David Hornik is Founding Partner at Lobby Capital, a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm. He is also a lawyer, educator, art collector, and philanthropist.
For more than 25 years, David has helped technology entrepreneurs build transformative businesses. Prior to founding Lobby Capital, he spent 20 years as a general partner at August Capital. David invests in a broad range of software companies, including enterprise application, infrastructure, and SaaS businesses (Splunk, Fastly, GitLab), financial technology companies (Bill.com, WePay, PayNearMe), and consumer services (Evite, Ebates, Remix AI). David has spent the last two decades building technology communities – along with starting the first venture capital blog, VentureBlog, and the first venture capital podcast, VentureCast, David served as the Tech Curator for the TED Conference in Vancouver, co-created and hosted TEDxStanford, and founded and produces the Lobby Conferences (https://www.thelobbyconference.com/).
David has an eclectic educational background. He received a BA from Stanford in Computer Music, a Masters of Philosophy in Criminology from Cambridge University, and a JD from Harvard Law School. He is a lecturer at Stanford’s school of engineering (Product Making, Entrepreneurship through the Lens of Venture Capital), Stanford Business School (Startup Garage), Stanford Law School (Advanced Legal Writing), and Harvard Law School (Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital). David lives in Palo Alto and Chelsea NYC with his wife Pamela and their dogs Teddy and Auggie. He has four grown children. Along with serving on the board of GLAAD, a leading LGBTQ rights organization, David is a commissioner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and is vice chair of the board of the Stanford Alumni Association.
