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Sozo Ventures
Venture capital · Redwood City, CA, United States · North America
Sozo Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in technology-enabled companies and supports their global expansion, particularly into Japan. It provides market knowledge, customer and partner introductions, hiring, and strategy advice to portfolio companies.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsenterprise cloudfintechecommerceiothealthcare itglobal expansion
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Or find every investor that fitsSozo Ventures lists 53 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 9 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series B, 56% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (28%), Industrial & Manufacturing (11%) and Healthcare & Biotech (10%). 97% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel and Gil & Co.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Sozo Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Sozo Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 9 companies; its own site lists 53. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 11% |
| Series A | 11% |
| Series B | 56% |
| Growth | 22% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 4 | 0 |
| '26 | 4 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 85th | 53 companies |
| Recent activity | 89th | 6 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 55th | 11% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 80th | 11% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 44th | 28% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 28% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 11% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 10% | 15% |
| Fintech | 10% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 8% | 8% |
| Cybersecurity | 8% | 4% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 5% | 6% |
| Legal & Compliance | 4% | 2% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Andreessen Horowitz | 8 |
| SV Angel | 8 |
| Gil & Co | 6 |
| Union Square Ventures | 6 |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 5 |
| Craft Ventures | 5 |
| Founders Fund | 5 |
| General Catalyst | 5 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers5196%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company24%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Andreessen Horowitz
Compare Sozo Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Sozo Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Oct 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 26 Aug 2026 | Seed | |
| 11 Jun 2026 | Series B | |
| 4 May 2026 | Series B | |
| 22 Dec 2025 | Series B | |
| 19 Nov 2025 | Series C+ | |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Series B | |
| 9 Jul 2025 | Series B |
Round details for Sozo Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Sozo Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
53 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anduril Industries specializes in advanced autonomous systems for defense and commercial mission sets. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Anomali provides a platform for security teams to collaborate and respond to threats using threat intelligence, security data, and AI. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Applied Intuition develops and deploys artificial intelligence for physical machines and vehicles across various industries | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Aromyx measures taste and smell to generate data using its sensing technology that replicates and measures what human receptors can detect and transmit to the brain. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Atomic Machines develops and manufactures micro-machines using a new AI-native manufacturing stack called the Matter Compiler | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Attentive provides an AI-powered SMS and email marketing platform for businesses. | E-commerce & MarketplacesMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Carbon Robotics develops and sells AI-powered products for agriculture, including autonomous weed control and tractor autonomy solutions. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Carta provides an end-to-end suite for managing private capital, including equity management, fund administration, and legal operations. | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Chainalysis provides a blockchain data platform to investigate and manage crypto transactions, risk, and compliance | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
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| Doppel provides a platform for social engineering defense to protect companies from various types of attacks. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Nov 2025Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Eclipse Foods produces non-dairy ice cream products. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Ema provides an AI-powered tool for enterprises to automate tasks across HR, IT, and finance departments | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Jul 2024Series A | Funding round | |
 Fastlyfastly.com · United States | Fastly provides a platform for delivering and securing online content and applications at a global scale. | Media & EntertainmentCybersecurity | Portfolio page | |
| Firebolt is a high performance analytical database that runs on a laptop or scales to hundreds of nodes and petabytes of data in the cloud for real-time analytics and batch processing | Developer ToolsDeveloper Tools | Portfolio page | ||
| Flexport provides freight forwarding and supply chain services to its customers. | Legal & ComplianceIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Genspark provides an all-in-one AI workspace with various tools for tasks such as writing, design, and business productivity. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Jun 2026Series B | Page + round | |
| MaintainX provides maintenance and asset management software | Industrial & ManufacturingEnterprise Software | Jul 2025Series B | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- sozoventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 1 Jul 2024
- Companies checked
- 53
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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