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Mavenoid, which automates technical support and onboarding for hardware companies, raises $30M

TechCrunch

Founded out of Stockholm in 2017, Mavenoid works with hardware and consumer electronics companies including HP, Husqvarna, and Jabra, serving to automate technical support and onboarding for customers spanning everything from printers and ovens, to electric scooters and industrial equipment. ” Technical support. Mavenoid chatbot.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. "I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it.

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Stacked raises $35M to bring passive investing tools to retail crypto traders

TechCrunch

It also secured status as a registered investment advisor (RIA) with the US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) this summer in preparation to widen its product offerings, the company told TechCrunch. “In Stacked cofounders Joel Birch and Stephen Beavis. Image Credits: Stacked.

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This VC introduced Palantir’s first business hire to its earliest engineer, then his business took off

TechCrunch

Fubini is a Carnegie Mellon grad who cofounded an enterprise company, CubeTree, that a dozen years later, sold to SuccessFactors, which was itself acquired by SAP the next year, in 2011. Fubini helped cofound the outfit with a handful of others.) In fact, the founder of XYZ, Ross Fubini, says his firm wrote Anduril its first check.

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CTO Founders / Cofounders

SoCal CTO

This is not only sad but incredibly frustrating, because it is so easy to see how a great technology can be developed and commercialized if only - if only the CTO hadn't been impulsive and insecure and brought on a business partner too early in the game. … And it’s not just inexperienced CTOs. Lack of confidence? Camaraderie?

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Why IT execs need to consider GraphQL

InfoWorld

Despite the complexity, and despite a somewhat challenging macroeconomic environment, “You can’t opt out of building great software,” as Apollo GraphQL CTO and Cofounder Matt DeBergalis declares in an interview. Sitting still while fiddling with outdated or overly complicated dials and knobs on your infrastructure simply won’t work.

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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

TechCrunch

million in seed funding to make its mission a reality, with backers including OSS Capital; Lux Capital; Sisu Game Ventures; and — somewhat notably — Bob Young , the cofounder and former CEO of Red Hat, an enterprise-focused open-source company that IBM went on to acquire for $34 billion in 2019. Game plan. .