DCVC
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DCVC is a venture capital firm that invests in deep tech companies, focusing on areas like AI, climate, health, and defense. It has backed over 200 companies since 2010.
DCVC is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, United States, founded in 2010. It invests directly in companies, in deep tech, AI, climate and health. $4b+ under management and 200 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We are deep tech venture capital.”
— DCVC, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Stage
- Not stated
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, United States
- Sectors
- deep tech, AI, climate, health, defense, space, agriculture, industrial
- Founded
- 2010
- Assets under management
- $4b+
- Portfolio
- 200 companies
Team, as DCVC publishes it
- Zachary Bogue Co-Founder and Managing Partner
- Matthew Ocko Co-Founder and Managing Partner
- Dr. John Hamer Managing Partner, DCVC Bio
- Dr. Kiersten Stead Managing Partner, DCVC Bio
- Spencer Punter Partner & COO
- James Hardiman General Partner
- Jason Pontin General Partner
- Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh General Partner
- Ali Tamaseb General Partner
- Milo Werner General Partner
- Dr. Justin Kern Partner, DCVC Bio
- Dr. Vandon Duong Principal
Names and roles exactly as listed on dcvc.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 374 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Lowercarbon Capital 15 shared companies: cnbc.com, fortune.com, time.com, axios.com…
- At One Ventures 14 shared companies: cnbc.com, time.com, axios.com, venturebeat.com…
- Engine Ventures 13 shared companies: time.com, axios.com, venturebeat.com, fastcompany.com…
- Foresite Capital 12 shared companies: cnbc.com, fortune.com, axios.com, wired.com…
- Valo Ventures 12 shared companies: cnbc.com, fortune.com, time.com, wired.com…
- BOLD Capital Partners 11 shared companies: cnbc.com, fortune.com, axios.com, finsmes.com…
- Anzu Partners 11 shared companies: axios.com, wired.com, fastcompany.com, bizjournals.com…
- TenOneTen Ventures 10 shared companies: axios.com, venturebeat.com, alation.com, wired.com…
- Defy.vc 8 shared companies: cnbc.com, fortune.com, axios.com, venturebeat.com…
- Female Founders Fund 8 shared companies: cnbc.com, fortune.com, time.com, venturebeat.com…
and 364 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page DCVC publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.dcvc.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, sectors, thesis_quote
- https://www.dcvc.com/about/description, founded, aum, portfolio_count
- https://www.dcvc.com/team/people
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Record 750 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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