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The Company
SOSventures is a venture capital and investment management firm with a 21 year track record of investments in the software, telecommunications, and technology fields.

The firm has a blended return of ~27% per annum over the period from 1992-2013.

Over the period from 1992-2009, we invested in 22 private companies, 6 of which became public companies or divisions of public companies, listed on the Nasdaq or NYSE, some of which continue to be privately held, and some of which failed completely and no longer exist.

Since 2009, SOSventures has developed a wide range of Accelerator programs (Chinaccelerator, Haxlr8r, Selr8r) and our staff have contributed strongly in a number of other programs as LPs and mentors (TechStars, 500 Startups, Startup Bootcamp). Through this, SOSventures has invested in over 100 additional companies at various levels from seed to Series C.

SOSventures has its back-office and headquarter operations in Cork, Ireland. SOSventures has investment partners in the US, Europe and China, and invests worldwide.

Worldwide
Sean O'Sullivan - Twitter - @sosventures

Asia
Cyril Ebersweiler - Information technology and hardware - Twitter - @ Chinaccelerator

Europe
Bill Liao - Internet, Social media - Twitter -@liaonet

USA
Brad Higgins, Energy

Accelerator programs
SOSVentures runs multiple accelerator programs - Haxlr8r, China Axlr8r, Selr8r and is a backer of Techstars, 500 Startups and Startup Bootcamp

Haxlr8r is run in Shenzhen and San Francisco - Haxlr8r is a venture fund which focuses on entrepreneurs building hardware devices. It offers seed funding ($25,000), office space as well as mentorship along with the other opportunies for 2-4 person startups to take an idea to a product. Teams can also jump onto the 'Ignite Fund' and get an extra $25,000 in the form of a convertible note. Haxlr8r selects startups to work with twice a year and has a dual location. Its first batch ran from March to June 2012 and has been widely received as the start of a new hardware revolution.

China Axlr8r is run in Dalian - China Axlr8r (a member of the Global Accelerator Network) is the first mentorship-driven seed-funding program in China. The accelerator program is committed to helping entrepreneurs who are innovating at the cutting-edge of information technology to create successful start-up companies.

Selr8r is run in Cork - Selr8r is the worlds first sales focused accelerator program to help take market disrupting products, and drop them like a bomb, into the global marketplace, in a lightning fast, agile, and explosive way, in under 50 days. Selr8r provides cash, tech back up (broadband/phone/fax), sales & (social) media training, telesales (<2000 outbound calls), marketing/design services on tap, peer networking, world class mentors, and shared workspace at a Vodafone Gold Partner sales location.

Investments
Our investments include;

Harmonix an american video game company based in the US - developers of the Guitar Hero series

Avego the ridesharing app that provides real-time information and management systems for the passenger transportation sector.

Mapflow Improve risk selection and exposure management.

Leap Motion Advanced motion sensing technology for human-computer interaction.

Nomiku Sous vide for the masses!

Storyful Storyful is the first news agency of the social media age. Sorting the news from the noise

A full list is available on our website.

Participants of Axlr8r programs can be found on their websites - www.selr8r.com, www.haxlr8r.com, www.chinaccelerator.com