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Koichiro Nakamura

Investor

Founder & General Partner at Sozo Ventures · Board director at Eclipse Foods

San Francisco Bay Area

Writes $100K – $5M checks · typically $1.5M

Midas 2025 · #53Midas 2024 · #45Midas 2023 · #55Midas 2022 · #63Midas 2021 · #72Kauffman Fellow · Class 12

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About

Koichiro "Koh" Nakamura is a Founder and General Partner of Sozo Ventures who appeared on the 2021 Forbes Midas List for investments in Coinbase, Palantir, and Square. Before co-founding Sozo, he spent over 20 years building technology companies, was a member of the founding team of Yahoo Japan, and worked at Mitsubishi Corporation, where he created Japan's first Application Service Provider and founded Datastations (later acquired by ValueCommerce) and the Innovation Kitchen incubator. He holds a degree from Waseda University and an MBA from the University of Chicago, and was a Kauffman Fellow (Class 12).

Contact· published on Koichiro's own website

Board director at Eclipse FoodsYC W19

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YC

Eclipse Foods went through Y Combinator (Winter 2019) — Koichiro sits on its board, so any YC alum in your network can reach them through the company's founders.

GP

Eclipse Foods's group partner at YC was Gustaf Alstromer, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Eclipse Foods's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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Eclipse Foods's investors · 10

Aera VCSingapore · $25K – $5M checks · since 2022Forerunner VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $20M checks · since 2022GaingelsNew York · $200K – $500K checks · since 2022Impossible Financesince 2022Initialized CapitalSan Francisco · $1M – $5M checks · since 2022META GroupBrussels · since 2022PioneerToronto, Ontario · since 2022Sozo VenturesRedwood City · since 2022Twenty Two VenturesPalo Alto · $50K – $250K checks · since 2022Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2019

Co-founders at Eclipse Foods

ASAylon Steinhart
Aylon SteinhartFounder
TEThomas Elliott Bowman
Thomas Elliott BowmanFounder

Experience

  1. Sozo VenturesManaging Director & Co-Foundercurrent2012 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. Kauffman FellowsKauffman Fellowcurrent2005 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  3. Mitsubishi CorporationCOO - Innovation Kitchen Incubator2007 — 2011Tokyo, Japan
  4. Mitsubishi CorporationManager1997 — 2007Tokyo, Japan
  5. Yahoo! JAPANFounding Team1996 — 1997Tokyo, Japan

Skills & more

Investments1Portfolio ManagementBusiness StrategyInternational Expansion

From Koichiro's professional profile.

Deals · 1

BlockLed round

via Sozo Ventures · filed Apr 2021

Attribution from SEC filings, press coverage, and firm rosters.

Other disclosed investments

Board seats

Eclipse FoodsScigineer

Sources: the firm's website · SEC Form D filings · curated public sources.

Colleagues at Sozo Ventures

Aantorik Ganguly
Associate at Sozo Ventures
Alaina N. Watts
Assistant Controller at Sozo Ventures
Bob Roe
VP, Narrative Development at Sozo Ventures
Clay Gary
Venture Partner at Sozo Ventures
Edwin Ong
Chief of Staff at Sozo Ventures
Elena Winefeld
CFO at Sozo Ventures
Janhavi Sawant
Accountant at Sozo Ventures
Jessica Eschen
Administrative Assistant at Sozo Ventures

Network5

Chihiro HosoyaMentee
Venture Partner, MSc, MBA at DigiTx Partners LLC
Martin GarciaMentee
General Partner / CFO at Bitkraft Esports Ventures
Yoshihiko KaritaMentee
Kauffman Fellow (Class 20)
Yuki IwashitaMentee
Mitsubishi International Corporation · Kauffman Fellow (Class 17)
Tetsu Nomura
Principal at Sozo Ventures

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Koichiro Nakamura?
Koichiro "Koh" Nakamura is a Founder and General Partner of Sozo Ventures who appeared on the 2021 Forbes Midas List for investments in Coinbase, Palantir, and Square. Before co-founding Sozo, he spent over 20 years building technology companies, was a member of the founding team of Yahoo Japan, and worked at Mitsubishi Corporation, where he created Japan's first Application Service Provider and founded Datastations (later acquired by ValueCommerce) and the Innovation Kitchen incubator. He holds a degree from Waseda University and an MBA from the University of Chicago, and was a Kauffman Fellow (Class 12).
Where does Koichiro Nakamura work?
Koichiro Nakamura is Founder & General Partner at Sozo Ventures and Board director at Eclipse Foods.
What check size does Koichiro Nakamura write?
Koichiro Nakamura typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.
What boards does Koichiro Nakamura sit on?
Koichiro Nakamura holds tracked board seats at Eclipse Foods, Scigineer.
What companies has Koichiro Nakamura invested in?
Investments tracked here include Block, Chainalysis, Coinbase, Palantir Technologies Inc..
Where did Koichiro Nakamura go to school?
Koichiro Nakamura studied at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Master of Business Administration - MBA); Waseda University (Bachelor's degree, Law).
Does Koichiro Nakamura lead rounds?
Yes — Koichiro Nakamura has led 1 tracked investment.

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