
Jon Sakoda
@jonsakoda
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Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist. Founding Partner of Decibel. We are Founders Investing in Founders
Bay Area
Joined April 2009
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".
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RT @jesslionness: The internet is being rewritten for machines, and the past two weeks proved how fast it's happening š¤Æ. > ChatGPT: 2.5B prā¦.
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The biggest advantage of a big firm is its capacity to deploy capital towards something that is obviously working. The biggest advantage of a small firm is its ability to align around a founder or idea that is not yet obvious.
What we really need are investors with conviction about their weird taste, pursuing weird strategies, and supporting founders pursuing weird but potentially magical things. Couple that with professional excellence and you get a potentially winning combination.
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RT @tbpn: IN NEWS: @ScrunchAI raises a $15M Series A. We asked Co-Founder & CEO, @chriswandrew, on the AI-driven shopping revolution:. "AIā¦.
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RT @ShenLucinda: AI is changing how folks get their information, at times replacing search. Scrunch AI has raised $15m, with a pitch thatā¦.
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RT @thetechstartups: š @ScrunchAI just raised $15M to help brands stand out in AI search š. From @Lenovo to @Crunchbase, over 25 companiesā¦.
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RT @chriswandrew: I'll be joining @tbpn at 1:30PM PT to chat about our new funding and product announcements at @ScrunchAI!.
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RT @chriswandrew: At @ScrunchAI we've been building the AI-first customer experience platform. Excited to announce our $15M A round led byā¦.
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RT @jesslionness: So excited to partner with @chriswandrew & @rbm to reimagine the future of search for all companies and consumers alike!ā¦.
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RT @ScrunchAI: We're excited to announce our Series A led by @DecibelVC with participation from @Mayfield and Homebrew. This raise will acā¦.
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(5/5) Check out their financing in @axios here - thank you @ShenLucinda for covering their announcement:.
axios.com
Companies need to get AI bot attention.
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(4/5) Huge congrats to @chriswandrew and @rbm - very excited to partner with you all to help businesses market themselves in the era of AI!. Dive into their vision in our founder Q&A below:.
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(2/5) We are excited to announce our investment in @ScrunchAIāa fast-growing startup rewriting web content on-the-fly for AI! š. AI agents don't browse like usāthey crave queryable, chunkable data for tools like ChatGPT & Perplexity. Scrunch delivers compressed, structured.
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RT @dannguyenhuu: š£ Starting a new series: Tokenomics. Iām exploring how AI-native companies price, package, and scale when costs are driveā¦.
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RT @HarryStebbings: I am so fed up of the regurgitated Silicon Valley guests talking about frameworks and first principles BS. Give me peā¦.
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RT @FanaHOVA: Excited to work with Jmo on CONFSEC and share more publicly! . AI workloads are unique as single tenant privacy is very hardā¦.
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RT @tbpn: IN NEWS: Confident Security comes out of stealth with $4.2M in funding to launch CONFSEC, an endātoāend encrypted AI privacy layeā¦.
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RT @jesslionness: Bring privacy-first should not come with trade-offs! Itās a true privilege to back @confident_sec.
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