equity founded 1995 founder sean o sullivan headquarters princeton nj number of locations offices in ireland united states and china area served worldwide aum 250m number of employees 11 50 website www.sosv.com sosv is a venture capital and investment management firm that provides seed venture and growth stage funding to startup companies in the technology sector . 1 the company s focus is on accelerating startups via their market specific seed accelerator programs located in europe asia and the usa . 2 the firm is made up of 7 investment partners 45 full time support staff and hundreds of mentors . sosv is headquartered in princeton new jersey with back office operations based in cork ireland and flagship offices in san francisco shenzhen shanghai and new york . contents 1 founding 2 investments 3 accelerators 4 social entrepreneurship 4.1 the khan academy 4.2 coderdojo 4.3 learnstorm formerly mathletes 5 partners 6 references 7 external links founding edit sosv was founded in 1995 by sean o sullivan 3 and was originally called sosventures . 4 over the past 20 years the firm has funded over 350 5 startups and continues to fund at least 125 startups per year . 6 investments edit sosv invests in the areas of hardware software consumer services and life sciences markets . portfolio companies include 7 harmonix developers of the guitar hero series carma 8 netflix 9 leap motion 10 pembient 11 kindara 12 storyful 13 muufri 14 breather 15 mavenhut 16 spark 17 now particle 18 and giroptic . 19 accelerators edit sosv runs six seed accelerator programs chinaccelerator 4 mox 20 hax accelerator hax boost 21 indiebio 22 and food x. 23 the programs focus on 24 startup development in the areas of hardware software biotechnology and food business . 23 chinaccelerator runs in shanghai it is a seed funding program in china that allows entrepreneurs to create startup companies in the tech industry . mox mobile only accelerator runs in taipei startups in the program receive 500 000 to fine tune their mobile platforms services and apps . 20 hax accelerator formerly haxlr8r 25 runs twice a year in the united states and china it is a venture fund which focuses on entrepreneurs building hardware devices . 26 hax boost runs in san francisco it is a program designed for hardware startups to find distribution channels and retail outlets . 27 urban x runs in nyc it is a joint venture between hax and bmw mini for urban startups using cities as operating systems . 28 indiebio runs in cork and san francisco it is a venture fund which focuses on entrepreneurs building technologies in or around the field of synthetic biology . 29 food x runs twice a year in new york city it is a program designed for innovations in restoring mankind s relationship to food in nature and to cooking . social entrepreneurship edit sosv has taken an interest in furthering innovation in education and computing . the khan academy edit the o sullivan foundation supports the khan academy 30 the not for profit online learning platform whose goal is to change education for the better by providing a free world class education for anyone anywhere . the khan academy is the brainchild of salman khan 31 who brought the idea of educating young people self starters & people who learn at their own pace online . the educational startup now counts over 2 600 videos in its library with sessions or classes on everything from arithmetic to physics including 211 practice exercises to let students watch videos and learn at their leisure . coderdojo edit sosv supports coderdojo a global network of clubs that teach young people in areas specializing in computer programming and computer technology . there are now dojos in 22 countries 32 33 teaching 10 000 children to write computer code and programs each week . 34 youth learn from one another about computer languages and tools including xcode and css . 35 founded by james whelton and bill liao a partner at sosv in 2011 as a not for profit organisation . the first dojo was held in the nsc national software centre mahon cork on saturday 23rd 2011 . by february 2012 there were 12 dojos around ireland and september 2012 saw the first coderdojo open in silicon valley . at this point there are over 16 000 children worldwide are learning to code every saturday . 36 learnstorm formerly mathletes edit the sean o sullivan foundation supports learnstorm formerly mathletes 37 an online math game competition for kids in ireland . it was founded in 2014 by sean o sullivan and the khan academy . 38 partners edit sean o sullivan global software hardware software information technology cyril ebersweiler asia usa hardware software information technology bill liao europe internet social media arvind gupta usa innovation duncan turner product design 39 william bao bean global mox mobileonlyx.com and chinaccelerator chinaccelerator.com 40 internet references edit devitt niall . bill liao of sosventures discusses exit strategies & the value of brand 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