Start date: August 10th
СTO Level Up Program
Where aspiring tech professionals become:
Chief Technology Officers
VPs of Engineering
Tech Co-Founders
Hands-on program for future tech leaders in breakout startups and corporations
Start date: August 10th
СTO Level Up Program
Where aspiring tech professionals become
Chief Technology Officers
VPs of Engineering
Tech Co-Founders
Chief Technology Officers
VPs of Engineering
Tech Co-Founders
Hands-on program for future tech leaders in breakout startups and corporations
CTO Level Up Program is perfect for you if...
- You want to expand your career into more challenging CTO/VPofE roles01
- You want to build venture-scalable startups as a tech co-founder02
Hands-on program with cases from startup CTOs
- 2 real-time challenges by real startup founders with personalized feedback
- 2 talent demo days to help you land a job in a startup
- A highly curated cohort of peers with networking events and group discussions
- A community of 300+ startup executives
REAL-TIME CASES
ACCESS TO STARTA VC STARTUP ECOSYSTEM
Learn directly from accomplished startup executives
We have helped hundreds of founders build great and productive teams from launch to exit and are exited to help you streamline processes
Master hiring and building a highly efficient engineering department
HIGH-PROFILE EXPERTS
LEADERSHIP TRAINING
Alexey Shagraev
CTO at Pora.ai, ex-Google
How to Achieve Operational Excellence
CTO at Pora.ai, ex-Google
How to Achieve Operational Excellence
Sergey Lukichev
Engineering Manager at Zalando
Recruiting, Managing, and Motivating your Engineering Team
Engineering Manager at Zalando
Recruiting, Managing, and Motivating your Engineering Team
Learn how to how to provide value outside of just technical delivery with the experts from our community
Investors in the Starta community
300+
Portfolio companies
218
Average check
$500K
Be equipped for making decisions with strategic implications in an early-stage company
Get involved in the daily operations of a real startup during 2 real-time cases to learn founders’ hard-won insights and avoid common CTO pitfalls when starting and scaling a venture
This program was created by Starta University, a division of Starta VC, one of the Top-10 most active venture funds in New York. You will get lifetime access to a community of 300+ founders and 300+ investors to supercharge your network
Gain exclusive access to positions or co-founders aligned
with your strengths and goals
with your strengths and goals
Get involved in the daily operations of a real startup during 2 real-time cases to learn founders’ hard-won insights and avoid common CTO pitfalls when starting and scaling a venture
Be equipped for making decisions with strategic implications in an early-stage company
REAL-TIME CASES
Gain access to exclusive opportunities to find positions or co-founders aligned with your strengths and goals
This program was created by Starta University, a division of Starta VC, one of Top-10 most active venture funds in New York. You will get lifetime access to a community of 300+ founders to supercharge your network
ACCESS TO STARTA VC STARTUP ECOSYSTEM
218
Portfolio companies
$500K
Average check
300+
Investors in the Starta community
Master hiring and building a highly efficient engineering department
We have helped hundreds of founders build great and productive teams from launch to exit and are exited to help you streamline processes
LEADERSHIP TRAINING
Learn directly from accomplished startup executives
HIGH-PROFILE EXPERTS
Alexey Shagraev
CTO at Pora.ai, ex-Google
How to Achieve Operational Excellence
CTO at Pora.ai, ex-Google
How to Achieve Operational Excellence
Sergey Lukichev
Engineering Manager at Zalando
Recruiting, Managing, and Motivating your Engineering Team
Engineering Manager at Zalando
Recruiting, Managing, and Motivating your Engineering Team
Learn how to how to provide value outside of just technical delivery with the experts from our community
Start Date: August 10th
Start Date: August 10th
Experience every stage of a startup to be equipped for diverse CTO roles
Pre-seed stage
Problem discovery and validation, design thinking
Product analytics
Allocation of shares
High code vs. Low code vs. No code
Backlog prioritization
Product analytics
Allocation of shares
High code vs. Low code vs. No code
Backlog prioritization
Seed stage
Communication with co-founders
Recruiting and managing engineering teams
Agile frameworks
Process management
Legal issues
Backlog prioritization
Recruiting and managing engineering teams
Agile frameworks
Process management
Legal issues
Backlog prioritization
Scaling
Operational excellence
Technical debt management
Technological strategy
DevOps culture and practices
Leadership
Technical debt management
Technological strategy
DevOps culture and practices
Leadership
Program
- Development stages of technological business: challenges and points of growth at each stage
- Understanding of C-roles in a startup, how to set up communication and expectations (CEO, CMO, CBDO, CPO)
- Scope and responsibilities of a technical leader, depending on the size and maturity of the company, and options for career development
- Allocation of shares in the team, motivation (option pool, share sizes)
- Discovering the basics of Product Management: why it is useful and how to set up a Product team
- How to define a North Star Metric, funnel KPIs with Lean Analytics and OKRs that serve as an input for your team
- How to discover problems and generate ideas to solve them through Continuous Discovery
- How to ideate solutions, prioritize and test them
- Case study: designing a stack of metrics for a real startup, identifying OKRs
- How to hire right people for the organization and how to develop a fair compensation system depending on the grade and performance
- Ways of working for an organization, how it affects teams performance
- How to build professional relationships with your directs, 1-1s, development and stay conversation. How to keep motivation high and attrition risk low. How to organize feedback rounds, what is a good feedback and how to get best out of it
- Change management: how to implement new processes in the team, how to explain it
- Conflict Management: structure and types of conflicts, stages of conflict development, conflict resolution strategies, conflict prevention: techniques of conflict-free communication
- Firing people: rookie mistakes, recommendations for exit interviews, giving feedback, a go-to plan for a conversation with a subordinate
- Correct estimation of resources for preparation and implementation of new projects: portfolio management, operational plans, etc.
- Budgeting: how to allocate resources correctly and not 2 or 3 times less
- Using OKR for resource estimation
- Systems monitoring in production—what and how to monitor, what metrics to control
- Choosing software products and platforms for a startup: licenses—what can be used and when, team skills, best practices
- Maintenance of technical debt. Planning infrastructure changes and dealing with debt when the business requires new features for customers
- DevOps culture and global DevOps practices
- Labor contracts, product formalization, patents, licensing: when involving lawyers is necessary
- IP transfer, where to license, opensource
Matching with startups in the Starta VC portfolio for the purpose of further employment and defining a personal development strategy after the program
Experts
Jan Wiechers
Sergey Lukichev
Alexey Shagrayev
School of C has more than 30 professors and coaches, among them:
Giacomo Poggiali
Andrei Rebrov
Jan Wiechers
- Expert in Technology Monetization, Business Development and Chinese Trade based in New York
- 10+ years consulting and sales experience in the USA, EMEA and Asia
- Critically important involvement in global YouTube monetization that lead to being awarded with the Google Gold Award, Platinum Award, Vice President Award and One EMEA Award, the four highest recognitions in the Global Google Sales Organization, for outstanding performance and leadership awarded by Fionualla Meehan Vice President EMEA (5000+ headcount) and Alan Thygesen President Americas (10000+ headcount)
- Guest Speaker at MBA/Master classes incl. BOCCONI, Berlin and Grenoble University
- Passionate about Brands, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Technology
- 10+ years consulting and sales experience in the USA, EMEA and Asia
- Critically important involvement in global YouTube monetization that lead to being awarded with the Google Gold Award, Platinum Award, Vice President Award and One EMEA Award, the four highest recognitions in the Global Google Sales Organization, for outstanding performance and leadership awarded by Fionualla Meehan Vice President EMEA (5000+ headcount) and Alan Thygesen President Americas (10000+ headcount)
- Guest Speaker at MBA/Master classes incl. BOCCONI, Berlin and Grenoble University
- Passionate about Brands, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Technology
Sergey Lukichev
Sergey has an extensive enginering experience and is managing Tel-ran IT School, based in Germany.
He used to be an Engineering Lead at Zalando, owning own a couple of business critical components related to the order processing of 35 mln Zalando customers.
He used to be an Engineering Lead at Zalando, owning own a couple of business critical components related to the order processing of 35 mln Zalando customers.
Alexey Shagrayev
Founder of Yandex.Tutor, Head of the Development of instant and interactive answers of Yandex Search in 2016-2020. Candidate of Technical Sciences, lecturer at MIPT and MPEI.
ex-Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Google Switzerland. Alexey is developing a HealthTech startup Pora.ai as a CTO.
ex-Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Google Switzerland. Alexey is developing a HealthTech startup Pora.ai as a CTO.
Andrei Rebrov
CTO/Сo-founder at ScentBird and Deck of Scarlet, Entrepreneur In Residence at Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, Technical Advisor at Legionfarm, Agile engineering coach.
Giacomo Poggiali
Giacomo has 5+ years of experience in Early-stage Startups (from 0 to Series A). He co-founded a startup and worked in other 2 Series A startups as a Product Manager and Growth Product Manager.
Experts
School of C has more than 30 professors and coaches, among them:
Jan Wiechers
Sergey Lukichev
Alexey Shagrayev
Andrei Rebrov
Giacomo Poggiali
Start Date: August 10th
Start Date: August 10th
Weje
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Siren Aerospace
Startup Cases
Solve real problems in existing startups in the Starta VC portfolio. Graduates get further opportunities to join these startups at C-Level positions.
Signum AI
Weje
Weje is an online board that allows for searching, structuring and presenting information. Weje’s advantage is a multifunctional approach, which combines productivity tools and unlimited possibilities for working with content, so this product is not a competitor but a supplement to existing productivity tools. Among the users of the project are the prestigious University of California Berkley, the IT company EPAM and many others. The startup received a $300 thousand investment from Starta VC and a group of business angels.
Signum
Artem Gladkikh is CEO and founder of Signum.AI. He has more than 9 years of experience in the development and promotion of digital products in the US, CIS and European markets. Artem's first startup focused on image recognition technologies. At the age of 24, he made an exit and sold the startup to a big tech company in the CIS.
Three years ago Artem founded Signum.AI and graduated from StartaAccelerator in the US. Signum.AI automates work with external data vendors. The product integrates with hundreds of external data providers (data vendors) and gives one-stop access to them, where the user can line up his or her data-flow byIn other words, Signum.AI is Miro for Data Pipeline. The startup raised a $530k round of investment in 2020.
Three years ago Artem founded Signum.AI and graduated from StartaAccelerator in the US. Signum.AI automates work with external data vendors. The product integrates with hundreds of external data providers (data vendors) and gives one-stop access to them, where the user can line up his or her data-flow byIn other words, Signum.AI is Miro for Data Pipeline. The startup raised a $530k round of investment in 2020.
Siren Aerospace
Artem Khromov is a graduate of C-Level program and founder of a startup Siren Aerospace. The startup's goal is to make air transportation as simple, convenient, and accessible as driving a car. What sets Siren apart from other competitors are quietness due to unique rotor structure, modularity, convenient for easy setup, maintenance and repair, low downtime, and the use of hydrogen fuel. Siren Aerospace team has already conducted preliminary research and calculations and contacted many potential partners and customers.
Startup Cases
Solve real problems in existing startups in the Starta VC portfolio. Graduates get further opportunities to join these startups at C-Level positions.
Signum AI
Siren Aerospace
Interactive whiteboard for remote teamwork to organize information from different sources.
LEARN MORE
LEARN MORE
Weje
Program Fee
$2,000
monthly, 3 months
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