DCVC
dcvc.com Direct investor
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
- Unknown
- 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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 374 co-investors found.
- 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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