Sozo Ventures
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Sozo Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in technology-enabled companies and supports their global expansion, particularly in Japan. It provides market knowledge, sales channels, and strategic advice to portfolio companies.
Sozo Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Redwood City, United States, founded in 2012. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in technology, data technologies, ecommerce and enterprise cloud.
“We invest in category leaders transforming global industries with advanced data technologies, ecommerce, enterprise cloud, fintech, IoT and healthcare IT, and other advanced solutions.”
— Sozo Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Redwood City, United States
- Invests in
- US, Japan, global
- Sectors
- technology, data technologies, ecommerce, enterprise cloud, fintech, IoT, healthcare IT
- Founded
- 2012
Team, as Sozo Ventures publishes it
- Phil Wickham Executive Managing Director
- Koichiro Nakamura Senior Managing Director
- Spencer Foust Managing Director
- Rob Freelen Managing Director
- Lauren MacDonald Principal
- Ray Hatoyama Venture Partner
- Mitch Underseth Venture Partner
- Yoshihiro Kohara Principal
- Samira Daswani Venture Partner
- Aantorik Ganguly Associate
- Kazuhiro Kobayashi Head of Japan
- Tetsu Nomura Principal
Names and roles exactly as listed on sozoventures.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 280 co-investors found.
- SV Angel 6 shared companies: chainalysis.com, anduril.com, coinbase.com, appliedintuition.com…
- Sapphire Ventures 5 shared companies: swordhealth.com, project44.com, squareup.com, attentivemobile.com…
- 8VC 5 shared companies: anduril.com, saronic.com, project44.com, flexport.com…
- EQUIAM 5 shared companies: anduril.com, coinbase.com, appliedintuition.com, flexport.com…
- Manhattan Venture Partners 5 shared companies: anduril.com, coinbase.com, flexport.com, cohesity.com…
- Union Square Ventures 5 shared companies: mongodb.com, coinbase.com, moltenindustries.com, shopshopslive.com…
- Geodesic Investments, L.L.C 4 shared companies: viz.ai, saronic.com, coinbase.com, oneconcern.com
- Hercules Adviser LLC 4 shared companies: chainalysis.com, fastly.com, saronic.com, palantir.com
- Savano Direct Capital Partners, LLC 4 shared companies: fastly.com, oracle.com, lambdalabs.com, lotame.com
- Founders Fund 4 shared companies: swordhealth.com, anduril.com, flexport.com, palantir.com
and 270 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Sozo Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.sozoventures.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, status
- https://www.sozoventures.com/about/people
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Record 2370 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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