DCM Ventures
DCM Ventures (formerly Doll Capital Management, and commonly known as DCM) is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Dixon Doll, a former Accel partner, and David Chao, and headquartered at 2420 Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California with additional offices in Beijing and Tokyo. DCM was among the first Silicon Valley firms to build a cross-border, US-Asia investing practice, and typically leads early-stage rounds with checks in the roughly $1M-$5M range, deploying capital into a small group of category-defining companies each year rather than investing broadly. The firm's thesis has evolved from its original focus on communications and semiconductors toward consumer internet and SaaS, and today centers on vertical SaaS, fintech, cross-border innovation, and AI-native applications across the United States, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia. As of 2025 DCM manages approximately $4.5 billion in assets and reports 400+ portfolio companies, 35+ unicorns, and over $150 billion in aggregate market value, with notable investments including SoFi, Bill.com, Kuaishou, Matterport, 51job, Careem, and Sansan.
DCM Ventures has 151 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 40 (26%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 111 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Ustream, Picsart, Button, Udesk, DocSend.
Portfolio on the Network
Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Developing 17 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 12 Limited public surface area
Emerging 9 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
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Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 139 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by DCM Ventures, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract Governance | 3.5 | 6.3 | -2.8 | 139 |
| Discoverability | 55.2 | 58.2 | -3 | 139 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.6 | 13.6 | -6 | 139 |
| Access Clarity | 19.9 | 26.4 | -6.5 | 139 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.4 | 23.1 | -6.7 | 139 |
| Contract Quality | 9.2 | 17.6 | -8.4 | 139 |
A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 8% | 15% | -7 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 6% | 12% | -6 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 6% | 11% | -5 |
| Security | 100% | 98% | +2 |
| Arazzo workflows | 1% | 2% | -1 |
| Governance rules | 6% | 13% | -7 |
mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.
Coverage caveat. 132 of 139 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 3 October 2026, across 28834 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.
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