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CareStack Raises Funding, Afrikea launches SaaS e-commerce, BoostUp.ai & Ospera Raises Series A


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Thiruvananthapuram-based cloud dental software startup CareStack  raises $22.5 Mn from Steadview Capital, Delta Dental of California, Accel Partners, Eight Roads and F-Prime Capital. CareStack’s single all-in-one SaaS platform on the cloud combines dental practice management, patient engagement, practice marketing, and data analytics. The company claims to have doubled its revenue last year and has stated that its workforce has grown from 200 employees at the beginning of the year to 370 employees at present. In 2019, the company had raised $28 Mn from the same investors. With the recent funding, CareStack’s total funding raised is over $60 Mn.Ivorian startup Afrikrea partners with DHL and Visa to launch SaaS e-commerce platform ANKA. Ivorian  e-commerce startup Afrikrea started as a marketplace for African-based and inspired clothing, accessories, arts, and crafts. Over the past five years, Afrikrea has been serving more than 7,000 sellers from 47 African countries and buyers from 170 countries. Last year, Afrikrea began testing an all-in-one SaaS e-commerce platform for these merchants. With it’s launch, the platform called ANKA will allow users to sell from Africa, ship products to anywhere in the world and get paid through local and international African payment methods.BoostUp.ai, provider of a software-as-a-service  platform for managing revenue operations infused with AI capabilities raises $6 million in series A funding, bringing its total raised to $14 million, after an initial seed round last year.The company is part of a growing cadre of startups attempting to unify sales, marketing, and customer service processes in a way that enables organizations to boost sales and increase overall profitability. BoostUp claims its revenue has increased by more than 1,000% in fiscal 2020, with an active contribution to its revenue through customers such as Udemy, Degreed, Plume, and Windstream.Opsera, a startup that’s building an orchestration platform for DevOps teams raises  $15 million Series A funding round led by Felicis Ventures. New investor HMG Ventures, as well as existing investors Clear Ventures, Trinity Partners and Firebolt Ventures also participated in this round, which brings the company’s total funding to $19.3 million. Founded in January 2020, Opsera lets developers provision their CI/CD tools through a single framework. Opsera plans to use the new funding to grow its engineering team and accelerate its go-to-market efforts

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