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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 & Ser A investing in enterprise software companies: Cloud & data infrastructure, big data / AI, cyber-security, Devops, and open source.
Decibel is an independent venture capital firm that provides resources to entrepreneurs.
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.
Board Observer
2019 - 2020
Proactive IoT Security for the hyper-connected enterprise.
Ordr provides visibility and security for every connected device-- from traditional IT to newer and more vulnerable IoT, IoMT, and OT.
Raised $94,000,000.00 from Battery Ventures, Dominic Orr, René Bonvanie, Ten Eleven Ventures, Unusual Ventures, Daniel Warmenhoven, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Northgate Capital, Mayo Clinic and Wing Venture Capital.
Investor
2019 - 2020
Data transformation for data in the cloud
Investor
2019 - 2020
Cloud-native log management and security analytics.
Sumo Logic is a provider of cloud-based machine data analytics that enables reliable and secure cloud-native applications.
Raised $340,000,000.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund, Franklin Templeton, Battery Ventures and Tiger Global Management.
Board Observer
2018 - 2020
AI-fueled application development platform
Gradient is a deep learning platform for modern Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
Board Observer
2017 - 2020
Application Security platform to enable secure digital transformation for enterprises
Contrast Security is a modernized application security, embedding code analysis, and attack prevention directly into the software.
Raised $269,000,000.00 from AXA Venture Partners, Acero Capital, Warburg Pincus, General Catalyst, Battery Ventures, Liberty Strategic Capital and M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund.
Investor
2017 - 2020
Databricks’ mission is to accelerate innovation for its customers by unifying Data Science, Engineering and Business.
Databricks is an AI cloud data platform that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Raised $3,997,000,000.00 from Firestreak Ventures and Bossa Invest.
Investor
2017 - 2020
Intelligent AI calendar for busy professionals
Woven is an intelligent calendar to manage your schedule and get the most out of your meetings.
Raised $4,800,000.00 from Bradley Horowitz and Tiny Capital.
Investor
2016 - 2020
Open source time series database for IoT data, real-time analytics and infrastructure monitoring.
InfluxDB is an open-source time series database developed by the company InfluxData.
Investments
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