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jon steinback

T2 · manager / operator

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.

2 calls·2 names·100% bull·last heard last month·Scaling Europe
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$MARKERMarkerposition

Marker raises $13M seed led by Index to build AI writing tool preserving human authorship

Marker is building a full-stack AI writing tool that writes with users rather than for them, targeting the billions of word processor users who want better tools for actual writing while maintaining authorship.

Scaling Europe2026-07→
2ndhigh conviction
$INDEX-VENTURESIndex Ventures

Index Ventures leads Marker seed backing contrarian thesis that human writing will endure

Index Ventures shares Marker's contrarian philosophy that writing won't disappear in 5 years and wants to double down on human writing rather than let it be subsumed by AI-generated text.

Scaling Europe2026-07→

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$INDEX-VENTURES
Index Ventures
HIGHjon steinback·Scaling Europe·last month
Index Ventures leads Marker seed backing contrarian thesis that human writing will endure
Index Ventures shares Marker's contrarian philosophy that writing won't disappear in 5 years and wants to double down on human writing rather than let it be subsumed by AI-generated text.
"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 i…"
7:03
$MARKER
Marker
HIGHjon steinback·Scaling Europe·last month· position
Marker raises $13M seed led by Index to build AI writing tool preserving human authorship
Marker is building a full-stack AI writing tool that writes with users rather than for them, targeting the billions of word processor users who want better tools for actual writing while maintaining authorship.
"We're building this company called Marker and we're coming out of stealth and announcing that we've uh closed our seed round led by index with participation from a bunch of other…"
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