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. Today, the unified payments app is announcing that it has raised $32.8 million in an oversubscribed seed round.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Zindi is all about using AI to solve real world problems for companies and individuals. The platform is now providing alternatives and stepping up competition against traditional consulting firms operating across Africa, which are often expensive. And they’re just looking for a chance to learn and build their skills.”.

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Candid

DECEMBER 2, 2024

From the outset, our founding mothers created an alternative model of grantmaking that involved participation from community members and deep trust in their grantee partners. In turn, the close, trusting relationships we build with small local organizations enable larger funders to invest in local nonprofits both efficiently and effectively.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

Instead, its embracing a less flashy but more foundational role: building the infrastructure for AI developers to scale the technology. Another alternative, InfiniBand designed for environments that demand ultrafast data transfer and minimal latencysuch as HPC clusters and advanced data centers.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 23, 2024

They have been operating in silos, independently solving the same problems and rebuilding the same systems over and over. There is now a real opportunity to build a connected, collaborative infrastructure that fuels collective problem-solving and innovation. There has been some real progress in nonprofit tech in recent years.

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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. “Everyone agrees there’s a problem. That’s a promising number, but it’s still early days for this startup.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Nonprofit Tech for Good is built on WordPress and in our 11 years of publication, there have been zero problems with using the platform. Then, throughout the ASPCA website, the sidebar alternates CTAs customized for that particular page.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

While there is plenty of technology out there to help make a building more sustainable, the ability to incorporate features into its design can be easier said than done. Enter cove.tool , a startup that wants to make sure buildings are sustainable by design from the moment of inception. Robert Downey Jr.,

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

This new way of thinking means that instead of choosing between alternative poles of paradox, you figure out how to engage both poles simultaneously. As we are faced with dilemmas – choices between seemingly opposing alternatives – we feel compelled to make a decision to feel a sense of control and comfort.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Luxembourg-based Leko Labs , a construction startup that’s developing sustainable wood-based building materials as an alternative to steel and concrete and applying automation to construction methods, has closed a $21 million Series A round of funding. Construction is of course an extremely dirty business.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

This new way of thinking means that instead of choosing between alternative poles of paradox, you figure out how to engage both poles simultaneously. As we are faced with dilemmas – choices between seemingly opposing alternatives – we feel compelled to make a decision to feel a sense of control and comfort.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

In this environment, new hiring strategies based on evaluating a candidate’s full skillsetincluding their ability to problem-solve, think creatively, and adapt rather than solely relying on their college degreeare becoming essential for companies and organizations that want to find and retain the best talent.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

Lulu Ge, who incubated the company at Wharton Business School, is on a mission to prove that TCM is effective at tackling many women’s health problems including premenstrual syndrome, fibroids, endometriosis, and polycystic ovarian syndrome. But more broadly, many women’s health problems have not been studied as thoroughly.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Now, Homebound , a Santa Rosa, California-based tech-enabled homebuilding startup, is entering the Austin market with the goal of helping ease some of the pain felt in the city by offering an alternative to buying existing homes. The startup has developed tools to track and manage hundreds of unique tasks associated with building a home.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

The alternative, an apathetic consensus, would entail passively accepting the dominant approach to address the climate crisis. But research shows that when movements channel emotionsespecially by transforming fear into shared actionthey build momentum.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Problem definition: “If we build it, will they come?”. This makes it important to verify that the problem being solved is truly worth solving with respect to potential business value compared to the effort to build. Even if the problem is worth solving, AI may not be required. We have the data to build it.”.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Published on February 7, 2025 7:35 PM GMT TL;DR: If you are thinking of using interpretability to help with strategic deception, then there's likely a problem you need to solve first: how are intentional descriptions (like deception) related to algorithmic ones (like understanding the mechanisms models use)? What is the problem?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Daylight says its mission is to “build a more equitable financial life for LGBTQ+ folks and their chosen families.” It also plans to build out a LGBTQ+ business marketplace and a platform that offers discounts and rewards when members shop at merchants whose actions support the queer community. Which neobanks will rise or fall?

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Our work is about creating ecosystems of support to equip girls from grade school through college, as well as those pursuing alternative career paths, with the skills necessary to accelerate their professional growth in tech. That being said, addressing the gaps in representation isn’t a technology problem, it’s a human problem.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Co-founder and CEO Matt Welsh describes it as the first enterprise-focused platform-as-a-service for building experiences with large language models (LLMs). Fixie won’t solve their other problems either, like biases and short memories.) Google Calendar) and public data sources (e.g. That’s where Fixie comes in.”

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Candid

MAY 1, 2024

As you may have heard, we’re building new Candid tools to help those working in the social sector to do good even more efficiently and effectively in a fast-changing world. To understand how Candid products can best serve our users, we need to know what problems those users are trying to solve. What problems are we trying to solve?

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Tangibly, this means that the decision-making power is increasingly in the hands of the individual user, posing a problem for software vendors that lack a way to engage these users. When the pair saw the long-term impact of user onboarding, they convinced a Y Combinator-backed company to let them build their user onboarding experience.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Starting with OpenAIs pivotal o1 model, researchers began to apply more computing power to the real-time reasoning a model does just after a user prompts it with a problem or question. Gemini is one of the first AI models capable of working autonomously and reasoning its way through complex problems on the behalf of the user.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

We are hell-bent on building a vibrant community that’s part of defining historical significance.”. “My track record at this point is that I build what I say I’m gonna build. But when I say I’m gonna build a museum on-chain, I’m gonna build a museum on-chain!” Image Credits: Arkive.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Building credit is hard when it’s difficult to even get credit. One Austin-based startup is out to help people build — or get — credit without taking on debt. As a public benefit corporation, StellarFi’s mission is to help “financially disadvantaged” communities with support to build good credit.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

The problem we’re trying to solve is that a huge population of underbanked customers need banking services to improve their livelihoods. 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.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Working within the typical constraints of multifamily dwellings (think apartment buildings, etc.), the company makes it super easy for building managers to install sockets especially for overnight charging of vehicles (as opposed to the high-voltage, high-amperage chargers you see in fast chargers).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Covid has also taught us that building a program that is remote and more software based makes YC more accessible to founders around the globe,” the firm said in a statement to TechCrunch. Leap Club is attempting to build a Good Eggs for India. CashBook is building a cash account app for small businesses in India.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

He felt there was whitespace in the plant-based egg and seafood space and began looking at the problems, especially the amount of water needed to produce each poultry egg — 53 gallons, Groner said. Perfeggt brings in first capital to shell out plant-based egg alternative. The Israel-based company was founded by Groner in 2019.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

As cities continue to expand and infrastructure projects grow more ambitious, the construction sector is facing a crippling problem: There arent enough workers. Others have been busy building another kind of workforce: construction robots. Over the past decade, dozens of construction robots have cropped up on the market.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Most big accelerators tend to dedicate some of their resources to dauntingly hard science problems and the companies taking them on… but for SOSV’s IndieBio , it’s the primary focus. The team says they’ve seen yield increases of up to 20% in tomatoes (think more fruit, not bigger fruit.). Image Credits: Kinoko.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

It was a total mess, and just continued like that because there was no alternative.”. As Opendoor grew in size, the problem became an even bigger one, she said. . Google Drive was not a good alternative either. We want to first solve that use case, and unlock the problem from the bottom up,” Ko told TechCrunch. .

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The Verge

APRIL 6, 2022

But the company has substantially expanded its plans in recent years, creating a massive new site called Starbase to build and test launch prototypes of its next-generation rocket called Starship — designed to eventually take people and cargo to deep space. The Corps determined that SpaceX’s plan for alternatives “lacked sufficient detail.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Houston-based ThirdAI , a company building tools to speed up deep learning technology without the need for specialized hardware like graphics processing units, brought in $6 million in seed funding. Their algorithm, “sub-linear deep learning engine,” instead uses CPUs that don’t require specialized acceleration hardware.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

There is still a cataloguing and discovery problem though — just because you have all of your data in one place doesn’t mean a data scientist knows what the data represents, who owns it, or what that data might affect in the myriad of web and corporate reporting apps built on top of it. That’s where Select Star comes in.

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