Davidovs Venture Collective

Nick Davidov and Marina Davidova founded DVC in 2021 around a community of engineers, founders and angel investors. Its LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry profile identifies Los Altos, California, as its headquarters.⁠[1]

In 2023, Marina Davidova described internal tools that convert portfolio updates into assistance tasks and support introductions and investment-material analysis. She used COPO to describe the combined operations and product-development role.⁠[2]

In September 2025, Nick Davidov described a pre-seed and seed fund with $40 million in committed capital and a $75 million Series A fund. These were fund figures at the interview date, not amounts already invested.⁠[3]

DVC’s public profile identifies PerplexityPerplexityPerplexity is a San Francisco–based artificial intelligence company founded in 2022, known for its “answer engine” that gives answers with cited sources, and it has also launched products such as the Comet browser.Open the full entry, HiggsfieldHiggsfieldHiggsfield is an AI visual-content company founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco. Beginning with the Diffuse mobile app, it developed a browser-based production platform for creators, marketing teams and enterprises, combining proprietary and third-party models for images, video, storyboards, character consistency and multi-step creative work.Open the full entry, Etched and Rhoda AIRhoda AIRhoda AI develops robot foundation models and intelligence systems for industrial robots. It publicly introduced FutureVision in March 2026 alongside a $450 million Series A.Open the full entry as portfolio companies and highlights support for Wabi. Its model involves community members in hiring, technical and business assistance.⁠[1]

The website distinguishes a rolling pre-seed/seed fund, with checks of $100,000–$300,000, from DVC AI Fund I, which follows selected portfolio companies into Series A/B with $1 million–$3 million checks.⁠[4]

Davidovs Venture Collective. Official website: https://dvc.ai/ (opens in a new window).⁠[4]

EtchedEtchedEtched develops AI inference chips and rack systems, co-designing silicon, memory, interconnects, software and manufacturing for large-model inference.Open the full entry: Portfolio company. Official website: https://www.etched.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[1]

WabiWabiWabi is an AI company and product founded by Eugenia Kuyda. It evolved from generating personal mini-apps from prompts into a shared AI assistant and is operated by Wabi, Inc.Open the full entry: Portfolio company. Official website: https://wabi.ai/ (opens in a new window).⁠[1]

Animation Inc.Animation Inc.Animation Inc. develops real-time generative animation, including the on-device Ani-2 model for 3D characters and the AI companion product Animates. Its website names DVC among its investors.Open the full entry: The company names DVC among its investors. Official website: https://www.animation.inc/ (opens in a new window).⁠[5]