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LeagueApps raises $15M to be the ‘operating system’ for youth sports organizations

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Today, LeagueApps , which aims to be the operating system for youth sports organizations, announced it has raised $15 million in a Series B round of funding. From 2016 to 2019, LeagueApps saw 275% revenue growth. Today, over 3,000 sports organizations use LeagueApps as their operating system. . It’s a lot.

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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

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Today, Microsoft confirmed the acquisition but not the purchase price, saying that it plans to use Fungible’s tech and team to deliver “multiple DPU solutions, network innovation and hardware systems advancements.” ” The Fungible team will join Microsoft’s data center infrastructure engineering teams, Bablani said.

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Einride founder on building an underlying business to support future tech goals

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Swedish startup Einride was founded in 2016 with a mission to electrify freight transport. Today, that means designing electric trucks and an underlying operating system to help overland shippers make the transition to electric. On top of that, he saw the need to eventually automate the role of long-haul trucking.

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David Patterson Biography

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He is best known for his operating systems, central processing units, and programming languages. Turing Award laureate David Patterson retired in 2016. David’s main areas of investigation are as under: Parallel computing Computer architecture Distributed computing Workload Embedded system. He served for 40 years.

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South Africa’s Root gets $3M, plans to expand low-code insurance platform to Europe

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Insurance lags behind other financial services in the adoption of digital technologies. Hopley launched Root in 2016 to cater to this need. That being said, the company’s focus, especially as it expands into new terrain, is to build the operating system for the global insurance industry, said Hopley. . “

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Ghanaian fintech Float raises $17M seed to power cash flow for commerce in Africa

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The idea for the YC-backed Ghanaian fintech came during the chief executive’s time at OMG Digital, a media company he founded that also got into YC , in 2016. “We The company aims to serve as the “financial operating system” for Africa’s small and medium businesses.

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Micromax, smartphone sales stalled, eyes a steer into electric vehicles

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But a mix of stronger (and cheaper) competition, coupled with the rapid pace of technology development and the ongoing market slowdown , have left it spinning. The growth in its business helped the company partner with big tech companies like Google and Microsoft to launch smartphones based on their respective mobile operating systems.

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