SOSV
SOSV is the most active deep tech venture capital firm globally, investing at pre-seed (or at startup inception) supporting visionary founders intent on making a profound impact on human and planetary health. SOSV has three deeply resourced locations for founders in San Francisco (SOSV SF), New York (SOSV NY), and Newark (SOSV HAX). Each year, SOSV makes roughly 60 pre-seed investments of up to $550K each, as well as another 150 follow-on investments in deep tech companies. The pre-seed founders spend 4–6 months working side-by-side with SOSV General Partners and the broader team of experts in science and engineering, design and product development, supply chain and product-market fit. Additionally, founders gain access to each location’s office space and equipped lab space.www.sosv.com
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Sep 10, 2026
Jim RothmanGUEST
It'll be very controversial when it's published.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Welcome to Deep Tech Live by SOSV, the podcast where we explore the frontiers of deep tech and its impact on our world with the help of top technologists, researchers, and pioneering founders shaping tomorrow.
speaker_1NARRATOR
SOSV, Deep Tech Live.
Sean O'SullivanHOST
We have with us today Dr. Jim Rothman, a Nobel Laureate, Sterling Professor of Cell Biology at Yale University, Director of the Yale Nanobiology Institute.
Sean O'SullivanHOST
celebrated globally for uncovering the snare protein machinery that governs cellular trafficking and neurotransmitter release.
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speaker_3UNKNOWN
purge their content,
Jim RothmanGUEST
that we were able to deduce the chemical mechanisms that were underneath it, the biochemical mechanisms.
Sean O'SullivanHOST
Yeah, actually, I remember you talking to one of our engineers, one of our general partners at SOSV, Mohan Iyer, who worked at Genensec, And you mentioned, I think, that you took the waste product.
Evan MannHOST
If you go to my TikTok profile and you sort my videos by like most views, I had a viral video probably... four years ago talking about this company and geothermal energy at large, about how the technology works, why this guy is particularly bullish on repurposing like oil infrastructure for geothermal.
Evan MannHOST
And it looks like, you know, this article that I'm showing here on screen podcast line is from April, 2026 from sosv.com.
Evan MannHOST
They do deep dives on climate tech
Matthew WileyPANELIST
and they did a feature on them.
Dacia LeonGUEST
So we started the company eight months ago.
Dacia LeonGUEST
Our first check-in was from SOSV.
Dacia LeonGUEST
That was a 200K check, and we've raised a bit of a pre-seed round throughout that.
Dacia LeonGUEST
It was 950K with other investors, Superorganism, Dangerous Ventures, and Climate Capital.
AndrewHOST
My guest today is Peter Bodenheimer, Executive Director of New York Angels, a 150-plus member angel group with $180 million invested across more than 350 startups with 67 exits.
AndrewHOST
Peter came to this role from the food tech world and previously served as US venture partner at Peak Bridge and head of SOSV's FoodX Accelerator.
AndrewHOST
In this episode, we discuss why food tech's unit economics so often sink great products, how his team at New York Angels goes about narrowing 160 plus deals a month down to just 12, and a hidden term that turned what seemed like a no-brainer deal into an instantaneous no.
AndrewHOST
I hope you enjoy learning from Peter as much as I did.
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Peter BodenheimerGUEST
And we always had a great turnout from New York Angels members when we did our demo days at the SoftBank offices back in the early 20-teens.
Peter BodenheimerGUEST
So that was my original kind of touchpoint with them.
Peter BodenheimerGUEST
And then when I was running, when I moved to New York to work for a firm called SOSV as a partner there to run FoodX, which was their food tech and kind of consumer packaged goods accelerator.
Peter BodenheimerGUEST
I reconnected with some people at the group and realized, why are we not doing a preview day and getting involved with these investors? This is a perfect set of investors for the types of companies we have, the stage of company.