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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower - Information Technology

What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies? The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. A CTO can help you find the right answers. Instead, they should consider a Fractional CTO who can help close the gap.

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AI meets M&A: How these former management consultants are upending due diligence

GeekWire

Wokelo co-founders Saswat Nanda, left, and Siddhant Masson, both worked previously as management consultants. That’s the premise behind Wokelo , a Seattle-area startup co-founded by two former management consultants, Siddhant Masson and Saswat Nanda. ” Funding: The company, founded in 2022, has raised $1.5

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Integrate raises $3.4M and wins Space Force contract for management software

GeekWire

million contract from the U.S. The newly announced seed funding round was led by Hyperplane, with participation from Riot Ventures, Ravelin Capital and John Capodilupo, former chief technology officer and co-founder of Whoop. An artist’s conception shows the Space Systems Command’s SpaceDEN facility.

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Prophia, which extracts info from commercial real estate contracts, raises $10.2M

GeekWire

Prophia , a startup building a platform that scours and extracts key terms from commercial real estate contracts, raised $10.2 Prophia’s users can upload PDF contracts that are analyzed by its software. The company says its software has handled more than a million pages of documents across 1,800 locations. Cameron Steele.

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5 key mistakes IT leaders make at board meetings

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s not uncommon for CIOs, CISOs, and sometimes their direct reports to be called on to participate in board meetings or to present IT strategies and plans to their boards of directors. Best practices for board meetings abound. But when I think about my own board presentations and meetings, it’s the simple mistakes I remember most.

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Finding Common Ground with Your CEO

CTOvision

The chief technology officer (CTO) and chief executive officer must work together for the good of the company. The CTO is responsible for focusing on technological matters, such as computers, websites and social networking. Work as Members of a Team.

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Meet the Seattle-area startups that just graduated from Y Combinator

GeekWire

The companies include: Talc AI, a service for assessing large language models. Watto AI, an AI program that generates consulting reports. Neum AI, a platform designed to assist companies in maintaining the relevancy of their AI applications with the latest data. It funded 229 companies, down from last year’s 240.

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