TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Today, it announced the close of a $50 million Series B funding round led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from GV and existing investors Firstmark Capital, LDV Capital, Seedcamp and MMC Ventures. Synthesia allows anyone to turn text or a slide deck presentation into a video, complete with a talking avatar.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

His quick response promising better avatars for the actual launch speaks to just how much appearances do matter in these situations. “Our bigger vision is to connect the metaverse through avatars,” said Timmu Toke, co-founder and CEO, Ready Player Me, in an interview. It can also work off 3D images.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Instead of swiping through profiles, SwoonMe’s idea is to use a combination of avatars and audio to encourage users to connect based on someone’s personality, not their appearance. To use the app, you take a selfie which SwoonMe converts into an avatar. As they communicate, their avatar will slowly unveil their real photo.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Today, a startup in that bigger ecosystem, which believes it can fix one aspect of how this works — how we ourselves appear — is announcing some funding along with a beta of its live avatar software that has been years in the making. For now, you can share the avatars with friends and put them into a dancing animation.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 4, 2011

On Quora you have to be a person, but Facebook Questions uses your nonprofit’s Page and avatar as your Facebook Questions identity. Unlike the Q&A site Quora, Facebook Questions allows brands to ask and answer questions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2012

A small selection of that criteria is as follows: Consistent use of a visually compelling square avatar across all social networks. United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) :: unicef.org. Custom-designed Twitter and YouTube Channel backgrounds. Consistent publication of fresh content to a blog or website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Use a Square Version of Your Organization’s Logo as Your Avatar on Social Media Sites. It’s very important that you invest the time and resources needed to designing a visually distinct, square avatar that matches the overall branding of your nonprofit. Learn Basic HTML. Tell your boss that. Show her the stats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

After a supporter follows your nonprofit, your avatar is how they will mentally and visually connect your brand to your Instagram posts. In most cases, your avatar should not include text as it would be too small to read in the Instagram feed on a smartphone. If you are going to add Instagram Ads, then add another $100 to that budget.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Hire a graphic designer to design a square avatar(s). Launch a peer-to-peer fund-raising campaign, if applicable. Create a 6- × 6-inch hard copy of your nonprofit’s avatar for photo check ins, if applicable. Create a Google account. Sign up for Google Alerts. Experiment with social media dashboards. Purchase a digital camera.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Not everyone is a natural-born Twitterer, and it may take time to find the right person at your nonprofit to be the voice(s) behind your Twitter avatar, but it’s worth the investment of resources. Peer-to-Peer Fund-Raising Networks (Razoo, Crowdrise, FirstGiving, GlobalGiving): 5 to 10 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

To tap this potential, your NGO, nonprofit, or charity needs to activate its social media presence before, during, and after #GivingTuesday to help build the movement and, in the process, raise awareness and funds for your organization and mission. Presented on September 27 via webinar, below are the notes and deck.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 16, 2014

To effectively use mobile and social media to raise funds on cause awareness days, you need to prepare months in advance. If fundraising is central to your campaign, you can also create a crowdfunding project and/or a social fundraising campaign to encourage others to raise funds for you nonprofit during the campaign.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Another honoree, HeyGen , launched a streaming avatar that enhances real-time interactions, creating more useful chatbots and tutors. June, the company completed a $60 million funding round led by Benchmark, with participation from Thrive Capital, Bond, Conviction, and a number of individuals, including Dylan Field, CEO of Figma.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

And while crypto investors are buying up avatars and digital swaths of land in hopes that a digital universe will spring up around these projects, it’s unclear which projects — if any — will stand the test of time. .” “We have enough money, we’re going to build out the AR stuff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2007

In a comment on the Twitter post, Pistachio suggested that if nonprofits want to understand the power of Twitter, they should check out the Frozen Pea Fund , launching on December 21st. There is also the fund drive. Pistachio adds "The power here, and what will happen tomorrow in the fund drive, comes from connection and love.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Nearly a year later, he’s announcing that his new venture firm, Seven Seven Six , has raised $150 million for its first fund. Itsme , an Avatar-based social platform. In June of last year, Alexis Ohanian announced that he was leaving Initialized Capital , the venture firm he co-founded alongside Garry Tan in 2011.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

As our working world sees more shifts to the metaverse, Pesto , formerly known as Pragli, is jumping in with its avatar approach to making remote work a little less lonely. The new funding gives Pesto a total of $6 million in investments. 3 factors to consider when adding remote visual assistance software to your tech stack.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

He is using a tool called " Twibbon " that makes it easy for people to change their avatar to incorporate a visual for a particular cause. Remember the sea of green avatars last summer in support of the Iran ? What do you think?

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The Verge

MARCH 24, 2022

A Frosties NFT avatar. After selling the NFTs, they shut down the project and transferred its funds to a series of separate crypto wallets, leaving Frosties owners bereft of promised rewards. You can’t solicit funds for a business opportunity, abandon that business and abscond with money investors provided you.”

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The Verge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

RTFKT made these A16Z sneakers to celebrate a round of venture capital funding | Image: RTFKT. One comparison I’ve heard repeatedly over the last year is that buying NFTs to “flex” on people in the metaverse is just like collecting sneakers, and now Nike is apparently trying to make sure it’s ready for the literal version of that possibility.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

Whether you call she or he a social media manager, a new media manager, or a digital media manager , there’s no doubt that if your nonprofit wants to be successful on the Social Web, then nonprofit executive staff and board need to begin to seriously consider allocating funds to a social media manager position. You need a good avatar.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in China (behind Tencent), is among a group of investors who just backed IMVU, an avatar-focused social network operating out of California. The fresh investment will be used to fund IMVU’s product development and comes fresh off a restructuring at the company.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

in seed funding LocalGlobe with participation from Entrepreneur First, Andy Chung and Phillip Moehring (AngelList), and Omid Ashtari (former President of Citymapper). You choose an avatar, then meet up with their colleagues or friends inside a browser-based game. It has now raised $2.6m

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NetWits

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The mustache becomes the ribbon for men’s health, the means by which awareness and funds are raised for cancers that affect men. For instance, I promised to change my Facebook avatar to one featuring my baby mustache if I hit the $250 mark by the end of the day – it worked. Being a Tease Helps.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The San Francisco and Hong Kong-headquartered company announced it has raised $37 million in a Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz through its Growth Fund , which serves new companies at an inflection point, along with Alibaba and Craft. . Sandbox VR has emerged from COVID stronger than ever. “As

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Allseated grew out of event visualizations, aimed at corporations and the B2B space, creating metaverses for physical events, or “digital event twins”, especially using video avatars that work well in a business environment. The new funding round will mean it can scale its platform and expand beyond events into corporate use.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In 2015, for example, a junior Deutsche Bank employee accidentally sent $6 billion to a hedge fund client after messing up their calculations. In the case of Deutsche Bank, it seems the hedge fund simply sent the money back the next day. to create a portrait with the aesthetic qualities of a mid-2000s gamer avatar.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Dress up your avatar with some Epic Thanks love at [link]. With this annual celebration of gratitude and all their work, Epic Change seeks to raise visibility and funds, and to cultivate a deep sense of global gratitude for these remarkable souls who create hope in our world.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

ForeVR announced today a $10 million Series A funding round, which is being put toward building its gaming portfolio and cementing itself as the “Wii Sports of VR.” Lobby Capital led the Series A funding round with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners and Galaxy Interactive. Image Credits: ForeVR Games.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

If you integrate this API in your product, it means that you can show when somebody joins a page, a project or a document by displaying an avatar in a corner. Investors include Boldstart, Seedcamp, Meta fund, Logic & Rhythm, Ian Storm Taylor, Max Stoiber, Moritz Plassnig, Badrul Farooqi and Anthony DiMare. The company raised a $1.4

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Infinite Objects CEO Joe Saavedra tells TechCrunch they’ve raised $6 million in seed funding from a host of backers including Courtside VC, which led the deal, and NBA Top Shot creator Dapper Labs. Avatar startup Genies scores $65 million in funding round led by Mary Meeker’s Bond.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Lastly, the system allows for new “Voice Avatars” to be created based on existing voice talent, like a trusted company spokesperson or voiceover artist. The company is strictly business-focused right now, which is to say there’s no user-facing app to digitize your voice into an avatar or anything.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

million Series A funding round led by FirstMark Capital , with participation from angels Christian Bach (CEO, Netlify) and Michael Buckley (VP Communications, Twilio), as well as existing investors LDV Capital , MMC Ventures , Seedcamp , Mark Cuban, Taavet Hinrikus, Martin Varsavsky, and TinyVC.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

announced its $10 million Series A funding round to continue its mission of bringing fantasy sports to a younger generation. The funding is led by KB Partners and Union Square Ventures. Stadium Live also has “Rooms,” a feature that’s currently in beta and allows fans to create a unique room with avatar items.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

neobank to be granted a national bank charter, announced this morning it’s raised another $63 million in new funding. Westbrook’s investment came through Russell Westbrook Enterprises , which previously backed social avatar startup Genies. Varo Bank last year raised $241 million in Series D funding.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Meta spokesperson Joe Osborne confirmed the stat and said it included users of Horizon Worlds and Horizon Venues, a separate app for attending live events in VR that uses the same avatars and basic mechanics. The number doesn’t include Horizon Workrooms, a VR conferencing experience that relies on an invite system.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

The Series A funding brings its total raised to $5.7 The 3D modeling software is like a set of tools to make 3D assets, Hwang explained, adding that users can make any kinds of 3D assets like buildings, props, items, and avatars using the 3D modeling software tools. The Seoul-based startup recently has raised a $5.2 million (6.5

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