Candid

JUNE 28, 2023

Recently we interviewed Abdul Dosunmu, campaign manager for the Donors of Color Network’s (DOCN) Climate Funders Justice Pledge , one of the intermediaries featured in the guide. In this blog, we will share his insights on how this initiative is growing support for groups that have historically lacked access to funding.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 28, 2024

That’s is one of the determinations in a new report from Independent Sector, The Pursuit of Influence: Interviews with Nonprofit Leaders About Advocacy. The 78-page report provides insight into how nonprofit leaders view their role in public policy advocacy and engagement. Strong relationships are central to successful advocacy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 26, 2021

Through personal interviews, surveys, and observing your supporters and community, you will have concrete data about their mindset and motivations for feeling — and acting — the way they do. New Israel Fund. The ride quickly smashed its goal of 100 registrants in the first six weeks of the campaign. No guesswork required!

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Understanding the challenges BIPOC leadership face in the nonprofit sector One of the primary challenges BIPOC leaders face is limited access to funding.As However, BIPOC-led organizations are at a statistical disadvantage when it comes to securing funding, particularly from philanthropic sources.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Today, the company announced two new booking tool features, including guaranteed accessibility for hotel rooms booked from its website and a price match offer. These new features follow the closing of $6 million in what it is calling “pre-Series A” funding. Seventy-nine percent of the company’s users come from the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Sanlo , a San Francisco-based fintech startup that offers small to medium-sized game and app companies access to tools to manage their finances and capital to fuel their growth, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Konvoy. “We’re a technology company, not a fund,” Caliujnaia said.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Not all leaders think that way, but organizations that value equity of access must consider the plights of those who might be systematically excluded from engagement efforts. So, we assembled a research team at Arizona State University and set off on an ambitious research project to survey and interview volunteer managers across the U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

An Interview with Matt Roberts-Davies , General Manager of M-Changa – an official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. Another factor to consider is the limited access and high expense of processing credit cards and PayPal in Kenya compared to the United States.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. On a high level, it’s no surprise that funding flowing into fintech startups was down both globally and in the U.S. And it wasn’t only funding. in the second quarter of 2022.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

One thing that stood out to him was how only a small group of select people and firms could invest in venture capital and private equity funds. million in seed funding for Poolit , a Miami-based fintech startup that aims to open up access to investing in private equity and VC funds. Earlier this year, Rice raised $5.3

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Candid

MAY 4, 2022

Based on Philea’s recent analysis of surveys, in-depth interviews, and meetings with European foundations, we’ve seen how the pandemic has had significant implications for the way philanthropy operates in Europe. In addition to addressing the inequality gap, ensuring global equitable access to COVID-19 has become a moral responsibility.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Last September, Egyptian startup Capiter raised $33 million in Series A funding to compete in the country’s growing B2B e-commerce and retail space. Fast-forward a year later, the startup has laid off multiple employees and now its CEO and COO have been relieved from their duties after allegedly mismanaging funds.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

has raised $10 million in a funding round led by the South Korean gaming company Krafton. It touts having more than 7 million content creators on the platform that brands ranging from FMCG to e-commerce can access. The Krafton-led, all-equity Series A funding round also saw participation from Peer Capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Sengupta said Wednesday his startup, rebranded as Arta Finance, will work to provide individuals access to alternative assets that have so far largely been limited to the ultrawealthy. Arta is building the “digital family office for the world,” said Sengupta in an interview with TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

million in a funding round led by Sequoia India and Southeast Asia’s Surge as it plans to expand the market for its medical imagery annotations solution. In the future, we want to help teams with everything from the data preparation to FDA clearance of the algorithms,” Sharma said in an interview with TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The burgeoning market is indicative that insurtechs are actively providing various solutions to businesses and end consumers, helping them manage the risks of purchases ranging from buying cars to accessing accommodation. Curacel says some executives from Covergenius, Zopper and Pie Insurance will join its advisory board as part of the round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

“Immerok is bringing real-time to the mainstream by developing a serverless Apache Flink cloud service that will make it possible for all companies to innovate new real-time customer experiences and business operations,” Temme told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Now as 2021 comes to a close, Cruttenden’s latest fintech, Ant Money, is announcing it has raised $20 million in funding (a mix of previously unannounced seed and Series A capital) and acquired Blast via a stock-for-stock merger. (Cruttenden apparently acquired some patents from Acorns in order to start this company.). Robinhood gave choice.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

OfficeBanao, an Indian startup offering a workspace interiors platform to businesses in the country, has raised $6 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed. ” Lightspeed fuels Indian workspace interiors platform OfficeBanao with 6M funding by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch

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sgEngage

JANUARY 14, 2025

Fund accounting. Is accessing the partners platform or integrated data intuitive? You might add additional funding programs that increase the number of grantees you need to communicate with, for example. Interview Other Organizations: Talk to organizations that have a similar use case and ask for partner recommendations.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Many startups are solving these problems for African SMBs in one form or another, and the demand for their services has seen Ghanaian startup Float pick up a significant round of funding. While Cauris provided debt financing, Tiger Global and JAM Fund, the investment firm of Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen co-led the equity bit.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

In sub-Saharan Africa, only 33% of the urban population has access to public transportation, compared to 75% in Europe and North America, according to UN statistics. That means that most of the continent faces challenges chasing new job opportunities, going to school, accessing healthcare and just having a night on the town.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

This funding comes after the company’s $30 million Series B round — $23.75 For most of Twiga’s operational history, it connected vendors and outlets with farmers via an app to access different agricultural produce. . “We So that’s what we’re evolving into as a business,” CEO Peter Njonjo said to TechCrunch in an interview.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund, where he works with portfolio companies to help address priorities, with a focus on internationalization. We received 57 responses and supplemented it with interviews of leading companies and investors. Rhys Spence. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Promova , whose mission is to make language learning more accessible to people who are neurodivergent, is the first language learning app to build a dedicated setting for those with dyslexiaa specialized typeface and adjustments to font size and brightness help mitigate some of the most common reading challenges that people with dyslexia experience.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Africa is home to more than a billion people, where a majority have limited or no access to vehicle financing. It is a similar case across Africa, where car owners often recycle used cars between themselves because of the difficulty of accessing new ones. In fact, the continent has the lowest per capita vehicle ownership in the world.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Credable also provides an end-to-end solution without exposure to credit risk by partnering with balance sheet providers (usually tier-two financial institutions that struggle to access new customers because they lack relationships with tech-enabled businesses.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

An Interview with Fanny Villiers , Directora General of Donadora – an official partner of the Global Trends in Giving Report ( en español ). 1) Access to the internet in Mexico has grown very rapidly over the last decade. In addition, we have a strong administrative and legal process to ensure the funds received are used properly.

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.orgSource

JUNE 19, 2024

So, it was fascinating to interview Thad Lurie as a guest on my Association 4.0 We don’t have unlimited funds to place our bets and they’re not going to be that big,” Thad remarked. This shift could revolutionize how members access and engage with AGU’s vast repository of scientific content.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Easily-accessible information. This is especially important for nonprofit healthcare websites people facing a medical or health issue must access information as quickly as possible. Accessibility Accessible websites provide a positive, understandable, robust experience for all users, regardless of their ability or mobility level.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Startups that solve the supply-chain and operational challenges of players in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry–by helping buyers access products from sellers on a single platform–keep attracting venture capital from investors. million pre-Series A funding last September. Jordan and U.S.-based

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

How to Collect the Story Elements You Need If you’re a Founder or a leader of a small nonprofit, you probably have firsthand access to your story’s main character. Your best chance of gathering the detail you need is to interview your main character in person. That’s the best scenario, as you’ll see in a moment. postal service.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Other institutional investors include Techstars Boulder, Magic Fund, Hustle Fund, Norrsken Foundation, Microtraction, DFS Labs, Oxford Seed Fund, Enza Capital, Agrolay Advisors, and angel investors such as Buycoins’ Ire Aderinokun, Jesse Ovia and Ademola Adesina. 30,000) monthly to access its software. 2,500) to $50 (~?30,000)

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Candid

MAY 2, 2023

Prior to the Civil War, the education of Black Americans was prohibited in most states and discouraged in others, leaving many Black communities without access to the educational resources to build quality lives, much less wealth. One friend turned to me and asked where I was headed; I proudly shared, “Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

The platform, produced by Vivendi, includes documentaries, podcasts, articles and interviews between experts and known players in the chess community. MasterClass, which is reportedly raising funding that would value it at $2.5 Moe than 1,000 videos have been recorded to date, Kasparov said. or $119.99, respectively.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

In an interview with TechCrunch, CEO Onayemi, a lawyer by profession, said the idea for Norebase came after various conversations on how his clients and colleagues in tech could leverage AfCFTA for their businesses. Trade has the least startup activity in a market that received $5 billion in VC funding last year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It was the landlords who needed convincing, but it helped that we already had a network of landlords,” said CEO Adesanmi in an interview with TechCrunch on the company’s takeoff. “So million seed funding led by Los Angeles–based early-stage VC firm MaC Venture Capital. “Our solution on the tenant side was a no-brainer.

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