# Scott McNealy

> Scott McNealy is a seed investor at Wayin (New York) backing Software and Analytics. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Wayin](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wayin)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/scott-mcnealy/43/214/258
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/scottmcnealy

Scott McNealy is a seed investor at Wayin in New York focused on Software and Analytics. Scott McNealy is the Co Founder & Board Member at Curriki.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $950k–$40M |
| Series A | $6M–$152M |
| Series B | $15M–$234M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 28% |
| Analytics | 4 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 16% |
| Mobile | 3 | 12% |
| Big Data | 3 | 12% |

54 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 28% |
| Series A | 7 | 28% |
| Series B | 4 | 16% |
| Series C | 2 | 8% |
| Series D | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hydra Host | Hydra Host is a tool that provides cross-cloud capabilities to deploy and host apps across public cloud and private cloud providers. In addition to cross-cloud capabilities, Hydra offers high-level advisory, as well as expert implementation work with bespoke service engagements catered to client priorities. Whether security, resilience, orscale-focused. | $100M | Series A | Jun 15, 2026 |  |
| Heaviside Industries | Heaviside Industries is a defense technology company that develops autonomous precision munitions for land, air, and sea systems. | $28M | Series A | May 11, 2026 |  |
| Positron | LLM Inference Hardware | $233.9M | Series B | Feb 04, 2026 |  |
| Sandstone | Sandstone is the platform for AI-native legal departments. Sandstone is built by a team of lawyers, legal operations, and tech experts who understand that efficiency is not just about speed, but also about context. | $39.6M | Seed | Jan 13, 2026 |  |
| Positron | LLM Inference Hardware | $51.6M | Series A | Jul 28, 2025 |  |
| Positron | LLM Inference Hardware | $23.5M | Seed | Feb 11, 2025 |  |
| dweva.com | System Two Security offers a platform that combines AI agents and assistants to support detection engineering teams in processing intelligence, creating new detections, and managing detection libraries. The system enables users to draft and refine detections based on threat intelligence and coverage gaps. | $7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 04, 2024 |  |
| Single Origin | Today, while platforms like Snowflake/GCP/AWS unlock insights and exploration, the volume of pipelines, the complexity of infrastructure, and the increasing cost of computing are overwhelming data teams. Single Origin helps data-driven organizations boost team productivity while realizing cloud cost savings. Our unique query optimizationplatform, operating between data warehouse and data tools/applications, automatically analyzes all of an organization's queries; identifies expensive and inefficient ones; then optimizes queries to be 10X simpler, faster and cheaper. We are the team that built and scaled uMetric at Uber, as well as other data infrastructure tools across snap, Reddit, Amazon, and Microsoft. More at https://docs.singleorigin.tech/ | $3.7M | Seed | Mar 03, 2022 |  |
| REX - Real Estate Exchange | REX is a digital platform and real estate service where homeowners can list, discover, and purchase homes outside the MLS.Using data and technology never before seen in real estate, REX goes around the existing infrastructure to deliver a more efficient process, faster sales, and tremendous savings, while capturing data and getting smarter withevery home sale. As the only full-service real estate company not using the MLS, REX is saving sellers $25,000 in fees on average by charging just 2% in sales commission, versus the 5-6% of traditional agents. | $40M | Series C | Nov 20, 2019 |  |
| Nightfall | Nightfall is a cloud data protection platform for every application that uses machine learning to identify and detect business-critical data. It also automatically fixes data exposure and hygiene issues without end-user impact. Its comprehensive SaaS data protection platform and the Nightfall Developer Platform, which is an open, flexible platformfor developers to integrate its data classification and protection capabilities anywhere, deliver its detection engine as a set of cloud-hosted APIs and SDKs, helping users to save time and keep business safe. | $20.3M | Series A | Nov 07, 2019 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Webb Investment Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/webb-investment-network) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Atreides Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atreides-management-lp) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Resilience Reserve](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/resilience-reserve) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Valor Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valor-equity-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AME Cloud Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ame-cloud-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DCVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/data-collective) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Wayin

VC Fund · Denver, United States

Wayin, the Digital Campaign CMS platform enables marketers and agencies to ideate, create and reuse interactive experiences that can be published across all digital channels. Wayin services more than 300 brands across 80 countries and 10 industries including leaders like CNN, Coca Cola, MLB, AOL, Discovery and Vodafone.

2 contacts available at Wayin.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nate Frick | Vice President, Services | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nate-frick |
| Scott McNealy | Co-Founder & Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-mcnealy |

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## FAQ

### What does Scott McNealy invest in?

Scott McNealy invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 25 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 Scott McNealy's check size?

Scott McNealy typically joins rounds of $950k–$40M at Seed, $6M–$152M at Series A and $15M–$234M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Scott McNealy participates in.

### When did Scott McNealy last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Scott McNealy closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 25 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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