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Startup CTO or Developer

SoCal CTO

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. I’ll address the specifics of what this Founder Developer Gap looks like below.

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

TechCrunch LA

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 Those cloud technologies presented new challenges for the kind of privileged access management technologies that Poghosyan had developed.

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Venture investors and startup execs say they don’t need Elizabeth Warren to defend them from big tech

TechCrunch LA

Responding to Elizabeth Warren’s call to regulate and break up some of the nation’s largest technology companies, the venture capitalists that invest in technology companies are advising the presidential hopeful to move slowly and not break anything. — Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) March 8, 2019. ” .

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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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Stemson Therapeutics Finds $7.5M For Hair Loss Cure

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San Diego-based Stemson Therapeutics , a startup working on therapies to cure hair loss, has raised $7.5M According to the company, the new funding will go to advance development of its therapeutic solution to cure hair loss. as Vice President of R&D and Preclinical Development, and Cenk Sumen, Ph.D. in a seed funding round.

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Video Interview: Brand Caso, Meshcandy

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Our interview todays is with Brand Caso , the Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Meshcandy (meshcandy.com) developing mesh devices specifically for the health care industry, used for automate the measuring information at health care sites. READ MORE>>.