socalTECH
APRIL 24, 2019
The team is myself and my co-founder, Alex Mostafi, our CTO, and we also have a sales director and director of engineering up north in San Francisco. We've just started to go out to look for a seed funding round. For example, Kaggle is very data science friendly, and most likely, a data scientist is likely on Kaggle.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 17, 2019
An example was that while we were in the seed round at Ring and followed in the A, B, C and D … we were also able to lean into the E round when Jamie really wanted to scale up his funding and the final check was still > 420% IRR! Why does that matter? And my friend and Invoca co-founder Colin Kelley has done both.
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socalTECH
MARCH 8, 2013
For example, Cirro is a data federation engine, which links big data with corporate data in a very effective eway. We have our own small seed fund, which we trigger to fund that company and hire a team, a CEO and a CTO. Predixion is a great example of that.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 28, 2010
Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). It was an early example of the power of direct marketing and subscription services. Index Seed : Index Ventures carves out seed fund from existing $400mm fund. SV Angel / Ron Conway closes $20mm venture fund. 15mm in Series A.
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. Can you talk about how your company is funded? We're also funding it out of pocket.
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. The expanding pool of angel, seed, and super seed funds is another. Example: Netflix). m the f%*kin’ boss.”.
Frank Addante
JUNE 4, 2006
As CTO, it was my job to solve this problem. I purposely did not assume a new title for two reasons: a) I wanted to set an example for everyone that titles are only what you make of them, and b) I could not fit myself into any one particular box – I describe my role best as “free safety.&# you are our new IT manager.&#
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