# Ali Tamaseb

> Ali Tamaseb is a General Partner at DCVC, the Palo Alto deep-tech venture firm, and the author of Super Founders, a bestselling, data-first dissection of what actually separates billion-dollar startups from the rest. A former hardware founder and biomedical engineer trained at Imperial College London, he hand-collected one of the largest startup datasets ever assembled - 30,000 data points across roughly 300 unicorns - and now backs founders across biotech, climate, fintech, and industrial AI.

- **Role:** General Partner at DCVC
- **Organizations:** DCVC (Data Collective), Superfounders Club
- **From:** Iran
- **Nationality:** Iranian-British
- **Education:** Electrical Engineering, University of Tehran, Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, General Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- **Known for:** Bestselling author of Super Founders, Imperial College President's Medal for Outstanding Achievement, British Alumni Award 2018

## Career timeline

- **pre-2018** — Founder and CEO of Blocks Wearables, a modular smartwatch hardware startup
- **2018** — Joined DCVC; honoree of the British Alumni Award from the British Council
- **2021** — Published Super Founders with PublicAffairs (Hachette)
- **2024** — DCVC closes new funds; total firm AUM north of $4B

## Achievements

- Bestselling author of Super Founders
- Imperial College President's Medal for Outstanding Achievement
- British Alumni Award 2018
- Four granted patents
- Five academic papers on machine learning and AI
- Medals in national and international physics and programming olympiads
- Backed multiple billion-dollar companies as a DCVC partner

## Latest updates

- **2024-09** — DCVC raised new funds; firm continues writing seed-to-Series-A checks across deep tech.

## Links

- Website: https://www.superfoundersbook.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alitamaseb/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/alitamaseb
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyppFC50coA
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/dcvc

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