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a16z, NFX back Latitud’s effort to become ‘the operating system for every venture-backed company in LatAm’

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Fast-forward to the beginning of the pandemic in 2020; Requarth teamed up with DuoLingo’s former VP of growth Gina Gotthilf and Yuri Danilchenko, former CTO of Brazilian startup Escale, to found what they describe as a “tech entrepreneurship program” in Latin America. Our plan is to become a SaaS/fintech company,” Requarth said.

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Nigerian restaurant management platform Orda gets $1.1M, wants to be the Toast of Africa

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The company, which describes itself as a ‘cloud-based restaurant operating system built for African chefs and food business owners,’ had its round led by pan-African investor LoftyInc Capital. said the CTO in a statement. Orda was built from a near 18 months of a collaborative customer feedback loop. Last year, 80% of the U.S.

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Daily Crunch: India’s Central Bank says cryptocurrency ‘may even be worse’ than Ponzi schemes

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And so much more: Homebound raised $75 million from Khosla , MoneyHash picked up $3 million to build a fintech super-API for the Middle East and Africa, and Better Tomorrow Ventures raised $225 million for a new fintech fund. Our startup’s first hire was a fractional Head of Remote. You can sign up here.). Big Tech Inc.

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QA Wolf exits stealth with an end-to-end service for software testing

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. “As software developers ourselves — working in health tech and fintech, where even minor bugs could have an outsized impact on people’s lives — we know firsthand how critical robust end-to-end testing is for all software businesses,” Perl said. ” QA Wolf promises a lot.