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Data Collective (DCVC)

DCVC (Data Collective) is a deep tech venture capital firm that has spent 15 years backing entrepreneurs tackling some of the world's hardest, highest-stakes problems using AI and other advanced technologies. The firm invests across sectors such as clean energy, biotech, gene therapy, agriculture, and quantum computing, partnering with founders who are often published scientists.

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DCVC is a deep tech venture capital firm focused on identifying and supporting the world's most ambitious company founders working on transformative technology. Their portfolio spans sectors including clean energy (e.g., Fervo Energy), gene therapy and CNS disorders (Latus Bio), sustainable agriculture through soil microbe engineering (Pivot Bio), and machine learning applied to disease biology (Relation). DCVC emphasizes deep scientific expertise on its team, noting it has more published scientists than MBAs, and it publishes ongoing research and commentary such as its annual Deep Tech Opportunities report. The firm's clients/portfolio are primarily early-stage deep tech startups tackling large-scale, high-stakes technical and societal challenges, including recent activity in nuclear energy, quantum computing, and robotics/physical AI.