Sozo Ventures
Venture Capital
Active
Redwood City, United States
64
68M
50
5.33
10
0.22
7
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
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.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 64
- Lead investments
- 10
- Exits
- 7
- Rounds per year
- 5.33
- Follow on index
- 0.22
- Investments by industry
- Software (20)
- SaaS (19)
- Enterprise Software (16)
- Artificial Intelligence (12)
- Analytics (12) Show 124 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (55)
- Japan (4)
- Canada (1)
- Israel (3)
- United Kingdom (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2022
- Number of Unicorns
- 12
- Number of Decacorns
- 14
- Number of Minotaurs
- 5
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 1B
- Group Appearance index
- 0.98
- Avg. company exit year
- 8
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.15
- Strategy success index
- 1.00
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Molten Industries | 20 Jun 2024 | CleanTech, Chemical, Advanced Materials | Early Stage Venture | 25M | United States, California, Oakland |
| Select Star | 31 Jan 2023 | Internet, Analytics, Database | Early Stage Venture | 15M | United States, California, San Francisco |
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