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Sozo Ventures

10 California Street, Redwood City, CA, 94063, United States

Overview

Sozo Ventures was formed in 2011 to invest in and support IT ventures with their global expansion. We invest in category leaders in advanced data technologies, ecommerce, enterprise cloud, fintech, IOT and healthcare IT, among other emerging sectors. We are structured to connect the most ambitious entrepreneurial teams with the world's most advanced and respected customers and distributors. We are at our best when we can share our expertise well before expansion strategies are set.

Total investments
66
Lead investments
18
Investments · 12mo
8
Active investors
9

Sector focus

  • FinTech
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Senra

    Participated · Series B · Jul 2026

    Senra builds and scales wire harness production while providing a proprietary software platform, Amp, that standardizes inputs and produces a digital twin to guide technicians. The company combines software, standardized processes, technician training (including what it calls a federally certified wire harness training program), and incremental automation rather than eliminating human craftsmen. Senra was founded in 2023 by Jordan Black and Benjamin Shanahan; Black previously worked at SpaceX scaling wire-harness production for Starship. The company currently manufactures roughly 1,000 harnesses per month across two factories and reports customers across sectors including submarines, maritime vehicles, land defense systems, launch vehicles, and satellites. Senra plans to scale production to 10,000 harnesses per month by 2027 and is investing in further standardization, software capabilities, and automation as it grows.

  • Genspark AI

    Participated · Series B · Jun 2026

    Genspark builds an agentic workplace software platform designed to automate workflows and boost productivity in professional environments. The company was founded by Wen Sang. In June 2026 it raised a $100 million Series B extension, increasing its total funding to more than $645 million. That financing set a post-money valuation of $2.6 billion, a 63% valuation increase over three months. Reported participants in the extension included Sozo Ventures, UpHonest Capital, and Mirae Asset. The company did not disclose specific plans for how the proceeds will be used.

  • Panthalassa

    Participated · Series B · May 2026

    Panthalassa builds self-propelled, autonomous floating nodes that capture wave energy to generate continuous clean electricity and run AI inference computing onboard, transmitting results to land via low-Earth-orbit satellites. The company has spent about a decade developing its power generation, propulsion, autonomy, and at-sea computing technologies and demonstrated capabilities with Ocean-1, Ocean-2, and Wavehopper prototypes in 2021 and 2024. Panthalassa plans to deploy its Ocean-3 pilot node series in the northern Pacific in 2026 to demonstrate AI inference at sea and to refine manufacturing ahead of commercial deployments in 2027. The platform uses the ocean for free supercooling to extend chip lifetimes and avoids transmitting power to shore by performing computing onboard. The company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and recently raised $140 million in a Series B to complete a pilot manufacturing facility and accelerate initial deployments.

  • Kargo

    Participated · Series B · Dec 2025

    Founded in 2019, San-Francisco-based Kargo offers an integrated solution of computer-vision "towers" and lifts that automatically inspect freight, verify shipments against Bills of Lading, and stream inventory data into customers’ systems without manual scanning. The platform flags damage, manages OS&D claims with visual evidence, and coordinates scheduling, driver check-in and dock allocation in one workflow. Since its 2022 Series A the company has grown its enterprise customer count from three to more than 45, including Fortune 500 players such as Wayne-Sanderson, Aurobindo, Tillamook and Mercedes-Benz, and has deployed over 1,000 towers nationwide. Kargo reports tripling annual revenue from 2024 to 2025, driven by rapid follow-on orders once initial hardware is installed. Building on its proprietary data layer, the firm is now launching “Kargo Intelligence,” an agentic-AI suite that automates back-office tasks like invoicing, claims disputes and financial reconciliation. Management positions the product as a “universal interpreter” for supply chains, aiming to embed at every node for compounding data network effects.

  • Manta Cares

    Led · Seed · Nov 2025

    Manta Cares provides a free, HIPAA-compliant digital platform designed to streamline the cancer journey by enabling patients and caregivers to track symptoms, medications, appointments, treatment decisions, and everyday logistics. More than 8,000 individuals currently use the service. The company’s clinical content is overseen by Chief Medical Officer Dr. Doug Blayney, former president of ASCO, who leads a network of 100+ medical experts to ensure all information is clinically validated. Manta Cares collaborates with three of the world’s top 15 pharmaceutical manufacturers, eight health systems, and forty patient advocacy groups, and it maintains distribution partnerships with academic hospitals such as Stanford. Graduating from programs like CancerX, AARP AgeTech Collaborative, and PharmStars has expanded its industry reach. Funding to date includes the recent $5.4 million seed round, which provides capital to scale user adoption and deepen health-system partnerships. The company’s early traction and partnerships underscore its potential to become an integral tool in cancer care management.

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