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.
- Total investments:
- 126
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 4%
- Fund size:
- $90k
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Davidovs Venture Collective invests in
Stages Davidovs Venture Collective invests in
Countries Davidovs Venture Collective invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$11M
- Pre-Seed
- $125k–$2.1M
- Series A
- $7.6M–$29M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 25 (20%)
- Software 17 (13%)
- Information Technology 15 (12%)
- Machine Learning 12 (10%)
- Health Care 9 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 43 (34%)
- Pre-Seed 24 (19%)
- Series A 7 (6%)
- Funding Round 5 (4%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (1%)
Country
- United States 47 (37%)
- United Kingdom 4 (3%)
- Canada 3 (2%)
- Germany 2 (2%)
- Cyprus 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Charles Ferguson
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Marina Davidova
Managing Partner, co-founder
|
Managing Partner, co-founder | Total investments: 20 | Find email | |
Mel Guymon
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Nick Davidov
Partner, co-founder
|
Partner, co-founder | Total investments: 36 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boldr is building the largest residential power plant enabling homes to provide peak capacity to the grid. An energy management platform that allows homeowners to connect traditional energy assets in the home, optimise usage, reduce bills and connect to local grid operators for grid balancing operations. Starting with the largest residential energymarket in the USA - HVAC. | $4.9M / Seed / Aug 24, 2026 | ||
| Autonomous Minds builds an "agent-first Palantir". Our mission is to power 1 trillion agents, serving 1 billion humans. | $3.6M / Seed / Aug 20, 2026 | ||
| BlockRun is a payment infrastructure startup letting AI agents pay per API call in USDC via the x402 protocol. | Seed / Aug 10, 2026 | ||
| AeroSilicon is a deep-tech company that specializes in the semiconductor design and hardware engineering sectors. The firm pioneered the "Custom Chip as a Service" (CCaaS) model, utilizing a proprietary math-to-silicon synthesis engine to convert client algorithms directly into encrypted, device-locked FPGA bitstreams. | Pre-Seed / Aug 10, 2026 | ||
|
Caryatid
|
Caryatid is a technology driven company that offers AI powered products and services. | $510K / Seed / Aug 03, 2026 | |
| Dwelly is a UK-based lettings & property management AI-first platform. The company grows by acquiring and partnering with traditional letting agencies to elevate it's level of service. Using AI, Dwelly streamlines the entire letting lifecycle—from tenant finding to rent collection—while enhancing the user experience | $95M / Series B / Jul 28, 2026 | ||
| The New Era® of Shopping helps merchants make their catalogues discoverable and shoppable inside AI assistants. Key features of the platform include two-way catalog syncing with PIMs/ERPs, SKU-level intelligence to measure AI visibility and ranking of products inside LLM responses, user prompts analysis for trends and volume insights, andautomated content optimization to improve how products rank in conversational answers. The product is already integrated with all major eCommerce platforms like Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, Wix, etc, as well as main AI discovery platforms: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity. | $1.4M / Pre-Seed / Feb 24, 2026 | ||
| Zinit is a US-based AI-powered B2B procurement platform that optimizes tail spend and helps enterprises cut costs by 15-30%. Operating in the US and high-growth markets like India, Indonesia, and Brazil, the company targets the $3T private enterprise procurement tail spend market with its 1-click cross-border autonomous procurement tech solution.This solution enables RFPs to be completed 80% faster and boosts the process of winning bids for new suppliers by 50%. | $8M / Seed / Nov 25, 2025 | ||
| Motives AI operates AI agents that design, recruit, conduct, and analyze consumer interviews. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 09, 2025 | ||
| Keye provides an AI-powered due diligence platform that transforms raw deal files into structured, investor-ready outputs. The platform automates data cuts, runs calculations, and surfaces insights for faster decision-making. Keye ensures accuracy and transparency, linking every output to its raw source and offering Excel-ready exports. | $5M / Seed / Jul 29, 2025 | ||
| See all 126 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Davidovs Venture Collective invest in?
Davidovs Venture Collective invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 126 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Davidovs Venture Collective's check size?
Davidovs Venture Collective typically joins rounds of $1M–$11M at Seed, $125k–$2.1M at Pre-Seed and $7.6M–$29M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Davidovs Venture Collective participates in.
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Who are the partners at Davidovs Venture Collective?
The team at Davidovs Venture Collective includes Charles Ferguson (General Partner), Marina Davidova (Managing Partner, co-founder) and Mel Guymon (General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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