Ali Tamaseb

General Partner at DCVC

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 41 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
Operator-angel🌍 United States20+ investmentsInvested this year
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Jan 2026
AI for humans
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Oct 2025
Sygaldry Technologies is building quantum-accelerated AI servers to exponentially speed up training and inference. Its servers combine multiple qubit types within a single, fault-tolerant architecture to deliver the combination of cost, scale, and speed necessary for advanced AI applications. The company is led by quantum veterans Chad Rigetti and Idalia Friedson and AI scientist Michael Keiser. Sygaldry has offices in Ann Arbor, Michigan and San Francisco, CA.
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Sep 2025
Seneca is a resilience technology and infrastructure company. We create autonomous drones and AI-driven software to support firefighters and protect the things we love. Our mission is to eliminate wildfire threat across 500 million acres in the US and allied nations. We do so by building products that support the firefighter in use cases that were previously unsafe, inefficient, or impossible. We prioritize innovations that protect lives, property, and ecosystems. Our focus is on both initial attack operations and beneficial fire support to create a balanced wildland fire cycle over the coming decades.
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Jul 2025
Skyfire is the Agentic Commerce Platform built to let AI agents operate in the real economy with verified Know Your Agent (KYA) identity and native payments. Skyfire empowers AI to process payments, verify identities and access essential services without human intervention. From API account creation to monetizing websites, we drive commerce for the worlds fastest-growing consumer base: AI agents. Skyfire helps businesses safely recognize who (or what) is acting, establish trust, and enable agents to pay and get paid across the websites, tools, and services they need—without duct-tape workflows or brittle hacks. We’re making it simple for companies to unlock agent-driven growth while staying secure, compliant, and in control.
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Feb 2025
Building frontier artificial intelligence to predict and reprogram the interactions between biochemical molecules.
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Feb 2024
ElectronX (EXI), the first U.S.-regulated, direct-access power derivatives market, is the energy exchange created to address volatile short-term price exposure to electricity. With locations in Chicago and New York City, ElectronX is helping to expand the nations power grid by building the financial infrastructure and risk management tools necessary to support increased investment in energy generation, renewable resources, and battery storage technology. ElectronX is proud to be supported by premier venture capital, quantitative trading, and global energy firms including Innovation Endeavors, DCVC, Systemiq Capital, Equinor Ventures, Shell Ventures, XTX Markets, Five Rings, NGP, GTS, Amplo, BoxGroup, JACS Capital, and Lightning Capital. For more information, please visit electronx.com.
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Nov 2023
Odyssey is an AI lab pioneering general world models: causal, multimodal systems that learn to understand and simulate the world. This foundational technology promises to revolutionize robotics, science, healthcare, education, gaming, and beyond.
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Nov 2023
Workflow automation that goes beyond triggers and actions. Relay helps teams with more than other automation tools via one-click AI assistance, human-in-the-loop collaboration, and a multiplayer experience from the ground up.
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Jun 2023
Quilt is the smartest way to heat and cool your home. Our mission is to move humanity off fossil fuels in the home to pass on a better world for future generations Quilt ductless heat pumps set a new efficiency standard for residential climate control. The design blends seamlessly into any home environment, offering intuitive room-by-room control, occupancy awareness for unmatched energy efficiency, and a product that improves over time via over-the-air updates. Learn more and find a partner at Quilt.com/reserve or become a partner at https://www.quilt.com/partners
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Apr 2023
Are you 62+? Welcome to Charlie. Banking* built for you *Charlie is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC.
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Mar 2023
Meet Ninja, your AI Agent for unlimited productivity. Assign Ninja tasks across research, writing, file analysis, coding, image generation, scheduling, and more.
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Oct 2022
Magna is building a platform to turn DeFi investments into financial primitives. Our first product is Carta for Web3, where companies can manage their cap tables and distribute their token equity to employees, advisors, or investors. Were also building crypto-native tools for fund managers.
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Oct 2022
Braavos develops a self-custodial wallet on top of StarkNet. It allows you to manage your funds and NFTs as well as connect to dApps. Available on your favorite browser, Android and iOS.
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Jul 2022
Tomato.ai softens the accents of offshore agents as they speak to customers to improve intelligibility and trust. The solution is offered to offshore call centers managed by BPOs, or directly by enterprises. Visit our website at https://tomato.ai to listen to examples of accent softening.
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2026
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Jan 2026
AI for humans
2025
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Oct 2025
Sygaldry Technologies is building quantum-accelerated AI servers to exponentially speed up training and inference. Its servers combine multiple qubit types within a single, fault-tolerant architecture to deliver the combination of cost, scale, and speed necessary for advanced AI applications. The company is led by quantum veterans Chad Rigetti and Idalia Friedson and AI scientist Michael Keiser. Sygaldry has offices in Ann Arbor, Michigan and San Francisco, CA.
Investor
Sep 2025
Seneca is a resilience technology and infrastructure company. We create autonomous drones and AI-driven software to support firefighters and protect the things we love. Our mission is to eliminate wildfire threat across 500 million acres in the US and allied nations. We do so by building products that support the firefighter in use cases that were previously unsafe, inefficient, or impossible. We prioritize innovations that protect lives, property, and ecosystems. Our focus is on both initial attack operations and beneficial fire support to create a balanced wildland fire cycle over the coming decades.
Investor
Jul 2025
Skyfire is the Agentic Commerce Platform built to let AI agents operate in the real economy with verified Know Your Agent (KYA) identity and native payments. Skyfire empowers AI to process payments, verify identities and access essential services without human intervention. From API account creation to monetizing websites, we drive commerce for the worlds fastest-growing consumer base: AI agents. Skyfire helps businesses safely recognize who (or what) is acting, establish trust, and enable agents to pay and get paid across the websites, tools, and services they need—without duct-tape workflows or brittle hacks. We’re making it simple for companies to unlock agent-driven growth while staying secure, compliant, and in control.
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