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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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Utopia Labs is building an operating system for DAOs

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It’s a truly interesting and diverse landscape that has come a long way since The DAO nearly derailed Ethereum back in 2016. The world of DAOs is currently on fire, with dozens of viable organizations that have significant momentum — but not nearly enough infrastructure to make them truly efficient.

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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. ” 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.

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Sofy raises cash to grow its no-code mobile app testing platform

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Sofy was co-launched in 2016 by Hamid, Hyder Ali and Usman Zubair. Delivering insights that spotlight issues in the code, Sofy tries to account for different devices and operating systems on which the code might run, recording metrics like speed and responsiveness as well as vulnerability to cyberattacks. Image Credits: Sofy.

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Andreessen Horowitz leads $43M Series A for Setpoint, which aims to be the ‘Stripe for credit’

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In other words, Setpoint aims to be the “Stripe for credit,” and says it has built an operating system for originators that “makes loan transactions instant, automated and error-free.” After the acquisition by realtor.com, Rubenstein and Lam stayed on as chief revenue officer and chief operating officer, respectively.

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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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