The SOSV-backed accelerator graduates a new cohort of global startups pioneering health tech, education, social commerce and entertainment.
MOX, the Mobile Only Accelerator that propels mobile app startups into the world’s emerging markets, graduates Batch 7 on August 27. For the last three months, MOX has accelerated 10 startups from India, Hong Kong, and Indonesia, including already profitable global players and seed-stage startups with sizable user bases in their home countries. Demo Day will take place on August 27 in Taipei and August 30 in Singapore, and both events will be streaming live.
“The first billion internet users entered the internet space using their PCs, but the next billion users — specifically Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and South America — will be mobile-only. Mobile-only markets will represent the bulk of growth in internet as hundreds of millions of people access the Internet for the first time on smartphones,” said William Bao Bean Managing Director of MOX and General Partner of SOSV, “MOX helps startups from around the world win in the largest mobile-first markets India and South East Asia through our accelerator focused on localization, optimization, monetization and partnerships.”
By partnering with promotion partners such as mobile operators in each country, MOX enables the strongest mobile startups from around the world expand into new markets without spending money on customer acquisition.
MOX is operated by the VC firm SOSV with US$625M assets under management. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, SOSV – The Accelerator VC – operates six vertically focused accelerator programs: MOX for mobile internet (Taipei), IndieBio and RebelBio for biotech (San Francisco, London), HAX for hardware (Shenzhen, San Francisco), Chinaccelerator for internet and software (Shanghai), and Food-X for foodtech and agritech (NYC). SOSV invests in over 150 companies per year and over its two-decade history has a net realized IRR of over 30%, putting it in the top 5% performing of venture capital funds in the world.
MOX 7 Demo Day, Taipei
August 27th (Tue), 1-5pm
Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Zhong-3 Hall 2F, Taipei
Register here
MOX 7 Demo Day, Singapore
August 30th (Fri), 2-5pm
JustCo @ Marina One East Tower
7 Straits View, Marina One East Tower, #05-01 Singapore 018936
Request an invite here
Meet the startups
Chekk
Chekk enables banks, insurance companies and fintechs to onboard and manage customers – one platform all products, all countries, end to end – and the consumers and businesses to control own their own Digital Identity including what they share and to whom it’s shared.
Podd
Podd is a credit trust bureau for India enabling merchants to better understand their customers and consumers to carry their reputational score from one merchant to the next.
Vidyakul
Vidyakul is an online learning platform connecting star educators with Indian students. Vidyakul bridges students and teachers across India in multiple vernacular languages at an affordable price. We deliver the best tutors to students over their smartphones.
PlayTooMe
PlayTooMe enables anyone with friends to perform in their own concert – live and on stage! Choose a time, sell the tickets, and Playtoome does the rest: providing the venue, production, recording and live streaming. Anyone can be a star!
Woovly
Everyone has a bucket list. Woovly is a community helping turn dreams into reality through content, sharing and recommendations from climbing Mount Everest to getting that tattoo.
NATBAY
NATBAY is a luxury fashion and lifestyle platform offering hard-to-find clothing and accessories from the world’s most prestigious designers. NATBAY’s designer relationships ensure the latest designs, authenticity, and great prices.
PinjamWinWin
PinjamWinWin provides the 185m unbanked in Indonesia with fast and easy loans for individuals & small businesses. We are profitable and growing by triple digits every year.
Phable
Phable helps doctors improve patient treatment compliance by 70% with continuous patient monitoring via our machine learning-enabled IOT platform. We have signed the #2 hospital group in India and are growing 35% MoM.
Whatscut Pro
Everyone wants their posts to get hundreds of likes but only a few can become influencers. Whatscut Pro turns any video into share-worthy content shot and edited on the go. With close to 1M downloads and 5M stories shared, we put the wow factor into videos for social media and messengers.
Zotezo
Health and wellness influencers leverage the Zotezo platform to reach and engage their followers interested in curated health, beauty & fitness content, products and services.
About SOSV
SOSV – The Accelerator VC – is a US-based US$625M venture fund operating six global accelerator programs: MOX for mobile internet (Taipei), IndieBio and RebelBio for biotech (San Francisco, London), HAX for hardware (Shenzhen, San Francisco), Chinaccelerator for internet and software (Shanghai), and Food-X for foodtech and agritech (NYC). SOSV invests in over 150 companies per year and over its two-decade history has a net realized IRR of over 30%, putting it in the top 5% performing of venture capital funds in the world.
Learn more about SOSV here: sosv.com
About MOX
MOX is the Mobile-Only Accelerator of SOSV, the 3rd most active lead investor globally and 5th most active seed investor in female-founded startups (Crunchbase 2018). We are also the first accelerator group in Asia and one of four in the world to have a unicorn go through the program – BitMEX. MOX enables mobile apps, platforms and services from around the world to reach hundreds of millions of mobile-first, mobile-only smartphone users in SE Asia and India. Through strategic partnerships in the mobile industry, MOX enables its investees to rapidly penetrate new markets. We aim to bring best in breed solutions to the next 4 billion smartphone users who most need them.
Learn more about MOX here: mobileonlyx.com
