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Sozo Ventures
Redwood City, United States
Sozo Ventures invests in technology‑enabled companies that are poised for global expansion, especially those with strong teams, traction, and the potential to enter international markets such as Japan and broader Asia. T...
Portfolio
60+
Employees
40+
Founded
2012
AUM
≈ $1.0B
Investment focus
Stages
Seed → Series C+
Industries
Software OnlyArtificial IntelligenceData & AnalyticsCommerce & Shopping
Geographic scope
Global
Fund details
Funds
Feeder Fund
Vintage 2014 • $58.0M
TrueBridge Fund I
Vintage 2015 • $110.0M
Fund II
$134.0M
Fund III
$680.0M
Fund IV
$500.0M
Sources
Sozo Ventures
Sozo Ventures invests in technology‑enabled companies that are poised for global expansion, especially those with strong teams, traction, and the potential to enter international markets such as Japan and broader Asia. The firm focuses on categories including advanced data and AI, fintech, IoT, digital health, enterprise software, and commerce, offering go‑to‑market support, partnerships and operational expertise to accelerate growth.
Portfolio
60+
Employees
40+
Founded
2012
AUM
≈ $1.0B
Funds
Feeder Fund · Vintage 2014 • $58.0M
TrueBridge Fund I · Vintage 2015 • $110.0M
Fund II · $134.0M
Fund III · $680.0M
Fund IV · $500.0M
Stages
Seed → Series C+
Industries
Software OnlyArtificial IntelligenceData & AnalyticsCommerce & ShoppingDigital Health
Geographic scope
Global
Sources
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Anduril develops autonomous hardware and software for defense and security, offering underseasurvey drones, land‑based perimeter and counter‑UAS systems, and air‑borne ISR and strike platforms. All platforms are integrated through its Lattice software stack, which provides command‑and‑control, mission autonomy, and extensibility for third‑party sensors and effectors. The company sells these systems and software services to government and allied customers under contract, generating revenue through procurement and long‑term support agreements.
1000+
50K+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $10.5B
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Funding: $10.5B
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Anomali provides an AI-powered security operations platform that integrates threat detection, investigation, and response capabilities into a single cloud-native solution, significantly reducing threat research time from hours to seconds. By leveraging a vast repository of actionable intelligence, Anomali enables organizations to efficiently manage cyber risks and enhance their security posture at a lower operational cost.
Funding: $40.0M
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Funding: $40.0M
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Applied Intuition provides a unified development platform that enables automotive manufacturers to create, test, and validate advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving (AD) technologies at scale. This platform reduces development cycles and enhances safety by utilizing simulation and validation tools to identify issues early in the process, ensuring compliance with safety standards.
Funding: $601.5M
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Funding: $601.5M
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The company offers a biosensor platform that embeds engineered human olfactory and taste receptors on microfluidic chips to produce quantitative sensory profiles from product samples. AI models digitize the receptor activation signals and deliver calibrated flavor and odor descriptors, intensity scores, and predictive analytics through a cloud‑native SaaS suite that integrates with PLM and ERP systems. This enables food, beverage, fragrance, and cosmetics manufacturers to accelerate formulation, automate quality‑control checks, and align products with consumer‑segment preferences.
Funding: $10.0M
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Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation FundSozo Ventures
Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation FundSozo Ventures
Funding: $10.0M
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Attentive offers an AI‑driven platform that ingests real‑time customer data and automates personalized messaging across SMS, RCS, and email. Its proprietary models generate channel‑optimized copy, update predictive audience segments, and enforce compliance, while native integrations and APIs let marketers launch and track campaigns without engineering effort.
Carbon Robotics develops the LaserWeeder, a robotic system that utilizes AI, deep learning, and high-precision lasers to identify and eliminate weeds with sub-millimeter accuracy. This technology significantly reduces labor costs and enhances crop yield by automating the weeding process, providing farmers with a reliable and efficient solution for weed management.
Funding: $156.3M
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Funding: $156.3M
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Carta provides a cloud‑native ERP platform that consolidates equity management, fund administration, and portfolio analytics for private‑market participants. The system automates cap‑table updates, electronic securities issuance, 409A/ASC 718 valuations, tax filings and offers real‑time scenario modeling and compliance monitoring through integrated dashboards and API connections. This unified solution delivers a single source of truth to reduce manual effort, improve data accuracy, and accelerate decision‑making for founders, investors and fund managers.
Funding: $500.0M
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Silver Lake
Silver Lake
Funding: $500.0M
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Chainalysis provides blockchain data and analytics to governments, banks, and businesses, enabling them to track and investigate cryptocurrency transactions. Their platform enhances compliance and risk management by delivering actionable insights into illicit activities within the blockchain ecosystem.
Clearco provides non‑dilutive financing to e‑commerce, CPG and DTC brands through fixed‑rate loans, invoice advances, cash‑advance and rolling credit lines. Its AI‑driven underwriting evaluates real‑time sales data to approve funding within 24–48 hours, and the rolling capacity automatically replenishes after each repayment, eliminating repeat applications. The platform charges fixed interest and service fees without requiring personal guarantees or equity dilution.
Funding: $60.0M
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Founders Circle CapitalInovia Capital
Founders Circle CapitalInovia Capital
Funding: $60.0M
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Cohesity provides hyper-converged secondary storage solutions that enable organizations to efficiently manage backups, files, and analytics at scale. Their technology ensures rapid data recovery and robust cyber protection, significantly reducing recovery time and costs associated with data loss.
Coinbase is a cryptocurrency exchange and wallet platform that enables users to buy, sell, and securely store digital currencies using blockchain technology. It provides a user-friendly interface for both merchants and consumers, facilitating seamless transactions in the growing digital currency market.
Funding: $563.1M
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Funding: $563.1M
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Deel provides a cloud‑based Global People Platform that centralizes payroll, HR, and compliance for employees, contractors, and freelancers in over 150 countries. The system automates tax calculations, statutory filings, onboarding/off‑boarding workflows and multi‑currency payments, while offering a self‑service portal and API integrations for enterprise ERP and accounting tools. This enables mid‑size to enterprise organizations to manage a distributed workforce with reduced administrative overhead and audit‑ready compliance.
1000+
50K+Approximate amount of employees
Doppel provides AI-driven digital risk protection that detects and removes phishing, impersonation, and other social engineering threats across social media, domains, and apps at speeds up to eight times faster than traditional methods. The platform scans over 10 million URLs and 700,000 social media accounts daily, ensuring brands are safeguarded against emerging digital threats.
Drishti provides AI-powered video analytics technology that enhances visibility and insights for manual assembly lines. This technology enables manufacturers to identify inefficiencies and improve operational performance, leading to increased productivity and reduced costs.
Eclipse Foods manufactures plant-based ice cream and dairy products by utilizing a proprietary blend of corn, cassava, rapeseed, and potato to replicate the creaminess of traditional dairy. This approach addresses the demand for delicious, non-dairy alternatives that cater to consumers seeking vegan options without sacrificing taste or texture.
Funding: $52.1M
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Sozo Ventures
Sozo Ventures
Funding: $52.1M
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Fidelis Security offers an integrated Extended Detection and Response (XDR) platform that unifies network detection, endpoint protection, cloud‑native application security, and deception capabilities into a single console. The solution ingests telemetry from over 300 sources, maps events to MITRE ATT&CK, and uses predictive analytics and automated playbooks to prioritize alerts and orchestrate containment, reducing mean time to detect and respond. It also provides continuous cloud workload hardening, Active Directory credential‑abuse interception, and API‑first integration for SOCs in large enterprises and government agencies.
Firebolt is a cloud data warehousing platform that utilizes specialized indexing and JOIN acceleration to deliver sub-second query performance on terabytes of data. It enables businesses to analyze large datasets efficiently, reducing query latency from days to seconds while minimizing storage costs.
Funding: $268.7M
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Alkeon Capital
Alkeon Capital
Funding: $268.7M
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Flexport operates a technology platform that coordinates end-to-end global logistics, encompassing freight forwarding, customs brokerage, and fulfillment services. The platform provides businesses with SKU-level visibility across ocean, air, and trucking operations, integrating these functions into a unified system. This coordination allows clients to manage their supply chains, streamline customs clearance, and accelerate sales through integrated fulfillment capabilities.
Funding: $260.0M
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Funding: $260.0M
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Grammarly provides an AI-powered writing assistant that offers real-time grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style corrections across browsers, desktop, and mobile applications. It also includes generative AI drafting tools, plagiarism detection, and customizable brand style guides for individual and enterprise users, with secure data handling and admin controls.
1000+
50K+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $1.0B
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Funding: $1.0B
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Harmonic provides a comprehensive startup database that aggregates intelligence from the web, professional networks, and CRM systems for investors. The platform enables users to perform hyper-specific searches, monitor company and talent movements, and generate instant market insights. This data-driven approach supports efficient deal sourcing, due diligence, and network management for venture capital firms.
Funding: $30.0M
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Sozo Ventures
Sozo Ventures
Funding: $30.0M
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Hydrolix is a streaming data lake that utilizes decoupled storage, indexed search, and stream processing to manage terabyte-scale log data efficiently. The platform reduces log data retention costs by 75% while enabling real-time query performance and eliminating the need for data aggregation or sampling.
Funding: $68.9M
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S3 Ventures
S3 Ventures
Funding: $68.9M
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Insightly provides a cloud‑native CRM that combines contact management, pipeline tracking, marketing automation, ticketing and project management in a single data repository. Its low‑code AppConnect hub offers 500+ pre‑built connectors and a drag‑and‑drop workflow builder, while AI Copilot automates record updates, email summarization and lead scoring. Real‑time dashboards, role‑based security and SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA compliance support SMB and mid‑market teams across sales, marketing, operations and product functions.
Funding: $25.0M
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TW Whiteaker
TW Whiteaker
Funding: $25.0M
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Kargo utilizes computer vision to automate loading dock operations, capturing data from labels and images to provide real-time inventory updates and damage verification. This technology enhances efficiency and accuracy while reducing manual labor and freight claims in supply chain management.
Funding: $33.9M
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Funding: $33.9M
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Lambda provides on-demand NVIDIA GPU instances and clusters specifically designed for AI training and inference, utilizing advanced hardware like the H100 and GH200 Tensor Core GPUs. This infrastructure enables machine learning teams to efficiently scale their computational resources without long-term commitments, addressing the need for high-performance computing in AI development.
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