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Venture Capital Intelligence
Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
Firms / Sozo Ventures
Sozo Ventures
Institutional venture firmRedwood City, CAsozo.venturesSEC venture capital fund adviserfundraising evidenceone firm, 2 filing advisers
This firm files as 2 advisers on sozo.ventures: Sozo Ventures GP I, L.P.. Each keeps its own CRD, funds and filings; the grouping is the website each swore to on Form ADV and is recomputed every pass.
venture manager, reported GAV $636M across 3 vehicles
Importance
30
moderate
Active deployment
71
high
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
63
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
23
moderate
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- Redwood City, CAadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 10 CALIFORNIA STREET, Redwood City, CA, 94063adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 650-362-3553adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- HTTP://SOZOVENTURES.COM/
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- venture capital fund adviseradviserinfo.sec.govItem 2.B(1): advises solely venture capital funds
- Latest Form ADV
- Mar 24, 2026
- Private funds reported
- 5 (5 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $950Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- business phone
- 650-362-3553adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
4 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- not stated or not yet read
- Stages
- not stated or not yet read
- Geography
- not stated
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation
series b 50%series c 50%
Stage at first entry
series b 50%series c 50%
Sectors
unknown 50%Other Technology 50%
lead rate 0%follow-on rate 0%new logos, 12 months 3
Funds and vehicles
3 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sozo Ventures IV, L.P. | Fund | 2024 form d first sale | Fundraising | unknown | unknown | $109M of $500M | Aug 29, 2025 |
| Sozo Ventures III, L.P. | Fund | 2021 form d first sale | Mature | $551M Mar 27, 2024 | 32 | $592M of $800M | Jan 10, 2022 |
| Sozo Ventures Ii-S, LP | Fund | 2019 adv first reported | Mature | $85.0M Mar 27, 2024 | 10 | $0 of $100M | Jun 27, 2018 |
GAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.
Investment team
5 current, 2 departed
Koichiro Nakamura
Managing partnerManaging Member · since Dec 1, 2012
Phil Wickham
Managing partnerManaging Member · since Dec 1, 2012
Robert Freelen
PartnerManaging Director · since Aug 1, 2022
Spencer Foust
PartnerManaging Director · since Sep 1, 2021
Elena Winefeld
Platform and operationsChief Financial Officer · since Sep 1, 2021
2 departed (kept with end dates)
- Hiroki Matsuda · Managing Director · Sep 1, 2021 to Mar 27, 2024 Inference
- Martin Garcia · Chief Financial Officer And Chief Operating Officer · Apr 1, 2014 to Mar 26, 2019 Inference
Investments on record
4 edges, 4 companies, 1 partner-attributed
| Company | Round | Role | Partner | Round size | This investor | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senra Systems | Series B · Series B | participant | unknown | $65.0M | unknown | Jul 15, 2026 | Fact Press release wires (Business Wire, PR Newswire, GlobeNewswire public RSS) |
| Panthalassa | Funding round | participant | unknown | $140M | unknown | May 4, 2026 | Fact Press release wires (Business Wire, PR Newswire, GlobeNewswire public RSS) |
| Doppel Inc. | Series C · Series C | participant | unknown | $70.0M | unknown | Nov 19, 2025 | Fact Press release wires (Business Wire, PR Newswire, GlobeNewswire public RSS) |
| Carbon Autonomous Robotic Systems Inc. | board seat | unknown · board | Robert Freelen (strongly supported) | unknown | unknown | May 20, 2024 | Inference SEC EDGAR Form D data sets (quarterly) |
“This investor” is the amount disclosed for this investor alone; it is unknown unless a source said it. The round size is the whole round.
Co-investors
31 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
Dylan Field 2 shared · recurringLowercarbon Capital 2 shared · recurring · they led 1Interlagos Capital, LLC 1 shared · one time · they led 1Alumni Ventures 1 shared · one timeSequoia Capital 1 shared · one timeFriedkin Group 1 shared · one timeFounders Fund LLC 1 shared · one timeCIV 1 shared · one timeJaws Estates Capital 1 shared · one timeAndreessen Horowitz 1 shared · one timeGeneral Catalyst 1 shared · one timeAnthony Pratt 1 shared · one timeSusquehanna Sustainable Investments 1 shared · one timeUnless Management LP 1 shared · one timePeter Thiel 1 shared · one time · they led 1Super Micro Computer 1 shared · one timeFuture Positive 1 shared · one timePlanetary VC 1 shared · one timeFortescue Ventures 1 shared · one timeLeblon Capital 1 shared · one timeGigascale Capital 1 shared · one timeNimble Partners 1 shared · one timeHanwha Group 1 shared · one timeWestern Technology Investment (wti) 1 shared · one timeGeorge Kurtz 1 shared · one timeSouth Park Commons 1 shared · one timeWNBA 1 shared · one time · they led 1Script Capital Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeNTT DOCOMO Ventures 1 shared · one timeBreanna Stewart 1 shared · one timeIgnition Partners 1 shared · one time
Limited partners
0 disclosed
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.
Timeline
10 dated events
- Mar 27, 2024Hiroki Matsuda (Managing Director) no longer on Schedule A of Sozo Ventures
- Aug 1, 2022Robert Freelen joined Schedule A of Sozo Ventures as Managing Director
- Mar 23, 2022Sozo Ventures III, L.P. first reported on Form ADV by Sozo Ventures (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $593,340,340Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactSozo Ventures III, L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Sep 1, 2021Elena Winefeld joined Schedule A of Sozo Ventures as Chief Financial Officer
- Sep 1, 2021Spencer Foust joined Schedule A of Sozo Ventures as Managing Director
- Sep 1, 2021Hiroki Matsuda joined Schedule A of Sozo Ventures as Managing Director
- Mar 26, 2019Sozo Ventures Ii-S, LP first reported on Form ADV by Sozo Ventures (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $19,815,626Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactSozo Ventures Ii-S, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 26, 2019Martin Garcia (Chief Financial Officer And Chief Operating Officer) no longer on Schedule A of Sozo Ventures
- Mar 29, 2017Sozo Ventures - Truebridge Fund II, LP first reported on Form ADV by Sozo Ventures (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $95,237,648Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactSozo Ventures - Truebridge Fund II, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 29, 2017Sozo Ventures first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Institutional venture firm (confirmed, 95%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $636M across 3 vehicles
Evidence
41 observations from 3 sources