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▶ 7:03 · $INDEX-VENTURES · Index Ventures leads Marker seed backing contrarian thesis that human writing will endure
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BREAKING: Marker raised $13m Seed: Jon Steinback, Co-Founder and CEO at Marker

2026-07-09 · 2 company · 3 thematic
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jon steinback

Jon Steinback is the co-founder and CEO of Marker, an AI writing tool that came out of stealth with a $13M seed round led by Index Ventures. He previously spent four years at DeepMind leading the creative brand and marketing team across projects like AlphaFold and Gemini.

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“I think a lot of them I think there's two things that we felt really strongly. One is uh as one of our investors put it we have a contrarian philosophy like we met with a lot of investors who are like writing won't exist in 5 years. Um whi…”
—jon steinback
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