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DCVC

Venture Capital · Founded 2011 · Palo Alto, United States

#28 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 0.5% of investors worldwide

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…

320 Portfolio companies+24% in 5 years
50 Unicorns
4 Decacorns
527 Investments
Jul 2026 Last investment
02 · Biggest holdings

DCVC’s biggest current holdings.

DCVC is a named shareholder in 7 companies. Dealroom estimates those stakes are worth about $1.1B in total — the disclosed percentage × each company’s latest valuation. The 7 biggest are below, each sized by that estimate.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 Agility RoboticsRobotics · Unicorn 21% $1.8B $368M
  2. 2 Carbon HealthHealth · Unicorn 8.9% $3.3B $294M
  3. 3 TwelveEnergy · Unicorn 13.5% $2.0B $270M
  4. 4 AlationEnterprise Software · Unicorn 3.5% $1.7B $60M
  5. 5 FreenomeHealth · Unicorn 3% $1.5B $45M
  6. 6 Chai DiscoveryHealth · Unicorn 0.6% $3.8B $23M
  7. 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 shareholder registers on Dealroom →

03 · Exits

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.

$82B IPO · 2019
Entered SeedNow $163BFood
$4.1B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $51BSpace
$2.0B IPO · 2018
Now $15BEducation
$11B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $10BEnterprise Software
$1.8B IPO · 2015
Now $9.8BTelecom
$8.9B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $6.7BSecurity
$2.8B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $8.3BSpace
$7.6B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $7.6BEnergy
$4.9B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $7.0BSecurity
$6.4B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $1.3BEnterprise Software
$850M IPO · 2023
Entered Series ANow $6.0BEnergy
$1.5B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $5.6BSemiconductors
04 · Portfolio analysis

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.

By countryCount
  1. USA310
  2. UK13
  3. Canada7
  4. Australia4
  5. Israel2
  6. Kenya2
  7. Netherlands2
  8. New Zealand2
  9. Portugal2
  10. Singapore2
  11. Bermuda1
  12. China1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software104
  2. Health82
  3. Fintech46
  4. Energy32
  5. Security27
  6. Robotics24
  7. Food23
  8. Marketing13
  9. Transportation13
  10. Media12
  11. Telecom9
  12. Education8
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed167
  2. Series A111
  3. Series B+41
By growth stageCount
  1. Breakout Stage131
  2. Late Growth122
  3. Early Growth104
  4. Mature1
05 · Portfolio market map

Inside DCVC’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 320 tracked.

Uber
Food · Centicorn
$163B
Freenome
Health · Unicorn
$1.3B
Airtable
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.3B
Impulse Space
Space · Unicorn
$4.3B
Fervo Energy
Energy · Unicorn
$7.6B
Tradeshift
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.3B
Plenty
Food
Twelve
Energy · Unicorn
$2.0B
Zymergen
Health
$226M
SentinelOne
Security · Unicorn
$6.7B
Rocket Lab
Space · Decacorn
$51B
Mainspring
Energy · Unicorn
$1.0B
Gusto
Fintech
$9K
Vir Biotechnology
Health · Unicorn
$1.1B
AbCellera Biologics
Health · Unicorn
$1.7B
Chai Discovery
Health · Unicorn
$3.8B
Blockstream
Fintech · Unicorn
$3.2B
Radiant Industries
Energy · Unicorn
$1.8B
Pivot Bio
Food · Unicorn
$2.0B
Carbon Health
Health
Recursion Pharma
Health · Unicorn
$1.3B
Planet Labs
Space · Unicorn
$8.3B
Agility Robotics
Robotics · Unicorn
$2.5B
Dianrong
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.0B
Illumio
Security · Unicorn
$2.8B
Checkr
Legal · Unicorn
$4.6B
Epirus
Security · Unicorn
$1.4B
Lunar Energy
Energy · Unicorn
$1.5B
Mach Industries
Security · Unicorn
$1.8B
Unconventional AI
Semiconductors · Unicorn
$4.5B
Confluent
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$10B
Orca Bio
Health · Unicorn
$1.0B
Desktop Metal
Media
$275M
Halter
Food · Unicorn
$2.0B
SingleStore
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.3B
Signifyd
Security · Unicorn
$1.3B
Evolv Technology
Security · Unicorn
$1.1B
Umoja Biopharma
Health · Unicorn
$1.1B
Feedzai
Security · Unicorn
$2.0B
Tala
Fintech
$800M
Qumulo
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.2B
ClassDojo
Telecom · Unicorn
$1.3B
Zap Energy
Energy
$520M
Odyssey
Media · Unicorn
$1.4B
Amplitude
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.3B
Karius
Health
$825M
Rigetti Computing
Semiconductors · Unicorn
$5.6B
Embark Trucks
Transportation
$71M
Alation
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.7B
CircleCI
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.7B
Amogy
Energy
$60M
Velaura AI
Semiconductors
$612M
Rescale
Enterprise Software
$460M
Mythic
Semiconductors
$500M
Cellanome
Health
$304M
Chroma Medicine
Health
$540M
Frontier Medicines
Health
$443M
Brimstone Energy
Real Estate
$220M
Element AI
Enterprise Software
$477M
D2iQ
Hosting
$500M
06 · Portfolio founders

Where DCVC’s portfolio founders come from.

200 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.

LocationCount
  1. United States163
  2. Canada9
  3. United Kingdom8
  4. Argentina2
  5. Kenya2
  6. Peru2
  7. Portugal2
  8. Australia1
  9. China1
  10. Cuba1
UniversityCount
  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology24
  2. Stanford University19
  3. University of California, Berkeley9
  4. University of Oxford9
  5. University of Cambridge7
  6. Harvard University6
  7. Carnegie Mellon University5
  8. University of Wisconsin-Madison5
  9. Duke University4
  10. Rhodes University4
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google13
  2. Stanford University9
  3. IBM6
  4. Intel Corporation6
  5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology6
  6. Microsoft6
  7. University of California, Berkeley6
  8. Intel NAND Memory Unit5
  9. Oracle5
  10. Formlabs4