Dan Nguyen-Huu
InvestorPartner at Decibel Partners
San Francisco Bay Area
Writes $100K – $10M checks · typically $1M
About
Dan Nguyen-Huu is a partner at Decibel who works with founders building ML/AI, cloud infrastructure, and cybersecurity companies. He was previously a Vice President at Battery Ventures and earlier worked at VMware and in UBS's technology investment banking group. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Venture Capital in 2019.
Invests in
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurity
Experience
- Decibel PartnersPartnercurrent2020 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Sublime SecuritySeed Investor & Boardcurrent2022 — present
- FixifySeed Investor & Boardcurrent2023 — present
- SpecterOpsSeries A Investor & Boardcurrent2023 — present
- NebulockPre-Seed Investor & Boardcurrent2024 — present
- CubeSeries A Investor & Boardcurrent2021 — present
- PixeeSeed Investor & Boardcurrent2023 — present
- runZero (acquired by Accenture)Seed Investor & Board2020 — 2026
- Propelo (acquired by Harness)Series A Investor & Board2020 — 2022
- Battery VenturesVice President2016 — 2020Menlo Park, CA
- MatillionInvestor2019 — 2020Manchester, United Kingdom
- Sumo LogicInvestor2019 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- PaperspaceSeed Investor & Board2018 — 2020Greater New York City Area
- Contrast SecurityBoard Observer2017 — 2020Palo Alto, CA
- DatabricksInvestor2017 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- WovenSeed Investor2017 — 2020Mountain View, CA
- InfluxDataInvestor2016 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- ExpelSeed Investor & Board2016 — 2020Herndon, VA
- Machinify, Inc.Seed Investor & Board2016 — 2020Palo Alto, CA
- VMwareStrategy & Corporate Development2012 — 2015Palo Alto, CA
Education
- University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Arts, Economics
Skills & more
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Mergers & AcquisitionsMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OfficeLanguages English · French · German · Vietnamese
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Same school
Also attended University of California, Berkeley863
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Shared employers
Also worked at Sublime Security8
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Also worked at SpecterOps6
Also worked at Nebulock4
Investments
Led
Contrast SecurityDatabricksExpelInfluxDataSumoLogic
Per the firm's website.
Colleagues at Decibel Partners
Network9
Investors connected to Dan in public investor directories — a warm-intro map.


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