DCVC (Data Collective)
DCVC (Data Collective) is a deep-tech venture capital firm founded in 2011 and headquartered in Palo Alto and San Francisco, California. Founded and led by managing partners Matt Ocko and Zachary Bogue, DCVC backs entrepreneurs using computational and AI-driven approaches to solve trillion-dollar problems in the real world across sectors that have often seen little material progress in decades. The firm invests from early through growth stages across AI, compute and quantum, computational biology and chemistry, cybersecurity and defense, energy and climate, finance and insurance, industrial transformation and advanced manufacturing, next-gen agriculture, space, TechBio and TechMed. Across 13+ funds DCVC manages roughly $4B in assets under management (self-reported / press), making it one of the larger dedicated deep-tech franchises. Notable portfolio outcomes include companies spanning fusion energy, carbon transformation, robotics, drug discovery, and data infrastructure.
DCVC (Data Collective) has 292 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 71 (24%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 221 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Confluent, Nylas, Health Gorilla, Paperspace, Gladly.
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 3 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 10 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 18 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 22 Limited public surface area
Emerging 15 Early or largely undocumented
Unrated 1 Not yet scored
Properties
Portfolio
Where the firm publishes its investments
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The firm itself
Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 205 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by DCVC (Data Collective), 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 | 4.2 | 6.6 | -2.4 | 205 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21 | 23.8 | -2.8 | 205 |
| Discoverability | 58.2 | 61.5 | -3.3 | 205 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.2 | 14.4 | -4.2 | 205 |
| Access Clarity | 20.8 | 27.2 | -6.4 | 205 |
| Contract Quality | 11.4 | 20.4 | -9 | 205 |
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) | 9% | 11% | -2 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 11% | 13% | -2 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 5% | 12% | -7 |
| Security | 92% | 96% | -4 |
| Arazzo workflows | 2% | 2% | 0 |
| Governance rules | 7% | 13% | -6 |
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.
- 1 Confluent 79.1
- 2 Nylas 76.7
- 3 Health Gorilla 68.2
- 4 Paperspace 65.1
- 5 Gladly 62.9
- 6 Flutterwave 62.6
- 7 Airtable 62
- 8 One Codex 58.9
- 9 The San Francisco Compute Company 57.7
- 10 Databricks 56.7
- 1 Nylas 59.3
- 2 Amplitude 54.3
- 3 The San Francisco Compute Company 53.4
- 4 CircleCI 53.2
- 5 Confluent 49.4
- 6 Airtable 47.8
- 7 Checkr 46.3
- 8 Health Gorilla 43.7
- 9 Rill Data 40.6
- 10 Blackbird 40.4
Source (apis.yml)
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