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
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SoFi or Social Finance is a finance company offering lending and wealth management services.
A software platform for data visualization and embedding reports & dashboards.
Roomi is a New York-based company offering an online roommate-matching platform
A company developing artificial intelligence-based technology designed for autonomous vehicles. It was founded in 2016 and is located in Fremont, California.
A life science company offering an artificial intelligence platform to aid clinical experts improve their clinical cancer research.
Augmedix is a technology-enabled service platform that helps simplify how physicians work and deal with patients by utilizing wearable technology.
Origin is a San Francisco-based additive manufacturing company designed for mass production.
Shift is an online, peer-to-peer, marketplace for buying and selling used cars.
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.
RealScout is a Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California-based company founded by Andrew Flachner.
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.
Athos is a Redwood City, California-based company founded in 2012 by Chamath Palihapitiya, Chris Wiebe and Dhananja Jayalath.
SavingStar is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based advertising company.
Plenty is a San Francisco-based agriculture technology company that develops plant sciences for crops to flourish in pesticide and GMO-free environments.
Nok Nok Labs is a Palo Alto, California-based network security company.
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People
Arthur Kaneko
Employee
Ben Jacobs
Employee
Benjamin Tseng
Employee
Connie Cong Xu
Employee
David G. Cheng
Employee
Dixon Doll
Employee
Dustin Mitchell
Employee
Edward Tsai
Employee
Jason Krikorian
Employee
Jeanette Hoang
Employee
Keisuke YAMAKOSHI
Employee
Kyle Lui
Employee
Melissa Mansur
Employee
Osuke Honda
Employee
Pete Moran
Employee
Ruby Lu
Employee
Takuo Suzuki
Investor
Yoshiki C. Yasui
Employee
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