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
13 top-rated API companies 3 exemplar · 10 strong
21 agent-ready companies 4 agent-native · 17 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite thin 37.5
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 20.4

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 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
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
Unrated 1 Not yet scored

Properties

Portfolio

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Team

Partners and investing staff

Content

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Firm

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Cohort brief

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The 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.

Providers
205
of 292 on the roster
Mean Kin Score
18.9
-5.5 vs catalog 24.4
Mean Agent Readiness
7.4
-5.3 vs catalog 12.7
Spread
1.5–79.1
median 10.6 · σ 17.4
How the 205 split by band
Exemplar 3Strong 10Developing 18Thin 23Emerging 47Minimal 104
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
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.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
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.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Confluent 79.1
  2. 2 Nylas 76.7
  3. 3 Health Gorilla 68.2
  4. 4 Paperspace 65.1
  5. 5 Gladly 62.9
  6. 6 Flutterwave 62.6
  7. 7 Airtable 62
  8. 8 One Codex 58.9
  9. 9 The San Francisco Compute Company 57.7
  10. 10 Databricks 56.7
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Nylas 59.3
  2. 2 Amplitude 54.3
  3. 3 The San Francisco Compute Company 53.4
  4. 4 CircleCI 53.2
  5. 5 Confluent 49.4
  6. 6 Airtable 47.8
  7. 7 Checkr 46.3
  8. 8 Health Gorilla 43.7
  9. 9 Rill Data 40.6
  10. 10 Blackbird 40.4
This roster declares 292 members; 281 resolve to a provider in the catalog and 205 carry a score (73%). The figures above describe the scored members only.Generated from the catalog build of 22 September 2026, across 27674 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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