# Davidovs Venture Collective

> Davidovs Venture Collective is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence. See 121 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Altos, United States
- Total investments: 121
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/davidovs-vc/about/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Nick_Davidov
- Website: https://davidovs.com

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$11M |
| Pre-Seed | $125k–$2.1M |
| Series A | $7.6M–$29M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 25 | 21% |
| Software | 17 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 15 | 12% |
| Machine Learning | 12 | 10% |
| Health Care | 9 | 7% |

96 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 43 | 36% |
| Pre-Seed | 24 | 20% |
| Series A | 7 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 4% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 1% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 47 | 39% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 3% |
| Canada | 3 | 2% |
| Germany | 2 | 2% |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Charles Ferguson | General Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-ferguson-98f1 |
| Marina Davidova | Managing Partner, co-founder | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marina-davidova |
| Nick Davidov | Partner, co-founder | 34 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-davidov |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dwelly | 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 | 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 | 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 | Motives AI operates AI agents that design, recruit, conduct, and analyze consumer interviews. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Sep 09, 2025 |  |
| Keye | 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 |  |
| Thinking Machines Lab | Thinking Machines Lab is an artificial intelligence research and product company focused on making knowledge accessible to everyone. Thinking Machines Lab is developing multimodal AI systems to collaborate with humans across various domains. The company focuses on building models that can adapt to different levels of human expertise, aiming toexpand their applications in science, programming, and other fields. Its research explores advanced AI capabilities to support scientific discoveries and engineering advancements. | $2B | Seed | Jun 20, 2025 |  |
| WorkDone | WorkDone is an AI compliance copilot that prevents small medical documentation errors from becoming costly disasters. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | May 21, 2025 |  |
| FitWise AI | FitWise builds 3D digital twins of athletes from a video in sports. |  | Seed | Apr 30, 2025 |  |
| Doctronic | Doctronic is the first D2C AI doctor working with human doctors in all 50 states in the US (and moving into other countries quickly). Get immediate AI diagnosis and then ask a human doctor to verify / act on that diagnosis if needed. | $5M | Seed | Apr 17, 2025 |  |
| Optic | Optic, an AI Drug Discovery company, is based in San Francisco. Our proprietary ligand-based and target-driven molecular search engine Bioptic.io identifies compounds by their activity-expressing fingerprints. It offers a novel approach to finding diverse candidate sets. In addition, we now also have an agentic AI platform for scientific andbusiness due diligence on drug assets. Our pipeline includes multiple pre-clinical stage programs, showcasing our commitment to practical, AI-driven solutions in cancer therapy. | $1M | Seed | Apr 10, 2025 |  |

10 of 121 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 23 deals together
- [Angelsdeck Global Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angelsdeck) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [AltaIR Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altair) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
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- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Act One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/act-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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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 121 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.

### How do I contact Davidovs Venture Collective?

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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 Nick Davidov (Partner, co-founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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