DCVC

DCVC (formerly Data Collective) is a Palo Alto-based deep tech venture capital firm founded in 2011 by partners including Zachary Bogue and Matt Ocko, specializing in backing entrepreneurs who use computational approaches—especially AI, advanced computing, and scientific innovation—to solve trillion-dollar problems in hard-to-disrupt industries like climate, energy, biology, defense, manufacturing, agriculture, and materials science. With billions of dollars in assets under management across multiple flagship funds and a dedicated life sciences arm (DCVC Bio, which closed a $400M Fund III), the firm invests primarily in early-stage (seed to Series A) companies, often providing deep operational expertise through its network of over 35 tech executives, scientists, and engineers. DCVC has a portfolio of hundreds of companies with numerous unicorns (e.g., Fervo Energy in geothermal, Halter in agtech, KoBold Metals in mining, Commonwealth Fusion Systems in fusion energy) and notable successes including early investments in high-impact deep tech plays across climate solutions, computational biology, and frontier infrastructure, contributing to tens of billions in created value while advancing real-world progress.