# Decibel Partners: portfolio, investments and team > Decibel Partners is a vc firm based in United States. 2 investments on record, latest Mar 2025. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team. Source: https://millionrounds.com/fund/decibel-partners (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article) United States · [Investor](https://millionrounds.com/investors) # Decibel Partners Filed with the SEC to raise a fund in Apr 2026, closing $317M. Last cheque observed Mar 2025. Email Quiet New fund $317M, Apr 2026 VC firm Seed Series A Series B Infrastructure Software Developer Tools Data Engineering Follow Decibel Partners and see its new cheques in your feed. [Start following](https://millionrounds.com/login?join=1&why=follow&next=%2Ffund%2Fdecibel-partners) Cheques on record **0%** of best year **0** **cheques in 12 months**, 2 on record Since the last cheque **591** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec Median round **$4.0M** Rounds led **2 of 2** Sole investor **1 rounds** Pitch Decibel Partners ## 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:** Seed Series A Series B - **Sectors:** Infrastructure Software Developer Tools Data Engineering - **Based in:** Palo Alto, United States - **Cold pitches:** Not stated ## The record Every round we can evidence, newest first **2 appearances** - **2025** 1 round - **Mar** **[Knocknoc](https://millionrounds.com/company/knocknoc)** Seed · AU · TechStartups **Undisclosed** *Led* - **2024** 1 round - **Oct** **[Strella](https://millionrounds.com/company/strella)** Seed · US · AlleyWatch **$4.0M** *Led* 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 registration **1 named** JM **Jon Masao Sakoda** Managing Director i Filing 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 **$1.1B** gross assets of its funds Oct 2026 **Exempt** reporting adviser venture 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 [Abacus](https://millionrounds.com/company/abacus)[Acquired by Freshworks](https://millionrounds.com/company/blameless)[Akuity](https://millionrounds.com/company/akuity)[Botpress](https://millionrounds.com/company/botpress)[Brightwave](https://millionrounds.com/company/brightwave)[Censys](https://millionrounds.com/company/censys)[Credo](https://millionrounds.com/company/credo)[Cube](https://millionrounds.com/company/cube)[Dreadnode](https://millionrounds.com/company/dreadnode)[E2b](https://millionrounds.com/company/e2b)[Ent](https://millionrounds.com/company/ent)[Fixify](https://millionrounds.com/company/fixify)[Knocknoc](https://millionrounds.com/company/knocknoc)[Magnify](https://millionrounds.com/company/magnify)[Nebulock](https://millionrounds.com/company/nebulock)[Nocodb](https://millionrounds.com/company/nocodb)[Penpot](https://millionrounds.com/company/penpot)[Pixee](https://millionrounds.com/company/pixee)[Platformatic](https://millionrounds.com/company/platformatic)[Pushsecurity](https://millionrounds.com/company/push-security)[Specterops](https://millionrounds.com/company/specterops)[Strella](https://millionrounds.com/company/strella)[Sublime](https://millionrounds.com/company/sublime-security)[Unconv](https://millionrounds.com/company/unconventional-ai)[Veris](https://millionrounds.com/company/veris-ai) (exited via secondary) Acquired by Accenture Acquired by Aikido Acquired by CrowdStrike Acquired by HP Enterprise Acquired by Harness Acquired by Microsoft Acquired by Sitecore Answer Aomni Aquired by Dropbox Bicycle Dropzone Mallory Mantisbiotech Prowler 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. New fund on file **$317M** raised in Apr 2026 From its SEC filing, not a journalist: a firm that has just raised has money to deploy. ## The cheque Seed Series A Series B Median round joined **$4.0M** the round, not its cheque Alone, median **$4.0M** Led 2 of 2 rounds **100%** - **Sole investor:** 1 rounds - **Last cheque:** Mar 2025 Rounds by stage said on their site - Seed said *2* - Series A said *-* - Series B said *-* Cheques by month Led Joined Nov 2023 Oct 2026 **Pitching Decibel Partners?** Put them on your fundraising board with this record on the card, and follow them to hear when they write a new cheque. Add to your CRM *→* ## Recently backed The latest companies Decibel Partners put money into. [**Knocknoc** Mar 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/knocknoc)[**Strella** $4.0M · Oct 2024](https://millionrounds.com/company/strella) ## Quick answers about Decibel Partners ### 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. ### How active is Decibel Partners? 2 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 2. The most recent was in Mar 2025. ### What has Decibel Partners invested in recently? Its most recent investments on record: Knocknoc (Seed, Mar 2025) and Strella (Seed, Oct 2024). ### How big are Decibel Partners's cheques? The median round it joins is $4.0M. ### Is Decibel Partners investing now? No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Mar 2025. ### What kind of investor is Decibel Partners? Decibel Partners is a VC firm based in Palo Alto, United States. ### How much does Decibel Partners manage? About $1.1B, as gross assets of its private funds (Oct 2026). ### Has Decibel Partners raised a new fund? Its latest fund filing with the SEC was in Apr 2026, reporting $317M raised. ## Raising now? Find the investors who back rounds like yours, and keep every conversation on one fundraising board. Find similar investorsOpen your CRM Built from the rounds we watched, its filings and its own website, refreshed every night. [How we count](https://millionrounds.com/methodology) · [Report a correction](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?slug=decibel-partners) · [Is this your firm? Claim it](https://millionrounds.com/claim?org=decibel-partners)