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O'Sullivan: SOSV is world's most active investor in life sciences and hardware
“We're the world's most active investor in life sciences and hardware and also just generally we would rank as
Perhaps the world's third most active seed investor.
And I think we make a top 10 in the world's most active Series A investors as well.”
SOSV was the sole VC backer of BitMEX, rivaling NASDAQ's profitability
“We were the only venture company to have backed them, and then they became profitable very quickly after exiting our program. They were as profitable as NASDAQ was for a couple of years in there.”
O'Sullivan: MapInfo invented digital street mapping on computers
“So MapInfo created the industry of street mapping on computers. So if you type an address into a computer, whether it's your smartphone or on your PC, and you see a street map, that's what we invented.”
O'Sullivan: Chinaccelerator was the first startup accelerator in Asia
“And so I started China Accelerator, which was the first accelerator program in Asia.”
O'Sullivan: HAX is the world's first hardware startup accelerator
“So that's the world's first hardware accelerator, a physical device accelerator built on the theme that if you're going to create new physical devices, they need to be cloud connected.”