Decibel
Also known as Decibel Partners, Decibel VC
Early-stage venture firm investing in developer, security and AI infrastructure software.
- Decibel is an early-stage venture capital firm.
- The firm invests in software used by engineering and security teams.
- Alessio Fanelli, co-host of the Latent Space podcast, is a partner.
Why it matters. For founders of infrastructure, security and AI developer-tool startups looking at seed and Series A investors; its portfolio overlaps heavily with the companies Latent Space covers.
- Launched
- 26 Mar 20191
- Founder
- Jon Sakoda, previously 12 years at NEA1
- Backing at launch
- Majority-backed by Cisco, with investment decisions and governance independent of it1
- Typical check at launch
- $5 million to $15 million for seed and Series A rounds1
- Sectors
- Cybersecurity; developer platforms; data, ML and AI infrastructure; autonomous software3
- Partners
- Dan Nguyen-Huu and Alessio Fanelli2
- Portfolio examples
- Answer.AI, Akuity, Censys, E2B, SpecterOps, Sublime3
- Exits listed
- Cmd (Elastic), Pangea (CrowdStrike), UserClouds (Microsoft), Nira (Dropbox)3
Links
Sources
- Former NEA partner Jon Sakoda takes the wraps off his new, Cisco-backed venture fund, Decibel (TechCrunch) (opens techcrunch.com) read 30 Sep 2026
- Team - Decibel (opens decibel.vc) read 30 Sep 2026
- Companies - Decibel (opens decibel.vc) read 30 Sep 2026
- Decibel homepage (opens decibel.vc) read 30 Sep 2026
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