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Pushing our business in new directions 

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We strategically invest in diverse industries with high growth potential. 

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What’s the driving force behind a lasting business – one that grows amidst disruption and headwinds? We know from decades of experience that continuous innovation is key.
At Cox, we’re always searching for visionary founders with technologies that solve real problems and help shape the future. With an opportunistic investment strategy and an “always-on” approach to innovation, we partner with businesses at every stage of maturity.

Long-term partnerships

Building market leaders 

We have the vision, resources and expertise to turn breakthrough technologies into durable, scalable companies — including investments in emerging industries like govtech, health tech, edtech and agtech  

Our investments range from minority stakes to deeper strategic positions over time. Through patient capital, operational collaboration and shared values, we form long-term partnerships with management teams to spark sustainable growth. 

Investing in innovation

Scaling growth businesses

Socium Ventures, Cox Enterprises’ venture capital fund, partners with visionary thinkers to scale technology businesses across a wide range of growth sectors. Backed by permanent capital, a broad investment scope and direct access to the Cox Enterprises network, we build lasting relationships with founders to help them reach new stages of growth.  

Learn more about our investments and emerging-growth businesses on our Socium Ventures website.

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Our growth investments

A diverse portfolio generating prosperity for the future 

  • Bending Spoons

    Building a portfolio of leading digital products that improve consumer's everyday lives.

  • Carbyne

    Improving the customer experience for emergency communications with more precise, faster and secure cloud technology.

  • Centivo

    Transforming healthcare with cost optimized health plans for the self-employed to drive primary care access at an affordable price.

  • Devoted Health

    Delivering groundbreaking healthcare that is dramatically improving the health and well-being of older Americans by caring for each and every person like they are family.

  • Enveda

    Accelerating drug discovery with AI-driven technology that unlocks the chemical potential of the natural world.

  • Gecko Robotics  

    Leveraging wall-climbing robots to inspect and monitor critical infrastructure to ensure its overall reliability.

  • Nova Credit 

    Bridging financial gaps for immigrants, new-to-credit, and thin-file populations with integrated credit data, enabling access to services in the U.S. and abroad.

  • Peregrine

    Enabling the world's most critical institutions to make better decisions and improve operations by unlocking their data.

  • You.com

    Delivering the robust, model-agnostic infrastructure to allow enterprises to build secure AI apps and agents with total control.

    Artificial Intelligence

    Supporting the future of AI

    Cox Exponential (CX2) is an AI-focused accelerator and early-stage venture studio built by AI founders for AI founders, based in Silicon Valley.  

    With a winning combination of deep technical expertise, entrepreneurial insight and unique connections to Cox, the team at CX2 helps transformative ideas grow, commercialize and create exponential value. 

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    The founders and businesses that we get most excited about are the ones where the founders have a right to solve a real problem. They had experience in it in their personal and professional lives, and they’ve figured out the real core issue that needs to change and then build a business around it.

    Andrew Davis

    Managing Partner 

    at Socium Ventures and

    SVP of Strategy and Investments at Cox Enterprises

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