Daniel Scholnick
Investor @ Holberton School
San Francisco, United States
Daniel Scholnick is an Investor at Holberton School.
- Total investments:
- 28
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 32%
Last updated:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (32%)
- Cloud Computing 6 (21%)
- Enterprise Software 6 (21%)
- SaaS 5 (18%)
- Developer Tools 5 (18%)
Stage
- Series B 6 (21%)
- Series A 5 (18%)
- Series C 5 (18%)
- Series D 5 (18%)
- Seed 3 (11%)
Country
- United States 14 (50%)
- Brazil 1 (4%)
Investments
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BotCity is a governance platform for Python scripts created by AI or humans.AI copilots have turned Python into the new Excel macro. Business users are now generating thousands of scripts with GPT to automate workflows, often outside IT’s control. This wave of shadow automation creates serious risks to security, compliance, and continuity.BotCity brings oversight and governance to this new wave of AI-generated automation. We are YC-backed, growing 3x annually, serving enterprise customers such as Bayer and LG. | $12M / Series A / Sep 25, 2025 | |
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Interpretable ML Developer Tools | $2M / Seed / Oct 10, 2023 | |
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Apollo GraphQL is the leader in open source and commercial GraphQL technologies. Apollo helps engineering teams build unified graphs to accelerate application development and deliver better, more cohesive experiences. Apollo's open-source GraphQL client, server, and gateway are downloaded more than 17M times per month and used in production byover 30% of the Fortune 500. Customers like Walmart, Expedia, Glassdoor, Audi, and PayPal, use the Apollo Graph Platform to unify their GraphQL efforts, collaborate on graph development, and safely iterate on their graphs. Based in San Francisco, Apollo is backed by Insight Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, and Trinity Ventures. | $130M / Series D / Aug 17, 2021 | |
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Apollo GraphQL is the leader in open source and commercial GraphQL technologies. Apollo helps engineering teams build unified graphs to accelerate application development and deliver better, more cohesive experiences. Apollo's open-source GraphQL client, server, and gateway are downloaded more than 17M times per month and used in production byover 30% of the Fortune 500. Customers like Walmart, Expedia, Glassdoor, Audi, and PayPal, use the Apollo Graph Platform to unify their GraphQL efforts, collaborate on graph development, and safely iterate on their graphs. Based in San Francisco, Apollo is backed by Insight Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, and Trinity Ventures. | $130M / Series D / Aug 17, 2021 | |
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Weights & Biases offers performance visualization tools for machine learning. It helps companies turn deep learning research projects into deployed software by helping teams track their models, visualize model performance, and easily automate training and improving models. | $45M / Series B / Feb 01, 2021 | |
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The first integration platform designed for developer joy | $3.5M / Seed / Jan 15, 2021 | |
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Apollo GraphQL is the leader in open source and commercial GraphQL technologies. Apollo helps engineering teams build unified graphs to accelerate application development and deliver better, more cohesive experiences. Apollo's open-source GraphQL client, server, and gateway are downloaded more than 17M times per month and used in production byover 30% of the Fortune 500. Customers like Walmart, Expedia, Glassdoor, Audi, and PayPal, use the Apollo Graph Platform to unify their GraphQL efforts, collaborate on graph development, and safely iterate on their graphs. Based in San Francisco, Apollo is backed by Insight Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, and Trinity Ventures. | $22M / Series C / Jun 12, 2019 | |
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Apollo GraphQL is the leader in open source and commercial GraphQL technologies. Apollo helps engineering teams build unified graphs to accelerate application development and deliver better, more cohesive experiences. Apollo's open-source GraphQL client, server, and gateway are downloaded more than 17M times per month and used in production byover 30% of the Fortune 500. Customers like Walmart, Expedia, Glassdoor, Audi, and PayPal, use the Apollo Graph Platform to unify their GraphQL efforts, collaborate on graph development, and safely iterate on their graphs. Based in San Francisco, Apollo is backed by Insight Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, and Trinity Ventures. | $22M / Series C / Jun 12, 2019 | |
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Weights & Biases offers performance visualization tools for machine learning. It helps companies turn deep learning research projects into deployed software by helping teams track their models, visualize model performance, and easily automate training and improving models. | Series A / May 31, 2018 | |
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Figure Eight is a Human-in-the-Loop machine learning platform to create customized large scale high-quality training data. The platform uses machine learning assisted annotation solutions to create high-quality training data needed by models to work in the real world. They supports a wide range of computer vision and natural language processinguse cases — video object tracking, autonomous vehicles, robotics, predictive maintenance, facial recognition, medical images, aerial and satellite imagery, consumer product detection, content categorization, intelligent chatbots, document transcription, voice assistant training, audio transcription, sentiment analysis, product categorization, and search relevance - and a broad range of industries - automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, retail and e-commerce, technology, agriculture, manufacturing, medical and healthcare, power and utilities, security and surveillance, transportation and travel, and government. Figure Eight platform operates at an unprecedented scale has generated over 10 billion training data labels to power real-world AI applications. Figure Eight was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in California, USA. | $20M / Jun 12, 2017 | |
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Co-Investors
About Holberton School
Holberton School is a project-based alternative to college for the next generation of software engineers. It offers a two-year higher-education program to become a full-stack software engineer. Through project-based and peer learning, Holberton students unleash their creativity and naturally learn how to work as a team to solve practicalchallenges. Its curriculum is 100% hands-on, challenging, and exciting. Holberton students create many programs and systems; they work on industry-level projects and build their own applications.Holberton School was founded in 2016 by Sylvain Kalache and Julien Barbier with its first campus in San Francisco. Today, it operates 3 other campuses namely in New Haven, Bogotá, and Medellín.
Holberton School Contacts
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Amandine Aman
Director of Marketing
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Daniel Scholnick
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Eric Bardin
Chief Of Staff
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Florian Bucher
Chief Executive Officer
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Guillaume Salva
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What does Daniel Scholnick invest in?
Daniel Scholnick invests primarily in Software, Cloud Computing and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 28 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Daniel Scholnick last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Daniel Scholnick closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 28 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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