Phil Wickham

Phil Wickham is the Executive Managing Director of Sozo Ventures, a $1.7 billion venture capital firm based in Redwood City, California, and Tokyo, Japan. Before launching his current fund, he served as a general partner at a corporate venture firm and co-founded Reference Media, a Tokyo-based publishing company that was later acquired by the Princeton Review. From 2008 to 2016, Wickham was the CEO of Kauffman Fellows, where he expanded the educational program to over forty countries, trained more than 1,000 venture capital leaders, and helped create over 300 new funds globally. Through his leadership at Sozo Ventures, he has directed investments into enterprise technology companies such as Palantir and Zoom. Wickham's current professional focus centers on investing in advanced data science startups and facilitating their early global expansion into the Japanese enterprise market.