# Benny Schnaider

> Benny Schnaider is a seed investor at ScyllaDB backing Software, Apps and EdTech. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [ScyllaDB](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scylladb)
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jul 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benny-schnaider-6ba64823
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/BennySchnaider
- Website: https://x.com/BennySchnaider
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benny.schnaider

Benny Schnaider is a seed investor at ScyllaDB focused on Software and Apps. Benny Schnaider is the Chairman of Brinker. He previously worked at Oracle as a VP SW Development. Benny Schnaider attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $4M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 40% |
| Apps | 2 | 20% |
| EdTech | 2 | 20% |
| Gaming | 2 | 20% |
| Education | 2 | 20% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 60% |
| Angel | 2 | 20% |
| Series A | 2 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 7 | 70% |
| United States | 2 | 20% |
| Australia | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wing Cloud | Wing is a cloud-based programming language designed for application testing. It enables backend developers to create distributed systems that use cloud services as if they were first-class citizens. Wing improves the developer experience by integrating infrastructure and runtime code and reducing cloud complexity. | $20M | Seed | Jul 18, 2023 |  |
| Raftt | Raftt takes out developers' frustrations from working in local environments – the tedious setup, rot, drift, and limited collaboration options. Raftt solves this by creating instant remote dev environments while keeping the tools and experience of local environments, making it easy to work with multiple environment branches, develop and debugcontainerized services, and open new ways to collaborate. | $5M | Seed | Sep 05, 2022 |  |
| Helios | Helios gives you the power to understand, troubleshoot, and test all your applications and services. | $5M | Seed | Jun 29, 2022 |  |
| Helios | Helios is developing a reactor that can process lunar soil and Martian soil to oxygen and metals. The company solution is unique as its output yields two highly crucial materials at the same time, and it doesn’t require earth brought consumables. They seek to enable the establishment of a permanent base on the Moon. Another potential use of ourreactor can be to supply oxygen from the lunar surface to earth orbit, as it requires 26 times less energy than launching it from Earth. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Israel. | $6M | Seed | May 01, 2022 |  |
| Valence Security | Valence enables security teams to find and fix SaaS risks. As SaaS complexity and distributed management present security challenges, the Valence SaaS security platform provides unparalleled and actionable insights into configuration, identity, data, SaaS-to-SaaS integration, and GenAI risks. The Valence platform offers comprehensive SaaS securityposture management (SSPM), risk remediation, and identity threat detection and response (ITDR). Valence’s unique remediation by choice capabilities allow security teams to leverage manual remediation, automated workflows and business user collaboration to scale their risk reduction and proactively secure their SaaS. Leading organizations leverage Valence to empower their business to securely adopt SaaS. | $7M | Seed | Oct 19, 2021 |  |
| Buildots | Buildots specializes in transforming construction sites into a data-driven digital environment. Its platform enables maximum control of construction processes at minimal effort. The solution turns every site walk into valuable process data that can immediately be used for gaining full control of a certain project. | $13M | Series A | Jul 30, 2020 |  |
| Lightrun | Lightrun is a Powerful Production Debugger. Developers can securely add logs, performance metrics and traces to production and staging in real time, on demand. R&D departments gain developer productivity and 100% code-level observability. | $4M | Seed | Jun 24, 2020 |  |
| Slate Science (Matific) | Slate Science is transforming mobile devices into interactive, adaptive learning platforms for K12 STEM education. The Slate Science platform enables rapid, multi-platform development of modular learning units, designed to offer performance-based, student-specific learning experiences. |  | Angel | Mar 06, 2013 |  |
| Traffix Systems | Traffix is the 4G network-signaling expert, leading the market with a range of Diameter products deployed at over 100 locations worldwide. Traffix supports telecommunications service providers as they build high-capacity, high-performance data networks for a cost-efficient path to 4G. |  | Series A | Feb 01, 2009 |  |
| Matific | Matific is an Australian global EdTech company, headquartered in Sydney Australia offering an innovative, adaptive online platform designed to enhance mathematics learning for students aged 4 to 15. These immersive bite-sized apps for tablets and personal computers are based on a modular and progressive spiral learning system. The Matific approachwas designed to provide optimal support for educators to convey math concepts in as effective and engaging manner as possible. Matific episodes enable a blended learning approach. Having selected the relevant episodes, teachers can seamlessly integrate hands-on math explorations into their own class learning format.Matific have picked up a number of awards including numerous CODiEs, Academics’ Choice, Edtech Digest, Time Magazine World Top EdTech Companies to name a few. |  | Angel |  |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Entrée Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/entree-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [StageOne Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stageone-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Aleph](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aleph-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Amiti Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amiti-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anglo American](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anglo-american) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [At One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/at-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About ScyllaDB

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Scylla is the world’s fastest wide-column database: the functionality of Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB with the speed of a light key/value store. Raw speed isn’t just a nice benchmark or a low cloud bill. Scylla’s order of magnitude improvement in performance opens a wide range of possibilities. Instead of designing a complex data modelto achieve adequate performance, use a straightforward data model, eliminate complexity, and finish your NoSQL project in less time with fewer bugs. ScyllaDB was founded under the name Cloudius Systems. As Cloudius Systems, the company pioneered the unikernel trend with the development of OSv, designed from the ground up to execute a single application on top of a hypervisor for superior performance and effortless management.

5 contacts available at ScyllaDB.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aviad Ariel | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aviad-ariel |
| Avi Kivity | Founder & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avi-kivity |
| Benny Schnaider | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benny-schnaider-2 |
| Danit Livne | VP of Finance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danit-livne |
| Dor Laor | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dor-laor |

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## FAQ

### What does Benny Schnaider invest in?

Benny Schnaider invests primarily in Software, Apps and EdTech startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Benny Schnaider's check size?

Benny Schnaider typically joins rounds of $4M–$20M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Benny Schnaider participates in.

### When did Benny Schnaider last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Benny Schnaider closed in Jul 2023. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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