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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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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. Today, over 3,000 sports organizations use LeagueApps as their operating system. . In his view, the company is tackling a “large yet fragmented” market. “

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StartupOS launches what it hopes will be the operating system for early-stage startups

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It includes access to business tools, guidance, mentors and investors, with the hope that the founders can learn how to best shepherd their startups through the process of validating ideas, building MVPs and finding product-market fit. Your MVP is neither minimal, viable nor a product.

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ChannelEngine raises $50M for an operating system that helps retailers sell through marketplaces

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eBay, Walmart, Zalando, Mercado Libre, AliExpress, Back Market, Shopee, Lazada, Mirakl, Bol.com, Allegro, CDON, Cdiscount, Catch are examples of the many other generalist and more localized storefronts out there for retailers to leverage when targeting consumers. Altogether, the e-commerce market is being projected to reach $5.9

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Apple enters the BNPL market as regulation, competition intensify

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In the mix were anticipated improvements to its various operating systems and computers — and plans to expand its fintech footprint. However, while it’s earned a market footprint of sufficient scale as to matter in the consumer financial technology market, it’s not considered a fintech company per se.

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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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Today, the company is building a “suite” of software products, the first one being Latitud Go, which aims to allow any founder to “intelligently” incorporate a venture-backable company ready for global scale “at the click of a button and at a price five times less expensive than what exists in the market today.” .

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Nigeria’s digital payroll platform Bento expands to Kenya, Rwanda and Ghana, to enter six other African markets in 2022

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Bento , Nigeria’s digital payroll and human resource management platform is expanding to Ghana, Kenya and Rwanda with plans to set up operations in six other markets in Africa over the next one year. In its next phase of expansion, Bento is eyeing Egypt, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola and Ethiopia by the end of next year.

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