DCVC
DCVC (also known as Data Collective) is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California, that invests in early-stage and growth deep tech companies applying artificial intelligence and computational approaches across sectors such as climate, health, defense, energy, and industry.www.dcvc.com
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Oct 14, 2026
DariusHOST
On Friday, TypeSafe AI, the San Francisco startup behind the Jev model, said it raised eight hundred and seventy million dollars at a seven point five billion dollar valuation, less than a month after Jev launched on September fifteenth.
DariusHOST
Andreessen Horowitz led the round, with Sequoia, existing investor DCVC, and angel investors also taking part.
DariusHOST
Jev is built on a transformer, but it's not a chatbot.
DariusHOST
It skips text entirely and returns structured, calibrated decisions.
speaker_5CORRESPONDENT
The deal values the company at $7.5 billion.
speaker_5CORRESPONDENT
Andreessen Horowitz led the round, with Sequoia Capital and existing investor DCVC taking part.
speaker_5CORRESPONDENT
Jev is unusual.
speaker_5CORRESPONDENT
It does not write text.
Chris BuskirkGUEST
... that's like, you know, I think the country is, and, and I'm thankful for it, I think the country is, has ex- has now broadly understood, um, across pol- the political divide that this is something that is necessary, is underway, and needs to be sustained and supported.
Suffiyan MalikHOST
Do you know Matt Alco at DCVC?
Chris BuskirkGUEST
Extremely well.
Suffiyan MalikHOST
You know, he was on the show earlier this year, and, um, maybe out of annoyance he made this critique that if we're going to be, or the US as a country is going to be serious about re-industrialization, you have to deregulate.
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DanielHOST
TypeSafe AI, a 25-person startup.
DanielHOST
24 days after coming out of stealth, it closed an $870 million Series A at a $7.5 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Sequoia Capital and existing investor DCVC.
DanielHOST
The jump from a roughly $200 million seed valuation to $7.5 billion in under a month is among the steepest on record for an AI model company.
DanielHOST
What did TypeSafe actually build? Its model, called JEV, does not output text in the traditional sense.
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Typesafe AI, the startup behind a model called Jev, has raised about eight hundred and seventy million dollars at a seven and a half billion dollar valuation only weeks after the model launched.
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Andreessen Horowitz led the round with Sequoia and existing investor DCVC taking part, according to TechCrunch and Bloomberg.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Jev is not a chatbot.
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Instead of writing text, it returns probabilities, scoring a set of choices so that software can act on the answer automatically.
Ali TamasebGUEST
Good to be here, Sujan.
Suffiyan MalikHOST
You're a general partner at DCVC, which is a f- roughly $5 billion AUM deep tech fund.
Suffiyan MalikHOST
I've had Matt Golkow, um, on the show, who's a co-founder of the firm.
Suffiyan MalikHOST
But you're more interestingly, you're the f- 'cause you wrote this book, "Super Founders," and you started a club, uh, around that thesis.
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Suffiyan MalikHOST
Okay
Ali TamasebGUEST
...
Ali TamasebGUEST
so at DCVC, we do deep tech, right?
Suffiyan MalikHOST
Right.
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