Steve Blank
Adjunct Professor Stanford University
Pescadero, California
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Rain Industries
Total Funding: $10M
Artera
Total Funding: $160M
Valar Labs
Total Funding: $26M
Syndicate
Total Funding: $28M
Bot MD
Total Funding: $7M
Crash
Total Funding: $1.8M
Bevy
Total Funding: $61M
Gamalon
Total Funding: $28M
Ava
Total Funding: $18M
DeepScale
Total Funding: $19M
FreeWire Technologies
Total Funding: $31M
EdSurge
Total Funding: $9M
Neon Labs
Total Funding: $4.6M
Udacity
Total Funding: $240M
Blue River Technology
Total Funding: $30M
Blaast
Total Funding:
Egnyte
Total Funding: $62M
Votizen
Total Funding: $2.8M
inDinero
Total Funding: $11M
Work Experience
2023
Department of the Navy’s Science and Technology Board
2023
Advice and counsel to the Department of the Navy on scientific, innovation, technical, manufacturing, acquisition, logistics, medicine and business management.
2011
Founding Faculty - Gordian Knot Center For National Security Innovation
2021
Co-Author Hacking For... Diplomacy, Defense. Technology, Innovation & Great Power Competition
2012
Adjunct Professor
2011
Teaching: Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition https://tigpc21.sites.stanford.edu Hacking for Climate and Sustainability https://h4cs.stanford.edu Hacking for Recovery https://h4r.stanford.edu Hacking for Defense https://h4d.stanford.edu Hacking for Diplomacy http://hacking4diplomacy.stanford.edu Lean LaunchPad: https://leanlaunchpad.stanford.edu
2020
Advisory Board Member
2020
https://www.appliedmaterials.com/company/news/press-releases/2020/09/applied-materials-welcomes-technical-advisory-board
Architect I-Corps @ NIH Curriculum
2014
Architect Innovation Corps Curriculum, Principal Investigator I-Corps
2011
Developed the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps curriculum (an adaptation of my Stanford Lean LaunchPad class.) Recruited teaching team, taught first two cohorts. Co-Prinicpal Investigator for the U.C. Berkeley Innovation Corps node.
2015
Lecturer
2015
Wicked innovation class 2023/24 Lean LaunchPad for synthetic biology 2015
2012 - 2022
Senior Fellow
2012 - 2022
2020 - 2020
Defense Business Board
2020 - 2020
2002 - 2017
Lecturer
2002 - 2017
2014 - 2016
Lecturer
2014 - 2016