DCM is one of the largest venture capital firms headquartered in the Silicon Valley, and has offices in Beijing and Shanghai. A top-performing venture capital firm, DCM manages more than US$1billion worldwide and primarily makes investments in the United States, China and Japan. DCM had six successful IPOs and one M&A in the past 18 months alone.

DCM’s Partners have extensive operational experience running billion-dollar businesses and guiding companies from the early stages to successful IPOs. They have held senior management positions at some of the fastest-growing, most successful technology companies such as Apple, Hewlett-Packard, SINA.com, Sun Microsystems, F5 Networks, Intuit, Arrow and Netframe. Some partners have also held senior positions at world-class professional service firms such as McKinsey, Bain, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. DCM’s Partners have a strong track record of identifying technologies in fast growing markets and backing great management teams capable of producing world-class companies. Most importantly, DCM works as a team, with multiple Partners helping out on each investment.

DCM has two core investment practices in Communications and Asia. Co-founder Dixon Doll was the first U.S. venture capitalist to form a communications-focused fund, which, founded in 1985, became a top-performer. Today, DCM’s successful communications practice encompasses a broad scope of investments, led by a team of highly experienced Partners. Another co-founder, David Chao, is one of the early investors from Silicon Valley to invest in China and Japan with meaningful success. Co-led by David Chao, Hurst Lin and Ruby Lu, DCM’s Asia practice involves the whole firm, as evidenced by a growing number of investments in both China and Japan and the active contributions of the DCM Partners to portfolio companies’ operations and business development. DCM provides its entrepreneurs with hands-on operational guidance and access to an extensive network of resources, including close relationships with successful companies throughout the Pacific Rim. The firm also has a rich set of strategic Limited Partners from China, Japan, Korea and Singapore, as well as a close strategic partnership with China’s Legend Capital.

DCM has a strong investment history across many technology sectors. It has successfully invested in communications, semiconductors, Internet software/services, and wireless and wireless value-added services. Recently, DCM expanded its investments to business services and digital media. In the past 10 years, DCM has successfully funded 2Wire, 51job (Nasdaq: JOBS), About.com (Primedia*), Adways (Japan: 2489), All About (Japan: 2454), @Motion(Openwave*), CIAC -Mop.com, Fortinet, Foundry Networks (Nasdaq: FDRY), HireRight, Internap (AMEX: IIP), IPivot (Intel*), Japan Communications, Inc. (Japan: 9424), Kabu.com (Japan: 8703), Mebix (Japan: 3780), nQuire (Siebel*), PictureTel (Nasdaq: PCTL), PGP Corporation, Polycom (Nasdaq: PLCM), Recourse Technologies (Symantec*), Swanlabs (F5 Networks*), Sigmatel (Nasdaq: SGTL), SMIC (NYSE: SMI), Star Flyer, UUNet (MCI*), Vendavo, Vimicro (Nasdaq: VIMC) and Worksoft. (* acquisition)