Bio

Deep Tech startup investor (focus: climate & health tech), ecosystem player, keynote speaker (300+ talks across 35+ countries) with 18 years experience across Asia (mostly China and Japan, with stints in Silicon Valley). email: ben@sosv.com twitter: https://twitter.com/benjaminjoffe EXPERIENCE I'm a Partner at SOSV, a global early stage fund focused on deep tech. I initially worked mostly with HAX, the 'hard tech' branch investing in intelligent hardware (robotics, digital diagnostic and therapeutic devices, IoT solutions, etc.), and later switched to supporting the portfolio. I have built a broad knowledge and interest in climate tech and health tech, and curate / co-produce the SOSV Climate Tech Summit (www.sosvclimatetech.com). Prior to SOSV I worked in various high-tech industries: aerospace, telecom, Internet, mobile, gaming. I used to run my own cross-border research & advisory firm. SPEAKING Frequent speaker at leading global tech conferences (over 300 events across 35 countries including two TEDx, multiple TC Disrupt, Slush, SXSW...), universities (Stanford, Berkeley, INSEAD, etc.) and global corporations (Fidelity, Honeywell and P&G...). WRITING Guest writer for Forbes, TechCrunch and VentureBeat. Also quoted in Nature, Bloomberg TV, CNN, WSJ, The Economist, WIRED, Quartz and more. I used to write a monthly column for China Entrepreneur magazine. PRESENTATIONS My presentations, reports and talks reached over a million viewers on Slideshare, covering topics from innovation ecosystems to Deep Tech, and the ''Lean Hardware'' methodology. More on the /sosv /haxco and /plus8star accounts. PODCAST In 2020 during Covid I started a podcast titled 'Deep Tech: From Lab To Market' where investors and founders share insights on how to bring innovation to life. https://linktr.ee/labtomarket EVENTS - Curator / Co-producer of the SOSV Climate Tech Summit (4000+ participants, Bill Gates, Vinod Khosla, Tony Fadell, 9 unicorns founders and many more). - Produced entire event series on Hardware, Deep Tech, Startup Exits across multiple cities. - I founded Mobile Monday Beijing, the mobile-focused event and community in China. 40+ events with 100-200 participants each time, including founders of unicorns. NETWORK - 29,000+ contacts/followers including thousands of investors. - I keep in touch several times a year via a personal newsletter (https://benjaminjoffe.substack.com/).