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DCVC
States it is a deep technology venture firm backing entrepreneurs who address the hardest, highest-stakes problems in the world, and that it has done so since 2010. States it has more published scientists than MBAs on its team.
Criteria: Names ten areas: AI, compute and quantum; computational biology and chemistry; cybersecurity, security and defence; energy and climate; finance and insurance; industrial transformation and advanced manufacturing; next generation agriculture; space; techbio; and techmed. Publishes no stages, no check sizes and no assets under management.
What this means for your pitchThe scientists-to-MBAs line is a hiring boast, but it is also an accurate warning about the meeting: expect to defend the science rather than the go-to-market. If your hard problem is technical and genuinely unsolved, this is the right room. If your advantage is commercial, it is not.
Stages, check sizes and assets under management are not published by the firm. A $1.3 billion fund target appears in press coverage and is unverified here.
DCVCChecked 17 August 2026
From DCVC's own site and announcements · checked 26 August 2026 · selective, not comprehensive · verify on the firm's pages
DCVC announced that its Energy + Climate strategy co-led Emerald AI's $150 million Series A. Emerald AI develops software that makes data centers power-flexible by rescheduling computational workloads in response to grid signals while maintaining service agreements.
DCVC announced it joined a $100 million seed round for Callosum, a UK-based company building an orchestration layer that routes AI workloads to the most cost-efficient combination of model and hardware.
DCVC published its fourth annual Deep Tech Opportunities Report, themed around a return to fundamentals. The firm states the report covers its investments across computing, quantum, energy, materials, healthcare, agriculture, space, and defense, with a focus on solutions that pay for themselves and are relatively invariant to political and regulatory change.