Investing Profile

Steve Blank(243)

VC
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
Rain Industries
SeedSep 2023$10M
$10M
Co-investors: Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Kareem Dabbagh (VoLo Earth Ventures), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Nancy Pfund (DBL Partners), Geoff Ralston (Y Combinator), Immad Akhund, Patrick Collison, John Collison, Dylan Field
Artera
Series UnknownMar 2023$90M
$160M
Co-investors: Jenny Lefcourt (Freestyle Capital), Navin Chaddha (Mayfield), Victor Echevarria (Jackson Square Ventures), Lip-Bu Tan (Walden International), Michael Driscoll (DCVC (Data Collective)), Amarjit Gill (Nepenthe Capital), Marc Benioff, Rajiv Khemani
Valar Labs
SeedApr 2022$4M
$26M
Co-investors: Vineeta Agarwala (Andreessen Horowitz), James Hardiman (DCVC (Data Collective)), Cavin Mozarmi (REMUS Capital), Nikita Andersson (Hummingbird Ventures), Johannes Schildt
Syndicate
SeedJun 2021$800K
$28M
Co-investors: Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), David Eckstein (Sequoia Capital), Boris Wertz (Version One Ventures), Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Curtis Spencer (Electric Capital), Ken Deeter (Electric Capital), Maria Shen (Electric Capital), Courtney Chow (Battery Ventures), Matthew Ball (Makers Fund), Lenny Rachitsky (AirAngels), Baek Kim (Hashed), 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), 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), Tom Bedecarre (WPP 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), 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), Anastasia Andrianova, Regan Bozman, Tyler Scott Ward, Rene Reinsberg, Eric Wu, David Nage, Alice Lloyd George, Adam Jackson, Nathaniel Whittemore, Scott Belsky, Biz Stone, Brad Holden, Aliaksandr Hudzilin, Alex Pack, Tegan Kline, Balaji Srinivasan, Steve Weinstein, Trevor McFedries, Stani Kulechov, Bo Shao, Jess Sloss, Imran Khan, Sina Habibi, Luis Cuende, Andrew Steinwold, Do Kwon
Bot MD
Series ADec 2020$5M
SeedAug 2018$2M
$7M
Co-investors: Mike Maples (Floodgate), Ann Miura Ko (Floodgate), Yoh-Chie LU (Vertex Ventures HC), Supachai Kid Parchariyanon (SeaX Ventures), Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator), Jared Friedman (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), Angela Benton (NewMe Accelerator), Paul Judge (TechSquare Labs), Taj Ahmad Eldridge (Include Venture Partners), Arlan Hamilton (Backstage Capital), TD Lowe (42Phi Ventures), McKeever “Mac” Conwell (RareBreed Ventures), Hamet Watt (Share Ventures), Jewel Burks (Collab Capital), Semil Shah (Haystack), Eric Rea, Baron Davis, Aaron Skonnard
Gamalon
SeedFeb 2017$4M
Series UnknownSep 2016$4M
$28M
Co-investors: Graham Brooks (.406 Ventures), Todor Tashev (Omidyar Ventures), Andy Bechtolsheim, Adam D'Angelo, Georges Harik, Matthew Sutton
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