TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Digital avatar startup Genies , known its for high-profile partnerships with celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Migos and Cardi B, has just released its long-anticipated NFT storefront, “The Warehouse.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Today, Neosapience announced it has raised $21.5 The new funding, which brings its total funding raised to almost $26.7 Last month, it added an AI-powered video (avatar) feature that looks like a real person. Synthesia raises $50M to leverage synthetic avatars for corporate training and more. raises $1.5M

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling. It’s for this reason that your avatar should be well-designed, not include text that is too small to read in the News Feed, or show any obvious errors in cropping.

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The Verge

MARCH 1, 2021

Plus, the new icon is already getting much more favorable comparisons: apparently, the angular tape now makes it look like Avatar: The Last Airbender ’s Aang instead.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Are you using social media primarily to raise money? Some common metrics to monitor are website traffic, blog traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, online dollars raised, volunteers, and event attendees. Use a Square Version of Your Organization’s Logo as Your Avatar on Social Media Sites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Email raises 26% of online revenue , but social media is growing in strength. Your NGO has a visually compelling avatar that is used consistently on all social networks. Donors and followers will associate your NGO with your avatar. Social media is integrated into your email campaigns.

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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. A “Donate” buttons to livestreams.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Oh, and the book tour thus far has raised more than $14,000 for nonprofits. 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. 1) Facebook.

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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. IMVU has raised more than $77 million from five rounds since it was co-founded by “The Lean Startup” author Eric Ries back in 2004.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 16, 2014

You can also participate in the annual #GivingTuesday ( givingtuesday.org ) campaign which now raises an average of 50 percent more in total donations each year for participating nonprofits. To effectively use mobile and social media to raise funds on cause awareness days, you need to prepare months in advance.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It has now raised $2.6m You choose an avatar, then meet up with their colleagues or friends inside a browser-based game. As you move your avatars closer to one another person you can video chat with them, as you might in real life. What if a startup created a sort of ‘Club Penguin for adults’?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. “+1″ other’s posts as your nonprofit to increase exposure of your avatar and to foster good will. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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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

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

JANUARY 14, 2013

Thus, for 2013, please: 1) Ask for a raise. That said, 70 percent of nonprofit staff positions in the United States are held by females who many say aren’t so good at asking for raises. Even if it is only a small raise, this is the year that all nonprofit social media managers (female and male) should ask for a raise.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. “+1″ other’s posts as your nonprofit to increase exposure of your avatar and to foster good will. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The new capital brings the company’s total raised to $18.5 Segal also said that since legs are coming to Meta’s avatars , ForeVR plans to “leverage that technology” when the time comes. VR gaming startup ForeVR Games raises $10M to grow its library of Wii Sports-like titles by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Users create a profile, upload an avatar picture, write a short biography and can then scream into the ether to other users on behalf of their digitally sculpted selves. Less than a year after launching , Somewhere Good announced this morning that it has raised $3.75 million in a seed round led by True Ventures.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

World Water Day is the best know cause awareness day for online fundraising success and # GivingTuesday is the most successful giving day fundraising campaign at $168 million raised in 2016 (700,000 online donors, average gift of $107 USD, 1.3 68 million was raised in 2015. million mentions on social media). are still available.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

VUZ , a social app that allows users to stream and experience immersive realism in extended reality (XR) and metaverse digital experiences, has raised $20 million in Series B investment. VUZ, which has raised over $30 million since inception, is one of e& capital’s maiden investments in the MENA region. and 24% from Egypt.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

A Y Combinator-backed startup that is helping major companies efficiently listen to how happy — or unhappy — their employees are and resolve their issues on time to retain talent just raised a new financing round from several high-profile executives. As part of the new financing round, InFeedo, which has raised about $3.9

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? I also tracked down the avatar in Second Life and did an interview with the people from NGO involved in this campaign. We will start to train someone in Mensajeros de la Paz who's gonna be responsible for the avatar if the action works.

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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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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. Money is raised by participants and goes directly to the Prostate Cancer Foundation and Livestrong Foundation. If you check out my page , you can see that the entire campaign was run online.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Synthesis AI , a startup developing a platform that generates synthetic data to train AI systems, today announced that it raised $17 million in a Series A funding round led by 468 Capital with participation from Sorenson Ventures and Strawberry Creek Ventures, Bee Partners, PJC, iRobot Ventures, Boom Capital and Kubera Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

The new cash brings the company’s total capital raised to $70 million, which Gelfenbeyn — Inworld’s CEO — said will be put toward product development, research and hiring. . “There is a healthy ecosystem of innovation in virtual characters, from companies that focus on visuals, avatars, hardware, motion and more.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

Its last valuation, previously updated in 2021 after it raised $10.6 Others like SafeTitan, Phished and Immersive Labs offer a range of approaches both for technical teams as well as employees to help raise awareness. users, raises $55M by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The $20 million Series A round brings the company’s total capital raised to $38 million. Superplastic’s proposition is a strange one.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

I use it to call people to action to benefit a nonprofit/charity: Example Tweet: #CharityTuesday :: Add a “Cause&# Twibbon to your Twitter Avatar: [link]. Example Tweet: Nonprofit Raises $8,550 With In-game Text Messaging Campaign: [link] || #fundraising. You use it to send a shout out to your followers.

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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. SimpleClosure, which has raised $5.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Ten different people would probably define the metaverse in 10 different ways, but it’s generally used as shorthand for the web of emerging virtual spaces full of personalized avatars, games and digital goods that are already shaping our world. To grow their vision, Infinite Canvas has raised $2.8 Roblox raises at $29.5

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

You need a good avatar. In recent years enthusiastic and dedicated communications, development, and program staff took on social media for the good of the organization – on top of all their other work and likely without a raise. You need Twitter and YouTube backgrounds that make a strong first impression.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Jio Platforms, the biggest telecom operator in India and which has raised over $20 billion from Facebook, Google and other high-profile investors this year, is leading a financing round of a San Francisco-based startup that develops augmented reality mobile games. Jio also did not share who else participated in Krikey’s new round.

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