Benjamin Joffe

Partner, SOSV

As Partner at SOSV, Benjamin works with startups on strategy, marketing, PR and fundraising. He is considered a global thought leader on deeptech innovation and ecosystems, and represents SOSV in many global events such as Techcrunch Disrupt, Hello Tomorrow and Slush. Benjamin also lectured at Berkeley Haas, CentraleSupelec, National University of Singapore and Zhejiang University where he gave a course on Deep Tech Ventures. He has been featured on Bloomberg TV, WSJ, The Economist, Nature, Wired and has contributed to TechCrunch, Forbes, VentureBeat and IEEE Spectrum. Moving from France to Asia in 2000, Benjamin is a reformed mechanical engineer who turned to strategy and worked in Japan, South Korea and China. His experience covers several tech industries: telecom, mobile, gaming, hardware and deeptech. Prior to SOSV, Benjamin was the founder of a strategy consultancy which researched Asia-based digital innovations, with clients such as Microsoft, Citi and Harvard Business School. He also founded Mobile Monday Beijing, a community of thousands of mobile industry professionals in China.