TechCrunch LA

MARCH 23, 2021

The company aims to have its first product approved by European regulators by 2023 and notching commercial sales by 2025. Meatable has a long road ahead of it, because, as Gates acknowledged in his interview with MIT Technology Review (ed. “The mission of the company is to be a global leader in providing proteins for the planet.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Fundamentally venture capital is about human capital. The rest of our team included the founding CTO of Maker Studios (Ryan Lissack) and the CEO of DataSift (Tim Barker) so we seemed to all be in good company of ex Salesforce execs looking to make a difference. Venture Capital is a people business. Nothing fancier.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2019

According to the startup, Deborah Scanlon will serve as vice president of strategic sales, and Nigel Quinnin will take on the role of vice president of development at the company. Curtail recently raised $3.25M in a seed funding round from Tarus Capital. Curtail is led by CEO Frank Huerta.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

The company built its own point-of-sale system and commerce APIs in-house, allowing them to deliver a “seamless” customer experience, former Glossier CTO Bryan Mahoney said in 2018. billion valuation from Lone Pine Capital, Sequoia, Forerunner Ventures and others.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2019

more in a Series B funding round, the company said Wednesday, in a round led by Palisades Growth Capital. According to X1, the new funding will go to hire aggressively in development and sales. X1 is led by CEO Craig Carpenter and CTO Brent Botta. Pasadena-based e-discovery software developer X1 has raised $5.1M

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). Blippy (and their competitor Swipely – which was founded by Angus Davis , who has a great track record from both Netscape and TellMe, both aim to capitalize on the era of consumers living more openly ala Twitter, Foursquare and Gowalla. 15mm in Series A. OpenCandy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. The abundance of late-stage capital is good for us all. Interim liquidity plus long-term capital gains work really, really well.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

This round is being led by Point72 Private Investments, with previous backers Toba Capital, Index Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, BoxGroup, and VMG Partners also participating. Danna and his co-founder, CTO Sean Stavropoulos, previously worked together at Fullscreen as head of product and head of engineering, respectively.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

Meritech Capital also participated in the funding. Robison reports that the company now has over 400 employees, spread across seven building in a Carpinteria campus, in addition to a web development branch in Calabasas, and sales offices in the UK and Australia.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 12, 2022

The company also has a proprietary “Monte Carlo Simulation” to plug in point-of-sale data to manage its inventory levels at stores and reduce food waste. The new funding will be used to expand logistics and new channels beyond Whole Foods that Deerman was not able to divulge right now.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

In the early days the CEO is the jack-of-all-trades, doer-of-all, famously the “chief janitor” or coffee maker. But if you level up , raise capital and grow customers, revenue and staff – life changes. Of if your VP Sales isn’t complaining about marketing she’s trying to get the function reporting to her.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2022

CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Any offers of equity compensation before the first round of institutional capital should be considered purely speculative. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

accredited investors in 1,000 angel groups and venture capital funds to. Perhaps surprisingly, the components are NOT the traditional coding/business pieces; nor are they even coding /user interface / business / sales, or whatever. Described by BusinessWeek as a “world conquering. Depending upon others Finding your ideal niche'

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

On sales I often talk about “ Why Buy Anything, Why Buy Now, Why Buy Me ” as a tool to think about a sales process. On teams I have a framework for tech teams “ CTO vs. VP Eng ” or on sales I have “ Journeymen, Mavericks & Superstars ” 5. I had coffee with a friend on Friday.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

Michael Wong: I was previously CTO of an agency called Breakthrough Ads. My cofounder, Steven Elliott, was CTO of a company doing artificial intelligence and automated chat technology. My other co-founder, Rusty Jenkins, was also with that company, doing sales. We're also funding it out of pocket.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. In the case of Invoca we led both the seed round and the A round and didn’t wait for somebody else to come and provide more capital. Over the past 2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I had a picture in the office of my first company with the logo above and the capital letters JFDI. (In Most of them are completely mundane such as choosing which: bank, office space, 1-year lease vs. 2-year lease, logo, URL, pricing structure or which VC. The technology team disagrees on direction and wants resolutions.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Tesla is not. It's a great talk.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Monday, March 12, 2007 MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point The NY Times did a piece today on MyShape, a start-up in Pasadena - Log in Your Measurements, and the Clothes May Fit. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. His new site, Mahalo, is focused on people-based, online search, with backing from Seuqoia Capital and Elon Musk, among others. Less known--a healthy domain name registration business.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

A lot of my time is spent helping early-stage companies get to proof points so that they can raise capital. A few things jumped out at me: - Experience in sales or technology - considered a minor negative? If you've not had a C-level but have had experience in sales or tech. What are they really looking for?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

This is part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital. Your CTO and leading technology visionary has just announced he’s quitting. I have often said that fund raising (like any sales process) can be related back to human instincts and therefore explained via dating analogies. I don’t think so.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Scherzay was previously the CTO at CrowdGather, and also had founded social media software firm FavRav. Taher Scherzay: I''ve been an engineer since school, and a CTO for quite a number of years. Now, we''re putting together a team of engineers, sales, and marketing people to launch this nationally. What is Thaeres about?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Dave’s industry experience includes tenures as CTO and CEO of several successful software companies, and upper-level management positions in Fortune 100 companies. He keynotes leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, enterprise application integration, and enterprise architecture. CTO at SOA Software.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

” Who cut you in on their bonus because even though you’re “just an sales engineer” they know you really deserved more credit for this deal. We brought Ryan Lissack down from San Francisco to become Maker’s CTO and the rest is history. Who in stead said, “That’s what Skype is for?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Any offers of equity compensation before the first round of institutional capital should be considered purely speculative. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Venture backers : Oak Investment Partners, Spectrum Equity, W Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs & Co., Demand Media, the internet publishing firm which is in the midst of an IPO effort, is the brainchild of Richard Rosenblatt, who was at the reins of Intermix, the parent firm of MySpace, and brokered the sale of MySpace to News Corporation.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Transaction Wireless said the funding will go towards sales and marketing expansion, technology development, and customer deployment. Transaction Wireless is headed by Bruce Springer, formerly of Bidshift, and its CTO and founder is Basil Abifaker, who is formerly of Tourmaline Networks.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

He also nails the reason why venture capital is still necessary to grow large businesses quickly in a world where the costs of running startups have fallen dramatically. After all, growth equals high valuations and loads of venture capital! In revenue terms our first two years of sales were $2.1 So I like that bit, too.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

We started getting approached by venture capital and private equity, and we have eight figures in revenue. We've never raised outside capital, but decided to do a late stage round from a VC firm. I was working for a small venture capital firm, Shelter Capital Partners, and before that I was working for iXL.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

But during the funding process we certainly asked whether Nick was open to hiring a US-based CEO so that Nick could focus on engineering prowess and leadership and not having to build out a sales, marketing & support organization in the US. You’ll see more news from the company over the coming months.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

We went out on the Android and Blackberry, and as we were going out to market, we realized that we could use that consumer launch as a proving ground for our technology, and leverage that to the B2B market. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability. How is the company funded?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

We spoke with Dave Fink , CEO and co-founder of Posite, and Jonathan Neddenriep , co-founder and CTO of the company, to learn more. Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. What is Postie?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

So, how is it you ended up going from a technology infrastructure entrepreneur at SkyPipeline, to the consumer market with Visalus? I had a sales force when I was at SkyPipeline, selling telecom, networking, and broadband wireless products. It was really the same business, but with less capital. That's my basic method to mayhem.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2015

CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Any offers of equity compensation before the first round of institutional capital should be considered purely speculative. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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