DCM Ventures

DCM Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm in California that focuses on mobile, consumer internet, communications and infrastructure, software and service sectors. Founded 1996 in Menlo Park, California, United States by David Chao and Dixon Doll, it invests in early stage ventures, series B, series C, series A, and series D rounds. Its portfolio companies include Tempo, Pony.ai, Eaze, Skylo, and Wanxue Education. As of February 2020, DCM Ventures has made 485 investments. Their most recent investment was on February 26, 2020, when Tempo raised $17.5M. DCM Ventures has had 84 exits, the most notable of which include Careem, Kakao, and Life360. DCM Ventures has raised 13 funds, their latest being DCM IX. This fund was announced on September 17, 2019 and raised a total of $710.7M

Timeline

1996

Founded

Funded Companies

Company

Description

Industry

Website

Location

SoFi

SoFi or Social Finance is a finance company offering lending and wealth management services.

Educational technology

A software platform for data visualization and embedding reports & dashboards.

Software

Business intelligence (BI)

Open-source software

ETL

Web development

Application programming interface (API)

jaspersoft.com

San Francisco

Palo Alto, California

Roomi

Roomi is a New York-based company offering an online roommate-matching platform

Real estate technology

roomiapp.com

New York

Pony.ai

A company developing artificial intelligence-based technology designed for autonomous vehicles. It was founded in 2016 and is located in Fremont, California.

Artificial intelligence (AI)

A life science company offering an artificial intelligence platform to aid clinical experts improve their clinical cancer research.

Artificial intelligence (AI)

Educational technology

Drug development

mendel.ai

San Jose, California

Sunnyvale, California

Origin

Origin is a San Francisco-based additive manufacturing company designed for mass production.

Manufacturing

New product development

Augmedix is a technology-enabled service platform that helps simplify how physicians work and deal with patients by utilizing wearable technology.

Augmented reality

Healthcare

Health information technology

augmedix.com

San Francisco

Shift (business)

Shift is an online, peer-to-peer, marketplace for buying and selling used cars.

Advertising

Peer-to-peer

Enterprise software

Social media marketing

Akulaku is an online multi-purpose finance platform intended to provide financial services to underserved communities.

Figure is a San Francisco-based company that uses blockchain technology to provide home equity loans online.

Jackpocket is an a mobile application that allows users to play state lottery games on their phone.

Button is a New York-based company founded in 2014 by Chris Maddern, Mike Dudas, Stephen Milbank, Tanner Hackett, Michael Jaconi and Siddhartha Dabral.

E-commerce

Mobile commerce

usebutton.com, usebutton.com

New York

RealScout

RealScout is a Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California-based company founded by Andrew Flachner.

Software

Real estate

Real estate technology

realscout.com

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Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California

Athos (company)

Athos is a Redwood City, California-based company founded in 2012 by Chamath Palihapitiya, Chris Wiebe and Dhananja Jayalath.

Redwood City, California

UJET

A customer interaction platform.

Software

Customer support

Productivity software

ujet.co

San Francisco

BridgeLux

BridgeLux is a manufacturing company.

Manufacturing

bridgelux.com

SavingStar

SavingStar is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based advertising company.

Advertising

savingstar.com

Waltham, Massachusetts

Company

Plenty is a San Francisco-based agriculture technology company that develops plant sciences for crops to flourish in pesticide and GMO-free environments.

Agriculture

Clean technology (Cleantech)

Organic food

Sustainability

Agricultural technology (AgTech)

plenty.ag

San Francisco