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We're thrilled to announce that thanks to the most forward-looking investors on the planet, we’ve raised over $700 million for a healthier planet and healthier lives, bringing our total funding closed over the last 2.5 years to over $1.6 billion 🌎🧬🌾
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We’re excited to announce DCVC-V! We’ve closed $725 million in fresh capital to intensify our commitment to Deep Tech, tackling global challenges representing a $20+ trillion GDP opportunity:
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Today, we're announcing $1B in fresh funding, and the release of the inaugural
@DCVC
Deep Tech Opportunities Report.
We're so proud of our portfolio companies , and eager to back the next generation of deep tech breakthroughs! 🚀🌎⚡️🫀💉🌽💧🛰️🤖
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Not one of our neighbors, friends, or fellow citizens should fear when they leave their homes that they will be murdered by the people supposed to be protecting them.
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.
@DCVC
is proud to announce the promotion of
@RachelSlaybaugh
to Partner! We are committed to finding and supporting companies that will make an outsized difference against climate change--and Rachel is key to that vital work. Congrats, Rachel! 🍾🌍👏
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We're excited to announce that we've topped up our previously-closed 5th and 6th funds by about $80M!
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At
@DCVC
we’re proud that portfolio companies including
@CarbonHealth
@AbCellera
@Zymergen
@AtomwiseInc
@sickbayMIC
and many others are part of global
#COVID19
response efforts - working on new testing kits, treatments, and helping overburdened hospitals
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Investing successfully across the full breadth of deep tech requires people of uncommon experience, talent, and drive.
Today, we're thrilled to announce the promotion of
@ascohen
,
@hardimanjames
,
@jason_pontin
, and
@alitamaseb
to General Partner! 🍾🥂🎉
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Excited to co-sponsor
@google
's Machine Learning Competition! $500K DCVC investment for the winner.
#googlenext17
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Congrats to
@Nervanasys
on its acquisition by
@Intel
! DCVC is proud to have been the largest financial investor.
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Today we co-led
@pivotbio
's $430M Series D because it’s the only company replacing synthetic fertilizer in agriculture at scale, helping farmers preserve their soil for generations to come and eliminating fertilizer’s harmful impact on our water and air.
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We're excited to release our inaugural Deep Tech Opportunities Report—96 pages of insights from our partnership on human-centric robotics, machine vision, LLMs, water, electrification, nuclear power, predictive drug development, and biological mimicry!
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2020 will be the year Deep Tech enters the public consciousness.
@DCVC
's
@mattocko
talked to TechCrunch about why increased investments in the space are going to be driven by political necessity as much as technological advancement and his predictions for the year to come.
2020 will be the beginning of the tech industry’s radical revisioning of the physical world by
@jshieber
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Congrats to
@RecursionPharma
on its $60M Series B! Proud to have led this round to help massively scale its ML & robotics for drug discovery
Drug discovery startup Recursion raises $60 million in Series B from Data Collective by
@sarahbuhr
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.
@RocketLab
and
@NASA
are back at it! 🚀
We're very proud of this vitally important work for our nation and planet. ❄️ ❤️
Two Electron launches, one very important climate change mission for
@NASA
.
PREFIRE will study Arctic warming to help researchers fight against rising sea levels and melting ice sheets.
We’re proud to support this latest NASA mission with two Electron launches from LC-1 in mid
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Our colleague, DCVC Partner
@cboshuizen
, goes to space tomorrow at 9.00 AM CDT aboard
@blueorigin
#NS18
.
In an essay he writes, "I want my spaceflight to inspire kids... about the romance of space and the capacity of science to solve hard problems."
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What do
@airtable
,
@GroIntel
,
@UnlearnAI
,
@Pano_AI
,
@RecursionPharma
,
@aclima
,
@BrimstoneEnergy
,
@epirus
, and
@capellaspace
have in common? All are
@DCVC
-backed, and all were recognized today by
@FastCompany
as among the most innovative in the world! 🍾🥂
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1/ Scientists everywhere are looking for countermeasures against
#COVID19
.
@DCVC
and
@DCVCBio
are proud to work with companies like
@AbCelleraBio
that are making concrete progress.
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We invested in
@RocketLab
because we were excited about the idea that Earth’s orbital space could be accessible to everyone. 97 satellites deployed across 16 missions later and they’re just getting started. Congrats to the team on today’s news! More here:
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For the first time, it's possible to avoid grid-related disasters from violent
#climatechange
by placing utilities underground in the hardest rocks in the world.
@DCVC
is thrilled to lead the investment in
@we_are_petra
and their new tunneling technology.
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/thread DCVC portfolio companies employ thousands of talented engineers, scientists and PhDs who work on frontier technologies. They have a unique perspective on the progress we’re making and the reasons we should be optimistic for the future.
#ReasonsforOptimism
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.
@DCVC
-backed
@RocketLab
continues to push the boundaries of aerospace innovation: through HASTE, it is enabling the frequent flight testing needed to advance hypersonic technology development at a fraction of the cost of current full-scale tests 🚀⚡️
Electron solved small orbital launch. Now HASTE is changing the game for suborbital missions.
We're enabling frequent and affordable flight testing to advance hypersonic technology development. And we're doing it right now from LC-2 in Virginia.
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Welcome climate investors
@mtrevithick
and
@RachelSlaybaugh
to DCVC! With Matt and Rachel on the team, we are doubling down on our Deep Tech climate investment.
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The DCVC family were delighted to watch the successful launch of
@blueorigin
#NS18
, carrying our colleague
@cboshuizen
, along with William Shatner, Glen de Vries, and Audrey Powers into space.
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Congrats,
@ArlanWasHere
! DCVC is a proud investor and supporter of
@backstage_cap
!
Backstage Capital is raising a second fund to invest in as many women of color as possible by
@meganrosedickey
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.
@DCVC
-backed
@BrimstoneEnergy
has made history: it's the first maker of ultra-low carbon, carbon-neutral, or carbon-negative cement to get ASTM C150 certification for ordinary portland cement. Cement = 8% of global CO2 emissions--this is HUGE!!! 🍾 🍾
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Great piece by
@lorakolodny
@CNBC
re big news from
@agilityrobotics
: the opening of the first humanoid robot factory!
@DCVC
cofounder
@mattocko
explains why we've been backers from the start. Congrats to the whole Agility team! 🤖🍾❤️
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With more than $5 billion in signed deals with major pharmaceutical companies and a credible discovery pipeline,
@AtomwiseInc
is already making significant progress discovering new drugs for ‘undruggable’ targets. Excited to see that accelerate with this new funding!
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Better fuel efficiency, significant annual increases in per-truck revenue, and faster delivery.
@DCVC
company
@embarktrucks
is improving the trucking industry's outcomes by integrating self-driving technology into its operations.
#AutonomousTrucking
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We're elated that 2 great
@DCVC
portfolio cos—
@databricks
and
@MosaicML
—are joining up to deliver high-performance, secure, affordable, + explainable
#AI
.
See more from
@mattocko
on how their work can help make a better world.👇
Congrats to all! 🍾🥂
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Fervo has begun pumping carbon-free electricity onto the Nevada grid to power Google data centers—a HUGE milestone for the company and the future of next-gen geothermal energy 👏
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Thanks for the shout-out on the AI 100,
@CBinsights
! "Data Collective has backed 14 startups on the list, including Vicarious Systems,
@Trifacta
, and
@RecursionPharma
."
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Another big milestone in the powerful partnership between
@DCVC
portfolio cos
@RocketLab
and
@capellaspace
: their third launch together,
#WeLoveTheNightLife
, aims to deliver Capella's next-gen Acadia satellites to low Earth orbit aboard Electron's 40th launch 🚀🎉
It’s time for the big four-oh! Our 40th Electron mission is scheduled for…July 28 UTC! 🚀
#WeLoveTheNightLife
is a dedicated mission for
@CapellaSpace
from LC-1 to launch the first of their next-generation Acadia SAR satellites.
More:
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Two great
@DCVC
companies--
@RocketLab
and
@capellaspace
--getting it done today, cooperatively. Vital to the national security of the US and its allies. Well done!!! 🚀
Mission success for
@capellaspace
with our second launch from Launch Complex 2, Virginia! We've now launched 34 Electron missions total, deploying 157 satellites to space.
📸:
@TheFavoritist
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With just 4% of board seats at S&P 500 companies held by Black women,
@msaintil
and Robin Washington created
@therealBWOB
to improve this representation.
@DCVC
is proud to partner with Black Women on Boards, providing both financial and strategic support.
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Big news out of
@DCVC
- and
@DCVCBio
-backed
@UnlearnAI
:
@miramurati
, CTO of
@OpenAI
, has joined the company's board! Welcome, Mira!
Unlearn attracts this kind of talent on the strength of its approach to improving medicine through
#AI
.
Well done,
@charleskfisher
and team!!!
I'm very excited to welcome
@miramurati
to the board of directors at
@UnlearnAI
🚀
As CTO of OpenAI, Mira has shown that she knows more about building and shipping AI-based products than just about anyone else.
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In Davos,
@DCVC
cofounder and co-managing partner
@zackbogue
hosted, with his co-executive producer Roksana Ciurysek-Gedir, a PACKED screening with Oliver Stone of his documentary "Nuclear Now!" Great recap,
@dealbook
. This is vitally important. 🌍
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We're pleased to report that BOTH of our companies on this launch successfully deployed their payloads. Congrats
@planetlabs
and
@capellaspace
! (
#2birds1stone
?)
Successful deployment of four microsats and the upper and lower free flyer with additional payloads for Spaceflight SSO-A: SmallSat Express confirmed. Follow
@SpaceflightInc
for further mission updates.
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Congratulations to
@DCVC
company
@embarktrucks
for receiving a perfect safety record designation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
@NHTSAgov
for your autonomous trucks.
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Congrats to
@zymergen
on its $130M Series B! Proud to continue to back them to unlock the power of biology.
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Exciting
#innovation
from
@DCVC
company
@capellaspace
will feature enhanced SAR
#satelliteimagery
& communication via its Acadia technology to produce the highest quality images & fastest speeds available from a commercial SAR provider.
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Great short thread from
@EricTopol
on his experience with
@DCVC
portfolio co
@CaptionHealth
. Changing the field = better, more cost-effective outcomes for patients
My 1st
#AI
-guided echocardiography today (fun & by democratizing acquisition it will change the field)
What does that mean?
You put the transducer on the patient's chest ->the AI tells you how to properly position it and then automatically captures video images when spot on.
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Portfolio co
@talamobile
is on a quest to expand financial access for the 3b underserved people across the globe - 4m customers have already borrowed more than $1b.
@JeffKauflin
@Forbes
has more on Tala’s work and impact:
The $100 trillion opportunity to provide banking to the world's poor:
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Congrats to
@DCVC
portfolio co
@graphcoreai
on their $150M raise, bringing their valuation just south of $2B!
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Great
@CNBC
piece on how
@kariusdx
can help save lives. DCVC is proud to have co-lead the $50M Series A with
@lightspeedvp
!
This biotech startup analyzes DNA that sheds in the blood when we get an infection - and gives a result in a biz day
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New blog post by DCVC partner
@bradfordcross
: Application Drives Formalism: Why ML is Booming & 3 Bags of Tricks.
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BIG congrats to
@zeno_power
for being selected to help
@NASA
develop tech that could support long-term exploration on the Moon and in space, for the benefit of all! 🚀🌔
We’re honored
@NASA
has selected us for a $15M Tipping Point award with
@blueorigin
,
@Int_Machines
& other industry leaders, to develop a radioisotope power system to enable multi-year science and exploration missions on the lunar surface.
#AdLunamPerNuclear
🚀
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Visiting space is a lifelong dream of our own
@cboshuizen
that influenced every part of his trajectory, from working with NASA to co-founding
@planet
and helping build a new space economy. Excited to see him realize that dream next month with
@blueorigin
!
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Great news from
@DCVC
co
@RocketLab
, which acquired Sinclair Interplanetary to strengthen its satellite division and help customers do more, spend less and reach orbit faster!
We're excited to confirm that we've reached an agreement to acquire Sinclair Interplanetary, a leading provider of satellite hardware. The acquisition strengthens our Photon satellite division & enables Sinclair to tap into our resources, scale and manufacturing capability.
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Congrats to Lindy Fishburn & team on Breakout Ventures launch! We're proud to back this spin-out from
@breakout_labs
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Smart move.
@embarktrucks
a
@DCVC
portfolio company, moves to Texas, securing a dedicated autonomous trucking lane from Houston to San Antonio, a lane too long for a truck driver to schedule in one day.
#DeepTech
to the rescue!
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Congratulations to the
@EvolvTechnology
team on today's public listing!
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Precision mining with less waste is now possible. Congratulations
@_Plotlogic
, a
@DCVC
company, on your Series A funding.
#deeptech
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Proud to lead
@RocketLabUSA
's Series D! Excited to help realize the vision: weekly inexpensive 150kg-payload launch.
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We are deep tech venture capital--and deeply grateful to the
@NYSE
for hosting General Partner
@alitamaseb
+ DCVC portfolio companies + the Super Founders Club this afternoon! 💚 👏 🔔
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Congrats to
@perimeterX
on a big Series B! Proud to continue to back this great team creating the best way to stop automated cyber attacks.
We're excited to announce we've secured $23M in series B funding, lead by
@canaanpartners
w/
@vertexventures
&
@DCVC
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"We back entrepreneurs solving trillion-dollar problems computationally." Watch
@DCVC
cofounder and managing partner
@zackbogue
at the
@BloombergNEF
, with Haslinda Amin. Thanks,
@haslindatv
!
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We’re thrilled to have such a groundbreaking company like
@CaptionHealth
in the portfolio. It’s poised to make ultrasounds as simple as taking your blood pressure, creating a new standard of patient care. More on today's funding news here from
@armenvidian
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From Seed to IPO - we're so please to have been partners on this journey with Zymergen.
Congratulations to the entire team on today's IPO!
We make tomorrow but today we celebrate joining
@Nasdaq
as a public company!
#WeMakeTomorrow
#NasdaqListed
$ZY
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We're thrilled to see
@DCVC
/
@DCVCBio
companies CH4 Global,
@CaptionHealth
,
@fervoenergy
,
@MycoWorksInc
,
@pivotbio
,
@recycleye
,
@twelve_co2
, +
@zwitterco
featured on
@norrsken_org
's annual list of the world's most promising impact startups, all working to "fix the future!" 🌎🍾🎉
Join the movement for better role models!
We’re releasing Impact/100 2023 – our annual list of the world’s 100 most promising impact startups. It's 100 ways to fix the future.
Get inspired, get your mind blown. View the full list at .
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@DCVC
Partner
@mtrevithick
& Principal
@RachelSlaybaugh
discuss the race for
#fusion
as a source of
#cleanenergy
, including portfolio company
@energy_zap
’s
#Zpinch
#plasma
confinement approach that promises to scale more quickly & economically than others.
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.
@DCVC
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
@zackbogue
in today's
@BostonGlobe
, with Stanford Nobelist Paul Milgrom & his Auctionomics cofounder Silvia Console Battilana, on how to fix our global water problem with market design + Deep Tech!
@silviacbauction
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"The farming challenge of the 21st century will be to keep feeding the world but without frying the world."
More from award-winning reporter
@MikeGrunwald
@CanaryMediaInc
on how
@pivotbio
is providing a solution that matters👇
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“You can literally sit at a Starbucks, design a compound, have the robots assemble that compound and go through the purification and analysis steps to validate what you’ve made" -
@Mdfctri09
on how
@StrateosLab
is making drug discovery accessible to anyone
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Huge news from
@DCVC
-backed
@fervoenergy
: the potential to flexibly harness geothermal energy and store it for days, filling a CRITICAL gap in our grids and making 24/7 carbon-free energy cheaper + easier 👏 Great read from
@techreview
's
@jtemple
👇
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"Super Founders" by our very own
@alitamaseb
is out tomorrow and we can't wait to dig into his research into what makes a successful startup.
If you want to know differentiates billion-dollar startups from the rest, make sure to pick up a copy!
In a new book, venture capitalist Ali Tamaseb analyzes 30,000 data points to determine what makes a billion-dollar startup
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@DCVC
is excited to share
@BrimstoneEnergy
’s “fiery passion for
#decarbonization
”, today co-leading a funding round for Brimstone’s development of
#ZeroCarbonCement
. Brimstone is reinventing
#OrdinaryPortlandCement
for a
#ZeroCarbon
future.
@CatClifford
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We're psyched that 4 of our companies are 2017
@WEF
Tech Pioneers!
@Zymergen
@mesosphere
@Citrine_io
@DesktopMetal
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"Proprio could change the OR forever." Great
@TechCrunch
piece below.
Congrats,
@aGabrielJones
and the
@Proprio_Vision
team! 🍾
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Congrats to
@DCVCBio
co
@FrontierMeds
for being named one of
@FierceBiotech
’s Fierce 15! (the top private and independent biotech cos contributing cutting-edge research to stop disease in its tracks)
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Discovering new drugs to cure complex diseases is massively complicated and time-consuming.
@DCVC
co
@Atomwise
's AI platform makes this look easy, and it’s working with
@DCVCBio
co
@X37_AI
to discover even more new targets and - hopefully - cure our most devastating diseases
Cofounded by
@AtomwiseInc
and a team from Velocity Pharmaceutical Development, X-37 closed a $14.5M Series A led by
@DCVCBio
and joined by Alpha Intelligence Capital and Hemi Ventures.
#autoimmunity
#cancer
#anticoagulation
#AI
#drugdiscovery
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Great things happen when two
@DCVC
portfolio cos work together!
@capellaspace
's new Whitney satellite, launched by
@RocketLab
, can see through the clouds, identifying changes on the Earth's surface across the Middle East, Korea, Africa, SE Asia and the US.
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The
@CBinsights
#AI100
list is out and
@DCVC
portfolio companies are representing. Congrats to
@RecursionPharma
,
@AtomwiseInc
,
@SubtleMedical
,
@Citrine_io
,
@primer_ai
,
@SentinelOne
and
@graphcoreai
!
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We're excited to co-lead the
@Atomwise
$45M Series A with our longtime collaborators at MGV & our new partners at
@b_capital_group
! Psyched to continue to back
@AbeHeifets
& his rockstar team applying deep neural networks for drug discovery.
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Nice TechCrunch piece talking about DCVC thesis around ML.
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“We are making entirely new materials from biology, and delivering them in record time and for exceptionally competitive costs.”
@Zymergen
is a transformative company helping create the products of our future. Congrats to this amazing team on a huge new round!
Today we're thrilled to announce $300m in new investment, including initial Series D funding led by
@BaillieGifford
. 🙏 to all our investors as we take another giant leap towards our vision of better products made in better ways for people and the planet.
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Great to see so many DCVC portfolio companies on this year's
@CBinsights
AI 100!
@RecursionPharma
@CaptionHealth
@UnlearnAI
@JupiterIntel
@SentinelOne
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Amazing progress from
@DCVCBio
co
@AbCelleraBio
and its partner
@LillyPad
, which announced the world’s first study of a potential COVID-19 antibody treatment in humans. From discovery to clinic with a potentially effective therapy in *90 days*
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Methane is the best lever we can pull now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That’s why DCVC led Kairos’s $26 million funding round: to scale their business to amplify this massive impact. New post
@dcvc
by
@zackbogue
and
@cboshuizen
.
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We're proud to lead the oversubscribed Series A to help propel
@swift_medical
's platform using applied ML to massively improve wound care!
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By 2032, the United States will lack as many as 23,000 surgeons.
@Proprio_Vision
combines computational advancements with surgical expertise to help close that surgical gap. Congrats to this amazing team on its Series A!
Why
@armenvidian
@DCVC
and I invested in
@Proprio_Vision
Excited to partner w/
@aGabrielJones
@DrBrowd
James Youngquist Josh Smith
@kendenman
and team in building an iconic AI medtech company
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Congrats
@planetlabs
! We're proud to lead the C to continue to support the mission to image the whole earth every day
http://t.co/6mYRFjEC97
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On Veterans Day, DCVC honors American veterans—within our firm, in the companies we back, among our investors, and across this great country. We are the land of the free thanks to your service. 🇺🇸
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.
@DCVC
General Partner
@alitamaseb
rang the closing bell today at the
@NYSE
along with DCVC portfolio company founders and members of the Super Founders Club. Nicely done, Ali and all! 🔔 👏
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Congrats to
@InVenture
on its Series A! Excited to have led the round & to join
@Sacca
& a great group of investors.
http://t.co/qS53IDrgd8
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We're thrilled to see
@DCVC
-backed
@pivotbio
,
@graphcoreai
,
@freenome
, +
@DroneDeploy
featured on the inaugural
#XB100
list from
@BessemerVP
+
@xprize
, which recognizes top private deep tech companies that are improving the world! 🍾🥂
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Congrats to DCVC Equity Partner
@hmason
on
@cloudera
's acquisition of
@FastForwardLabs
& becoming VP of Research!
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