Bill is a Venture Partner at SOSV, supporting, mentoring, and investing in companies and startups at all stages of growth. Bill founded SOSV’s life sciences practice in Europe, running the first complete life sciences startup development on Earth in Cork, Ireland—SynBioaxlr8r (later IndieBioEU Cork and then RebelBio at Imperial College London), which focused on entrepreneurs building technologies in or around the field of synthetic biology. Bill’s investments at SOSV include Perfect Day, Synthace, CyGenica, Hyasynth, AlgiKnit, Carverr, MavenHut, Silicon Republic, Restored Hearing, and Storyful (acquired by NEWS Corporation). Bill is also the lead investment partner on SOSV II (Ireland Fund) and is responsible for sourcing and managing investments for that fund with the Irish government.