DCVC, originally founded as Data Collective by Zachary Bogue and Matt Ocko, describes itself as the world's largest pure-play deep-tech venture firm, with more than $4 billion under management. Its sector map is unusually crisp for a generalist-sized fund - deep tech, climate, human health, defense and security, space, advanced computing, and industrial transformation - and it backs companies applying computational approaches to industries that are genuinely hard to disrupt. The cleanest signature outcome is Blue River Technology, the agricultural robotics company John Deere acquired for $305 million in 2017; the firm's public bench since has included Planet Labs, Rocket Lab, Recursion, and SentinelOne.
Blue River Technology's 2017 acquisition by John Deere for $305 million - an agricultural robotics bet that landed years before machine vision became standard in farming equipment