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Ali Tamaseb

General Partner at DCVC

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $25,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $15,000,000.00

Work Experience

2018

  • General Partner

    2018

    DCVC is a venture capital firm with over $3.5bn assets under management investing in deep-tech startups. We invest in founders who are working on highly technical, scientific, and frontier technologies that are shaping our future. We have invested in Planet (imaging satellites), MosaicML (AI infrastructure), Blue River (Agriculture robots), Freenome (Cancer Genomics), Sentinel (Cyber Security), Rigetti (Quantum Computing), Recursion Pharma (Drug Discovery AI), Pivot Bio (Agriculture Fertilizers), Chainlink (blockchain), and 200 more. I personally like to see early-stage startups in insurance and risk, healthcare, construction, manufacturing, hardware, and blockchain space.

  • Founder

    2021

    Super Founders Club is a community of 400+ entrepreneurs who have had a meaningful exit or IPO in recent years. This group has had over 1000 exits and has generated over 100 billion dollars in enterprise value. They help share their network and resources to help each other build the next iconic multi billion dollar company.

  • Investor - Board Director

    2023

    Reality Defender has developed APIs and Web Apps to detect AI-Generated text, voice, images, and videos, as well as do whole internet scanning to detect deepfake fraud for their customers in the banking, media, and government sectors along others.

2019

  • Investor - Board Director

    2019

    Plotlogic is a mining technology company that uses hyperspectral imaging to optimize mine operations and improve ore recovery. Its technology provides real-time ore face mapping systems that enable greater ore recovery while reducing waste, operational costs, and process inefficiencies.

  • Investor - Board Director

    2020

    Medical Informatics has created an FDA approved platform that enables the collection of real-time data from various monitoring devices in the critical care units in hospitals, providing actionable tasks and insights for the medical care team.

  • Investor - Board Observer

    2025

    all.health uses an array of advanced wearable health sensors and data analytics to help health care system manage risks and care for their patient population

2021

  • Investor

    2021

    Started by Super Founder, Naveen Rao, MosaicML builds an efficient infrastructure for training language models. Acquired for $1.3Bn by Databricks. I was not lead investor here but in a support role.

  • Investor

    2025

    Enhanced Radar uses AI to reduce error for air traffic controllers and manage the sky!

  • Investor

    2025

    Chai Discovery uses AI for better protein folding prediction and drug discovery

2024

  • Investor

    2024

    ElectronX is the first electricity derivatives exchange, started by Philip Krim, Evan Caron, and Sam Tegel.