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Steve Blank(257)

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San Francisco, California
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24 Investors

Connected to Gigi Levy-Weiss (NFX), Brad Feld (Foundry Group), Mike Maples (Floodgate), and 21 other investors on Signal.

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M34 Capital Managing Partner
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CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
SalesPatriot
SeedOct 2025$5M
$5.5M
Co-investors: Caitlin Bolnick Rellas (CRV), Jared Friedman (Y Combinator), Rich Miner, Mark Pincus
Usul
SeedMay 2025$3M
$3M
Rain Industries
SeedSep 2023$10M
$10M
Co-investors: Nancy Pfund (DBL Partners), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Kareem Dabbagh (VoLo Earth Ventures), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Geoff Ralston (Y Combinator), John Collison, Dylan Field, Immad Akhund
Artera
Series UnknownMar 2023$90M
$160M
Co-investors: Jenny Lefcourt (Freestyle Capital), Victor Echevarria (Jackson Square Ventures), Navin Chaddha (Mayfield), Michael Driscoll (DCVC (Data Collective)), Lip-Bu Tan (Walden International), Amarjit Gill (Nepenthe Capital), Rajiv Khemani, Marc Benioff
Valar Labs
SeedMar 2022$4M
$26M
Co-investors: Vineeta Agarwala (Andreessen Horowitz), James Hardiman (DCVC (Data Collective)), Nikita Andersson (Hummingbird Ventures), Cavin Mozarmi (REMUS Capital), Johannes Schildt
Syndicate
SeedJun 2021$800K
$28M
Co-investors: Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Courtney Chow (Battery Ventures), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Curtis Spencer (Electric Capital), Ken Deeter (Electric Capital), Maria Shen (Electric Capital), Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Boris Wertz (Version One Ventures), David Eckstein (Sequoia Capital), Matthew Ball (Makers Fund), Lenny Rachitsky (AirAngels), Baek Kim (Hashed), Tom Bedecarre (WPP Ventures), Jake Brukhman (CoinFund), Gabby Dizon (Infinity Ventures Crypto), Julia Lipton (Awesome People Ventures), Tarun Chitra (Robot Ventures), Monica Desai Weiss (Kleiner Perkins), Raj Gokal (Solana Ventures), Dan Elitzer (Nascent), Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures), Jalak Jobanputra (Future Perfect Ventures), Jonathan Hillis (Seed Club Ventures), George Lambeth (Divergence Ventures), Ryan Junee (Electric Ant), Joon Ian Wong (Seed Club Ventures), Calvin Liu (Divergence Ventures), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Sriram Krishnan (Kearny Jackson), Todd Goldberg (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Ryan Hoover (Weekend Fund), Min Teo (Ethereal Ventures), Illia Polosukhin (SID Venture Partners), Joyce Yang (Seed Club Ventures), Jeff Morris, Jr. (Chapter One Ventures), Erikan Obotetukudo (Audacity), Alexander Pack (Hack VC), Niraj Pant (Hack VC), Ash Egan (Archetype), Tom Shaughnessy Jr (Seed Club Ventures), Evan Feng (CoinFund), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Tyler Scott Ward, Anastasia Andrianova, Andrew Steinwold, Stani Kulechov, Sina Habibi, Jess Sloss, Bo Shao, Steve Weinstein, Balaji Srinivasan, Luis Cuende, Biz Stone, Do Kwon, Scott Belsky, Alice Lloyd George, Nathaniel Whittemore, Aliaksandr Hudzilin, Alex Pack, Brad Holden, Tegan Kline, Trevor McFedries, Imran Khan, Eric Wu, David Nage, Adam Jackson, Rene Reinsberg, Regan Bozman
Bot MD
Series ADec 2020$5M
SeedAug 2018$2M
$7M
Co-investors: Mike Maples (Floodgate), Ann Miura Ko (Floodgate), Jared Friedman (Y Combinator), Supachai Kid Parchariyanon (SeaX Ventures), Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator), Yoh-Chie LU (Vertex Ventures HC)
Crash
SeedSep 2018$1M
$1.8M
Co-investors: James Kim (Reach Capital)
Architect I-Corps @ NIH Curriculum National Institutes of Health2014 - Present
Senior Fellow Columbia Business School2012 - Present
Architect Innovation Corps Curriculum, Principal Investigator I-Corps National Science Foundation2011 - Present
Adjunct Professor Stanford University2011 - Present
Lecturer UC Berkeley, Haas Business School2002 - Present
Lecturer Imperial College London2015 - 2016
Radio Show Host Sirius XM Radio Inc.2015 - 2016
Lecturer New York University2014 - 2016
Lecturer UCSF2013 - 2015
Commissioner California Coastal Commission2007 - 2013
Trustee UC Santa Cruz2009 - 2011
Director Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST)2007 - 2011
Director Audubon California2002 - 2010
Director IMVU2004 - 2009
Director CafePress.com2002 - 2009
Director National Audubon Society2005 - 2008
Director Macrovision2002 - 2007
Director Immersion1996 - 2005
Cofounder, President, VP Marketing E.piphany1996 - 1999
cofounder, CEO Rocket Science1993 - 1996
VP Marketing SuperMac1989 - 1992
cofounder, VP Marketing Ardent1986 - 1988
VP Marketing, acting VP Sales MIPS Computer1984 - 1986
VP Marketing, Unix Division Convergent Technologies1981 - 1984
Product Marketing Manager Zilog1978 - 1980
Training Manager ESL1976 - 1978
Field Engineering Interactive Systems1976 - 1978
Electronic Warfare U.S. Air Force1971 - 1975