizBaz

Convertible Note in 2021
BizBaz specializes in providing financial intelligence solutions tailored for financial institutions, fintech companies, e-commerce platforms, and telecommunications firms across Asia. With teams located in Singapore, Israel, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia, the company offers a comprehensive range of services that includes risk assessment, alternative credit scoring, fraud detection, eKYC, and financial product aggregation and recommendation systems. These solutions aim to empower businesses by enhancing their ability to engage with unbanked and underserved populations, thereby improving decision-making processes through reliable financial and customer intelligence.

Ensuro

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Ensuro is a decentralized capital provider focused on insurance risk, utilizing smart contracts to create competitive insurance portfolios. The company enables both retail and institutional investors to participate in insurance risk through a liquidity pool, which is funded by cryptographic stablecoins. This capital supports managing general agents (MGAs) in the parametric insurance sector, allowing them to access necessary underwriting capacity. Ensuro reinvests the collected funds into decentralized finance protocols, which offer high liquidity and low risk due to overcollateralized loans. The returns from these investments generally range from 2% to 8%, allowing Ensuro to deliver competitive underwriting options to MGAs compared to traditional reinsurance models, while also providing additional returns to liquidity providers. By opening the insurance market to new participants, Ensuro fosters innovation among both established and emerging insurance entities.

Caura

Convertible Note in 2021
Caura Ltd. is a London-based company established in 2018 that specializes in vehicle management solutions. The company offers a platform that enables drivers to efficiently handle various aspects of car ownership, including payments for parking, tolls, congestion charges, MOTs, vehicle tax, and insurance. Additionally, Caura provides a product called Caura Protect, which allows users to purchase and manage motor insurance through a network of insurers. The company also focuses on developing microelectronic devices that monitor health metrics such as lactate and glucose levels, along with heart-rate and accelerometry data. Furthermore, Caura creates application software that connects to these devices to generate reports and analyze the collected data.

Ignatica

Seed Round in 2021
Ignatica is a provider of a cloud-based software platform tailored for the insurance industry, aiming to enhance efficiency and flexibility for insurers and brokers. The platform simplifies the management of complex and customized insurance products, allowing for the swift migration of existing offerings from outdated systems at minimal cost and risk. By alleviating the burdens associated with product launches and policy administration, Ignatica empowers insurers to deliver niche and affordable insurance solutions to a broader audience. This innovative approach opens up significant revenue opportunities while meeting the demand for digital services and speed that modern customers expect.

PhableCare

Series A in 2021
PhableCare creates an ecosystem of patients, doctors, hospitals, health devices, insurance, and patient care service providers. In India, 1 in 4 people suffer from chronic ailments. Meanwhile, 80% of patients cannot comply to the treatment plan provided by the doctor leading to even more complications. This poses a huge burden on the healthcare system. Phable solves this by making care autonomous and predictive. Our AI-enabled health assistant significantly improves health outcomes by enabling disease-specific guidance and continuous monitoring.

Ignatica

Seed Round in 2020
Ignatica is a provider of a cloud-based software platform tailored for the insurance industry, aiming to enhance efficiency and flexibility for insurers and brokers. The platform simplifies the management of complex and customized insurance products, allowing for the swift migration of existing offerings from outdated systems at minimal cost and risk. By alleviating the burdens associated with product launches and policy administration, Ignatica empowers insurers to deliver niche and affordable insurance solutions to a broader audience. This innovative approach opens up significant revenue opportunities while meeting the demand for digital services and speed that modern customers expect.

The CareVoice

Series A in 2019
The CareVoice Limited is a Shanghai-based health insurtech company founded in 2013, with an additional office in Hong Kong. It specializes in developing a mobile-based, data-driven software as a service (SaaS) solution that provides community-sourced ratings and recommendations for healthcare services in China. The platform enables patients to share their medical experiences through ratings and reviews, facilitating informed decision-making about hospitals, doctors, and treatments. By consolidating insights from users undergoing similar health journeys, The CareVoice aims to enhance the healthcare experience, making it more consumer-centric. The company is backed by prominent venture capital and healthcare investors, and it focuses on digitalizing the healthcare and insurance landscape to improve patient engagement and outcomes.

PhableCare

Seed Round in 2019
PhableCare creates an ecosystem of patients, doctors, hospitals, health devices, insurance, and patient care service providers. In India, 1 in 4 people suffer from chronic ailments. Meanwhile, 80% of patients cannot comply to the treatment plan provided by the doctor leading to even more complications. This poses a huge burden on the healthcare system. Phable solves this by making care autonomous and predictive. Our AI-enabled health assistant significantly improves health outcomes by enabling disease-specific guidance and continuous monitoring.

Sava

Seed Round in 2019
Sava is a company focused on advancing biosensing technology to enhance personal health monitoring. By providing real-time feedback on the body's molecular signature, particularly for athletes, Sava's technology allows for continuous and effortless monitoring of crucial metrics such as glucose and lactate levels. This capability enables athletes to train more effectively, predict fatigue, and optimize their dietary plans. Sava's innovative approach aims to make health information more accessible, delivering insights in a painless and affordable manner, thereby redefining how individuals interact with their health.

Vaartani

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Vaartani is a technology company based in Madrid, Spain, founded in 2018. The company specializes in developing AI-powered solutions for eCommerce businesses, focusing on insurance coverage tailored to the unique risks of online sellers. Vaartani's platform allows Amazon sellers to obtain commercial general liability insurance quotes quickly by simply providing their store name, thanks to its proprietary AI underwriting technology. Additionally, Vaartani offers tools for analyzing customer feedback and answering queries related to food products, enabling food producers to gain valuable insights into their offerings. Overall, Vaartani seeks to streamline the insurance process for eCommerce businesses while enhancing product insight capabilities.

MIFON

Seed Round in 2018
MIFON Labs PTE. Ltd., founded in 2016 and based in Singapore, is an Insurtech security company that specializes in mobile security applications designed to assist users in recovering lost or stolen mobile phones without requiring power or internet connectivity. The company primarily targets mobile-first users across India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, currently protecting over 300,000 smartphones. Its user base consists of approximately 75% B2B partnerships with handset brands and mobile carriers, while 25% are organic users. MIFON employs machine learning algorithms to process billions of data points, enhancing user safety and security. The majority of its users, about 70%, are located in India, with 10% in the USA and the remaining 15% spread across South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa. MIFON is backed by notable investors, including VC SOSV, Mobile Only Accelerator MOX, and General Mobi from Mediatek.

Cultovo

Seed Round in 2018
Cultovo specializes in developing innovative solutions for the agriculture industry, focusing on climate insurance products that offer affordable protection against the impacts of climate change. The company also operates a remote sensing analytics and visualization platform that provides critical earth observation data. This platform features advanced 2D and 3D visualizations, along with 4D mapping capabilities, delivering insights on nutrient levels, water content, biomass density, weed detection, yield estimation, and leaf pigments. By enabling precise measurements of greenhouse gas emissions through satellite data, Cultovo supports sustainable practices across forestry, mining, and agriculture sectors.

The CareVoice

Seed Round in 2018
The CareVoice Limited is a Shanghai-based health insurtech company founded in 2013, with an additional office in Hong Kong. It specializes in developing a mobile-based, data-driven software as a service (SaaS) solution that provides community-sourced ratings and recommendations for healthcare services in China. The platform enables patients to share their medical experiences through ratings and reviews, facilitating informed decision-making about hospitals, doctors, and treatments. By consolidating insights from users undergoing similar health journeys, The CareVoice aims to enhance the healthcare experience, making it more consumer-centric. The company is backed by prominent venture capital and healthcare investors, and it focuses on digitalizing the healthcare and insurance landscape to improve patient engagement and outcomes.

Caura

Seed Round in 2017
Caura Ltd. is a London-based company established in 2018 that specializes in vehicle management solutions. The company offers a platform that enables drivers to efficiently handle various aspects of car ownership, including payments for parking, tolls, congestion charges, MOTs, vehicle tax, and insurance. Additionally, Caura provides a product called Caura Protect, which allows users to purchase and manage motor insurance through a network of insurers. The company also focuses on developing microelectronic devices that monitor health metrics such as lactate and glucose levels, along with heart-rate and accelerometry data. Furthermore, Caura creates application software that connects to these devices to generate reports and analyze the collected data.

The CareVoice

Seed Round in 2017
The CareVoice Limited is a Shanghai-based health insurtech company founded in 2013, with an additional office in Hong Kong. It specializes in developing a mobile-based, data-driven software as a service (SaaS) solution that provides community-sourced ratings and recommendations for healthcare services in China. The platform enables patients to share their medical experiences through ratings and reviews, facilitating informed decision-making about hospitals, doctors, and treatments. By consolidating insights from users undergoing similar health journeys, The CareVoice aims to enhance the healthcare experience, making it more consumer-centric. The company is backed by prominent venture capital and healthcare investors, and it focuses on digitalizing the healthcare and insurance landscape to improve patient engagement and outcomes.

The CareVoice

Seed Round in 2015
The CareVoice Limited is a Shanghai-based health insurtech company founded in 2013, with an additional office in Hong Kong. It specializes in developing a mobile-based, data-driven software as a service (SaaS) solution that provides community-sourced ratings and recommendations for healthcare services in China. The platform enables patients to share their medical experiences through ratings and reviews, facilitating informed decision-making about hospitals, doctors, and treatments. By consolidating insights from users undergoing similar health journeys, The CareVoice aims to enhance the healthcare experience, making it more consumer-centric. The company is backed by prominent venture capital and healthcare investors, and it focuses on digitalizing the healthcare and insurance landscape to improve patient engagement and outcomes.
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