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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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How Pariti is connecting founders with capital, resources and talent in emerging markets

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The data and research organisation uses factors like performance, capital, market reach, connectedness, talent, and knowledge to produce its rankings. Startup ecosystems from emerging markets excluding China and India didn’t make the organisations’ top 40 list last year.

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

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Fungible was launched in 2016 by Bertrand Serlet, a former Apple software engineer who sold a cloud storage startup, Upthere, to Western Digital in 2017, alongside Krishna Yarlagadda and Jupiter Networks co-founder Pradeep Sindhu. Increasing competition in the market for DPUs put pressure on Fungible, as well.

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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. Rather, Falck chose a two-step process to bring Einride to market.

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Dragos raises $110M Series C as demand to secure industrial systems soars

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Dragos was founded in 2016 to detect and respond to threats facing industrial control systems (ICS), the devices critical to the continued operations of power plants, water and energy supplies, and other critical infrastructure. Lee said the company’s priority had been to work on its threat platform, and less selling it.

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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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Chief community officer is the new CMO

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A conversation that I’ve been having over the last week is that startups are finally investing in community in a meaningful way, dedicating actual budgets to community instead of simply stealing a few dollars away from the sales and marketing team. Market map of community tools. Image Credits: Commsor. Seen on EC.

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