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DCM

Venture capital firm · Founded 1996 · Active in 2026

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47 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #154 · Global · 47 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 25% 5y
40
Decacorns ↑ 75% 5y
7
Thoroughbreds ↑ 47% 5y
28

DCM is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 1996. The page below shows 47 Power Law outcomes from DCM's portfolio — 40 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 2 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · Other · Transportation; top portfolio geographies are USA · China · Japan. DCM ranks #154 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

Portfolio analysis

The 47 DCM Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA24
  2. China15
  3. Japan3
  4. UAE2
  5. Indonesia1
  6. South Korea1
  7. Singapore1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech8
  2. Other7
  3. Transportation7
  4. Other B2B Software6
  5. Marketing3
  6. AI3
  7. Cybersecurity3
  8. eCommerce & Marketplaces3
  9. Biotech & Life Sciences2
  10. Health Tech & Medtech2
  11. Edtech1
  12. Food1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+27
  2. Series A11
  3. Seed3
01 · Portfolio market map

DCM's 47 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
47 of 47 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

Where DCM's founders come from — and where they study.

96 founders across the 47 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Tsinghua University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
China21
United States16
Nigeria7
Armenia6
Germany5
Hungary4
Canada3
Sweden3
Pakistan3
Japan2
+3 more →
UniversityCount
Tsinghua University6
University of Toronto4
RWTH Aachen University4
American University of Armenia3
University of Oxford3
Harvard University3
UC Berkeley, Haas Business School3
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania3
Carnegie Mellon University3
Stanford University3
+36 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google7
Google DeepMind6
OpenAI3
Microsoft3
SoFi3
TMON2
NetScreen Technologies2
Stripe2
Homebound2
Bungalow2
+41 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
03 · Key people

Key people at DCM.

Senior investment team at DCM has not been published on this profile yet.
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04 · Compare with peers

How does DCM stack up?

DCM in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

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Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.

Sentiment on X

What X is saying about DCM

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about DCM on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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Latest news about DCM

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