Active: new fund May 2026 Verified 4 Nov 2026
DCVC
Palo Alto, CA deep tech venture capital firm active since 2010, backing entrepreneurs who address hard, high-stakes problems.
- Type
- VC firm
- Location
- Palo Alto, California, United States
- Backs
- Climate and energy, B2B software, Biotech and pharma
- Sectors
- Energy, Healthtech and life sciences, AI, Biotech, Climate and cleantech, Deep tech, Defense, Space
- Fund size / AUM
- $800M Dcvc VII (Form D offering, 2025)
- Latest fund or filing
- 8 Oct 2026
- Portfolio mix
- Climate and energy 27%; B2B software 23%; Biotech and pharma 21%; Hardware 10%; Deep tech 6%; Medtech and digital health 3%; Consumer products 3%; Fintech 3%; Crypto and web3 3% (n=29, 2012 to 2025)
- Website
- www.dcvc.com
Fund filings (SEC Form D)
- Latest fund on file
- DCVC VII
- Filed
- 8 Oct 2026 (amendment)
- Fund size
- $800M (total offering)
- Fund vehicles filed in the last 12 months
- 2 (includes feeder and parallel vehicles)
See this fund's filings on SEC EDGAR
Contacts on file
For DCVC, the paid file holds: 4 named decision-makers with roles.
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Notable investments
Fervo Energy
Sources
- www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2052581/000205258126000003/
- adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/167441
- www.dcvc.com/
- www.dcvc.com/companies/
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