FOF/VC  Sozo Ventures

https://sozo.ventures/





     Office Locations:

900 Veterans Blvd., Suite 330
Redwood City, CA 94063
Phone: 408-892-3401

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Stages:

  • Early
  • Growth


 

Industries:

  • Information Technology

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    Description:

    Sozo Ventures was formed in 2012 to invest in and support technology enabled ventures with their global expansion. Sozo Ventures is a new family of venture capital funds headquartered in Palo Alto and Tokyo, focused on investing in advanced data technologies, ecommerce, enterprise cloud, fintech, IoT and healthcare IT, and other advanced solutions globally. With 17 team members and over 30 strategic global partners, the firm is partnered with the Kauffman Fellows Program and TrueBridge Capital. In 2013, Sozo raised $18 million for the TrueBridge Fund I. Existing investments include Twitter and Palantir Technologies. Sozo's Portfolio Market Cap is $150+ billion.


     

    Funds:


      Fund Name


      Amount


      Date

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    Investment Firm Key

       VC = Venture Capital
       PE = Private Equity
       A = Angel
       I = Incubator
       MB = Merchant Bank
       VD = Venture Debt
       FI = Family Investment Office
       FOF = Fund of Funds
       ED = Economic Development Office   
       TT = Technology Transfer Office
       CVC = Corporate Venture Capital
       SEC = Secondary Purchaser
       HF = Hedge Fund/Mutual Fund
       
       
       
    COMPANY STAGEREVENUE
    Venture Capital
    Seed Stage
    (includes "pre-seed," or
    concept stage)
    No Revenue
    Early StageMinimal
    Revenue
    Growth Stage
    (also called Mid-stage)
    $2M-$7M
    Expansion Stage
    (also called Late-stage)
    $7M and greater
    Private Equity
    Lower Middle Market$10M-$249M
    Middle Market$250M-$499M
    Upper Middle Market$500M-$1B
    Large Cap>$1B
       
       
     

    Investment Team:


    Name   Title
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    Elena Winefeld Director of Finance
    Hiroki Matsuda Principal
    Joanna Zanghi Analyst
    Kazuhiro Kobayashi Senior Director
    Koichiro Nakamura Managing Director

     

    Recent Funding Events (trailing 12 months):


      Date


      Name


      State


      Amount


      Stage


      10/21/2024


      Carbon Robotics


      WA


      $70,000,000


      Series D


      07/31/2024


      Ema


      CA


      $50,000,000


      Series A


     

    Portfolio companies include:


      Anomali
        web link


      Aromyx


      Carbon Robotics
        web link


      Chorus.ai
        web link


      Cohesity


      Eclipse Foods
        web link


      Ema
        web link


      Handshake


      Insightly
        web link


      Leaf Logistics
        web link


      Neurotrack
        web link


      Pley
        web link


      project44
        web link


      Revinate
        web link


      ServiceMax
        web link


      SmartHop


      Spot Insurance
        web link


      Stord


      Vendr
        web link


      Viz.ai
        web link


     

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