5x founder

Erik Dunteman

Engineer at Modal, founder of Butter (YC W25, acquired)

Founder

Butter· Winter 2025 San Francisco Bay Area

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @erikdunteman

2026Member of Technical Staff· Modal

Founder · since 2017

Company

Modal

Role

Member of Technical Staff

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

Profile coverage5 of 7 · missing posts, contact

Butter

Embedded Sandboxes for Agents

Winter 2025

Experience

Career

Modal
Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco · 2026 – Present
2026
Butter
Founder
Founder · San Francisco, California, United States · 2024 – 2026
2024
Modal
Growth Engineer · San Francisco, California, United States · 2024
2024
Banana
Founder
Founder · 2021 – 2024
2021
Booste
Founder
Founder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2019 – 2021
2019
Vectr Bio
Founder
Founder · Mountain View, California · 2018 – 2019
2018
Wyaxis
Founder
Founder · 2017 – 2018
2017
Encapsys
Process Design Engineer · Appleton, WI · 2017
2017
Danfoss Power Solutions
Product Design Engineer · Ames, Iowa · 2016
2016
Iowa State University
Undergraduate Research Assistant · 2015 – 2016
2015

Bio

Founder and CEO at Butter.dev. Previously founded Banana.dev, a serverless GPU platform where we hosted production-critical inference jobs for more than 3,000 AI teams. Later joined our competitor Modal.com as a Growth Engineer. I also run ultras!