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Koichiro Nakamura

Managing Director at Sozo Ventures

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Koichiro Nakamura is the Managing Director at Sozo Ventures, specializing in investments, portfolio management, and international expansion. With a background that includes co-founding Sozo Ventures and investing in notable companies like Chainalysis, Nakamura has a strong track record in venture capital and business strategy.

Work Experience 

SV

Sozo Ventures

  • Managing Director & Co-Founder

    2012 - Current

    Sozo Ventures is a US-based venture firm that focuses on helping category leading startups in the US expand internationally, with a focus on Japanese markets. We help companies connect with technology-forward global customers. We’ve invested in and helped the international expansion efforts of companies such as Twitter, Palantir, Square, Coinbase, Chainalysis, MongoDB, Flexport, Zoom, Servicemax, Applied Intuition, Clearbanc and others.

KF

Kauffman Fellows

  • Kauffman Fellow

    2005

Co-investment VC firm supporting the mission of the Kauffman Fellows

kauffmanfellows.org
MC

Mitsubishi Corporation

  • COO - Innovation Kitchen Incubator

    2007 - 2011

    Started and ran Mitsubishi Corporation's original startup incubation program partnering with Universities in Japan leading to a TSE IPO within 5 years

  • Manager

    1997 - 2007

    Created and helped lead Japan's first Application Service Provider (ASP) among many other global IT projects. Responsible leading teams of hundreds and rapid hiring while scaling IT projects across Japan.

As a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsubishi International Corporation (MIC) is a unique knowledge-based company.

mitsubishicorp.com
YJ

Yahoo! JAPAN

  • Founding Team

    1996 - 1997

Education 

Investments 

Chainalysis

Series B

Total funding: $370M

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