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Jason Pontin

General Partner, DCVC

Palo Alto, California

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Education

Work Experience

2021

  • General Partner

    2023

  • Partner

    2021 - 2023

    DCVC backs brilliant entrepreneurs applying Deep Tech, from the earliest stage and beyond, to pragmatically and cost-effectively tackle previously unsolvable problems in nearly every industry.

  • Board Member

    2025

    Dayhoff Labs builds foundational AI for chemistry and biochemistry to solve deep challenges in both, ranging from catalysis and green synthesis to ab initio synthetic biology.

  • Board Chair

    2023

    Kanvas's novel spatial biology plat­form enables an unprece­dent­ed under­stand­ing of host-micro­bio­me inter­ac­tion and pro­vides an effi­cient approach to drug discovery for live biological products.

2023

  • Board Member

    2023

    Recycleye sells AI robotics and computer vision technologies for innovative waste and materials management.

  • Board Member

    2023

    Aquafortus was founded in New Zealand to develop and commercialize a novel and proprietary zero liquid discharge technology that can treat high salinity wastewater at a fraction of the cost of current processes.

  • Board Member

    2022

    Relation is pioneering a “Lab-in-the-Loop” that can integrate active learning at every step of drug discovery, from predicting cell states to the validation of new targets.

2022

  • Board Chair

    2022

    ZwitterCo's zwitterionic membranes can handle unprecedented levels of oil and grease without irreversible fouling, recovering full performance.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Evonetix is reimagining biology by developing a radically different approach to gene synthesis – a highly parallel desktop platform to synthesize DNA at unprecedented accuracy, scale and speed. The company's platform will place DNA synthesis in the hands of every researcher and change how DNA is accessed, made, and used—a new paradigm for gene synthesis.

  • Founding Board Member, Cofounder, and Initial Investor (through Social Impact Capital)

    2019

    Applying revolutionary chemical biology technologies to create life-changing covalent therapeutics for untreatable diseases.

2018

  • Contributing Writer

    2018

    I write a column twice a month for Wired's IDEAS vertical and contribute occasional features to Wired magazine.