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One Kings Lane Snags Chief Technology Officer From Zappos

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One Kings Lane , the online, home furnishings flash sales site which splits its operations between San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, said today that it has snagged former Zappos.com CTO Arun Rajan as its new Chief Technology Officer. Rajan will be at the company''s San Francisco offices. READ MORE>>.

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Papaya Picks Up $50M For Mobile Payments

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The funding was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, and also included Sequoia Capital, Acrew Capital, 01 Advisors, Mucker Capital, Fika Ventures, F-Prime, and Sound Ventures. The company's co-founder and Chief technology Officer is Jason Meltzer, who previously was at iRobot.

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Midnight Lights Up With $7.5M

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The funding came from Shima Capital, blockchain platform Forte, gaming community SNACKCLUB, guild and mod platform Overwolf, plus the founders of gaming companies Illuvium and investors Woodstock Fund, FJ Labs, Bixin Ventures, among others. Los Angeles-based gaming startup Midnight announced this morning that it has raised $7.5M

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ChowNow Names CTO

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Los Angeles-based restaurant ordering systems developer Chownow says it has named a new Chief Technology Officer. The company is backed by Daher Capital, Double M Partners, Karlin Ventures, Steadfast Venture Capital, Upfront Ventures, and Velos Partners.

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GoodRx Names CTO

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Santa Monica-based GoodRx , a venture-backed startup which runs a prescription drug pricing marketplace, has named Jody Mulkey as the company's Chief Technology Officer. GoodRx is backed by Founders Fund, Upfront Ventures, Highland Capital, SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, Dawn Lepore (drugstore.com), and Mike Ovitz.

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Stemson Therapeutics Finds $7.5M For Hair Loss Cure

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The funding came from Allergan Aethetics and Fortunis Capital. The funding from Fortunis Capital came out of its Impact Fund. as Chief Technology Officer. as Chief Technology Officer. The company's co-founders are Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Alexey Terskikh, and CEO Geoff Hamilton.

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Emotive Finds $50M In Series B

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The funding was led by CRV, and also included Mucker Capital, TenOneTen Ventures, plus new investors, Stripes and Vulcan Capital. Along with the funding, the company said it has named two executives, naming Adam Waid as Chief Customer Officer and Oleg Pylnev as Chief Technology Officer.