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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), Paul Graham, Rich Miner, Mark Pincus
Usul
SeedMay 2025$3M
$3M
Rain Industries
SeedSep 2023$10M
$10M
Co-investors: Geoff Ralston (Y Combinator), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Kareem Dabbagh (VoLo Earth Ventures), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Nancy Pfund (DBL Partners), Patrick Collison, Immad Akhund, Dylan Field, John Collison
Artera
Series UnknownMar 2023$90M
$220M
Co-investors: Victor Echevarria (Jackson Square Ventures), Jenny Lefcourt (Freestyle Capital), Navin Chaddha (Mayfield), Lip-Bu Tan (Walden International), Michael Driscoll (DCVC (Data Collective)), 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: Courtney Chow (Battery Ventures), Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), David Eckstein (Sequoia Capital), Boris Wertz (Version One Ventures), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Maria Shen (Electric Capital), Ken Deeter (Electric Capital), Curtis Spencer (Electric Capital), Matthew Ball (Makers Fund), Baek Kim (Hashed), Lenny Rachitsky (AirAngels), Erikan Obotetukudo (Audacity), Tarun Chitra (Robot Ventures), Monica Desai Weiss (Kleiner Perkins), Tom Bedecarre (WPP Ventures), Dan Elitzer (Nascent), Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures), Gabby Dizon (Infinity Ventures Crypto), Jalak Jobanputra (Future Perfect Ventures), Jonathan Hillis (Seed Club Ventures), Ryan Junee (Electric Ant), Julia Lipton (Awesome People Ventures), Joon Ian Wong (Seed Club Ventures), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), George Lambeth (Divergence Ventures), Todd Goldberg (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Ryan Hoover (Weekend Fund), Calvin Liu (Divergence Ventures), Sriram Krishnan (Kearny Jackson), Min Teo (Ethereal Ventures), Raj Gokal (Solana Ventures), Alexander Pack (Hack VC), Niraj Pant (Hack VC), Ash Egan (Archetype), Tom Shaughnessy Jr (Seed Club Ventures), Evan Feng (CoinFund), Joyce Yang (Seed Club Ventures), Jeff Morris, Jr. (Chapter One Ventures), Illia Polosukhin (SID Venture Partners), Jake Brukhman (CoinFund), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Do Kwon, Sina Habibi, Rene Reinsberg, Tyler Scott Ward, Regan Bozman, Anastasia Andrianova, Andrew Steinwold, Stani Kulechov, Jess Sloss, Bo Shao, Steve Weinstein, Balaji Srinivasan, Biz Stone, Scott Belsky, Alice Lloyd George, Alex Pack, Brad Holden, Tegan Kline, Trevor McFedries, Imran Khan, Eric Wu, David Nage, Adam Jackson, Aliaksandr Hudzilin, Nathaniel Whittemore, Luis Cuende
Bot MD
Series ADec 2020$5M
SeedAug 2018$2M
$7M
Co-investors: Ann Miura Ko (Floodgate), Mike Maples (Floodgate), Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator), Supachai Kid Parchariyanon (SeaX Ventures), Jared Friedman (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