# Dan Scheinman

> Dan Scheinman is a seed investor in San Francisco backing SaaS and Software. See 15 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dan-scheinman/0/874/385
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/dscheinm

Dan Scheinman is a seasoned high technology executive, investor, and advisor for emerging companies. Dan has had a diverse and stellar 18-year career at Cisco Systems, where he contributed in growing the company from a $100M company to more than $40B in annual revenue. His experience spans legal,business development and general managementfunctions, serving most recently as senior vice president and general manager.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$6M |
| Series A | $8M–$18M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 5 | 33% |
| Software | 4 | 27% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 27% |
| Big Data | 3 | 20% |
| Analytics | 3 | 20% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 67% |
| Series A | 2 | 13% |
| Angel | 1 | 7% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 7% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 73% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Burnt | AI Agents for Food Supply Chain | $3.8M | Seed | Sep 25, 2025 | https://getburnt.ai/ |
| Overmind | Overmind develops software for cloud infrastructure management. The company provides tools that help engineering teams understand infrastructure changes before deployment. The platform analyzes relationships between cloud resources and services. It uses artificial intelligence to identify dependencies and assess the impact of planned changes. Ithelps engineering, DevOps, SRE, and platform teams understand the impact of changes before they go live. | $6M | Seed | Sep 17, 2025 | http://overmind.tech |
| Breakout | Breakout is the always available agentic workforce that grows your inbound pipeline by Delivering personalized conversations to every website visitor Showing live demos based on the conversation Giving actionable insights to the GTM team on what your website visitors are looking for | $3.3M | Seed | Feb 27, 2025 | https://www.getbreakout.ai |
| cside | c/side is a cybersecurity company that provides monitoring solutions, optimizing, and safeguarding vulnerable browser-side third-party scripts. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | May 16, 2024 | https://cside.dev |
| Unity SCM | Unity SCM develops a platform helping manufacturers streamline supply chain operations. It automatically maps and transforms data. UnitySCM integrates with a wide range of data sources and easily adapts to inaccurate or incomplete supply chain data. | $8M | Series A | May 09, 2023 | https://www.unityscm.com/ |
| CyCognito | CyCognito is a revolutionary new approach to external cyber risk management driven to create positive business impact. Far deeper than external attack surface management, our platform helps organizations identify, understand and master their risk in profound new ways. Fully-automated, highly scalable, and designed to function as promised, ourplatform uses advanced machine learning and natural language processing to allow for unprecedented reach, speed and accuracy. We can step into the shoes of potential attackers—which in turn helps us identify and secure gaps better than anyone. We help teams secure their attack surface by helping them determine true risks, where they need to focus and how they should invest. And then we use what we learn to help bridge cyber risk remediation across departments unlike ever before. | $100M | Series C | Dec 01, 2021 | https://www.cycognito.com |
| Elotl | Elotl develops serverless infrastructure platform for microservices. | $5M | Seed | Nov 02, 2021 | https://www.elotl.co/ |
| Integry | Integry.ai helps SaaS companies with customer-facing integrations. In 15 minutes, your users can connect with 250+ apps to import, sync data, or setup any customer workflow. Integry handles the entire integration experience, from authentication to custom field mapping. As a no-code, low-code tool, iterating over your integration design is fast. | $3M | Seed | Oct 05, 2021 | http://integry.io |
| CyCognito | CyCognito is a revolutionary new approach to external cyber risk management driven to create positive business impact. Far deeper than external attack surface management, our platform helps organizations identify, understand and master their risk in profound new ways. Fully-automated, highly scalable, and designed to function as promised, ourplatform uses advanced machine learning and natural language processing to allow for unprecedented reach, speed and accuracy. We can step into the shoes of potential attackers—which in turn helps us identify and secure gaps better than anyone. We help teams secure their attack surface by helping them determine true risks, where they need to focus and how they should invest. And then we use what we learn to help bridge cyber risk remediation across departments unlike ever before. | $18M | Series A | Nov 19, 2019 | https://www.cycognito.com |
| Spekit | Spekit is the Rep Acceleration Platform and governed GTM knowledge layer that delivers deal context, trusted content, and real-time coaching directly inside the tools where selling happens, and powers the AI agents and workflows companies are building on top of their revenue stack. Instead of sending reps to portals, Spekit brings coaching,knowledge, AI-powered content generation, and next steps to them in the moment, all grounded in the governed playbook. For revenue leaders, Spekit connects rep activity and buyer engagement to outcomes, showing what moves deals forward, where execution breaks down, and what coaching sticks. Ramp fast. Win fast. Stay fast. | $2.5M | Seed | Oct 01, 2019 | https://spekit.com |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [UpWest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/upwest-labs) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Scribble Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scribble-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Sorenson Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sorenson-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Bonfire Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bonfire-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Harpoon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harpoon-2271) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Dan Scheinman invest in?

Dan Scheinman invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What round sizes does Dan Scheinman invest in?

Dan Scheinman typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$6M at Seed and $8M–$18M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Dan Scheinman's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Dan Scheinman took part in.

### How do I contact Dan Scheinman?

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### When did Dan Scheinman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dan Scheinman closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 15 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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