DCVC

DCVC is a venture capital firm that describes itself as deep tech venture capital and has backed companies working on hard technical problems since 2010. Its AI investments run from a seed round for a new model lab to a large financing for a chip company it first backed in 2016.

In AI hardware, DCVC first invested in Mythic in 2016 because the company was building analog compute-in-memory chips, which do calculations inside the memory that holds a model so less energy goes into moving data around.

Sources: DCVC, DCVC on Mythic

Leadership

• Matthew OckoCo-Founder and Managing Partner
• Zachary BogueCo-Founder and Managing Partner
• James HardimanGeneral Partner

At a glance

Stage

Seed, Later stage

Focus

Deep tech

AI companies backed

3

AI companies backed

• TypeSafe AI · a San Francisco, California, lab building fast, predictable AI models meant to run inside ordinary software

  Led TypeSafe AI's $40 million seed round, announced September 16, 2026, when the company came out of stealth. DCVC general partner James Hardiman is quoted in the announcement.

  Read our review of TypeSafe AI · Founder: Diogo Almeida · Source: TypeSafe AI announcement via HPCwire, checked Oct 9, 2026

• Mythic · analog compute-in-memory chips for low-power AI inference

  Led Mythic's $125 million round, announced December 17, 2025. DCVC first invested in the company in 2016.

  Read our review of Mythic · Source: DCVC, checked Oct 9, 2026

• Alation · a data catalog and governance platform for enterprise data and AI programs

  Listed as a portfolio company on DCVC's website.

  Read our review of Alation · Source: DCVC portfolio, checked Oct 9, 2026