Candid

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Naturally, we were curious to know how grantmakers felt about the use of generative AI in funding applications. The data is in: DEI strategies can benefit all by Frances Kunreuther and Mecedes Brown, Building Movement Project. 9 free eBooks to help you brush up on basics and build new skills by Katy Klein, Candid.

Fundraising

Candid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

PBIs are region-specific organizations that provide capacity-building support to grassroots organizations, connect isolated stakeholders, and foster networks built on shared values to accelerate social impact together. Leadership development: PBIs help train local leaders, build resilient organizations, and prevent burnout.

Place

Candid

MARCH 19, 2025

Despite comprising the majority of the nonprofit workforce, women in the sector still face gender disparities and challenges, including unequal pay, lack of access to funding sources, and expectations to do more with less. Investing in capacity building: The vital role of general operating support for BIPOC-led nonprofits.

Nonprofit

Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

However, if we approach these technologies with skepticism, caution, and a commitment to ethical principles, there is hope that they can be harnessed to build a healthcare system that is just, equitable, and accessible for all. The integration of AI into healthcare risks reinforcing existing inequities and biases if not carefully monitored.

Digital

The Verge

DECEMBER 11, 2020

One of Boston Dynamics most famous robots is Spot, pictured. Image: Boston Dynamics. Hyundai is officially purchasing a controlling stake in robot maker Boston Dynamics from SoftBank in a deal that values the company at $1.1 Image: Boston Dynamics. Atlas, another one Boston Dynamic’s robots.

Boston

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

But applications in industrial, military and enterprise scenarios have shown that there is indeed a market for unmanned aerial vehicles, and today, a startup that makes drones for some of those latter purposes is announcing a large round of funding and a partnership that provides a picture of how the drone industry will look in years to come.

Boston

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Boston has long been one of the most important startup ecosystems in the United States. TechCrunch Live is thrilled to be hosting an event featuring Boston-local investors and founders. TC City Spotlight: Boston takes place on February 27 at 11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET and is a free, virtual event. Register to ask questions.

Boston

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

NextView Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital fund, has raised an $89.6 million fund, according to SEC filings. The firm’s fourth fund, its largest to date, is oversubscribed, with early documents indicating a $70 million goal. More Boston coverage. A hot Boston VC Summer. venture deals, and 12.7%

Fund

Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Foundations in the United States focus their funding priorities on many different issues. If your nonprofit is seeking funding, it’s critical to identify the foundations whose interests and funding priorities align with your own. Funding Priority: Education. Global Fund For Children. Daniels Fund.

Education

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I was attracted to this discussion about the Boston Youth Sports Initiative hosted by Roberto Cremonini and Chris Lunch because we explored the “So, What?” My role was to connect those dots and build trust in the network.” Network weavers need to build on this opportunity. Roberto Cremonini. Chris Lynch.

Boston

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Building off TechCrunch’s coverage of the recent 500 Startups demo day , we’re back today to talk about some favorites from three more accelerator classes. What follows are four favorites from the Techstars’ Boston , Chicago and “ workforce development ” programs. Four favs from Techstars Boston.

Boston

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Once upon a time, if you wanted to build a tech startup , you relocated to Silicon Valley. While there’s no disputing SV’s place and continued prominence in the startup world, today’s early-stage founders have more geographic freedom and funding options than ever before. He earned a BA in history at Amherst College.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

“Only well-funded institutions with access to a massive amount of GPU power are capable of building these models,” says Encore co-founder Eric Landau, who recommends using the iterative process of active learning to “leapfrog the AI production gap and build models capable of running in the wild more quickly.”

Boston

TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

This morning Wunderite , a Boston-based software startup, announced that it has raised $3 million in an early-stage round led by Spark Capital. Wunderite builds and sells software designed to help insurance agencies more rapidly process insurance applications, and automate some of their processes.

Software

TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Family offices and accredited investors are eager to get involved in high-quality funds, but face hurdles like access to fund managers. The company, founded by Samir Kaji and Hana Yang in February 2021, is developing an approach to venture capital fund investing that provides a way for investors of any size to participate.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Today, in a twist, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has announced a proposal for a $10 million allocation in the state budget to create a seed fund for Black and Latinx startups, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. The Black and Latinx Seed Fund will be administered by the New Economic Development Authority (NJEDA). of the total $87.3

New Jersey

TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

million in seed funding. Customers might include competitive intelligence teams as pharmaceutical companies and life sciences funds, which might normally try to track this data by searching large databases and receiving “data vomit” in response. Newlab and The Boston Globe team up to launch AI tools startup Applied XLabs.

Track

TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Many grocery delivery startups begin small, in one city, building up locations to cater to a certain neighborhood. Food Rocket has taken an unconventional route, striking a funding deal with Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. In all, the company has raised $30 million to date.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

One of the big leaders in buying up and scaling third-party merchants selling on Amazon and other marketplace platforms is announcing a major round of funding today as it continues to expand its ambitions. Upper90, funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., It said that it’s currently on a rate of buying 1.5

Aggregator

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Took pictures of the lunar eclipse next to the Empire State Building(!) We’re a former grantee and we hope that our work and Gates funding priorities coincide again in the future. This time I had three agenda items for my conversations with congressional staff: Advocating for funding for special education.

New York

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

million in a funding round led by Sequoia India and Southeast Asia’s Surge as it plans to expand the market for its medical imagery annotations solution. “We see ourselves building the foundational layer of artificial intelligence in healthcare. funding by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. More than 380 funding deals were made into Austin startups in 2021 , amounting to $4.9 Keri Findley, founder of Tacora.

Austin

The Verge

APRIL 29, 2021

The New York Police Department has canceled its trial of a robot dog made by US firm Boston Dynamics after receiving fierce criticism regarding the “dystopian” technology. Spot, as the machine is called by creators Boston Dynamics, has never been weaponized, and doing so would break the company’s terms of service.

New York City

TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Three years after announcing its sixth fund, OpenView Venture Partners is back with $570 million in capital commitments for its new, seventh fund. It represents a 25% increase over the firm’s $450 million sixth fund, its largest to date. That gives you a range, and that range is from right about where we closed the fund.”

Software

TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

The early stages of building a startup is no cakewalk even during a strong economy — much less during the uncertain one we’re currently living in. We’re building out a strong agenda, and we’ll share it with you in the coming weeks. Funding: How to Get Your First Yes. We can’t wait to see what you’re building!

Build

The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2021

Musk said that building a human-replacement robot — something no company in the world is close to achieving — was a logical step forward from Tesla’s work developing self-driving cars. Atlas, says Boston Dynamics, is simply a way to push the cutting edge of robotics: it’s not even close to commercial deployment.

Boston

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

OneRoof is building a social network for residential buildings. Unlike Nextdoor which organizes communities based on zip codes or neighborhoods, OneRoof wants to build up a presence inside large multi-unit buildings so that neighbors can get to know each other in smaller, tighter-knit circles. Image credit: OneRoof.

Los Angeles

TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

It was one of the most exciting examples of robotics engineering since Boston Dynamics first made the scene. If you’re building a company that’s building something that is really new and different, where are you going to hire engineers with experience with highly dynamic physical interaction, in the world, with force-sensitive behavior?”

Technology

TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

and build a company that was more valuable in Ecuador than we had built in the U.S.,” The two are originally from Ecuador but moved to Boston for college, where they met watching soccer. The two are originally from Ecuador but moved to Boston for college, where they met watching soccer.

Ecuador

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The two companies underscore how possible it is to build large startups in markets outside of the traditional collection of cities most associated with technology entrepreneurship in the United States, like Boston, New York City and San Francisco, to name a few. A funding boom. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

Atlanta

TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Not to make light of how hard it is to build any company, but that certainly is one of the easiest ways of making a couple of million dollars. Building a company in that space, though, is a special kind of lunacy that I have a lot of respect for. “They are still on mainframes running COBOL,” laughs Boston.

Companies

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

June Homes , a proptech startup that aims to make renting less painful and more flexible for both tenants and landlords, is emerging from stealth today with $50 million in total funding. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Boston. SoftBank Ventures Asia led the startup’s latest round — a $27 million Series B.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Buildings are the bedrocks of civilization — places to live, places to work (well, normally, in a non-COVID-19 world) and places to play. Yet how we conceive buildings, architect them for their uses, and ultimately construct them on a site has changed remarkably little over the past few decades. The fund is backing WoHo with $4.5

Build

TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Without the necessary lab space in Chicago, it was forced to head to Boston. A couple of years ago we had a lot of innovative people in the marketplace, but they really had only one option and that was to go to other markets to build their companies,” explains Flavin. It’s not just about a building with lab benches.

Build

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

City Spotlight: Boston Register for the free event here! Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify Boston has had a thriving tech startup ecosystem for a while, but things can change fast. Register for the free virtual event here.

Discussion

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In the short term, the startup wants to expand into new cities, countries and verticals, but the long-term goal is to build out a platform that can deliver vehicles via teleoperation or an autonomous system. . “We cities, including Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.

Foundation

TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Mette Lykke on food waste and building a big startup on a big idea. with New York City and Boston. With today’s new funding round, it should definitely boost usage in the U.S. Overall, Too Good To Go is operating in 15 countries and has saved 50 million meals. 65,000 businesses have sold something on Too Good To Go so far.

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