David Hornik

David is a founding partner at Lobby Capital. For the last 30 years he has worked closely with technology entrepreneurs to help them build transformative businesses. Prior to founding Lobby Capital, David was a partner at August Capital for 20 years. Before becoming a venture capitalist, David was a litigation attorney at Cravath Swaine & Moore, and a corporate and licensing attorney at Venture Law Group and Perkins Coie.
David has an eclectic educational background. He received an BA from Stanford in Computer Music, an M.Phil in Criminology from Cambridge University, and a JD from Harvard Law School. He teaches courses in entrepreneurship and venture capital at Stanford School of Engineering, Stanford Business School, and Harvard Law School.

David started the first venture capital blog, VentureBlog, as well as the first venture capital podcast, VentureCast. He has served as the Tech Curator for the TED Conference in Vancouver and was the co-creator and host of TEDxStanford for a decade. David has received Deloitte’s Venture Capitalist of the Year award and has been honored by Forbes Magazine as a member of its Midas List of top Venture Capitalists.

David splits his time between Palo Alto and New York City with his wife Pamela and their puppies Teddy and Auggie. They have four grown children. David serves on the board of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art SF, served on the board of GLAAD (a leading LGBTQ rights organization) for more than a decade, and is the chair of the Stanford Alumni Association.