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Sozo Ventures

Founders Koichiro Nakamura Phil Wickham

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Total investments 63
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$67M
Portfolio companies 49
Rounds per year 5.25
Lead investments 10
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.22
Exits 7
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Enterprise Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Analytics
Summary

Sozo Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Sozo Ventures, startups are often financed by Emergence, Battery Ventures, Trinity Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Emergence, Kleiner Perkins, Cloud Apps Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Kleiner Perkins, True Ventures, Spark Capital.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Palantir Technologies, Coinbase, Square. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are SaaS, Bitcoin. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The top activity for fund was in 2016. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 11 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. This Sozo Ventures works on 10 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. When the investment is from Sozo Ventures the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars.

The overall number of key employees were 5.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pesto

Credit Cards
Financial Services
Information Technology
$11M25 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

The Wound Company

Health Care
Hospital
Wellness
$4M15 May 2023 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Maka Autonomous Robots

AgTech
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Robotics
$30M11 Apr 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States

Mercy BioAnalytics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$41M03 Apr 2023 Natick, Massachusetts, United States

Workera

Artificial Intelligence
E-Learning
EdTech
Machine Learning
$23M23 Mar 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

Select Star

Analytics
Database
Internet
$15M31 Jan 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Callback

Blockchain
Software
$2M31 Dec 2022 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Harmonic.ai

Business Information Systems
Information Technology
Management Information Systems
$23M06 Nov 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Fixefy

Software
$5M27 Oct 2022 Kfar Saba, HaMerkaz, Israel
News
Aromyx Raises $10M in Series A Funding

– Aromyx from Mountain View, CA applies biotechnology and data science to capture sensory data.
– Company raised $10m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Rabo Food&Ag Innovation Fund and Sozo Ventures with participation from existing investors Ulu Ventures, Radicle Growth, Capital Energy and Merus Capital.
– The funding will be used to help the company increase capacity and automation capabilities, generate more data, improve AI algorithms, and expand its lab and software teams.

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Total investments 63
Average round size 67M
Rounds per year 5.25
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.22
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.98

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pesto

Credit Cards
Financial Services
Information Technology
$11M25 May 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

The Wound Company

Health Care
Hospital
Wellness
$4M15 May 2023 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Maka Autonomous Robots

AgTech
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Robotics
$30M11 Apr 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States

Mercy BioAnalytics

Biotechnology
Life Science
Therapeutics
$41M03 Apr 2023 Natick, Massachusetts, United States

Workera

Artificial Intelligence
E-Learning
EdTech
Machine Learning
$23M23 Mar 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

Select Star

Analytics
Database
Internet
$15M31 Jan 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Callback

Blockchain
Software
$2M31 Dec 2022 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Harmonic.ai

Business Information Systems
Information Technology
Management Information Systems
$23M06 Nov 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Fixefy

Software
$5M27 Oct 2022 Kfar Saba, HaMerkaz, Israel
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