Decibel is an early-stage venture capital firm created in partnership with Cisco, investing in essential infrastructure software used by developers, data engineers, and cybersecurity teams. The firm is based in Palo Alto, California and was founded in 2019 by Jon Sakoda.
33% of their portfolio is in Cybersecurity. Deal activity increased 233% year-over-year (10 deals in the last 12 months). Their most common stage is series-a (44% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $23.3M (across 46 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
37
Fund Size
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Top Stage
Series A
Last 12 Mo
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Team
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
48 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Censys | Series D | $70M | Mar 2026 |
 Sublime Security | Series C | $60M | Oct 2025 |
 Strella AI | Series A | $14M | Oct 2025 |
 Nebulock | Seed | — | Jul 2025 |
 E2B | Series A | $21M | Jul 2025 |
 Dropzone AI | Series B | $37M | Jul 2025 |
 Scrunch AI | Series A | $15M | Jul 2025 |
 Scrunch | Series A | — | Jul 2025 |
 Confident Security | Seed | $4.2M | Jul 2025 |
| CConfident Security | Seed | $4.2M | Jul 2025 |
 Botpress | Series B | $25M | Jun 2025 |
 Dreadnode | Series A | $14M | Jan 2025 |
 SpecterOps | Series B | $75M | Jan 2025 |
| Scrunch | Series A | $15M | Jan 2025 |
| Sublime Security | Series B | $60M | Dec 2024 |
 Fixify | Series A | $25M | Oct 2024 |
| Sublime Security | Series A | $20M | Apr 2024 |
 Delphos Labs | Seed | $7.3M | Jan 2024 |
| Censys | Series C | $75M | Oct 2023 |
 Platformatic | Seed | $3.5M | Jun 2023 |
 Push Security | Series A | $15M | Apr 2023 |
| KKaleidos | Series A | $12M | Feb 2023 |
 Pangea | Series B | $26M | Nov 2022 |
 Penpot | Unknown | $8M | Sep 2022 |
| Push Security | Seed | $4M | Jul 2022 |
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Top Co-Investors
Index Ventures6 shared
GV5 shared
Slow Ventures4 shared
645 Ventures4 shared
Mayfield Fund4 shared
Bain Capital Ventures4 shared
In-Q-Tel4 shared
Greylock Partners3 shared
Lightspeed Venture Partners3 shared
Homebrew3 shared
Madrona Venture Group3 shared
Citi Ventures3 shared
Insight Partners3 shared
Eniac Ventures3 shared
Athos Capital3 shared
Intel Capital2 shared
MVP Ventures2 shared
Bessemer Venture Partners2 shared
Institutional Venture Partners2 shared
Databricks Ventures2 shared
Last updated: 9 September 2026