# Daniel Blank

> Daniel Blank is the CEO and co-founder of Toggle, a construction robotics company he started in New York in 2016 to bring manufacturing methods to the built environment, beginning with the fabrication and assembly of steel rebar for reinforced concrete. A designer by training who spent a decade running a design agency, Blank re-imagined the one-off construction process as a repeatable product-manufacturing process after watching workers tie thousands of steel bars by hand at a wind farm. Toggle has raised roughly $15 million from investors including Point72 Ventures, Tribeca Venture Partners, Blackhorn Ventures and Mark Cuban, and has since expanded into automated quality control for custom fabricators under the Toggle QC banner.

- **Role:** CEO & Co-Founder at Toggle
- **Organizations:** Toggle (Toggle Robotics / Toggle Industries / Toggle QC), Bureau Blank
- **From:** Western Massachusetts, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BS, Management and International Business, New York University
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Toggle, a construction robotics company that has raised roughly $15 million., Built a robotic, factory-style system for fabricating and assembling steel rebar that aims to halve labor costs and increase output fivefold., Attracted investment from Point72 Ventures, Tribeca Venture Partners, Blackhorn Ventures, Mark Cuban and Twenty Seven Ventures.

## Career timeline

- **2004** — Graduated from New York University with a BS in Management and International Business.
- **2004** — Became President and Creative Director of Bureau Blank, a design services agency, leading client projects for over a decade.
- **2016** — Co-founded Toggle in New York with Ian Cohen to bring manufacturing technology to construction, starting with rebar.
- **2019** — Toggle raised $3 million in seed funding led by Point72 Ventures, with Mark Cuban and Twenty Seven Ventures.
- **2021** — Toggle closed an $8 million Series A led by Tribeca Venture Partners with Blackhorn Ventures, Point72 Ventures and New York State.
- **2023** — Toggle added $3 million to its Series A, bringing total funding to roughly $15 million.
- **2024** — Toggle expanded into automated quality control for custom fabricators under the Toggle QC brand, with operations in New York City and Zurich.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Toggle, a construction robotics company that has raised roughly $15 million.
- Built a robotic, factory-style system for fabricating and assembling steel rebar that aims to halve labor costs and increase output fivefold.
- Attracted investment from Point72 Ventures, Tribeca Venture Partners, Blackhorn Ventures, Mark Cuban and Twenty Seven Ventures.
- Alumnus of the URBAN-X accelerator and the Consortium for Research and Robotics at Pratt Institute.
- Ran the design agency Bureau Blank for over ten years before founding Toggle.
- Deployed Toggle's system on large-scale New York City civil infrastructure, commercial solar and energy storage projects.

## Latest updates

- **2023-02** — Toggle added $3 million to its Series A round, lifting total funding to about $15 million.
- **2024-01** — Toggle broadened its focus toward automated quality control for custom fabricators (Toggle QC), operating from New York City and Zurich.

## Links

- Website: https://toggle.is
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danblank/

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