DCVC Bio — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($500K–$25.0M Checks)
DCVC Bio is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, CA, United States investing in Healthcare, AI / ML, Other. The firm typically writes $500K–$25.0M checks and has 10 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $500K–$25.0M
- Portfolio
- 10 companies on record
- Partners
- 7 listed
- AUM
- $1.2B
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Healthcare, AI / ML, Other
- HQ
- Palo Alto, CA, United States
Last verified: 2026-09-09
Pre-Seed, Seed
$500K – $25.0M
$1.2B
10+ companies
7 partners
Investment Thesis
DCVC Bio invests in founders who combine deep biological insight and engineering with large-scale computation (AI, data, etc.) to build platform-driven technologies in human health, agriculture, and bio-based materials and sustainable food systems.
How DCVC Bio invests
DCVC Bio is a vc firm based in Palo Alto, CA, United States. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Healthcare, AI / ML, Other.
DCVC Bio typically writes checks of $500K–$25.0M per investment, backed by approximately $1.2B in assets under management.
Investing since at least 2014, DCVC Bio has backed 10 companies in our records, including Noetik, Radiant, Unlearn. Its most recent recorded investment was in 2026, with 4 investments logged over the last 12 months.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (10)
2026
Noetik
AI cancer models
Radiant
Boosts round to $350M amid nuclear fervor
Unlearn
Recursion Pharmaceuticals
AI revolution in drugmaking
2024
Latus Bio
Finding precisely tuned viral vectors for gene therapy in CNS disorders
2022
Fervo Energy
Tapping into the heat beneath our feet to provide gigawatts of clean energy
2021
Relation
Using machine learning to understand the biology underlying disease
2014
Pivot Bio
Reprogramming soil microbes to produce nitrogen sustainably
Other
Recursion Pharma
Elegen
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Healthcare, AI / ML, Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $25.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Spencer Punter, Chief Operating Officer.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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