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
The DCVC API Portfolio cover
API Evangelist Portfolio Report
The DCVC API Portfolio

Every DCVC company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — a small deep-tech book that instruments its own agents but builds almost nothing at the top.

Read the report $750.00 · every API-bearing company in the book, scored on the Kin Score
Portfolio Strength across 292 profiled portfolio companies on the network
12 top-rated API companies 3 exemplar · 9 strong
24 agent-ready companies 2 agent-native · 22 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite emerging 16.1
Agent-Readiness human-only 7.0

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 292 (100%) publish APIs indexed here.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Databricks, Airtable, Amplitude, Paperspace, Circleci.

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 9 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 20 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 22 Limited public surface area
Emerging 50 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 188 Almost no public developer surface
Asimov 12.8 Sanctuary Ai 12.7 Embark 12.6 Unspun 12.2 Latus Bio 12.0 Valar Labs 12.0 Amogy 11.8 Kickpay 11.8 Carbon Health 11.6 Freenome 11.6 Medical Informatics 11.6 Sidewinder Therapeutics 11.6 Akido Labs 11.4 Ginkgo Bioworks 11.4 Verdant Robotics 11.2 Trustpoint 11.1 Plotlogic 11.0 Creyon Bio 10.8 Karius 10.8 Authy 10.6 Advano 10.5 Auron Therapeutics 10.5 Chemify 10.5 Elo Life 10.5 Enough 10.5 Recycleye 10.5 Breezebio 10.4 Equilibrium Energy 10.4 Frontier Medicines 10.4 Totus Medicines 10.4 Agility Robotics 10.1 Alta Resource Technologies 10.1 Burnbot 10.1 Alchemab Therapeutics 10.0 Enlitic 10.0 Newleos Therapeutics 9.7 Realm 9.7 Axoni 9.6 Empirico 9.3 Radionetics Oncology 9.3 Earth Ai 9.2 Mindrhythm 9.2 Pano 9.2 Recursive Superintelligence 9.2 Sensemesh 9.2 Solu Therapeutics 9.2 Visolis 9.2 Auradine 9.1 Kanvas Biosciences 9.0 Nchroma Bio 9.0 Sequence Bio 9.0 Noetik 8.9 Proprio 8.9 Pipelinedb 8.8 Aclarity Water 8.4 Impulse Space 8.4 Tala 8.4 Cofactor Genomics 8.3 Compose 8.3 Relation Rx 8.3 Umoja 8.3 Entocycle 8.2 Blue River Technology 7.5 Brimstone 7.5 Slip Robotics 7.5 Pivot Bio 7.2 Pyka 7.1 Ranker 7.1 Samsara Eco 7.1 Cloudcoreo 7.0 Factual 7.0 Sigopt 7.0 Agzen 6.9 Avicenna Biosciences 6.9 Unconventional Ai 6.9 Brainspec 6.8 Shennon Biotechnologies 6.8 Area 1 Security 6.7 Mainspring Energy 6.6 Kaggle 1 API 6.5 Aquafortus 6.3 Epirus 6.3 Auransa 6.1 Cellanome 6.1 Humans 6.1 Pluribus Networks 5.9 Pacific Fusion 5.8 Abcellera 5.7 Atom Computing 5.7 Atomwise 5.7 Bluetalon 5.7 Deepcell 5.7 Earn 5.7 Pickle Robot Company 5.7 Vathys 5.7 Kettle 5.6 Chariot Defense 5.5 Fourth Power 5.5 Oklo 5.5 Radiant 5.5 Zap Energy 5.5 Catalog 5.4 Ch4 Global 5.4 Evonetix 5.4 Helix Nano 5.4 Human Dx 5.4 Mythic 5.4 Nilo Therapeutics 5.4 Odyssey Ai 5.4 Oraliva 5.4 Orca Bio 5.4 Proxima 5.4 Reach Labs 5.4 Recursion 5.4 Remedy Robotics 5.4 Subtle Medical 5.4 Aim 5.0 Akash Systems 5.0 Aporeto 5.0 Appurify 5.0 Bitfusion Io 5.0 Bluedata Software Inc 5.0 C16 Biosciences 5.0 Circularity Fuels 5.0 Clusterk 5.0 Copia Global 5.0 Curious Ai 5.0 D2iq 5.0 Dvlp Medicines 5.0 Element Ai 5.0 Enhanced Radar 5.0 Evolv Technology 5.0 Fable Therapeutics 5.0 Fliptop 5.0 Freshplum 5.0 Fulfil 5.0 Gitprime 5.0 Haven 5.0 Iceberg Quantum 5.0 Kairos Aerospace 5.0 Kindred Ai 5.0 Luxe 5.0 Morta Security 5.0 Mycoworks 5.0 Nervana Systems 5.0 Nobell Foods 5.0 Parstream 5.0 Platfora 5.0 Quantum Motion 5.0 Sabanto 5.0 Thistle Technologies 5.0 Tidal Metals 5.0 Timeful 5.0 Vamo 5.0 Vicarious 5.0 Zwitterco 5.0 Zymergen 5.0 Fervo Energy 4.6 Grove Biopharma 4.6 Zeno Power 4.6 Agenovir 4.3 Ai Vivo 4.3 Apcera 4.3 Atomic Alchemy 4.3 Biophero 4.3 Caption Health 4.3 Cardspring 4.3 Estes Energy 4.3 Healthmode 4.3 Molecular Assemblies 4.3 Molecular Stethoscope 4.3 Novome 4.3 Omniome 4.3 Semantic Health 4.3 Syntax Bio 4.3 Vium 4.3 Piston Cloud Computing Inc 4.1 Plexium 4.1 Trusted Insight 4.1 Vurb 4.1 Micrographia Bio 3.8 Metabiota 3.2 Moleculo 3.2 Noteworth 3.2 Nyriad 3.2 Quettra 3.2 Supplant 3.2 Theorem Partners 3.2

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
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  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.
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