# David Schneider

> David Schneider is a Series A investor at Coatue backing Software. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Coatue](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coatue)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 41%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-schneider/0/66/733
- Website: https://x.com/1daveschneider?lang=en

David Schneider is a Series A investor at Coatue in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Software and Cyber Security. David Schneider is the general partner of Coatue Management. David previously worked at ServiceNow as a president.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$11M |
| Series A | $15M–$50M |
| Series D | $105M–$300M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 36% |
| Cyber Security | 4 | 18% |
| SaaS | 3 | 14% |
| Developer APIs | 3 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 14% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 23% |
| Series D | 5 | 23% |
| Seed | 3 | 14% |
| Series C | 3 | 14% |
| Series B | 2 | 9% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 59% |
| Germany | 3 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cyera | Cyera provides a data security platform that helps organizations discover, classify, monitor, and protect sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The platform combines data security posture management, data loss prevention, access governance, and AI security capabilities to help organizations understand wherecritical data resides, who can access it, and how it is being used. Cyera uses automated data discovery and classification to identify sensitive information and assess potential security risks across enterprise systems. Its platform also supports monitoring of human and AI interactions with data, enabling organizations to investigate access activity, manage permissions, and address security issues. Through integrations with existing technology environments, Cyera helps security teams maintain visibility into data assets and implement controls to reduce data-related risk. | $400M | Series F | Dec 16, 2025 |  |
| Cyera | Cyera provides a data security platform that helps organizations discover, classify, monitor, and protect sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The platform combines data security posture management, data loss prevention, access governance, and AI security capabilities to help organizations understand wherecritical data resides, who can access it, and how it is being used. Cyera uses automated data discovery and classification to identify sensitive information and assess potential security risks across enterprise systems. Its platform also supports monitoring of human and AI interactions with data, enabling organizations to investigate access activity, manage permissions, and address security issues. Through integrations with existing technology environments, Cyera helps security teams maintain visibility into data assets and implement controls to reduce data-related risk. | $540M | Series E | Jun 11, 2025 |  |
| Island | Island is a cyber startup that provides a web browser for the enterprise to allow work to flow freely while remaining secure. It gives organizations complete control, visibility, and governance over the last mile helping the enterprise with improved performance and helping businesses to minimize their cyber footprint and create a safe space forwork to flow, boosting both security and productivity. | $250M | Series E | Mar 26, 2025 |  |
| Albert Invent | 1000’s of scientists, technicians, and engineers across 30+ countries rely on Albert’s end-to-end Cloud Platform to accelerate the innovation of new materials. With Albert, R&D organizations get the data insights and tools needed to increase speed to market, automate regulatory compliance, and heighten the impact of new products.Built fromthe ground up for the chemical and material science industry, the Albert Platform connects R&D processes and creates a single data source of truth across the R&D organization. Augmented with AI, machine learning and a comprehensive materials database, key platform functionality includes inventory, worksheets, workflows, tasks, and more. www.albertinvent.com | $22.5M | Series A | Dec 11, 2024 |  |
| Cyera | Cyera provides a data security platform that helps organizations discover, classify, monitor, and protect sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The platform combines data security posture management, data loss prevention, access governance, and AI security capabilities to help organizations understand wherecritical data resides, who can access it, and how it is being used. Cyera uses automated data discovery and classification to identify sensitive information and assess potential security risks across enterprise systems. Its platform also supports monitoring of human and AI interactions with data, enabling organizations to investigate access activity, manage permissions, and address security issues. Through integrations with existing technology environments, Cyera helps security teams maintain visibility into data assets and implement controls to reduce data-related risk. | $300M | Series D | Nov 20, 2024 |  |
| Island | Island is a cyber startup that provides a web browser for the enterprise to allow work to flow freely while remaining secure. It gives organizations complete control, visibility, and governance over the last mile helping the enterprise with improved performance and helping businesses to minimize their cyber footprint and create a safe space forwork to flow, boosting both security and productivity. | $175M | Series D | Apr 30, 2024 |  |
| Cyera | Cyera provides a data security platform that helps organizations discover, classify, monitor, and protect sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The platform combines data security posture management, data loss prevention, access governance, and AI security capabilities to help organizations understand wherecritical data resides, who can access it, and how it is being used. Cyera uses automated data discovery and classification to identify sensitive information and assess potential security risks across enterprise systems. Its platform also supports monitoring of human and AI interactions with data, enabling organizations to investigate access activity, manage permissions, and address security issues. Through integrations with existing technology environments, Cyera helps security teams maintain visibility into data assets and implement controls to reduce data-related risk. | $300M | Series C | Apr 09, 2024 |  |
| Packmatic | Packmatic connects brands with packaging suppliers. Their services include packaging requests, onboarding, kick off calls with packaging engineers, sign off on the final product, and supplier matching. Contact Packmatic at info@packmatic.io. | $16.3M | Series A | Jan 24, 2024 |  |
| 8Flow | Empowering enterprise support teams with AI and automation. | $6.6M | Seed | Jun 01, 2023 |  |
| ngrok | Ngrok is an API-first ingress-as-a-service platform that helps developers get their apps online faster and more securely. Its simplicity has made it a de facto standard tool among developers, and it is recommended throughout the documentation of the world's top technology brands, including Microsoft, GitHub, Okta, Shopify, Zoom, and Twilio.Lightspeed Venture Partners and Coatue have invested in the company.The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $50M | Series A | Dec 13, 2022 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Redpoint](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redpoint-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Cyberstarts](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cyberstarts) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Georgian](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/georgian-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About Coatue

VC Fund · New York, United States

Coatue is a privately owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm invests in the public equity markets globally focusing on investments in technology, media, and telecommunications in addition to other sectors. It employs a long or short strategy to make its investments.

5 contacts available at Coatue.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lucas Swisher | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lucas-swisher |
| Abhijoy Mitra | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abhijoy-mitra-3b50 |
| Abhi Srinivas | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abhi-srinivas |
| Alex Swieca | Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-swieca |
| Andy Chen | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-chen-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does David Schneider invest in?

David Schneider invests primarily in Software, Cyber Security and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series D stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is David Schneider's check size?

David Schneider typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$11M at Seed, $15M–$50M at Series A and $105M–$300M at Series D. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds David Schneider participates in.

### How do I contact David Schneider?

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### When did David Schneider last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Schneider closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 22 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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