Sozo Ventures
QuietFiled to raisePalo Alto, CAHealthcareLast fund filed October 2024
4 on a current fund
last 24 months
across filed funds
| Vehicle | Filed | Target | Sold to date | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sozo Ventures IV | October 2024 | $500M | $109M | 16 |
| Sozo Ventures III | April 2021 | $800M | $592M | 23 |
| Sozo Ventures II-SFiled to raise in 2018, with no closing reported yet. | 2018 | $100M | $0 | 0 |
| Sozo Ventures - TrueBridge Fund II | February 2016 | $200M | $134M | 15 |
| Sozo Ventures - TrueBridge Fund I | November 2012 | $300M | $110M | 10 |
Amounts are Item 13 as filed: the target is the whole offering, and the amount sold is cumulative across amendments rather than a final close. The filing carries no per-investor amount, so a firm’s own cheque is not recoverable here.
4 partners are named across this firm’s filings, 4 of them on a fund it is deploying now.
| Partner | Activity | Categories | Board seats | Last 24mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Koichiro Nakamura | Quiet | Food & agriculture | 1 | 0 |
| Phil Wickham | Quiet | Digital health | 1 | 0 |
| Robert Freelen | Quiet | Robotics & hardware | 1 | 0 |
| Spencer Foust | Quiet | Logistics & supply chain, Fintech | 3 | 0 |
Activity is filed board seats in the last 24 months: 4+ Active, 2–3 Selective, 1 Slowing, none Quiet. A firm's tier totals its partners, so an active firm may be four partners with one seat each. It undercounts partners who invest without taking a board seat, and filings lag a closing by weeks, so Quiet means the paperwork is quiet, not the person.
Classified sectors of Sozo Ventures’s own portfolio companies, based on 6 with a verified or cited source.
Not a filing value: this is Lev’s own classification of each company, one company one vote regardless of how many of Sozo Ventures’s partners are named on its board, shown only when we found a specific, checkable source. Companies with no source read as unclassified and are left out of the shares above.
| Firm | Shared boards | Companies |
|---|---|---|
| Forerunner Ventures | 1 | Eclipse Foods |
| Khosla Ventures | 1 | NeuroTrack Technologies |
| Kleiner Perkins | 1 | CARBON AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC SYSTEMS |
| Playground Global | 1 | Leaf Logistics |
| Voyager Capital | 1 | CARBON AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC SYSTEMS |
A shared board seat: a company where filings name a Sozo Ventures partner and a partner at the other firm, both with a clean identity match. Not a claim either firm led or co-led the round, only that both are named on the same board.