Matt Ocko
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, DCVC
About
Matt Ocko is the co-founder and co-managing partner of DCVC (Data Collective), a premier deep tech venture capital firm managing billions in assets that invests in transformative startups advancing U.S. national security, economic resilience, and frontier technologies—from quantum computing and synthetic biology to robotics, AI, defense systems, and sustainable energy—backing successes like Rocket Lab, Pivotal, and Atom Computing while co-investing with In-Q-Tel to bridge innovation with government needs. A Yale University physics graduate and inventor with over 50 patents in areas like virtualization, fraud detection, and augmented reality, Ocko began his career in 1983 as founder and VP of R&D at Da Vinci Systems, a pioneering email software company that reached over a million users before its acquisition, later making early bets on unicorns such as Zoom, Uber, Facebook, Fortinet, D-Wave Systems, and AngelList, many of which achieved massive IPOs or strategic exits to giants like Cisco, Google, and Amazon. A longtime advocate for American technological leadership, he advises organizations like Business Executives for National Security (BENS), the Defense Intelligence Memorial Foundation, federal agencies, and Congressional committees on policy and emerging tech, drawing on decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience to foster capabilities for future missions, all while still coding and building robots with his children in his spare time.