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NXCR Sets CTO

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Santa Monica-based subscription vehicle startup NXCR has named a new Chief Technology Officer this morning, saying it has added Martin Prescher to oversee its engineering and data teams. Prescher previously was at PwC, and also had served as Chief Technology Officer at AutoGravity.

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GoodRx Names CTO

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Santa Monica-based GoodRx , a venture-backed startup which runs a prescription drug pricing marketplace, has named Jody Mulkey as the company's Chief Technology Officer.

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Midnight Lights Up With $7.5M

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Los Angeles-based gaming startup Midnight announced this morning that it has raised $7.5M in its seed funding round.

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Techstars Studio CTO, In Irvine, Aims To Help Entrepreneurs

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Southern California startup founder Isaac Saldana --who co-founded SendGrid --is hoping to help other entrepreneurs create companies , after the $3 billion, all-stock acquisition of SendGrid by Twilio in October. He's also the founder and CEO of Joy Labs, a startup that he says will "push the boundaries of computer science and happiness."

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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. Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum.

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Pitching access management on the fly, Los Angeles-based Britive raises $5.4 million

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LA saw its first big enterprise exit in recent memory with the recent acquisition of Signal Sciences for $775 million, and less than a month later a hometown startup, Britive has raised $5.4 Instead of granting permanent access to, there re policy-based pre authorizations that a company can set up defined for specific tasks and roles.

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Papaya Picks Up $50M For Mobile Payments

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Los Angeles-based Papaya, a fintech startup developing a mobile bill payment application, says it has raised $50M in a Series B funding. The company's co-founder and Chief technology Officer is Jason Meltzer, who previously was at iRobot.

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