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What does Decibel Partners invest in?
Decibel Partners invests most often at Seed (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Infrastructure Software, Developer Tools and Data Engineering.
Decibel Partners highlights
- 01
2 rounds on record
- 02
Mostly Seed: 100% of its rounds
- 03
Sole investor in 1 rounds, median $4.0M
What they do
Decibel is an early-stage venture capital firm.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- Infrastructure SoftwareDeveloper ToolsData Engineering
- Based in
- Palo Alto, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first2 appearances
- 2025
1 round
- Mar
- 2024
1 round
- Oct
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration1 named
JMJon Masao SakodaManaging DirectoriFiling they signed
We also hold 8 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$1.1Bgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Decibel Partners, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 308477
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
25 of 41 we have independently watched raise
AbacusAcquired by FreshworksAkuityBotpressBrightwaveCensysCredoCubeDreadnodeE2bEntFixifyKnocknocMagnifyNebulockNocodbPenpotPixeePlatformaticPushsecuritySpecteropsStrellaSublimeUnconvVeris(exited via secondary)Acquired by AccentureAcquired by AikidoAcquired by CrowdStrikeAcquired by HP EnterpriseAcquired by HarnessAcquired by MicrosoftAcquired by SitecoreAnswerAomniAquired by DropboxBicycleDropzoneMalloryMantisbiotechProwler
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.