Sozo Ventures is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2012, specializing in assisting U.S.-based technology startups with their global expansion, particularly into the Japanese market. The firm focuses on investing in category leaders across sectors such as advanced data technologies, e-commerce, enterprise cloud, fintech, IoT, and healthcare IT. Sozo Ventures aims to connect ambitious entrepreneurial teams with the world's most advanced and respected customers and distributors, providing support from seed to pre-IPO stages.

Their approach emphasizes sharing expertise early in the development of expansion strategies, ensuring tailored support for each company's unique needs. With offices in Redwood City, California, and Tokyo, Japan, Sozo Ventures leverages its deep networks and personal experience to offer market knowledge, deployment expertise, entity formation guidance, sales channels, hiring, strategy advice, and relationships necessary for successful international growth.