SOSV

SOSV is a global venture capital firm that supports early-stage startups through active, founder-first development programs. Its flagship initiatives HAX and IndieBio provide facilities, engineering resources, services, and laboratory equipment to accelerate product development and prepare companies for subsequent funding rounds. SOSV focuses on deep technology across health, environmental, and cross-border software sectors, aiming to solve human and planetary health challenges. In addition to providing capital, the firm emphasizes intensive programmatic support to help portfolio companies move quickly from seed toward growth, including customer acquisition and scale. The firm operates globally with a bias toward startups targeting rapid international expansion, especially in Asia, and tends to back a small cohort of high-potential companies to accelerate their progress and attract leading investors.

Michael Aberman

Partner

Lindsay Atkenson

Analyst

William Bao Bean

General Partner

Hugh Bowen

Associate

Shawn Broderick

Venture Partner

Past deals in Publishing

TAPPI

Pre Seed Round in 2023
TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.

Climate Tech VC

Seed Round in 2022
Climate Tech VC publishes a weekly newsletter focused on climate tech and innovation, offering perspectives on the evolving climate tech landscape through interviews with leading investors and operators and coverage of recent venture deals, news, and jobs.

Instoried

Series A in 2022
Instoried is an augmented writing platform founded in 2018. It uses AI to predict and optimize emotional engagement in written content, assisting content marketers across various industries such as e-commerce, news, and FMCG.

Flickstree

Series A in 2022
Flickstree is a company that specializes in creating and aggregating short, engaging videos for various publishers, including websites and apps. Its video player can be embedded by publishers without any investment, allowing them to enhance user engagement and monetize their traffic. The content produced includes entertainment, performance marketing, and user-generated videos, which are localized in multiple languages. Flickstree partners with OTT platforms and telecom companies to license its video content. Entertainment videos are monetized through branding campaigns featuring pre-roll and mid-roll ads, while performance marketing videos utilize a Cost Per Sale model, offering competitive affiliate commissions on product sales across diverse categories. The company's extensive reach of over 50 million users facilitates effective brand campaigns through its "Glocal" publisher network. Flickstree employs artificial intelligence to create compelling video content at scale, enhancing the efficiency of affiliate marketing efforts for brands. The company has received backing from notable investors, including Samsung Ventures Investment and the Facebook FBStart program.

Instoried

Venture Round in 2021
Instoried is an augmented writing platform founded in 2018. It uses AI to predict and optimize emotional engagement in written content, assisting content marketers across various industries such as e-commerce, news, and FMCG.

Vidyakul

Seed Round in 2021
Vidyakul is an online education platform that enables teachers to create and deliver online courses while giving students access to a range of courses across secondary and higher secondary education and entrance exam preparation. The platform offers free live classes, structured courses aligned with exam syllabi, and practice tests, along with e-books in local languages to support accessible learning. It aims to bridge the gap between students and teachers across India through integrated, interactive learning and continues to expand resources for students, parents, and teachers. Founded in 2017 and based in Gurugram, India.

Contents First

Series B in 2021
Contents First, Inc., based in Seoul, South Korea, is a company specializing in market research consulting, public relations, social media marketing, and translation services. It is best known for operating Tappytoon, a popular digital platform for comics and webnovels that attracts over 8 million readers from more than 190 countries. Launched in 2016, Tappytoon has gained recognition as a leading app in its category, consistently ranking among the top comics apps by gross revenue across multiple countries. The platform offers a diverse library of content, featuring exclusive translations of works from major Korean publishers and original titles produced in collaboration with various creators. Tappytoon provides premium and free content accessible via web and mobile applications, promoting a rich reading experience while supporting the artists and storytellers behind the works.

Pencil

Seed Round in 2021
Pencil is a free publishing platform that helps writers create, publish, and distribute books in eBook and paperback formats. Pencil is a reading and writing platform for multiple formats of content from shorts to books that enables writers to create multiple types of content in 60 languages, continuously enhance their work powered by meaningful reading insights, as they engage with the readers and monetize their content.

Instoried

Seed Round in 2020
Instoried is an augmented writing platform founded in 2018. It uses AI to predict and optimize emotional engagement in written content, assisting content marketers across various industries such as e-commerce, news, and FMCG.

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.

Contents First

Series A in 2020
Contents First, Inc., based in Seoul, South Korea, is a company specializing in market research consulting, public relations, social media marketing, and translation services. It is best known for operating Tappytoon, a popular digital platform for comics and webnovels that attracts over 8 million readers from more than 190 countries. Launched in 2016, Tappytoon has gained recognition as a leading app in its category, consistently ranking among the top comics apps by gross revenue across multiple countries. The platform offers a diverse library of content, featuring exclusive translations of works from major Korean publishers and original titles produced in collaboration with various creators. Tappytoon provides premium and free content accessible via web and mobile applications, promoting a rich reading experience while supporting the artists and storytellers behind the works.

Flickstree

Series A in 2020
Flickstree is a company that specializes in creating and aggregating short, engaging videos for various publishers, including websites and apps. Its video player can be embedded by publishers without any investment, allowing them to enhance user engagement and monetize their traffic. The content produced includes entertainment, performance marketing, and user-generated videos, which are localized in multiple languages. Flickstree partners with OTT platforms and telecom companies to license its video content. Entertainment videos are monetized through branding campaigns featuring pre-roll and mid-roll ads, while performance marketing videos utilize a Cost Per Sale model, offering competitive affiliate commissions on product sales across diverse categories. The company's extensive reach of over 50 million users facilitates effective brand campaigns through its "Glocal" publisher network. Flickstree employs artificial intelligence to create compelling video content at scale, enhancing the efficiency of affiliate marketing efforts for brands. The company has received backing from notable investors, including Samsung Ventures Investment and the Facebook FBStart program.

Pencil

Seed Round in 2020
Pencil is a free publishing platform that helps writers create, publish, and distribute books in eBook and paperback formats. Pencil is a reading and writing platform for multiple formats of content from shorts to books that enables writers to create multiple types of content in 60 languages, continuously enhance their work powered by meaningful reading insights, as they engage with the readers and monetize their content.

Instoried

Seed Round in 2020
Instoried is an augmented writing platform founded in 2018. It uses AI to predict and optimize emotional engagement in written content, assisting content marketers across various industries such as e-commerce, news, and FMCG.

The Futures

Seed Round in 2020
The Futures is a provider of graphic design services that specializes in transforming ideas into visual stories. The company offers a range of services, including the creation of brochures, advertisements for digital platforms as well as newspapers and magazines, social media graphics, and video content. By delivering high-quality designs in less than 24 hours, The Futures caters to a diverse clientele, including business owners, agencies, entrepreneurs, and marketers, enabling them to effectively create marketing, advertising, and sales materials in both digital and printed formats.

eFanswer

Seed Round in 2019
eFanswer LTD is a UK-based company founded in 2014 that operates an online platform designed to enhance interaction between celebrities and their fans. The platform allows users to ask questions to their favorite celebrities and compile their inquiries into a unique e-book, incorporating text, audio, and video content. By facilitating this crowd writing experience, eFanswer enables celebrities to share their life stories and insights with their audience, fostering a deeper connection through various social media channels. The platform serves as a community where fans can engage with their idols and create personalized records of their interactions.

Vidyakul

Seed Round in 2019
Vidyakul is an online education platform that enables teachers to create and deliver online courses while giving students access to a range of courses across secondary and higher secondary education and entrance exam preparation. The platform offers free live classes, structured courses aligned with exam syllabi, and practice tests, along with e-books in local languages to support accessible learning. It aims to bridge the gap between students and teachers across India through integrated, interactive learning and continues to expand resources for students, parents, and teachers. Founded in 2017 and based in Gurugram, India.

Miraquill

Seed Round in 2019
Miraquill is a social platform that enables writers, poets, and readers to write, design, and share short-form creative content. The platform allows users to post poems, quotes, stories, and other writings, transforming them into visual posts to showcase talent and ideas and to connect with people worldwide.

Miraquill

Seed Round in 2018
Miraquill is a social platform that enables writers, poets, and readers to write, design, and share short-form creative content. The platform allows users to post poems, quotes, stories, and other writings, transforming them into visual posts to showcase talent and ideas and to connect with people worldwide.

Flickstree

Seed Round in 2018
Flickstree is a company that specializes in creating and aggregating short, engaging videos for various publishers, including websites and apps. Its video player can be embedded by publishers without any investment, allowing them to enhance user engagement and monetize their traffic. The content produced includes entertainment, performance marketing, and user-generated videos, which are localized in multiple languages. Flickstree partners with OTT platforms and telecom companies to license its video content. Entertainment videos are monetized through branding campaigns featuring pre-roll and mid-roll ads, while performance marketing videos utilize a Cost Per Sale model, offering competitive affiliate commissions on product sales across diverse categories. The company's extensive reach of over 50 million users facilitates effective brand campaigns through its "Glocal" publisher network. Flickstree employs artificial intelligence to create compelling video content at scale, enhancing the efficiency of affiliate marketing efforts for brands. The company has received backing from notable investors, including Samsung Ventures Investment and the Facebook FBStart program.

Inside Warehouse

Seed Round in 2018
Integrating Content and Commerce Experience eCommerce proves to be one of the most profitable options for content publishers to create new revenue channels and enhance engagement with their audience base We've developed a unique semantics-based tool which links products (features) with website text content. Through Inside Warehouse plug-in embedded in Publisher’s site consumers are able to purchase products related to the content from multiple distributors with a single click without leaving the publisher’s site. Publisher transforms visitor into lifetime customer instead of building traffic and revenue stream to third-party websites/retailers.

PT Galactic Multimedia

Seed Round in 2017
PT Galactic Multimedia is an Android content provider based in Indonesia, specializing in application stores for a variety of smartphone brands. The company offers a diverse range of digital content, including applications, music, videos, games, digital books, and both static and live wallpapers. Its platform caters to both local and international entertainment needs, positioning it as a key player in the Indonesian digital content market.

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.

Pixtory

Seed Round in 2017
Pixtory is a developer of a mobile application that transforms users' wallpaper into a platform for discovering captivating stories paired with stunning visuals. The application features curated 'pixtories' that encompass themes such as love, global experiences, urban life, and health, all contributed by a diverse range of creators from around the world. By combining beautiful photography with meaningful narratives, Pixtory aims to enrich users' everyday lives, allowing them to smile, reflect, or find inspiration within a brief moment.

Contents First

Seed Round in 2017
Contents First, Inc., based in Seoul, South Korea, is a company specializing in market research consulting, public relations, social media marketing, and translation services. It is best known for operating Tappytoon, a popular digital platform for comics and webnovels that attracts over 8 million readers from more than 190 countries. Launched in 2016, Tappytoon has gained recognition as a leading app in its category, consistently ranking among the top comics apps by gross revenue across multiple countries. The platform offers a diverse library of content, featuring exclusive translations of works from major Korean publishers and original titles produced in collaboration with various creators. Tappytoon provides premium and free content accessible via web and mobile applications, promoting a rich reading experience while supporting the artists and storytellers behind the works.

eFanswer

Seed Round in 2017
eFanswer LTD is a UK-based company founded in 2014 that operates an online platform designed to enhance interaction between celebrities and their fans. The platform allows users to ask questions to their favorite celebrities and compile their inquiries into a unique e-book, incorporating text, audio, and video content. By facilitating this crowd writing experience, eFanswer enables celebrities to share their life stories and insights with their audience, fostering a deeper connection through various social media channels. The platform serves as a community where fans can engage with their idols and create personalized records of their interactions.

NeoNan

Seed Round in 2016
NeoNan is a China-based company that operates a web portal dedicated to providing digital publications focused on fitness and dating advice, specifically targeting male consumers. The platform offers a variety of content relevant to men, covering topics such as fashion, health, lifestyle, wealth, and automobile interests. With a commitment to fostering a positive life philosophy and an understanding of international fashion trends among Chinese men, NeoNan aims to deliver comprehensive information and insights that enhance their readers' lives. Through its tech-driven approach, the company seeks to establish itself as a leading media brand within the male consumer verticals.

NeoNan

Convertible Note in 2016
NeoNan is a China-based company that operates a web portal dedicated to providing digital publications focused on fitness and dating advice, specifically targeting male consumers. The platform offers a variety of content relevant to men, covering topics such as fashion, health, lifestyle, wealth, and automobile interests. With a commitment to fostering a positive life philosophy and an understanding of international fashion trends among Chinese men, NeoNan aims to deliver comprehensive information and insights that enhance their readers' lives. Through its tech-driven approach, the company seeks to establish itself as a leading media brand within the male consumer verticals.

Contents First

Seed Round in 2016
Contents First, Inc., based in Seoul, South Korea, is a company specializing in market research consulting, public relations, social media marketing, and translation services. It is best known for operating Tappytoon, a popular digital platform for comics and webnovels that attracts over 8 million readers from more than 190 countries. Launched in 2016, Tappytoon has gained recognition as a leading app in its category, consistently ranking among the top comics apps by gross revenue across multiple countries. The platform offers a diverse library of content, featuring exclusive translations of works from major Korean publishers and original titles produced in collaboration with various creators. Tappytoon provides premium and free content accessible via web and mobile applications, promoting a rich reading experience while supporting the artists and storytellers behind the works.

NeoNan

Venture Round in 2015
NeoNan is a China-based company that operates a web portal dedicated to providing digital publications focused on fitness and dating advice, specifically targeting male consumers. The platform offers a variety of content relevant to men, covering topics such as fashion, health, lifestyle, wealth, and automobile interests. With a commitment to fostering a positive life philosophy and an understanding of international fashion trends among Chinese men, NeoNan aims to deliver comprehensive information and insights that enhance their readers' lives. Through its tech-driven approach, the company seeks to establish itself as a leading media brand within the male consumer verticals.

RaVaBe

Seed Round in 2014
RaVaBe HK Ltd. is a Chinese company that specializes in designing and developing digital publishing tools. These tools enable users to publish content across various media channels, facilitating effective communication and collaboration. Founded in 2012 by Al Ritchie, who transitioned from a banking career to address challenges in collaborative work, RaVaBe aims to simplify productivity processes for organizations. The company focuses on creating user-friendly solutions that enhance the efficiency of project management and teamwork.

Taxworld

Venture Round in 2014
Taxworld Ltd., established in 1996 by Alan Moore, is a pioneering publishing company specializing in tax legislation and commentary. It serves over 5,000 clients, including major financial institutions, top accounting firms, legal practices, and the Irish Revenue. Taxworld's innovative approach includes offering Ireland's first plain English rewrite of tax law, fully searchable taxation publications, tax planning books, and mobile-accessible content through its online platform.

NeoNan

Venture Round in 2014
NeoNan is a China-based company that operates a web portal dedicated to providing digital publications focused on fitness and dating advice, specifically targeting male consumers. The platform offers a variety of content relevant to men, covering topics such as fashion, health, lifestyle, wealth, and automobile interests. With a commitment to fostering a positive life philosophy and an understanding of international fashion trends among Chinese men, NeoNan aims to deliver comprehensive information and insights that enhance their readers' lives. Through its tech-driven approach, the company seeks to establish itself as a leading media brand within the male consumer verticals.

Tuicool

Seed Round in 2014
Cool to focus on pushing personalized content recommendation IT field, want to come here to create a unique personal friends, reading space. They hope to mass produce daily content,dig out those high-quality content, and recommend to the part you are most interested in, so you can efficiently read daily to their favorite news and articles. Articles push cool currently available mainly in science and technology, technology, design, marketing, etc., basically covering the major IT people reading range. They also try to make micro-blog content rich depth of the excavation, make your content from the complex marine debris freed, to read to those who truly interesting people microblogging. Registration is now open push cool, but it's better from us imagine there is a long distance. They have already launched Android and iOS clients, and continue to improve, welcome support. They are still a small team, if you have the entrepreneurial enthusiasm and recognition of their vision, welcome to join us. They love love love technology by reading technology to read the desire to do better. They have gone through some tough times, They may have to walk more difficult time. In pursuit of the ideal humble way, They have a loss, but it did not stop. They have written the code line by line leading to the other side, maybe one day, they can flash.

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.

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.

Tuicool

Seed Round in 2012
Cool to focus on pushing personalized content recommendation IT field, want to come here to create a unique personal friends, reading space. They hope to mass produce daily content,dig out those high-quality content, and recommend to the part you are most interested in, so you can efficiently read daily to their favorite news and articles. Articles push cool currently available mainly in science and technology, technology, design, marketing, etc., basically covering the major IT people reading range. They also try to make micro-blog content rich depth of the excavation, make your content from the complex marine debris freed, to read to those who truly interesting people microblogging. Registration is now open push cool, but it's better from us imagine there is a long distance. They have already launched Android and iOS clients, and continue to improve, welcome support. They are still a small team, if you have the entrepreneurial enthusiasm and recognition of their vision, welcome to join us. They love love love technology by reading technology to read the desire to do better. They have gone through some tough times, They may have to walk more difficult time. In pursuit of the ideal humble way, They have a loss, but it did not stop. They have written the code line by line leading to the other side, maybe one day, they can flash.

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.

Silicon Republic

Seed Round in 2011
Silicon Republic, established in 2002, is a leading Irish online publication focused on technology, business, science, and innovation. It provides news, analysis, and insights to over 250,000 monthly readers, including IT decision-makers, start-up founders, and technology enthusiasts. The company's award-winning journalism covers a wide range of topics, from emerging technologies and green tech to the digital lifestyle and innovation. In addition to news, Silicon Republic offers services such as job listings, event information, and technology services directories to keep its readers informed and connected in the fast-changing world of technology.

Storyful

Seed Round in 2011
Storyful, founded in December 2009 by Mark Little, is an innovative news agency tailored for the social media era. It operates as an online publishing platform that leverages journalistic expertise, curation technology, and community engagement to transform the vast array of social media content into relevant news stories. By sourcing valuable information from platforms like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, Storyful provides global news organizations with timely and verified content through its StoryfulPro service. The company has established partnerships with prominent media brands, enabling efficient filtering of breaking news and trending stories. Storyful recognizes that news stories often defy conventional categories and emphasizes the importance of diverse voices in storytelling, asserting that every narrative begins with an individual perspective. Its mission is to help journalists, broadcasters, and publishers navigate the complexities of social media to deliver pertinent news to their audiences.
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