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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
Usul
SeedMay 2025$3M
$3M
Rain Industries
SeedSep 2023$10M
$10M
Co-investors: Nancy Pfund (DBL Partners), Geoff Ralston (Y Combinator), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Kareem Dabbagh (VoLo Earth Ventures), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), John Collison, Dylan Field
Artera
Series UnknownMar 2023$90M
$160M
Co-investors: Victor Echevarria (Jackson Square Ventures), Navin Chaddha (Mayfield), 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), Nikita Andersson (Hummingbird Ventures), Cavin Mozarmi (REMUS Capital), Johannes Schildt
Syndicate
SeedJun 2021$800K
$28M
Co-investors: Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Maria Shen (Electric Capital), Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Boris Wertz (Version One Ventures), David Eckstein (Sequoia Capital), Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Curtis Spencer (Electric Capital), Ken Deeter (Electric Capital), Courtney Chow (Battery Ventures), Matthew Ball (Makers Fund), Baek Kim (Hashed), Lenny Rachitsky (AirAngels), Sriram Krishnan (Kearny Jackson), Min Teo (Ethereal Ventures), Todd Goldberg (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Joyce Yang (Seed Club Ventures), Jeff Morris, Jr. (Chapter One Ventures), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Joon Ian Wong (Seed Club Ventures), Illia Polosukhin (SID Venture Partners), Raj Gokal (Solana Ventures), Erikan Obotetukudo (Audacity), Gabby Dizon (Infinity Ventures Crypto), Julia Lipton (Awesome People Ventures), George Lambeth (Divergence Ventures), Calvin Liu (Divergence Ventures), Tom Bedecarre (WPP Ventures), Alexander Pack (Hack VC), Niraj Pant (Hack VC), Ash Egan (Archetype), Evan Feng (CoinFund), Tom Shaughnessy Jr (Seed Club Ventures), Jake Brukhman (CoinFund), Tarun Chitra (Robot Ventures), Monica Desai Weiss (Kleiner Perkins), Dan Elitzer (Nascent), Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures), Jalak Jobanputra (Future Perfect Ventures), Jonathan Hillis (Seed Club Ventures), Ryan Junee (Electric Ant), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Ryan Hoover (Weekend Fund), Anastasia Andrianova, Biz Stone, Nathaniel Whittemore, Regan Bozman, Aliaksandr Hudzilin, Tyler Scott Ward, Rene Reinsberg, Scott Belsky, Steve Weinstein, Balaji Srinivasan, Bo Shao, Brad Holden, Sina Habibi, Alice Lloyd George, Tegan Kline, Trevor McFedries, Stani Kulechov, Luis Cuende, Imran Khan, Jess Sloss, Andrew Steinwold, Eric Wu, Do Kwon, David Nage, Adam Jackson
Bot MD
Series ADec 2020$5M
SeedAug 2018$2M
$7M
Co-investors: Mike Maples (Floodgate), Supachai Kid Parchariyanon (SeaX Ventures), Yoh-Chie LU (Vertex Ventures HC), Jared Friedman (Y Combinator), Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator)
Crash
SeedSep 2018$1M
$1.8M
Co-investors: James Kim (Reach Capital)
Bevy
Series AJun 2018$6M
$61M
Co-investors: Ryan Sweeney (Accel), Kobie Fuller (Upfront Ventures), Arlan Hamilton (Backstage Capital), Semil Shah (Haystack), Angela Benton (NewMe Accelerator), Paul Judge (TechSquare Labs), Taj Ahmad Eldridge (Include Venture Partners), TD Lowe (42Phi Ventures), McKeever “Mac” Conwell (RareBreed Ventures), Hamet Watt (Share Ventures), Jewel Burks (Collab Capital), Eric Rea, Aaron Skonnard, Baron Davis
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