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DCVC

DCVC is a water-focused venture capital that has backed 5 water companies since 2010. (don't) Waste Water rates its water commitment Committed.

Committed
Water Commitment
Type
Venture Capital
AUM
$4.0B
Founded
2010
HQ
500 2nd St Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States
Stage
Seed - Series B
Median round
$8.5M
Portfolio
5 cos

Water Commitment Score

Tier
Committed
5 water companies · last deal 2024 · leads ~57% of rounds · High confidence
How this is scored ↗
as of Jun 2026 · no pay-to-rank

Compiled from official filings, third-party records, and direct intelligence from investors and founders, in Leviathan · recomputed monthly · as of Jun 2026.

How they invest

Seed3
Series A2
Series B1
Median round$8.5Mrange $3.3M - $58.4M · 7 disclosed

Portfolio · 5 water companies

ZwitterCo
ZwitterCo is a Cambridge MA-based company that develops and sells nanofiltration membranes made
$58.4MSeries B · 2024
Tidal Metals
Tidal Metals builds electrochemical systems that extract and refine magnesium metal directly fr
$8.5MLED Seed · 2024
Aquafortus
Aquafortus is a company that develops non-thermal technology to recover and crystallize high sa
$17MLED 2023
Aclarity
Aclarity is a Massachusetts-based venture-backed company developing an electrochemical oxidatio
$3.3MSeed · 2022
Biobot Analytics
Biobot Analytics deploys proprietary sewage-sampling hardware and cloud-based metabolomics anal
$4.2MSeed · 2020

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Invests alongside

Burnt Island Ventures3x K1W12x Universal Materials Incubator2xNZ Growth Capital Partners2xHG Ventures2x Intrepid Financial Partners1xEnvisioning Partners1x Novo Holdings1x BHP Ventures1x

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