Ali Tamaseb

About

Ali Tamaseb is a General Partner at DCVC (Data Collective), a prominent Silicon Valley deep-tech venture capital firm managing over $4 billion in assets, where he invests in transformative startups across crypto, fintech, healthcare, biomedicine, materials, electrification, mining, and construction—backing multiple billion-dollar outcomes while serving on boards and leadership roles at global companies with thousands of employees. An Iranian-American entrepreneur-turned-investor, Tamaseb previously founded and scaled a hardware startup to millions in revenue, holds degrees from Imperial College London in biomedical engineering and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, authored five academic papers on machine learning and AI, and earned accolades including the Imperial College President's Medal and British Alumni Award. Celebrated for his bestselling book Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups (2021)—drawn from the largest-ever dataset of 30,000+ points debunking unicorn myths like founder age or elite pedigrees—he runs the Superfounders Club, networks talent ecosystems, and champions data-driven insights into what truly drives outlier success in entrepreneurship.