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9 Ways to Use Text Messaging for Your Virtual Fundraising Event

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For now, enjoy a livestream of our adoptable puppies: [LINK TO SOMETHING THAT PULLS THE HEARTSTRINGS]. Here’s your first clue: “I came all the way from Greece and met my fur-ever family back in January.”. For example: UPDATE: We’re having some tech issues but will be back online ASAP. 5) Offer a text-to-give option.

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Arrikto raises $10M for its MLOps platform

TechCrunch

While Arrikto has stayed off the radar since it launched out of Athens, Greece in 2015, the founding team of Venetsanopoulos and CTO Vangelis Koukis already managed to get a number of large enterprises to adopt its platform.

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Seven Seven Six, the new venture firm from Alexis Ohanian, closes $150 million Fund 1

TechCrunch

Ohanian’s idea with the name stems from the fact that the cook was likely a fantastic athlete, but not necessarily the best athlete out there; many people were excluded from the first Olympic games, from athletes outside of Greece to those who didn’t have the means to show up to women, who weren’t even allowed to watch the games.

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Edge computing startup Macrometa gets $20M Series A led by Pelion Venture Partners

TechCrunch

It will hire for its engineering and product development centers in the United States, Eastern Europe and India, and add new centers in Ukraine, Portugal, Greece, Mexico and Argentina. The company’s last round of funding, an $7 million seed, was announced just eight months ago.

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Hack The Box, a gamified cybersecurity training platform with 1.7M users, raises $55M

TechCrunch

From individual security professionals to companies, this means adopting a ‘hacker mindset’, learning to think and act like an attacker. startup is not disclosing valuation at the moment. A new proactive offensive & defensive approach is needed to take the fight to cybercriminals rather than waiting to be hit.

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Who Am I? Internal vs. External Role-Playing in Museums

Museum 2.0

I've noticed two fundamentally different approaches to visitor profiles in exhibitions: internal profiles, in which visitors create a profile that in some way reflects who they are external profiles, in which visitors adopt profiles for historical or fictitious characters For example, consider the difference between the profiles visitors made in the (..)

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

TweetDeck is renamed to XPro The company has adopted the @Pro handle instead of @TweetDeck for the tool. These countries include Netherlands, Poland, Ireland, Belgium, Sweden, Romania, Czech Republic, Finland, Denmark, Greece, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Slovakia, Latvia, Slovenia, Estonia, Croatia, Luxembourg, Malta and Cyprus.

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