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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. In the spring of 2021, the platform crossed the $2 billion in transactions processed mark, doubling the $1 billion mark it reached in the summer of 2019. It’s a lot.

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Beamery raises $138M at an $800M valuation for its ‘operating system for recruitment’

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A year before that (which would have extended into pre-pandemic 2019), the number of candidates pipelined increased by a mere 46%, pointing to acceleration. Today, one of the startups doing just that is announcing a big round of funding to double down on its growth so far. They include tools to source candidates.

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Nowports raises $16M to build the OS for LatAm’s shipping industry

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Nowports raised its initial seed round in 2019 after graduating from Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 batch with a mission to innovate the freight forwarding industry by helping companies — with an emphasis on SMEs — improve the import process. “In Nowports raises $5.3 Our 2021 goal is 400% to 600%,” de los Rios told TechCrunch.

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RedHat is acquiring container security company StackRox

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Fast forward to 2020 and Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto operating system for cloud-native applications and hybrid cloud environments,” Shah wrote. That includes Palo Alto Networks acquiring competitor TwistLock for $410 million in 2019. While this seems obvious today; it wasn’t so then.

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SoftBank-backed Oyo files for $1.16 billion IPO

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As of December 2019, it said in the filing, the startup viewed its total addressable market opportunity as serving 54 million short-stay storefronts. times more revenue on average compared with the average revenue estimated at independent hotels of a similar size in India, Indonesia and Malaysia in 2019.

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VCs are betting big on Kubernetes: Here are 5 reasons why

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of the top million web servers’ operating systems are Linux. Similarly, Kubernetes is trending to become the de facto operating system for modern, cloud-native applications. It’s my belief that Kubernetes is becoming the new Linux: 96.4%

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

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Fungible sold DPUs that relied on two operating systems, one open source and the other proprietary, and a microprocessor architecture called MIPS to control flash storage volumes. Nvidia acquired DPU maker BlueField in 2019, while AMD snatched up Pensando late last year.

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