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DCVC
Venture capital firm · Founded 2010 · Active in 2026
DCVC is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, USA, founded in 2010. The page below shows 53 Power Law outcomes from DCVC's portfolio — 51 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in Other B2B Software · Biotech & Life Sciences · Fintech; top portfolio geographies are USA · Canada · Portugal. DCVC ranks #28 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
DCVC’s biggest exits.
DCVC portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
DCVC’s selected top 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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1
Agility Robotics
21%
$1.8B
$368M
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2
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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5
Freenome
3%
$1.5B
$45M
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6
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 →
The 53 DCVC Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA47
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Canada3
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Portugal1
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China1
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New Zealand1
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Other B2B Software9
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Biotech & Life Sciences8
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Fintech8
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Energy7
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AI4
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Cybersecurity4
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Food3
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Edtech2
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Space2
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Other2
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Transportation1
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Robotics1
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Series B+14
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Series A20
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Seed17
DCVC's 53 Power Law outcomes.
How does DCVC stack up?
DCVC in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsWhere DCVC's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
136 founders across the 53 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at DCVC.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about DCVC
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about DCVC on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
In the news
Latest news about DCVC
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning DCVC — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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