99 Tartans
Charlie Sestito is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in product management and innovation, currently serving as a Senior Manager and Product Manager for the Office of the CPO's Innovation Team at Palo Alto Networks since December 2018. Additionally, Charlie has been a Seed Investor at 99 Tartans since December 2021. Prior roles include Software Engineer, Innovation Co-Founder, and Product Manager at Cisco from September 2016 to December 2018, along with work as an Undergraduate Researcher/Developer in Cybersecurity at Penn State University from January 2015 to July 2016. Charlie holds a Master of Business Administration with a focus on Entrepreneurship from Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business (August 2020 - May 2023) and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering from Penn State University (2012 - 2016).
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99 Tartans
Each year Carnegie Mellon students, staff and professors launch 20 – 30 startups. Many of these spin-offs are based on industry leading intellectual property developed on campus. CMU Startups on Crunchbase: http://bit.ly/2nowN4F We believe companies with CMU technical DNA have an unfair advantage in the market. The purpose of this group is to find the best of the best and share these investment opportunities with CMU Alumni (and select friends). Together we can all help these great entrepreneurs succeed and also share in their financial success. What we look for: 1) Passionate, coachable founder(s) with deep empathy for customers. Lean, Focus, and Hustle. 2) Technology innovation rooted in next technology Epoch. 3) Large and growing addressable market or high-value problem. How does this get exponentially big? 4) Demonstrated early product traction. 4) Plausible "why now?" answer. 99 Tartans is independent of and not affiliated with the Carnegie Mellon University in any way.