Canoo is down to one co-founder as its CTO reportedly leaves

EV startup Canoo has mislaid co-founder and main exertion serviceman Sohel Merchant and is moving its operations retired of Los Angeles, according to 2 reports from TechCrunch this week, citing unnamed sources.

Merchant took implicit the CTO position successful 2021, erstwhile the company’s CTO left, on with 2 different co-founders. One of those who remained, main decorator Richard Kim, departed past year. With Merchant present reportedly gone, main technologist Christoph Kuttner is the past laminitis lasting astatine Canoo, according to TechCrunch yesterday.

Canoo wrote successful a quarterly SEC filing connected August 14th that it was “permanently” dropping its headcount arsenic portion of a reorganization program for its Torrance, California facility, and offering to determination “approximately 137” of 194 employees from determination to either Oklahoma oregon Texas. Then, earlier this week, it told employees during a institution gathering that it was shutting down its LA office, TechCrunch wrote connected Thursday.