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DECEMBER 18, 2012

Music Mastermind , which develops software which combines music creation, social gaming, celebrity musicians, and others in its games, said this morning that it has tapped a veteran of Muve Music and Napster as its new CTO. Mitchell also has served at CTO of Napster. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

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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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Todd Gitlin of Safire Partners was nice enough to compile some data on Start CTO Salary and Equity at Venture Backed Companies for the LA CTO Forum and present last year. The data is a bit tough to deal with via a post, so I've shared it two ways: You can find a PDF with some analysis at: CTO Equity Compensation PDF.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 18, 2012

Todd Gitlin of Safire Partners - a go to resource here in LA for recruiting C-level positions at startups - was nice enough to compile some data again this year (see last year's Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data ). Or they are looking at Hiring a CTO and want to see what salary and equity ranges look like.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

I talk to roughly 2 or 3 new startups every week who need advice from an experienced CTO. Of course, I provide part-time CTO services. So, I wanted to use this post to make it official - we are offering free startup CTO consulting sessions. Is it a sourcing question around whether you need a Startup CTO or Developer or both?

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AUGUST 19, 2019

Los Angeles-based private equity investor OpenGate Capital announced this morning that it has acquired Chicago-based InRule Technology , a developer of decision management and business rules management software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 23, 2015

Los Angeles-based Prevoty said this morning that it has named Roger Thornton, the Chief Technology Officer at Alienvault, to its board of directors. Thornton is also the founder of Fortify Software, which he sold to HP in 2010. Prevoty develops runtime application security software. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

I talk to roughly 2 or 3 new startups every week who need advice from an experienced CTO. Of course, I provide part-time CTO services. So, I wanted to use this post to make it official - we are offering free startup CTO consulting sessions. Is it a sourcing question around whether you need a Startup CTO or Developer or both?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Todd Gitlin of Safire Partners was nice enough to compile some data on CTO Equity and Compensation at Venture Backed Companies for the LA CTO Forum and present last year. The data is a bit tough to deal with via a post, so I've shared it two ways: You can find a PDF with some analysis at: CTO Equity Compensation PDF.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 2, 2015

As the organizer of the LA CTO Forum , I get lots of inquiries by job seekers and people looking for CTO / VP Engineering talent. I’ve written quite a bit about aspects of this topic, especially from the perspective of startup founders looking for talent – you can find these in: Startup CTO.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

The funding was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, and also included Sequoia Capital, Acrew Capital, 01 Advisors, Mucker Capital, Fika Ventures, F-Prime, and Sound Ventures. The company's co-founder and Chief technology Officer is Jason Meltzer, who previously was at iRobot.

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MARCH 2, 2017

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group announced this morning that it has acquired NetDocuments , a provider of cloud-based document management, email management, and collaboration software for law firms and corporate legal and compliance customers. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Thursday, December 1, 2016 -- TechFire: Kleiner Perkins' Eric Feng (former CTO of Hulu and Flipboard).TechFire A partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (KPCB), one of the most prominent venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, Eric also has deep ties with the Los Angeles tech community, having served as the founding CTO of Hulu.

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APRIL 26, 2010

Los Angeles-based Mojix , a developer of RFID technology, said today that it has promoted Dr. Christopher R. Jones as its new Chief Technology Officer. Mojix is venture backed by Oak Investment Partners, Red Rock Ventures and InnoCal Venture Capital. Jones also served at Broadcom. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 15, 2010

Santa Monica-based Corenerstone OnDemand , a developer of software-as-a-service for human resources and talent management, announced today that it has named Mark Goldin as Chief Technology Officer of the firm. Goldin was most recently Chief Operations and Technology Officer at Green Dot Corporation.

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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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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The funding came from Allergan Aethetics and Fortunis Capital. The funding from Fortunis Capital came out of its Impact Fund. as Chief Technology Officer. as Chief Technology Officer. The company's co-founders are Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Alexey Terskikh, and CEO Geoff Hamilton.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? And do I fit as a Part-Time CTO , Technology Advisor , CTO Founder , Acting CTO ? He needed some kind of CTO and as well Developers.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which provides online marketing products for small- and medium-sized businesses, reported today that it has named Jeff Hagins as Chief Technology Officer, and promoted Steven Power, former Australia CEO, to Executive Vice President of Global Sales Operations. Edwards, and Lockheed Martin.

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JULY 16, 2013

CyberFlow, which is headed by Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi--former Chief Technology Officer of AT&T--said the new round brings its total raised to $2.6M. The company said it will use the investment to commercialize its security technology. cyberflow analytics security software venture capital protection cybersecurity'

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AUGUST 31, 2011

Valencia-based Capital Exchange , an online community site focused on the financial community, has been acquired by Los Angeles private equity firm Revolution Capital Group , Revolution Capital said today. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

San Diego-based ServiceNow , the provider of enterprise, software-as-a-service products for IT management, has snagged the cloud infrastructure CTO out of Zynga , Allan Leinwand. Leinwand headed up Zynga's infrastructure efforts, and also previously founded Vyatta, in addition to having been a venture capitalist at Panorama Capital.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The funding was led by CRV, and also included Mucker Capital, TenOneTen Ventures, plus new investors, Stripes and Vulcan Capital. Along with the funding, the company said it has named two executives, naming Adam Waid as Chief Customer Officer and Oleg Pylnev as Chief Technology Officer.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 23, 2021

These products don’t get at the full potential for cellular technology according to Daan Luining, Meatable’s chief technology officer. “We have seen the nugget and the chicken burger, but we’re working on whole muscle tissue,” Luining said.

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MARCH 19, 2019

The company said it has named Joseph Drambarean as Chief Technology Officer and Dave McCutcheon as Vice President Sales. Drambarean was previously at Capital One. said that both will join the company at a new office in Del Mar Heights. McCutcheon was most recently Head of Sales and Alliances at FloQast.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

If your numbers work out, then scaling becomes a question of capital. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Start by building just enough of your product to get early CAC and CLV signals (they won’t be perfect). Don’t worry about scaling just yet. Next, define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

The new seed funding was led by Bouyant Ventures, and also included Better Ventures,XYZ Venture Capital, Chingona Ventures, and Starting Line Ventures. Beni is led by CEO Sarah Pinner, and was co-founded by CTO Celine Mol. According to the company, the funding was spit between a seed round of $4M, and earlier pre-seed and seed funding.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

Stephen Stokols, the CEO of Los Angeles-based Freedompop , as well as Winklevoss Capital , which has recently had a presence in LA, have both invested in a maker of "smart outlets" which turn on using Bluetooth.

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MAY 14, 2019

Curtail recently raised $3.25M in a seed funding round from Tarus Capital. Scanlon was most recently at Gartner, and also has served at Recourse Technologies, Vormetric and BigFix, along with IBM and Verizon. Quinnen was most recently Chief Technology Officer at LumenVox, and also served at Litel Instruments and Qubit Technology.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

The funding was led by Jump Capital, plus new investors HBSE Ventures, Electric Feel Ventures, Visary Capital, Metaversal, and University Growth Ventures, along with Galaxy Interactive and BITKRAFT, and and a number of angels, including Shivakumar Rajaraman, Michael Eisner, and Francis Ma.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

As part of the funding, the company has named Michael Housman as Chief Technology Officer and promoted Eric Werab to Chief Revenue Officer. Housman was most recently Chief Data Science Officer at RappportBoost.ai.

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JULY 16, 2021

The funding was led by Coatue, and also included Catalio Capital Management, OrbiMed, Sequoia CApital, Nexus Ventures, and Freeflow. Entos was founded by Tom Miller (CEO), Fred Manby (CTO), and Naren Gupta (Managing Director of Nexus Venture Partners). Jacob Vogelstein, Ph.D.,

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JANUARY 29, 2021

The funding was led by Northpond Ventures and Deerfield Management, and also included GV, Alexandria Venture Investments, plus ARCH Venture Partners, Biomatics Capital, Decheng Capital, Tao Capital Partners, and Nan Fung Life Sciences.

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MAY 17, 2013

Among executives at the firm are Kenn Stearns (eRealty), who joins as Chief Product Officer; Saro Vasudevan (Capital One), Chief Customer and Credit Officer; David Subar (BreakMedia, Interthinx), as Interim Chief Technology Officer; and Michael Barton (Startup Exchange, TicketMaster-CitySearch), who joins the firm as Chief Operating Officer.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The financiers funding the company’s plans are a mix of Silicon Valley venture capital firms and members of Hollywood’s elite, which is only fitting for a company whose headquarters are in Los Angeles, but whose business takes it to the far flung research centers and launch facilities which support the U.S. space industry.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The funding was led by Acacia Research Corporation, and also included entertainment and sports hospitality firm Levy, Joseph Essas, the chief technology officer of OpenTable, as well as investors associated with CaliBurger.

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JUNE 16, 2011

San Diego-based Achates Power , the developer of improved internal combustion engine technology, said today that it has named John Koszewnik as Chief Technical Officer. Achates Power is venture backed by Sequoia Capital Partners, Rockport Capital Partners, Madrone Capital Partners, InterWest Partners and Triangle Peak Partners.

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