Ali Tamaseb
General Partner at DCVC
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2018 - Current
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.
DCVC backs entrepreneurs using deep tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.
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
2019
Carbon Health is a modern, tech-enabled healthcare company transforming the primary care and urgent care experience. Carbon Health creates a machine learning mashup of data from clinical encounters and personal diagnostic devices for the identification and management of high risk patients.
Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers a virtual care experience.
Raised $622,500,000.00 from BAM Elevate, The K Fund, WP Global Partners, CVS Health Ventures, Nolan Arenado, Sand Hill Angels, Karim Temsamani and Red Hook Capital.
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.
Reality Defender develops a detection platform to identify and assess risks associated with false media content.
Raised $48,504,000.00 from Accenture, Illuminate Financial, Booz Allen Ventures, The Jeffries Family Office, IBM Ventures, DCVC, Rackhouse Venture Capital, Ex/Ante, Partnership Fund for New York City and Parameter Ventures.
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
2024
ElectronX is the first electricity derivatives exchange, started by Philip Krim, Evan Caron, and Sam Tegel.
ElectronX is an electricity demand grows and the grid rapidly shifts to intermittent renewable energy sources.
Raised $15,000,000.00 from Lightning Capital, Innovation Endeavors, Amplo, DCVC and BoxGroup.
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
2023
Started by Super Founders, they are using the latest generative AI techniques to help Hollywood studios reduce the cost of generating special and visual effects.
Investor
2023
Started by Super Founder, Jacob Bank, Relay uses AI for workflow process automation.
Relay is a workflow automation tool with a human touch.
Raised $8,100,000.00 from Andreessen Horowitz, DCVC, BoxGroup, Neo, SV Angel and Khosla Ventures.