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This list showcases the top California based CTO’ operating in the Building Material space. If you think a CTO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
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Dmitry Starodubtsev
CTO and co-founder of Mighty Buildings
Dmitry Starodubtsev is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, technologist and sustainability expert that has developed over 50 new products including 14 US patents. Dmitry brings along materials and 3DP experience and is a CTO and Co-Founder at Mighty Buildings, a construction technology company, which creates beautiful, affordable, and sustainable
homes using 3D printing and robotic automation. Mighty Buildings is based in Oakland, CA and is backed by reputable VCs such as Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, SV Angel, CoreVC, and others.
Background Dmitry holds a Master’s degree in Technical Physics. Dmitriy started his career as a research engineer developing algorithms for material and aerodynamic shape optimization of spacecrafts. At the same moment, he started work for his Ph.D. in the research institute of applied mathematics and mechanics (known as one of the key R&D contractors for the Apollo-Soyuz program). It’s the first international space mission carried out jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union. Dmitry was developing algorithms for material and aerodynamic shape optimization of spacecraft. 2 years later Dmitry made a decision to leave his scientific career and switch to technology entrepreneurship, willing to accelerate the product development process and create his own development team and leverage more hands-on type of approach.
As CEO and Co-founder of DI Group (https://dilabs.tech/ru/), he has built an engineering firm which is centered around the interaction between people and sophisticated technologies. He managed to scale the company up to 120+ employees and developed 50+ new products and technologies for clients from over 15 different countries. DI Group clients include: Procter & Gamble, L’Oreal, Sberbank (third largest bank in Europe), MTS (mobile operator in Russia with 100 M+ subscribers), Gazprom (10% of the Russian GDP), Russian Railways (one of the largest transportation companies in the world).
In 2014 Dmitry switched to the consumer electronics business and relocated to Singapore, where he founded CreoPop. As CEO and Co-founder of CreoPop, he managed to develop and produce the world’s first 3D pen with a variety of unique cool inks. CreoPop is the first gadget in the consumer industry built at the nexus of different sciences and technologies – new advanced materials, hardware, and software. The product is sold in more than 2500 stores in 60+ countries around the world.
In Singapore Dmitry met Slava Solonitsyn, who invested in CreoPop as an angel and helped with the company launch. Together Dmitry and Slava foundered Mighty Buildings, a tech company that is revolutionizing the construction industry using advanced materials, patented 3D printing technology, and robotic automation. The construction industry is currently facing such challenges as: labor shortages, poor productivity, technology adoption and sustainability. All the solutions applied by the company are supported by their robust IP portfolio. Moreover Mighty Factory is designed to be placed in any regular warehouse without any special requirements in less than 6 months. Dmitry always dreamt of creating something which benefits people in a way no one has done before. And now his core tech and product vision can unlock productivity in a sustainable way, basically to fulfill the housing gap with the positive impact on ecology.
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About Mighty Buildings: Mighty Buildings is a construction technology company that creates sustainable high-quality homes using 3D printing and robotic automation
Philip Ross
CTO of MycoWorks
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About MycoWorks, Stanford University: MycoWorks is a biotech company that delivers commercially viable non-plastic and non-animal materials to the market.
Brian Gonzalez
Co-founder and CTO of Curri
Brian Gonzalez is a co-founder and CTO at Curri.
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About Curri: Curri is a construction materials provider that develops a last-mile delivery app that connects supply stores to customers.
Miles Barr
CTO of Ubiquitous Energy
Co-founder & CTO at Ubiquitous Energy.
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About Ubiquitous Energy: Ubiquitous Energy makes transparent solar technology for windows, electronics, and other applications.
Christopher Dow
CTO, Smart Residential Solutions of ASSA ABLOY Group
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About ASSA ABLOY Group: ASSA ABLOY Group is a door opening solutions, dedicated to satisfying end-user needs for security, safety, and convenience.
Corey Hoven
Founder and CTO of Next Energy Technologies
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About Next Energy Technologies: Next Energy Technologies is a manufacturer of organic photovoltaic coatings used to transform windows into energy-producing assets.
Andrew Gillies
Co-founder and CTO of Urban Machine
Andrew Gillies is the Co-Founder and CTO of Urban Machine.
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About Circuit Launch, Circuit Launch, Draper University, Urban Machine: Salvaging the past to build the future- Stealth Startup
Alon Gutman
Co-Founder, CTO of oWow
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About oWow: Trying to solve the housing crisis and destroy loneliness
Jay Cady
Founder & CTO of Hyperframe
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About Hyperframe: Hyperframe develops a new class of building materials that raises construction productivity by 10 to 100 times.
Stephan Orme
CTO of OppSites
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About OppSites: OppSites is the Market-Network for City Building, connecting people to real estate and business opportunities in the places that matter.
Stephan Orme
CTO of OppSites
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About OppSites: OppSites is the Market-Network for City Building, connecting people to real estate and business opportunities in the places that matter.
