Sozo Ventures

Sozo Ventures is a global venture capital firm that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to build market-leading companies, focusing on early-stage investments in technology sectors. Established in 2012, the firm specializes in supporting technology-enabled ventures in their global expansion, particularly in the Japanese and Asian markets. Sozo Ventures invests in category leaders transforming global industries with advanced data technologies, e-commerce, enterprise cloud, fintech, IoT, healthcare IT, and other advanced solutions. The firm is structured to connect ambitious entrepreneurial teams with the world’s most advanced and respected customers and distributors, providing market knowledge, deployment expertise, entity formation guidance, sales channels, hiring, strategy advice, and relationships needed to expand and thrive. Sozo Ventures has a proven track record, having invested in companies such as Coinbase, Zoom, Palantir, Fastly, MongoDB, Twitter, Square, Cohesity, Flexport, Applied Intuition, Attentive Mobile, and Deel, producing top-percentile returns. With offices in Redwood City, California, and Tokyo, Japan, Sozo Ventures supports businesses across multiple stages of financing, from seed to pre-IPO, and is committed to being a long-term flexible supporter of the companies it partners with.