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Zachary Scott Bogue is an American lawyer, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He co-founded DCVC, where he is a co-managing partner investing in deep-technology companies, and has also founded or backed technology ventures. His career has combined corporate law, entrepreneurship, angel investing, and board service.
Background
Bogue was born on December 5, 1975, in San Francisco, California, and attended Wheat Ridge High School in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. His family background included legal and entrepreneurial work: his father practiced law, his mother operated consulting businesses, and his grandparents owned weekly newspapers in Nebraska.
Before entering law school, Bogue worked as a private investigator for lawyers handling death-penalty defense cases. That experience exposed him to criminal-justice practice while he was considering both public-interest and corporate legal careers.
Education
Bogue attended Wheat Ridge High School in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, from 1990 to 1994. He then studied at Harvard University, graduating in 1998 with honors in Environmental Science and Public Policy. Harvard, founded in 1636, is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States and combines liberal-arts education with extensive research programs.
He received a Juris Doctor with honors from Georgetown University Law Center in 2002. Georgetown Law, founded in 1870, is one of the major American centers for legal education in Washington, D.C. During law school, Bogue served as executive editor of The Tax Lawyer and participated in a criminal-law clinic.
Bogue began his legal career at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a Silicon Valley law firm known for representing technology companies and entrepreneurs. He later practiced as a partner at Virtual Law Partners, where his work connected corporate legal practice with the needs of emerging businesses.
He moved into entrepreneurship and investment through Montara Capital Partners, a real-estate private-equity fund he co-founded, and Founders Den, a San Francisco founders' community and shared workspace established with other technology entrepreneurs. Founders Den was designed as a curated environment in which early-stage company founders could work, exchange advice, and develop investment relationships.
In 2010, Bogue co-founded Data Collective, now known as DCVC, with Matt Ocko. He serves as co-founder and co-managing partner across DCVC's family of funds, whose investments focus on deep technologies including computational biology, artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, nuclear energy, geospatial systems, and climate-related technologies. His earlier venture investments included Square, Uber, and AngelList, while later investments and board relationships have included companies such as Planet Labs, Relation Therapeutics, and Recursion Pharmaceuticals.
Bogue has also served as an adviser and managing partner associated with Metabiota and has held board responsibilities in technology and life-science companies. His professional work combines legal training with venture financing, company formation, and strategic support for science- and technology-based enterprises.
Achievements
Bogue co-founded DCVC, a venture-capital firm focused on deep technologies addressing major industrial, scientific, health, and environmental problems.
He co-founded Founders Den, a San Francisco community and shared workspace for technology entrepreneurs.
Through DCVC and earlier angel investments, Bogue backed technology companies including Square, Uber, AngelList, Planet Labs, and other science- and data-intensive ventures.
He developed a career combining corporate law, company formation, venture financing, and strategic advising for technology and life-science businesses.
Views
Bogue's public statements describe a worldview in which environmental systems thinking and deep technology can be combined to address urgent global problems. He has expressed interest in investments that connect commercial innovation with improvements in human health, food production, climate mitigation, and economic opportunity.
His investment philosophy emphasizes technically ambitious companies working on difficult problems rather than limiting technology to incremental consumer applications. He has also argued that legal and financial expertise can be used to help scientific founders translate research into durable organizations and products.
Membership
Bogue has participated in nonprofit and civic organizations concerned with education, community development, public health, and the arts. His documented board service includes the East Palo Alto Charter School and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, while the baseline biography also records board membership with Tipping Point Community and the University of California, San Francisco Foundation.
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East Palo Alto Charter School
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United States
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Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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United States
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Tipping Point Community
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United States
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University of California, San Francisco Foundation
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United States
Personality
Bogue has described venture investing as compatible with public-service concerns and has emphasized supporting companies whose technologies address broad social and environmental problems. His public professional profile presents him as an entrepreneur and investor interested in applying scientific and computational methods to large-scale challenges.
Quotes from others about the person
Bogue has said that investing with a social conscience can be a successful strategy because some technology companies promote the public good, including through advances in agriculture, geospatial intelligence, and access to credit.
Bogue participated in junior varsity football and club rugby at Harvard; he was a captain of the rugby club.
Connections
Bogue married Marissa Mayer in December 2009. Mayer is a technology executive who served as president and chief executive officer of Yahoo and previously held senior leadership positions at Google. Bogue and Mayer have three children.
Wife:
Marissa Mayer
Technology executive who served as president and chief executive officer of Yahoo and previously held senior leadership positions at Google. Bogue and Mayer married in December 2009.
References
DCVC: Zachary Bogue, Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Official profile describing Bogue's role as co-founder and co-managing partner of DCVC, his investment focus, education, prior investments, and nonprofit board service.
Georgetown Law: Alumni Entrepreneurs Share Their Stories
Alumni profile discussing Bogue's family background, private-investigator work, Georgetown legal education, Wilson Sonsini experience, Montara Capital, Founders Den, and the creation of Data Collective.
2016
Recursion Pharmaceuticals 2026 Proxy Statement
Company proxy statement documenting Bogue's service on Recursion's board since August 2018, his DCVC leadership, investment background, education, and Young Global Leader recognition.
The World Economic Forum named Bogue a Young Global Leader in 2015 in recognition of his work at the intersection of transformative technology and urgent global issues.
The World Economic Forum named Bogue a Young Global Leader in 2015 in recognition of his work at the intersection of transformative technology and urgent global issues.
