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GoCoin Raises $550,000 For BitCoin Purchases

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Santa Monica-based GoCoin --one of the first BitCoin startups to emerge out of the Silicon Beach technology ecosystem--said today that it has raised $550,000 in a seed funding round, to develop a platform to enable the purchasing of good and services around the world with Bitcoin.

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Grindr Names New CTO

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Los Angeles-based gay social networking app Grindr said today that it has named Lukas Sliwka as Chief Technology Officer. Sliwka has previously also served at Beachbody, Yamaha, and Mazda. Sliwka has been at Grindr since October of 2013, serving as Vice President, Engineering.

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