TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

AltSchool, which is now Altitude Learning) has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding to scale its efforts, said chief executive Adewale Yusuf to TechCrunch. In 2020, Yusuf toyed with the idea of building a physical campus where he and his team would train software engineers to get international opportunities.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

In fact, some investors feel that 2023 will be the year when alternative seafood companies and products make notable strides. More than $178 million was pumped into alternative seafood in the first half of 2022, and the market’s value is poised to reach $1.6 billion over the next 10 years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

An alternative payment network with connected wallets allowing a mobile money user to transact with a bank account would fix this problem, and that’s the premise of Ghana-based fintech Dash. Dash’s alternative payment network brings together this mobile money and traditional banks and facilitates transactions for consumers and businesses.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

Survey Says: Here’s how NPOs told us they are making the most of the data in their DonorPerfect system to fundraise during COVID-19: “Our strategy is to build a strong relationship with individual donors through our DP database, learn about their giving patterns, and establish appeals related to those patterns.”. Be honest about your needs.

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Achieve

JANUARY 27, 2025

Volunteers, funders, board members, staff, and other community members dedicate their hard-earned funds, time, and energy to your organization, so you must be transparent with them about your operations and impact. As a result, you can show stakeholders that you are not relying on a singular funding source.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Instead of generating a profit that can be disbursed to shareholders or reinvested in the business, nonprofits funnel their revenue into things like research funding, program expenses, outreach, and work that directly impacts their mission. Others receive grant funding from governmental agencies, private foundations, and community funds.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Awoyemi choosing this route is quite interesting, especially as many African founders either launch syndicates or venture capital funds post- or during their entrepreneurial journies. It starts with an “impact-focused” idea that Fast Forward can build a solid business around.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

The startup uses blockchain technology to help brands build customer loyalty without having to rely on buying up pricey ads on third-party social media platforms, Haney explained. Brands use TYB, which is built on the Avalanche blockchain, to build their own on-chain communities of loyal customers, Haney said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

household income , individuals can invest with Equi in complex strategies focused on alternative assets, which the company says is commonplace amongst billionaires seeking to grow their wealth. Alternative assets are appealing to some investors because they’ve historically provided higher returns than stocks or bonds.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

The use of mycelium is growing as not only an alternative protein source, like what fellow foodtech companies Perfect Day , MyForest Foods and Fable Food do, but also in clothing and leather. In the past few years, many foodtech companies are joining Meati Foods in going from the R&D phase to building facilities.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

million in fresh funding to build out private and collaborative workspaces for its burgeoning customer base. million in Series A funding in the bank, Skiff’s co-founders Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg tell TechCrunch that the company is working toward becoming the “application layer for the decentralized web.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Post , a Twitter alternative of sorts that’s rethinking how publishers should engage with social media — and how they should monetize their readership — has opened its doors to the public. “We started out building on Mastodon…We love what Mastodon is doing,” Bardin tells us.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

That said, many digital communications professionals do not know how to build a website using WordPress or have the graphic design skills necessary, but there are freelancers available for hire and most website design agencies can and will build a website using WordPress.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Food tech company Better Dairy is closer to getting its aged and hard cheeses into the testing phase after securing $22 million in Series A funding. million in seed funding in a round led by Happiness Capital. We initially got to know Nagarajah and Better Dairy back in 2020 when the company raised £1.6 Image Credits: Better Dairy. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

million in seed funding from venture firm Sequoia Capital, just over a year since Skiff was founded in March 2020. Milich and Ginsberg told TechCrunch that the company will use the seed funding to grow the team and build out the platform.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In DonorPerfect, you can build a filter that identifies all donors who should be part of the email campaign. In Constant Contact, you can build your email series and apply DonorPerfect’s filter so only those donors will receive the emails. For example, create a filter that includes all donors who have made a first-time gift.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Lilium, the five-year-old venture-backed startup from Munich, announced that it will build a 56,000-square-foot transportation hub for its aerial taxi service in Orlando, Florida. There’s no other alternative to get there. Image: Lilium. One of Germany’s premier flying taxi startups just gained a foothold in the US. Petersburg.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Any company providing services to thousands of small and medium businesses across various cities in Nigeria has an extensive distribution network to build new products on top. This allows us to build a healthier loan book when we start lending.”. in new funding by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

And that’s what we’re doing, building that capability to get there, which today involves a lot of different things that Credable takes the lead on when launching new digital banking products.” But in our markets, we’re not there yet because we have a large underbanked population to start with.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2022

Coming out of stealth today with $150 million in debt financing and $11 million in seed funding, Arc is building what it describes as “a community of premium software companies” that gives SaaS startups a way to borrow, save and spend “all on a single tech platform.” We founded Arc to give founders an alternative to the status quo.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

And now, Schnapp is turning to investing platform Republic to give his fans, and the masses, an opportunity to invest in the company behind the Nutella alternative for as little as $50. We’re building a strong community.”. I could definitely see myself launching a venture capital fund in the next year,” Schnapp told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

million pre-seed funding to scale its operations within Africa; one of the fastest-growing mobile phone market in the world. He said he is setting up and scaling technology, systems, partnerships and networks needed to build Africa’s most trusted and biggest re-commerce consumer electronics marketplace.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The lack of trust between NGOs and local Kenyans and the expectancy that NGOs are funded from outside Kenya are the key reasons for limited local fundraising towards NGO in Kenya. M-Changa also makes it easy for NGOs to account for funds coming in from multiple paymnet channels with automatic reporting and statements.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The latter was impacted by Elon Musk’s Twitter API changes which put an end to third-party Twitter clients , prompting Mehboob to turn his attention to the decentralized and open source Twitter alternative Mastodon. As for now, Mammoth has at least a year’s worth of funding thanks to Mozilla’s backing, Decrem says.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Convertible notes allow companies to delay being valued until an equity funding round, extending the time they have to build a product and flesh it out. And for investors, while riskier than the traditional funding route, convertible notes give them an opportunity to get more equity for their money than if they wait until Series A.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In Deloitte’s 2019 report , the firm reveals that AI is transforming the financial ecosystem to reduce costs and make operations more efficient by providing automated insights and alternative data, analysis and risk management. The latest funding, which brings Akros’s total amount raised to $6.1 Akros just raised $2.3

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Founded by L GBTQ+ entrepreneurs Rob Curtis (CEO), Billie Simmons, a trans woman (COO) and Paul Barnes Hoggett (CTO), Daylight is announcing today that it has secured $5 million in a seed funding round. Daylight says its mission is to “build a more equitable financial life for LGBTQ+ folks and their chosen families.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

million) in seed funding to double-down on recent growth that has seen it adopted by commercial clients including insurance companies Barmenia and VHV Versicherungen , logistics firms such as Metro Supply Chain Group subsidiary Evolution Time Critical , and venture-backed startups such as Crowd.dev. million ($2.9

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Africa Health Holdings , a healthcare startup running several hospitals, has secured $18 million in a Series A round, funds that will go toward building its “tech-forward healthcare system” across Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria. Valiant Capital, Kepple Ventures and SUNU Capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Today, one of these — KreditBee , which provides instant personal loans to users — is announcing that it has raised $80 million in a Series D funding round. The funding is notable coming at a time when raising capital has become more complicated due to the economic slowdown in markets worldwide.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

His pitch made perfect sense: create a biodegradable alternative to expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam using a material provided in abundance by nature. They soon found out everyone is quietly on the lookout for something better, and existing green alternatives haven’t panned out. ” In the Accelerator over the Sea.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Zero Acre Farms is a new company aiming to provide an improved alternative, produced by microorganisms and fermentation, and just raised $37 million to do it. The point is: Vegetable oil may not be napalm, but it isn’t great, and a healthier and less resource-intensive alternative would be welcome.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Now, as venture capital funding within health tech has fallen 41.2% Startups should view privacy, safety and clinical validation not as nice-to-haves but as key components of the user persona they are building for. Times have changed, but the medical industry continues to walk a fine line between optical illusions and real solutions.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

Building a non-profit website might be the most intimidating aspect of launching an organization. Building a donor-friendly website is a complex job – part marketing and part technical. Start With the Basics: Platform, Domain Name, and Site Map The first thing you need to do in building your non-profit website is choose a platform.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

They came up with the idea of helping people build credit through recurring payment forms such as digital subscriptions to Netflix, Spotify and Hulu. What we built is not an alternative or supplemental,” Broughton said. But now we need to build a marketing team so we can help more people on a per user basis and expand the brand.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Transcelestial is on a mission to make the internet more accessible by building a network of shoebox-sized devices that send lasers to one another, creating a fiber-like network. Undersea cables, for example, are expensive to build and only link two points. Investor In-Q-Tel was part of a previously disclosed round.

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