Venture Capital

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.

292 portfolio companies 292 publish APIs here 11 properties
Venture CapitalDeep TechEarly StageGrowth StageArtificial IntelligenceClimateComputational BiologySpaceNorth America
Portfolio Strength across 70 profiled portfolio companies on the network
16 top-rated API companies 5 exemplar · 11 strong
21 agent-ready companies 4 agent-native · 17 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite thin 37.4
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 19.5

Firms are ranked by cumulative portfolio strength — how many highly-rated API companies they've backed, weighted by tier across composite quality and agent-readiness. The averages below are a secondary read on the typical company in the book.

DCVC (Data Collective) has 292 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 70 (24%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 222 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Nylas, Confluent, Elastic, Circleci, Posit.

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 5 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Nylas2 published contracts93.9Confluent10 published contracts93.4Elastic4 published contracts77.3Circleci2 published contracts70.0Posit2 published contracts68.7
Strong 11 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Paperspace4 published contracts65.7Strongdm3 APIs64.9Health Gorilla1 published contract63.3Airtable3 published contracts63.0Gladly1 published contract59.9Databricks1 published contract59.7Flutterwave1 published contract58.2Amplitude10 published contracts57.8The San Francisco Compute Company1 published contract57.1Gradle2 published contracts57.0One Codex1 published contract55.8
Developing 15 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Buoyant3 APIs54.0Kentik20 published contracts53.7Cloudability7 APIs52.8Hifi2 published contracts48.6Lunar Energy2 published contracts48.3Nest1 API47.8Primer2 published contracts46.7Firebase4 APIs46.0Rill Data1 published contract46.0Singlestore2 published contracts45.7Blackbird1 published contract43.4Alation4 published contracts40.7Alphageo1 API39.9Qumulo1 API39.8Rigetti Computing1 published contract39.5
Thin 20 Limited public surface area
Dronedeploy7 APIs38.1Tigergraph1 published contract38.0Capella Space1 published contract37.9Starkware4 APIs37.7Parse1 API37.3Verdigris Technologies1 published contract36.5Gusto1 published contract36.0Checkr1 published contract35.8Rescale2 APIs34.5Vault121 API33.1Golden2 published contracts32.5Q Ctrl1 API32.4Illumio1 API30.8Axelar1 published contract30.2Electronx1 API29.6Reality Defender1 API27.9Demox Labs1 API27.3Oasis Labs1 API27.2Pachyderm1 API26.5Skyfire1 API26.5
Emerging 14 Early or largely undocumented
Signifyd8 APIs25.0Onechronos3 APIs21.7Sentinelone1 API21.0Swiftype1 API20.9Blockstream7 APIs20.5Streamsets1 API20.4Strateos1 API20.3Trifacta1 API19.6Jupiter Intelligence1 API18.5Seneca1 API18.4Desktop Metal1 published contract18.3Human Security5 APIs18.3Ascend Advanced Therapies1 published contract17.4Chainlink1 API15.2
Minimal 5 Almost no public developer surface
Nium6 APIs9.8Kaggle1 API5.9Descartes Labs6 APIs0.0Fauna1 published contract0.0Metamarkets Group1 API0.0

Properties

Portfolio

Where the firm publishes its investments

Portfolio
Portfolio
 Portfolio
Portfolio
 InvestmentThesis
InvestmentThesis

Team

Partners and investing staff

Team
Team
 Team
Team

Content

Blog, podcast, newsletter, and research

News
News

Firm

The firm itself

Website
Website
 Jobs
Jobs
 Twitter
Twitter
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Crunchbase
Crunchbase

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 206 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.

Providers
206
of 292 on the roster
Mean Kin Score
18
-4.9 vs catalog 22.9
Mean Agent Readiness
7.1
-4.9 vs catalog 12
Spread
0–86.7
median 10.2 · σ 17.6
How the 206 split by band
Exemplar 2Strong 11Developing 15Thin 24Emerging 44Minimal 110
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Governance 4.3 6.3 -2 206
Developer Ergonomics 20.6 23.1 -2.5 206
Discoverability 55.5 58.2 -2.7 206
Operational Transparency 9.9 13.6 -3.7 206
Access Clarity 20.5 26.4 -5.9 206
Contract Quality 9.9 17.6 -7.7 206

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.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 12% 15% -3
MCP server (first-party) 10% 12% -2
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 5% 11% -6
Security 94% 98% -4
Arazzo workflows 2% 2% 0
Governance rules 8% 13% -5

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.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Nylas 86.7
  2. 2 Confluent 82.6
  3. 3 Paperspace 65.7
  4. 4 Health Gorilla 63.3
  5. 5 Airtable 63
  6. 6 Gladly 59.9
  7. 7 Flutterwave 58.2
  8. 8 Amplitude 57.8
  9. 9 The San Francisco Compute Company 57.1
  10. 10 Gradle 57
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Nylas 55.7
  2. 2 Amplitude 54
  3. 3 The San Francisco Compute Company 53.4
  4. 4 CircleCI 53.2
  5. 5 Confluent 49.4
  6. 6 Airtable 47.5
  7. 7 Checkr 46.3
  8. 8 Databricks 44.9
  9. 9 Health Gorilla 43.7
  10. 10 Blackbird 40.4
This roster declares 292 members; 281 resolve to a provider in the catalog and 206 carry a score (73%). The figures above describe the scored members only.
Coverage caveat. 189 of 206 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.

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: dcvc
name: DCVC (Data Collective)
description: >-
  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.
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Deep Tech
  - Early Stage
  - Growth Stage
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Climate
  - Computational Biology
  - Space
  - North America
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://www.dcvc.com/favicon.ico
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.dcvc.com/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: https://www.dcvc.com/companies
  - type: Portfolio
    url: portfolio/dcvc-portfolio.yml
  - type: Team
    url: https://www.dcvc.com/team
  - type: Team
    url: team/dcvc-team.yml
  - type: InvestmentThesis
    url: https://www.dcvc.com/about
  - type: News
    url: https://www.dcvc.com/news-insights
  - type: Jobs
    url: https://www.dcvc.com/careers
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/dcvc
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-collective/
  - type: Crunchbase
    url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/data-collective
  - type: Features
    data:
      - 'Stage: Early to growth stage'
      - 'Sectors: AI, compute & quantum, computational bio & chemistry, cybersecurity & defense, energy & climate, finance & insurance, industrial & advanced manufacturing, agriculture, space, TechBio, TechMed'
      - 'Geography: North America (primary)'
      - 'AUM: ~$4B (self-reported / press)'
      - 'Funds: 13+ to date'
      - 'Founded: 2011'
      - 'HQ: Palo Alto and San Francisco, CA'
      - 'Managing partners: Matt Ocko, Zachary Bogue'
    sources:
      - https://www.dcvc.com/about
      - https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/data-collective
    updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
    url: https://apievangelist.com
  - FN: APIs.json
    url: http://apisjson.org
  - FN: DCVC (Data Collective)
    url: https://www.dcvc.com/

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