David Hornik
General Partner @ August Capital
Palo Alto, United States
David Hornik is a Series A investor at August Capital in Palo Alto focused on Internet and Software. David Hornik is the Founding Partner of Lobby Capital. He previously worked at Harvard Business School as an Entrepreneur in Residence and VC Partner. David attended Stanford University, where he earned an AB in Computer Music.
- Total investments:
- 42
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 57%
Last updated:
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Industries David Hornik invests in
Stages David Hornik invests in
Countries David Hornik invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 7 (17%)
- Software 7 (17%)
- Enterprise Software 6 (14%)
- E-Commerce 5 (12%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (12%)
Stage
- Series A 11 (26%)
- Series B 7 (17%)
- Seed 6 (14%)
- Funding Round 5 (12%)
- Series C 4 (10%)
Country
- United States 25 (60%)
- Egypt 1 (2%)
Investments
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| MaintainX is a software company that provides maintenance and asset management tools for industrial and frontline operations. Its platform helps organizations manage work orders, preventive maintenance, inspections, reporting, asset tracking, and parts inventory through a centralized digital system. The company integrates AI-powered features thatassist teams with troubleshooting, data collection, operational analysis, and predictive maintenance workflows. MaintainX is used across industries such as manufacturing, facilities management, food and beverage, retail, and distribution to improve equipment uptime and streamline maintenance processes. The platform also supports compliance and safety procedures by digitizing workflows and standardizing maintenance operations across multiple sites. | $150M / Series D / Jul 09, 2025 | ||
| Vantage Discovery is an engine for harnessing the power of generative AI embeddings to deliver astoundingly insightful search results, a platform for enabling new experiences for discovering and contextualizing content and products, a service for implementing production-ready solutions in hours, not weeks. | $16M / Series A / Jun 01, 2024 | ||
| MaintainX is a software company that provides maintenance and asset management tools for industrial and frontline operations. Its platform helps organizations manage work orders, preventive maintenance, inspections, reporting, asset tracking, and parts inventory through a centralized digital system. The company integrates AI-powered features thatassist teams with troubleshooting, data collection, operational analysis, and predictive maintenance workflows. MaintainX is used across industries such as manufacturing, facilities management, food and beverage, retail, and distribution to improve equipment uptime and streamline maintenance processes. The platform also supports compliance and safety procedures by digitizing workflows and standardizing maintenance operations across multiple sites. | $50M / Series C / Dec 06, 2023 | ||
| Faros AI connects the dots between your engineering data sources – ticketing, source control, CI/CD, and more – giving unprecedented visibility and insight into your engineering processes. | $20M / Series A / Jun 27, 2023 | ||
| The Easy Company is working to improve Web3's usability and security. | $14.2M / Seed / Jan 10, 2023 | ||
| EarlyBird is transforming lives through early detection of literacy challenges, including predicting risk for dyslexia | $3M / Seed / Nov 17, 2022 | ||
| EarlyBird is transforming lives through early detection of literacy challenges, including predicting risk for dyslexia | $3.5M / Seed / Jan 11, 2022 | ||
| WaffarX, founded in 2018 by Ezz Fayek (CEO), Mahmoud Montasser (COO), and Ahmed Kamal (CTO), is a leading rewards and lifestyle platform as well as a pioneering loyalty technology provider serving the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond. Backed by renowned venture capital firms Lobby Capital (USA) and A15 (MENA), WaffarX helps businesses acquireand retain loyal customers while empowering consumers to save more and shop smarter by offering exclusive cashback, deals, and discount codes from top local and international brands—both online and in-store. In 2024, the company surpassed EGP 100M in cashback disbursed, reinforcing its position as the region’s go-to savings platform. For more information, visit www.waffarx.com/app. | Seed / Dec 07, 2021 | ||
| Vowel aims to make meetings and post-meeting actions better than ever before. Our vision: build a meeting OS and make meetings more productive, efficient and valuable. Plan, host, transcribe, search, and share your video meetings all in one browser window. | $13.5M / Series A / Sep 07, 2021 | ||
| Fletch is democratizing cybersecurity analytics by creating ready to go apps like the Fletch Trending Threats app that literally reads the threat news for companies daily telling them the threats that matter daily. | $15.8M / Series A / Jul 21, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About August Capital
August Capital is an early stage venture capital fund focused on investing in companies differentiated by technical innovation and entrepreneurial excellence. Today, August Capital's six active investment professionals -- David Hornik, Eric Carlborg, Howard Hartenbaum, Tripp Jones, Villi Iltchev, and Lisa Marrone -- have more than a century of combined venture and operational experience. Together they manage $2.5 billion and have invested in hundreds of companies across the technology spectrum. From its inception, August Capital has funded an extraordinary group of entrepreneurs who have built significant, long-term value across the full range of information technologies. The companies that August Capital's partners have backed represent an aggregate market capitalization of well over $250 billion, generate in excess of $75 billion in annual revenue and employ a quarter of a million people around the world. This success is a testament to the entrepreneurs themselves, as well as the fundamental technologies they have created. They are proud to have supported these entrepreneurs and their companies as they have grown and prospered.
August Capital Contacts
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Eric Carlborg
General Partner, Investment Professional
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David Hornik
General Partner
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David Marquardt
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Howard Hartenbaum
General Partner
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John Johnston
Founding Partner
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What does David Hornik invest in?
David Hornik invests primarily in Internet, Software and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 42 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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