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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), Lip-Bu Tan (Walden International), Amarjit Gill (Nepenthe Capital), Marc Benioff, Rajiv Khemani
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: Boris Wertz (Version One Ventures), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Courtney Chow (Battery Ventures), Maria Shen (Electric Capital), Ken Deeter (Electric Capital), Curtis Spencer (Electric Capital), Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), David Eckstein (Sequoia Capital), Matthew Ball (Makers Fund), Lenny Rachitsky (AirAngels), Baek Kim (Hashed), Joon Ian Wong (Seed Club Ventures), Jeff Morris, Jr. (Chapter One Ventures), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), 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), Todd Goldberg (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Ryan Hoover (Weekend Fund), 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), Joyce Yang (Seed Club Ventures), Rene Reinsberg, Tyler Scott Ward, Regan Bozman, Anastasia Andrianova, Andrew Steinwold, Stani Kulechov, Do Kwon, Imran Khan, Sina Habibi, Luis Cuende, Scott Belsky, Nathaniel Whittemore, Eric Wu, Alice Lloyd George, Jess Sloss, David Nage, Adam Jackson, Bo Shao, Steve Weinstein, Biz Stone, Balaji Srinivasan, Brad Holden, Aliaksandr Hudzilin, Tegan Kline, Trevor McFedries
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), 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), Baron Davis, Eric Rea, Aaron Skonnard
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