At CTO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Stanford based CTO’ operating in the Software 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.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Matt Kraning
Co-Founder & CTO of Expanse
Matt is an expert in large-scale optimization, distributed sensing, and machine learning algorithms run on massively parallel systems. Prior to co-founding Qadium, Matt worked for DARPA, including a deployment to Afghanistan. Matt holds PhD and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering, and a Bachelor’s degree in Physics, all from Stanford University.
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About Expanse: Expanse is an enterprise software company that provides an updated view of all internet-connected assets that belong to an organization.
Nicole Hu
Chief Technology Officer & Co Founder of One Concern
Nicole Hu is a computer scientist and was named by the Forbes magazine as one of the world’s top thirty innovators, in its Forbes 30 under 30 edition, for Enterprise Tech, in January 2016. Nicole holds a graduate degree in Computer Science from Stanford University. Prior to Stanford, she had the opportunity of working on exciting projects at Flipkart, the fastest growing e-commerce platform in India.
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About One Concern: One Concern provides a resilience-as-a-service solution that helps customers uncover, prepare for, and mitigate unpredictable disaster risk.
Thomas Palomares
Co-Founder and CTO of FarmWise
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About FarmWise: Feeding our World, and our Future.
Philip Kratz
CTO and Co-Founder of ZaiNar
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About ZaiNar: ZaiNar is a technology that can track the real-time location of anything.
Alexander Gabourie
Founder & CTO of DeepSim
Alexander Gabourie currently works as the Founder and CTO for DeepSim.
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About DeepSim: DeepSim develops electronic design automation technology to help chip designers speed up design and verification.