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Nigerian restaurant management platform Orda gets $1.1M, wants to be the Toast of Africa

TechCrunch

The market, dominated by incumbents like Toast and upcoming players such as MarginEdge and Brazil’s Zak , has its value pegged at over $70 billion globally and is expected to reach $116 billion in the next four years. As with most technologies, Africa is playing catch up in this food-tech segment.

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Software Engineer Turned Youtuber – Jarvis Johnson

Y Combinator

I didn’t want to do a big commute, so– Yelp was a good fit there, and I just had such good mentorship that I wanted to come back full-time. I went to Yelp just to try something new, and it was in San Francisco, and I didn’t like living in the South Bay when I was interning at Google.