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
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
2023 - 2025
Department of the Navy’s Science and Technology Board
2023 - 2025
Advice and counsel to the Department of the Navy on scientific, innovation, technical, manufacturing, acquisition, logistics, medicine and business management.
2012 - 2022
Senior Fellow
2012 - 2022
2020 - 2020
Defense Business Board
2020 - 2020
2002 - 2017
Lecturer
2002 - 2017
2014 - 2016
Lecturer
2014 - 2016