Industrial Transformation & Advanced Manufacturing

DCVC’s perspectives on industrial transformation, advanced manufacturing, and industrial AI.

Inside: deep dives on the deep tech solutions rebuilding logistics, inspection, physical AI/robotics, and the modern American industrial base.

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Deep Tech Opportunities Report

DCVC DTOR 2025: One overlooked source of clean water is polluted water

Deep Tech Opportunities Report

DCVC DTOR 2025: Robots should be backward-compatible with the real world

Fulfil’s robot revolution comes to Whole Foods

Company Profile

Flexible Power for an inflexible grid: Why DCVC backed Mainspring Energy

Deep Tech Opportunities Report

DCVC DTOR 25: Deep tech will solidify the United States’ advantage as a global manufacturing powerhouse while sparing the environment

Lumafield raises $75 million to give manufacturers a look deep inside their products as they come out of the lab and off the line

By James Hardiman

Alta debuts with $5.1 million Seed to sustainably separate critical minerals using advanced biochemistry

By James Hardiman

Clearing the Docks

By James Hardiman

Climate tech’s lemons-to-lemonade moment: how the private sector can ensure a durable, clean American industrial renaissance

Deep Tech Opportunities Report

DCVC DTOR 2024: Agility Robotics is a real-world case study in operational data

Agility Robotics’ human-centric robot, Digit, selected for another groundbreaking logistics pilot program

By Matthew Ocko

Company Profile

Take a look: How Fulfil is reinventing grocery shopping

By Matthew Ocko, Alan Cohen

Company Profile

Agility Robotics: augmenting Amazon’s warehouse workforce

How Fulfil Solutions aims to cut food waste, lower grocery bills, and boost retailers’ profits

Deep Tech Opportunities Report

Why machine vision has DCVC's eye

Congratulations to Amogy in its big Series B-1 to scale up its 10X better ammonia “cracker” key to zero-carbon power for trucks and cargo ships

By James Hardiman, Zachary Bogue

Fulfil emerges from stealth with $60 million of fresh capital

By Matthew Ocko

One person’s trash is everyone’s treasure: DCVC leads $17 million Recycleye Series A

Q>1 Is a Rallying Cry for Fusion Energy—and for All of Deep Tech

By Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh

Reach’s Wireless Power Is Electric

By Alan Cohen, Matthew Ocko

Human-scale Robots for Global-scale Abundance, Resilience, and Dignity

By Matthew Ocko

Lumafield is Lighting Up the Future of Product Design

By James Hardiman

Investing in Human Enablement

DCVC Announcements

DCVC Welcomes 2022

Reinventing Cement for a Zero-Carbon Future

By Zachary Bogue

From Seed to IPO: Zymergen brings biofacturing public

By Matthew Ocko, Zachary Bogue

The Future of Repetitive, Physically Demanding and Dangerous Work: DCVC Co-leads Investment in Agility Robotics

By Matthew Ocko

Powering a Comprehensive Response to the COVID-19 Crisis Through Deep Tech

By Matthew Ocko, Zachary Bogue

Powering the Next Battery Revolution, Advano Decloaks From Stealth With $18.5m Series A

By James Hardiman

DCVC Announcements

DCVC x Women in Robotics Event

Zymergen, Series Seed and Series A led by DCVC, Raises $400M+ Series C: Revolutionizing global industry through molecular manufacturing

By Matthew Ocko, Zachary Bogue

DCVC Co-Leads $7.6M Citrine Series A to Transform Materials Development

Zymergen, Mesosphere, Citrine & Desktop Metal named World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers

Bringing Zymergen to Scale: Enabling Engineering Biology with AI & Robotics

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