Jon Sakoda

Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist. Founding Partner of Decibel. We are Founders Investing in Founders

[Jon Sakoda @jonsakoda]

A founder today asked me "how early do you invest?" Early stage VC funds can invest:

Pre-Hockey Stick ("not early")
Pre-Revenue ("early")
Pre-Product ("really early")
Pre-Powerpoint ("crazy early")

We are crazy early investors @DecibelVC - there is no such thing as "too early"

[swyx @swyx]

for what it's worth, i only invite double-length track keynotes when I'm very sure that both speaker and content deserve it. Today, @chrmanning and @abshkbh did double duty at AIE and by all accounts* people loved the opportunity to go deeper on sandboxing and world models. Look at this insane room - and the online audience is going to be >1000x this!!

*i unfortunately have to do show duties so rely on secondhand accounts

[Sarah Chieng @MilksandMatcha]

I host a ton of events.

This video was so fun to make, capturing how my team and I leverage AI when curating an incredibly high volume of intimate, tasteful, and high-quality events using some of our favorite tools like @OpenAIDevs Codex, Eve by @vercel and more.

But we are also excited to learn. Let me know if you have any suggestions or favorite tools and workflows :)

And if you're heading to ICML, definitely say hi to the @Cerebras team.

[Mika Sagindyk @heymikasagi]

New category drop on the Arena: ✨AI agent frameworks✨

Agent Experience (AX) update as of 06/26:

1/ @LangChain LangGraph
2/ @vercel AI SDK
3/ @crewAIInc
4/ @mastra

For context: we evaluate how easy it is for AI agents to get started with devtools, fully autonomously

With AI agents becoming the primary consumers of docs and APIs, AX is the natural evolution of DX

more on on https://t.co/Lr6uVDJ9eV

DM me or @2027dev for the full report!

What tools / categories should evaluate do next? 🔥

cc: @hwchase17 @j_schottenstein @jakebroekhuizen @joaomdmoura @calcsam @abhiaiyer @jesse_miller @andrewqu @rauchg @nickoates_ @31Carlton7 @smthomas3

[Jon Sakoda @jonsakoda]

@caseyjohnellis @riskybusiness @DecibelVC Thank you Casey! It was time to hit refresh on how we all pitch AI + Cyber

[cje @caseyjohnellis]

So I’ve been both neck-deep and a student of the art of cybersecurity venture for a LONG time now, and this interview between @riskybusiness, James, and @jonsakoda from @DecibelVC is *absolute* gold. Highly recommend.

Pitching security startups to VCs in the AI era

https://t.co/CtrhWjJF6t

[HD Moore @hdmoore]

runZero 5.0! https://t.co/CKjhKzsbQ7

[Alessio Fanelli @FanaHOVA]

Congrats @clattner_llvm and the whole @Modular team on their acquisition! If you want to rewind the clock on their story, we first interviewed Chris in September 2023.

[Jon Sakoda @jonsakoda]

@clattner_llvm Congrats Chris!

[Chris Lattner @clattner_llvm]

I'm excited to share that Qualcomm is acquiring Modular: this will accelerate our path to unifying accelerated compute with an open platform. This will also mark a new era in open software development for Qualcomm. 👇

[Jon Sakoda @jonsakoda]

Show episode here: https://t.co/b3PkrvFG0Y

[Jon Sakoda @jonsakoda]

The cyber market is noisy and it is time to break from conventional wisdom - is AI helping or hurting you when trying to raise VC funding?

AI accelerates what's possible and allows everyone to convert concepts into code

But it is also “generalizable” intelligence and unintentionally can undermine what makes a startup idea special

Now more than ever we need to go back to basics and lean into our unique stories as founders when we pitch VCs

Thank you @riskybusiness for tackling this often misunderstood topic - enjoy the show!

[Alessio Fanelli @FanaHOVA]

Excited to back @sgrove's new co. Everyone will become the CEO of their own AI agent company. They are launching with daily free GLM-5.2 inference powered by @wafer_ai, let's go open models 🔥
https://t.co/B0HNf9NQjC

[Jon Sakoda @jonsakoda]

@ycombinator @linzumi_ai @wafer_ai Congrats Sean!

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Bring your whole team and dozens of AI coding agents into the same chat threads, then let @linzumi_ai keep the fleet coordinated and unblocked.

And for a limited time, try state of the art open-weights intelligence free: GLM 5.2 at high speed, via their @wafer_ai partnership. → https://t.co/REdRfzOQtW

[Jon Sakoda @jonsakoda]

@joshelman @a16z Congrats! Your return is one of many signs that consumer AI will be the next great wave of VC investing

[Jon Sakoda @jonsakoda]

@apartovi Congrats Ali! What an amazing platform you have built at Neo - look forward to reading more of these stories in the years to come

[Ali Partovi @apartovi]

https://t.co/KAlOYgBjOL

[Jon Sakoda @jonsakoda]

@magdovitz @hdmoore Thank you 🙏

[Jon Sakoda @jonsakoda]

We are excited to announce that Accenture has signed a definitive agreement to acquire runZero as part of a $4.2 billion M&A transaction that brings together leaders in OT and IT security including Dragos and NetRise 🔥

runZero started as a small research project in @hdmoore's basement and grew rapidly as one of the best ways to discover hardware and software on your network

It is now an essential tool and is the best way to understand your attack surface in a post-Mythos world

Like many cybersecurity founders, I have been inspired by the impact HD has had on our industry over many years

His work @metasploit and @runZeroInc are a reminder that we can’t protect what we can’t see, and what hides in the dark will come out in the light with frontier LLMs

It is nice to be able to recognize all of his contributions to the field in a meaningful way today. Congrats HD and the team!

[haroon meer @haroonmeer]

Congrats to @hdmoore and the whole team at @runZeroInc - few people have made as significant contributions to our industry.

Absolute legend.

[Jon Sakoda @jonsakoda]

@chetanp @dannguyenhuu @hdmoore Thank you 🙏