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Steve Blank(257)

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Architect I-Corps @ NIH Curriculum at National Institutes of Health
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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Current Investing Position
National Institutes Of Health
Investments On Record
25

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Steve Blank's Investments On Record (21)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
SalesPatriot
SeedOct 2025$5M
$5.5M
Co-investors: Caitlin Bolnick Rellas (CRV), Jared Friedman (Israel Defense Forces), Rich Miner, Mark Pincus
Usul
SeedMay 2025$3M
$3M
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), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Geoff Ralston (Y Combinator), John Collison, Patrick Collison, Dylan Field
Artera
Series UnknownMar 2023$90M
$220M
Co-investors: Jenny Lefcourt (Freestyle Capital), Victor Echevarria (Jackson Square Ventures), Michael Driscoll (DCVC (Data Collective)), Lip-Bu Tan (Walden International), Navin Chaddha (The Alchemy Fund), 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), Johannes Schildt
Syndicate
SeedJun 2021$800K
$28M
Co-investors: Ken Deeter (Electric Capital), Curtis Spencer (Electric Capital), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), David Eckstein (Sequoia Capital), Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Boris Wertz (Version One Ventures), Maria Shen (Electric Capital), Alex Pack (Dragonfly Capital Partners), Matthew Ball (Makers Fund), Baek Kim (Hashed), Alexis Ohanian (Curated), Rene Reinsberg (cLabs), Tom Shaughnessy Jr (Seed Club Ventures), Alexander Pack (Hack VC), Jake Brukhman (CoinFund), Imran Khan (Volt Capital), Tarun Chitra (Robot Ventures), Monica Desai Weiss (Kleiner Perkins), Eric Wu (Resolute Ventures), Dan Elitzer (Nascent), Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures), Niraj Pant (Hack VC), Adam Jackson (Cambrian Asset Management LLC), Ash Egan (Archetype), Packy McCormick (Breather), Todd Goldberg (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Jalak Jobanputra (Future Perfect Ventures), Ryan Hoover (Weekend Fund), Jonathan Hillis (Seed Club Ventures), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Scott Belsky (A24), Illia Polosukhin (SID Venture Partners), Raj Gokal (Solana Ventures), Erikan Obotetukudo (Audacity), Gabby Dizon (Infinity Ventures Crypto), Julia Lipton (Awesome People Ventures), Courtney Chow (Emerging Venture Capitalists Association (EVCA)), George Lambeth (Divergence Ventures), Calvin Liu (Divergence Ventures), Sriram Krishnan (Kearny Jackson), Min Teo (Ethereal Ventures), Jeff Morris, Jr. (Chapter One Ventures), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Tom Bedecarre (WPP Ventures), Sina Habibi, Luis Cuende, Andrew Steinwold, Do Kwon, Alice Lloyd George, Stani Kulechov, Biz Stone, Anastasia Andrianova, Brad Holden, David Nage, Trevor McFedries, Jess Sloss, Nathaniel Whittemore, Bo Shao, Tegan Kline, Steve Weinstein, Balaji Srinivasan, Aliaksandr Hudzilin, Regan Bozman, Tyler Scott Ward
Bot MD
Series ADec 2020$5M
SeedAug 2018$2M
$7M
Co-investors: Mike Maples (Floodgate), Ann Miura Ko (Floodgate), Supachai Kid Parchariyanon (HOF Capital), Dalton Caldwell (Standard Capital), Jared Friedman (Israel Defense Forces)
Crash
SeedSep 2018$1M
$1.8M
Co-investors: James Kim (Reach Capital)

Steve Blank's Experience

Lecturer Imperial College London2015 - Present
Architect I-Corps @ NIH Curriculum National Institutes of Health2014 - Present
Adjunct Professor Stanford University2011 - Present
Architect Innovation Corps Curriculum, Principal Investigator I-Corps National Science Foundation2011 - Present
Lecturer Imperial College Public Awareness and Social Service SocietyPresent
Co-Author Hacking For... Diplomacy, Defense and Recovery. Technology, Innovation and Modern War Stanford UniversityPresent
Defense Business Board United States Department of DefensePresent
Founding Faculty - Gordian Knot Center For National Security Innovation Stanford UniversityPresent
Department of the Navy’s Science and Technology Board U.S. NavyPresent
Co-Author Hacking For... Diplomacy, Defense. Technology, Innovation & Great Power Competition Stanford UniversityPresent
Advisory Board Member Applied MaterialsPresent
Board Member California League of Conservation VotersPresent
Expert Advisory Panel California Ocean Protection CouncilPresent
Lecturer BerkeleyLawPresent
Lecturer University of California, San FranciscoPresent
Director IMVU, Inc.Present
Architect Innovation Corps Curriculum, Principal Investigator I-Corps National Science Foundation (NSF)Present
Department of the Navy’s Science and Technology Board NewCoPresent
Defense Business Board United States Department of WarPresent
Lecturer NewCoPresent
Lecturer Underrespresented Researchers of ColorPresent
Lecturer NYU SteinhardtPresent
Board Member California Environmental VotersPresent
Commissioner NewCoPresent
Trustee University of California, Santa CruzPresent
Director NewCoPresent
Director PlanetArtPresent
Director Immersion CorporationPresent
Cofounder, President, VP Marketing EpiphanyPresent
VP Marketing, acting VP Sales NewCoPresent
VP Marketing, Unix Division Convergent Technologies GroupPresent
Training Manager NewCoPresent
Field Engineering NewCoPresent
Electronic Warfare United States Air ForcePresent
Senior Fellow Columbia Business School2012 - 2022
Lecturer UC Berkeley, Haas Business School2002 - 2017
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 CafePress.com2002 - 2009
Director IMVU2004 - 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