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Startup CTO or Developer

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I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. That’s why Roger Smith puts the focus of the CTO on programming for the earliest stage.

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Bill Gates wants Western countries to eat “synthetic meat”; Meatable has raised $47 million to make it

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Indeed, two of the best funded companies in the lab-grown meat market hail from The Netherlands, where Mosa Meat is being challenged by a newer upstart, Meatable , which just announced $47 million in new financing. Meatable has a long road ahead of it, because, as Gates acknowledged in his interview with MIT Technology Review (ed.

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Miso Robotics Picks Up $10M More

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Pasadena-based Miso Robotics , the robot developer which is developing robots for assisting in commercial kitchens, has raised $10M in a Series B funding round. Miso Robotics is best known for its robot, "Flippy", which has taken over flipping burgers at one of CaliBurger's locations, in Pasadena.

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Human Longevity Names Interim CEO and COO

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Karow was previously Human Longevity's Chief of Radiogenomics. Karow has previously been a researcher at UC San Diego, UCLA, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Human Longevity is venture backed by Illumina, Celgene, GE Ventures, and others, and raised a big round of funding in 2016 worth $220M. READ MORE>>.

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Acting CTO Role in a Start-up

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I generally am working as an acting CTO for about 3-4 start-ups or other companies at any one time. I also found this interesting graphic of the changing needs around the CTO role in different size/type companies that somewhat echoes my experience. During Stabilization, often the focus is transitioning to a full-time CTO.

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Embodied Gets $22M For Lifelike Robots

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Pasadena-based Embodied , a startup which says it is developing "life-like robots to revolutionize care and wellness for humans", announced Monday morning that it has raised $22M in a Series A funding round. Jason Schoettler from Calibrate Ventures and Andrew Firlik from JAZZ Venture Partners both join the company's board with the funding.

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Boulevard books $70M to help beauty and wellness salons with their bookings

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The funding, a Series C, will be used to continue expanding Boulevard’s product and engineering teams and to build out more tools targeting an ever-wider set of users in the bigger wellness and beauty sector (those product additions are typically big — it most recently added a whole new payments feature). Focusing on the U.S.

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