Accelerator · SOSV HAX
HAX / SOSV
- Skip now
- Poor fit
- Skip
Assessment & status
- Recommendation
- Skip
- Priority
- Skip now
- Fit for Current Stage
- Poor fit
- Preference Alignment
- Conflicts
- External Status
- Rolling
Funding & terms
- Investment Terms
- Up to $550K initial pre-seed; potential SOSV follow-on
- Company Funding
- Up to $550K initial pre-seed investment
- Cash / Benefit Type
- Upfront investment
- Funding Timing
- On acceptance
- Funding Before Full-time
- Yes
- Economic Caveats
- Excellent program in the wrong category. Software-only devtools do not become hard tech because they are technically sophisticated.
Eligibility
- Stage Accepted
- Prototype, MVP
- Traction Requirement
- Helpful
- Sector or Thesis
- Hard Tech
- Region
- United States
- Location
- Newark / San Francisco / New York
- Format
- In-person
- Solo Eligibility
- Unclear
- Company Required
- Yes
- Cofounder Support
- Available
- Relocation Required
- Temporary relocation
Commitment & support
- Can Keep Job
- No
- Full-time Expected
- After acceptance
- Weekly Load
- Full-time
- Duration
- Approximately six months
- Commitment Details
- Six-month on-site hard-tech residency with labs and machine shops
- Mentorship Depth
- High-touch
- Structure or Accountability
- High
- Customer or GTM Support
- Strong
Application
- Application Timing Notes
- Rolling/cycle-based
- Application Requirements
- Physical/science-heavy hard-tech company, prototype, technical team, and on-site lab residency
- Application Effort
- High
- Primary Value
- Funding, Brand, Mentorship, Structure, Network, Workspace
- Brand Value
- Strong
- Next Action
- Skip: current software projects do not qualify as hard tech.
Notes & provenance
- Why or Decisive Note
- Keep in the exhaustive brand list but skip for the current software thesis due to categorical sector mismatch.
- Original Inventory
- HAX, SOSV
- Legacy Commitment Signal
- Fits paid full-time
- Newly Discovered
- No
- Evidence Quality
- Official current
- Website Status
- Active
- Last Verified
- 2026-08-01
Appears in decision views
00 — All Opportunities · 02 — Brand & Prestige · 05 — Full-time After Funding · 14 — Deadline Calendar · 15 — Priority Board
Imported 2026-09-26 from the Funding & Accelerators workspace (rebuilt 2026-08-02). Assessments are this portfolio's judgment, not the program's claims; verify against the official source before relying on them.