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Why Your Company Needs a Fractional CTO

Valerian Tech

There are many benefits to hiring a fractional CTO, also known as a part-time or interim CTO. A fractional CTO can bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to your organization without the added expense of a full-time executive.

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What is a CTO? The exec who sets tech strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

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Tech Moves: Appen lands ex-Upwork CTO; DocuSign hires former Amazon GM

GeekWire

Appen Photo) — Saty Bahadur is now chief technology officer at Appen, a publicly traded IT services and consulting company that provides training data for artificial intelligence systems. Bahadur was previously chief technology officer at freelancing platform Upwork and a general manager for Alexa at Amazon.

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Wokelo raises $4M for AI-driven due diligence, sees customer traction in M&A, investing and consulting

GeekWire

Wokelo’s AI technology generates detailed due diligence reports for acquisitions, investments, and strategic decisions. Wokelo, co-founded in 2022 by two former management consultants, Siddhant Masson (CEO) and Saswat Nanda (CTO), has 13 employees. Wokelo co-founders Saswat Nanda, left, and Siddhant Masson.

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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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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

CIO Business Intelligence

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. Since joining a year ago, Nikolic has split teams into horizontal and vertical functions to support operational efficiency and product development.

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Seattle startup Live Aware raises $4.8M for new AI-powered game developer feedback system

GeekWire

million in a seed funding round to continue work on its self-titled feedback management platform for game developers. Audiences are diversifying tremendously,” co-founder and CEO Sean Vesce tells GeekWire, “and more developers are realizing [the value of] building a game in lockstep with an audience from the earliest stages of development.