About
Erik founded Banana.dev, a serverless GPU platform for machine learning inference, before joining Modal as a growth engineer. He now leads Butter.
Founder at ButterYC W25
Intro paths
YC
Erik went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran Butter's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Erik can intro founders to Butter's investors below.
Experience
- ModalMember of Technical Staffcurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco
- ButterFounder2024 — 2026San Francisco, California, United States
- ModalGrowth Engineer2024San Francisco, California, United States
- BananaFounder2021 — 2024
- BoosteFounder2019 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
- Vectr BioFounder2018 — 2019Mountain View, California
- WyaxisFounder2017 — 2018
- EncapsysProcess Design Engineer2017Appleton, WI
- Danfoss Power SolutionsProduct Design Engineer2016Ames, Iowa
- Iowa State UniversityUndergraduate Research Assistant2015 — 2016
Skills & more
Leadership9Strategic PlanningPublic Speaking2Lean Startup4PythonMechanical Engineering2Start-upsBusiness DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentRoboticsAndroid DevelopmentFinancial Analysis
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Sustainable AgricultureMetal FabricationCAD/CAMArduinoJavaMatlabVBADjangoJupyterTechnical LeadershipTime ManagementCustomer ServiceLanguages Chinese · English · Spanish
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Erik Dunteman?
- Erik founded Banana.dev, a serverless GPU platform for machine learning inference, before joining Modal as a growth engineer. He now leads Butter.
- Where does Erik Dunteman work?
- Erik Dunteman is Founder of Butter.
- What companies did Erik Dunteman found?
- Erik Dunteman founded Butter.
- Where did Erik Dunteman go to school?
- Erik Dunteman studied at Iowa State University (Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering); National University of Singapore (Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering).
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Iowa State University mafia22
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Same school
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Shared employers
Also worked at Iowa State University15
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