

1 on a current fund
last 24 months
across filed funds
| Vehicle | Filed | Target | Sold to date | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decibel Partners III | February 2025 | $317M | $317M | 75 |
| Decibel Partners II | 2022 | $283M | $283M | 93 |
| Decibel Partners I | 2021 | $50M | $50M | 36 |
Amounts are Item 13 as filed: the target is the whole offering, and the amount sold is cumulative across amendments rather than a final close. The filing carries no per-investor amount, so a firm’s own cheque is not recoverable here.
1 partner is named across this firm’s filings, 1 of them on a fund it is deploying now.
| Partner | Activity | Categories | Board seats | Last 24mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jon Sakoda | Quiet | Developer tools & infrastructure, Cybersecurity, E-commerce & marketplaces | 7 | 0 |
Activity is filed board seats in the last 24 months: 4+ Active, 2–3 Selective, 1 Slowing, none Quiet. A firm's tier totals its partners, so an active firm may be four partners with one seat each. It undercounts partners who invest without taking a board seat, and filings lag a closing by weeks, so Quiet means the paperwork is quiet, not the person.
Classified sectors of Decibel’s own portfolio companies, based on 7 with a verified or cited source.
Not a filing value: this is Lev’s own classification of each company, one company one vote regardless of how many of Decibel’s partners are named on its board, shown only when we found a specific, checkable source. Companies with no source read as unclassified and are left out of the shares above.
| Firm | Shared boards | Companies |
|---|---|---|
| NEA | 7 | Akuity, Brandless, DataVisor, OpsClarity, Players Tribune, ScienceLogic, SPECTER OPS |
| Ballistic Ventures | 1 | SPECTER OPS |
| Redpoint Ventures | 1 | Brandless |
A shared board seat: a company where filings name a Decibel partner and a partner at the other firm, both with a clean identity match. Not a claim either firm led or co-led the round, only that both are named on the same board.