# David Hornik

> David Hornik is a Series A investor at Stanford Graduate School of Business backing Internet. See 40 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Stanford Graduate School of Business](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stanford-graduate-school-of-business)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 40
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 55%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidhornik
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/davidhornik
- Website: http://www.ventureblog.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/davidhornik

David Hornik is a Series A investor at Stanford Graduate School of Business in Palo Alto focused on Internet and Software. David Hornik is the Board Chair at Fastly. He graduated from Cambridge University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 6 | 15% |
| Software | 6 | 15% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 13% |
| Enterprise Software | 5 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 13% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 11 | 28% |
| Series B | 6 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 15% |
| Seed | 5 | 13% |
| Series C | 4 | 10% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 23 | 57% |
| Egypt | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MaintainX | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Faros AI | 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 | The Easy Company is working to improve Web3's usability and security. | $14.2M | Seed | Jan 10, 2023 |  |
| Sprout Labs | EarlyBird is transforming lives through early detection of literacy challenges, including predicting risk for dyslexia | $3M | Seed | Nov 17, 2022 |  |
| Sprout Labs | EarlyBird is transforming lives through early detection of literacy challenges, including predicting risk for dyslexia | $3.5M | Seed | Jan 11, 2022 |  |
| WAFFARX | 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 |  |
| WAFFARX | 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. |  |  | Dec 07, 2021 |  |

10 of 40 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Ridge Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ridge-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Amity Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amity-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Amplify Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Stanford Graduate School of Business

VC Fund · Stanford, United States

Stanford GSB is a business management school that creates ideas that deepen and advance understanding of management. It offers a general management Master of Business Administration degree, a full-time twelve-month MS in Management for mid-career executives, and a Ph.D. program, along with a number of joint degrees with other schools at StanfordUniversity including Earth Sciences, Education, Engineering, Law and Medicine. The Stanford Graduate School of Business was established in 1925 in Stanford, California. It currently has 114 acedemic staff, 2,284 students, 101 doctoral students, and 882 postgraduate students.

5 contacts available at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Baba Shiv | Professor of Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/professor-baba-shiv |
| Bill Meehan | Raccoon Partners Lecturer in Strategic Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-meehan |
| Deepti Pahwa | Executive Educator and Coach | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deepti-pahwa |
| Franklin Johnson | Lecturer - Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pitch-johnson |
| Greg Waldorf | Lecturer in Management, Center for Entrepreneurial Studies | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-waldorf |

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## FAQ

### What does David Hornik invest in?

David Hornik invests primarily in Internet, Software and E-Commerce startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 40 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did David Hornik last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Hornik closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 40 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?

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