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Orda raises millions to digitize African restaurants with its cloud-based operating system

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However, for smaller restaurants — which represent the biggest segment of this $50 billion industry — these systems can be rather expensive and do not adequately cater to their needs; thus, they stick with running operations manually. . million seed investment. The two-year-old startup raised $1.1

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Cybersecurity startup Guardio, now with 1M users of its browser extension, raises its first funding: $47M led by Tiger Global

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The browser extension doesn’t impact on a computer’s or an internet connection’s latency, nor does it “just sit in the background,” CEO Amos Peled said in an interview. “We want to give advice and help to our users. .

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Jungle Ventures closes a $600M fund, bringing its total assets under management to over $1B

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Fund IV has already backed Vietnamese digital bank Timo; Singapore back office operating system Sleek; Indian D2C consumer electronics brand Atomberg; Web3.0-based Essentially, bringing the power of the internet to that smallest participant in the internet economy is what’s the most exciting aspect of this fund.” .

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Eric Schmidt backs former Google exec’s digital family office platform in $90 million funding

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As a product lead at Google, he was in charge of ChromeOS, the company’s desktop operating system. He then headed the Android-maker’s Next Billion Users initiative that made products such as Google Pay in India to serve and onboard the next wave of internet users. Now, he is ready to share what they have been up to.

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YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria

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Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. Founders : Alphas Sinja, Boya’s chief executive officer, has over eight years of experience in the banking and finance sectors. Website : [link]. Founded in : 2020.

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Make a resolution to clean up your digital act? Here’s how

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In a time when metadata is used by governments to kill their adversaries , and Internet service providers are allowed to sell their customers’ Internet usage to the highest bidder, a good virtual private network goes a long way towards hiding your traffic from surveillance of all kinds. Step 2: Use a VPN.

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Y Combinator’s new batch features its largest group of Indian startups

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The world’s second largest internet market has delivered 43 startups in the new batch, another record figure in the history of the storied venture firm. The startup says it offers industry-based invoicing and bookkeeping with integrated banking and payments. An average Indian makes about $2,100 a year, according to the World Bank.

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