# Charles Ferguson

> Charles Ferguson is a seed investor at Davidovs Venture Collective backing Artificial Intelligence. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Davidovs Venture Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/davidovs-vc)
- Location: Berkeley, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-ferguson-075505197

Charles Ferguson is a General Partner at DVC. He is an experienced founder (Frontpage, sold to Microsoft), investor, and Academy Award-winning filmmaker. He's an LP in multiple funds and contributes a vast network. Charles is an active LP and Deal Captain in DVC Seed Fund and is joining DVC as a Partner to focus on the AI Fund.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 67% |
| Music | 1 | 33% |
| Financial Services | 1 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 33% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 67% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ralo | Ralo offers an intelligent and user-friendly approach to handle house financing. Ralo assists you in understanding your alternatives, comparing offers, and avoiding the spammy jumble that most platforms present. | $2.9M | Seed | Jun 18, 2026 |  |
| Mozart AI | Artho has revealed its first product, Mozart AI, a groundbreaking AI-powered Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that aims to accelerate and magnify human creativity. This hybrid musician will have complete control over their musical vision with no creative friction. They will create, engineer, and perform at the speed of their imagination. They willoutperform and innovate the best pure human artists by combining human artistry with AI co-creation. We are a team of musicians, technologists, and creative visionaries. | $6M | Seed | Feb 11, 2026 |  |
| Generative Alpha | Generative Alpha is a financial investment AI agent and vertical AI foundation model company that builds financial investment-focused AI. |  | Pre-Seed | Nov 18, 2025 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Balderton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/balderton-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blast. Club](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blast-club) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [EWOR](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ewor) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Manresa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manresa-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mercuri](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercuri-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Pack Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pack-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Davidovs Venture Collective

VC Fund · Los Altos, United States

Davidovs Venture Collective is a VC firm based on a community of 99+ founders (including 4 active unicorn founders), operators, and angel investors. They are engineers with a lot of experience running startups and being value-added investors. DVC invests small entry checks from the rolling fund and follows up with bigger sums along the way. DVCpools together its collective network, expertise, and resources to help its portfolio companies. DVC's investment focus is quite broad, but DVC prefers partnering with experienced and repeat founders.

3 contacts available at Davidovs Venture Collective.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Charles Ferguson | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-ferguson-98f1 |
| Marina Davidova | Managing Partner, co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marina-davidova |
| Nick Davidov | Partner, co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-davidov |

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## FAQ

### What does Charles Ferguson invest in?

Charles Ferguson invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Music and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Charles Ferguson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Charles Ferguson closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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