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DCVC
Venture Capital · Founded 2011 · Palo Alto, United States
DCVC and its principals have backed brilliant people changing global-scale industries for over twenty years, helping create tens of billions of dollars of wealth for founders, employees, and our investors while also making the world a markedly better place
DCVC’s biggest current holdings.
An estimate of DCVC’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 7 companies where DCVC is a named shareholder, worth about $1.0B in estimated equity value.
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Agility Robotics
21%
$1.8B
$368M
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Carbon Health
8.9%
$3.3B
$294M
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3
Twelve
13.5%
$2.0B
$270M
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4
Alation
3.5%
$1.7B
$60M
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Freenome
3%
$1.5B
$45M
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Chai Discovery
0.6%
$1.3B
$8M
- 7 0.09% $250M $225K
1 company hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = DCVC’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. DCVC also appears inside investor groups in Checkr, Feedzai, Plenty, StarkWare Industries, Tradeshift, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
DCVC’s biggest exits.
Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from DCVC’s transaction record.
Where DCVC’s portfolio is concentrated.
Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 320 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.
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USA289
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UK11
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Canada7
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Australia4
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Israel2
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Kenya2
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Netherlands2
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New Zealand2
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Portugal2
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Singapore2
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Bermuda1
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Cuba1
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Enterprise Software98
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Health81
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Fintech40
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Energy32
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Security25
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Food22
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Robotics21
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Transportation12
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Marketing10
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Media10
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Space8
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Telecom8
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Seed169
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Series A118
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Series B+42
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Breakout Stage125
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Late Growth113
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Early Growth91
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Mature1
Inside DCVC’s portfolio.
The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 320 tracked.
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PlWhere DCVC’s portfolio founders come from.
195 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.
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United States155
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Canada12
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United Kingdom9
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Argentina2
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Australia2
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Kenya2
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Peru2
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Portugal2
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Cuba1
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Finland1
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology24
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Stanford University19
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University of California, Berkeley10
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University of Oxford9
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University of Cambridge8
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Carnegie Mellon University5
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Harvard University5
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University of Wisconsin-Madison5
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Duke University4
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Rhodes University4
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Alphabet | Google13
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Stanford University9
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology7
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IBM6
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Intel Corporation6
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Microsoft6
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University of California, Berkeley6
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Intel NAND Memory Unit5
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Formlabs4
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Qualcomm4
Similar investors.
Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.
Key people at DCVC.
