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Dan Nguyen-huu
Partner at Decibel Partners
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Dan Nguyen-Huu is a Partner at Decibel VC in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a background in strategy, corporate finance, and investment banking. His notable career achievements include investments in companies such as Sublime Security and Propelo, as well as serving as a Board Observer for various tech firms like Ordr Inc. and Paperspace.
With experience as a Vice President at Battery Ventures and investments in cybersecurity, developer tools, and AI sectors, Dan's role as a Partner at Decibel VC showcases his expertise in financial modeling, leadership, and corporate development within the tech industry.
Work Experience
Partner
2020 - Current
Pre-seed, seed & Series A investing in enterprise software companies: Cloud, data, AI and cybersecurity
Decibel is an independent venture capital firm that provides resources to entrepreneurs.
Seed Investor & Board
2022
AI Powered & adaptive email security platform that combines best-in-class effectiveness with unprecedented visibility and control. Founded by Josh Kamdjou and Ian Thiel.
Seed Investor & Board
2023
AI Agent Based IT Services. Founded by Matt Peters, Peter Silberman and Mase Issa.
Fixify is an AI powered managed service provider for IT support.
Raised $32,000,000.00 from Decibel Partners, Paladin Capital Group, Scale Venture Partners and Costanoa Ventures.
Series A Investor & Board
2023
Identity Attack Paths Management platform based on open source Bloodhound to remove the adversary’s favorite target. Founded by David McGuire and Jason Frank.
Seed Investor & Board
2020
Total Attack Surface & Exposure Management, founded by HD Moore and Chris Kirsch.
runZero (formerly Rumble Network Discovery) provides unmatched asset inventory and network visibility solutions.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Slavik Markovich, Decibel Partners, Oliver Friedrichs, David Eckstein, Rishi Bhargava, Jack Naglieri, Chris Nickerson, Michael Sutton, Paul DiMarzo and Ash Devata.
Series A Investor & Board
2021
AI-powered universal semantic layer platform for data and app development teams who want to end inconsistent models and metrics. Founded by Artyom Keydunov and Pavel Tiunov.
Cube provides an analytical application platform to help companies manage and optimize their analytics workflow.
Raised $46,700,000.00 from Eniac Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Decibel Partners, Databricks Ventures and 645 Ventures.
Seed Investor & Board
2023
Agentic product security engineering platform that fixes vulnerabilities, triages findings, hardens code and squashes bugs. Founded by Surag Patel and Arshan Dabirsiaghi.
Series A Investor & Board
2020 - 2022
Engineering Analytics and developer workflow automation platform. Founded by Nishant Doshi. Acquired by Harness.
Vice President
2016 - 2020
Venture capital investments in emerging enterprise software companies. Forbes 30 Under 30 - Venture Capital
Battery Ventures is a investment firm that focuses on technology.
Investor
2019 - 2020
Data transformation for data in the cloud
Investments
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