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“(NEW YORK and MINNESOTA) – Town Hall Ventures, a firm built to address the health care challenges of the most vulnerable Americans, is pleased to announce they have closed their first fund [$115m].

The Fund and its Limited Partners, representing multiple leading non-profit health systems and payors, along with transformational entrepreneurs, executives, and investors, have coalesced around a strong mandate to direct millions of dollars to invest in communities that have long been ignored.”

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MinneHack is back on February 2-3 at the University of Minnesota, hosted by the UMN chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery and powered by Major League Hacking.

Geared towards students — ranging from high school through graduate studies — the 5th annual 24 hour event will be the first Minnesota tech hackathon of 2019.

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Thanks to local commercial real estate pros CBRE for sponsoring the Meet A Minnesota Tech CFO series.

Drew Fanberg is the CFO of ClickSWITCH

When and how did you get started in your finance career, specifically within the tech industry?

I started my career with roles in accounting and finance at two local Fortune 500 companies. During this time, I entered the MBA program at the Carlson School of Management. In addition to focusing on finance, I took quite a few entrepreneurial studies classes. Those classes helped me discover that I’m much more passionate about fast growing, early stage companies, and started looking for finance positions at smaller companies.

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Updated as of 9/20/18 (original 5/31/18): In light of RedBrick’s recent exit (following $75m in VC funding), we are re-examining Minnesota headquartered technology companies based on the gross amount of investment capital received since inception. Excluding Private Equity (majority buyout) deals & debt financing, here are Minnesota’s 15 most funded tech firms based on public disclosure and years of reporting:

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Cludo moved into Minneapolis two years ago and has grown exponentially since.

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“MINNEAPOLIS – Sept. 19, 2018 – Jamf, the management standard for the Apple ecosystem, today announced its acquisition of NoMAD, an open source and commercial set of software products to simplify the Mac administration process.

Launched in 2016, NoMAD helps thousands of organizations provide a simple, unified authentication and account synchronization process for their end users. With NoMAD, Jamf has an expanded set of leading management capabilities to serve IT as they move to cloud-based identity solutions while ensuring end users have the best possible Apple experience.”

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[Updated] 9/19/18 8:00 CST – Yesterday a poll was administered to ask a timely and important question:

Should Minnesota techies be treated differently based on their appearance?

As the votes streamed in, it became clear what our audience thinks — an overwhelming “No” by 4:1 margin. You can scroll to the bottom to see it.

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Learn to Live was started in 2012 by Dale Cook and Dr. Russ Morfitt to offer online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy “CBT” programs for Stress, Social Anxiety, Insomnia and Depression.

Over the past five years, the company has taken off due to their entrepreneurial capacity and market timing.

Most recently, Learn To Live closed on $4.5m in new capital to “accelerate growth” as CEO Dale Cook describes below in our deep dive Q&A:

Are you having fun yet?

(Laughing) That’s a resounding yes! It’s been a tremendous amount of fun to start and grow this company. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done professionally…but also the most rewarding. And that’s because of what we do – support people who have mental health problems. The social value we provide is incredibly gratifying.

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Mark Allan Puchala II is a Junior Developer for hire/freelance in Minnesota.

 
What initially sparked your interest in technology?

I realized that if you use technology just right, even a goal as insane as “accomplish literally everything in the world” can be broken down into many series of reasonable, meaningful solutions that could provide lasting impacts on the welfare of others. So I’d like to see just how much I can contribute to the world by simplifying anything I work on into simple, automatable tasks.

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Thank you Tarmac for underwriting our Meet a Minnesota Tech CTO series, where we get up close and personal with Minnesota’s chief techies!

John Orosco is the CTO of Minneapolis-based Sansoro Health, makers of the Emissary platform for exchanging real-time health care data between digital health applications and electronic medical records.

How long have you been working in tech for and what is your technical background?

When I started my college career, I wanted to be an accountant until I started taking accounting classes and quickly realized that was not the path for me. I then turned my attention to business management and computer science.

I enjoyed the programming classes a great deal and completed my degree in Management Information Systems at Iowa State in 1998. I joined Cerner Corporation as a software engineer after graduation which is where my professional career began. I have been in healthcare information technology ever since.

What are you focused on right now?

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