Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

But in cities with historic buildings that predate modern accessibility standards by decades or even centuries, those challenges are even further amplified. In a recent study, 70% of disabled people surveyed said theyve shown up to a building only to realize they couldnt get inside. And this isnt just an Icelandic issue.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In the midst of an artificial intelligence boom thats reshaping almost every facet of the business world, companies are competing in an arms race to build the best and brightest models and fully embrace the nascent technology, whether thats as a product or service for customers or as an integralcomponent of their organizations processes.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 10, 2024

For instance, if youre raising money to provide resources to schools worldwide, tell your donors what schools and communities their donations will support. Today, we ask you to join us as we work toward raising money to help us adapt to [the problems you mentioned above]. How does it help them make a difference?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Innovative agriculture companies must now dedicate significant energy to ensuring future generations of farmers can continue to grow healthy, bountiful crops and feed the planet. The most innovative companies in agriculture for 2025 include forward-thinking businesses and nonprofits with at least one eye firmly on this future.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Today, the unified payments app is announcing that it has raised $32.8 Founder and CEO Prince Boakye Boampong started the company in 2019. We’re taking a page from AliPay and PayTm by building features that will make the lives of our users easier without having to switch from different providers.”. The Dash team.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

This year, the most innovative companies in the education sector are tackling a dizzying array of challenges facing students and schools alikenot to mention parents. This June, Amira merged with 27-year-old digital learning company Istation, whose gamified educational content was being used in more than 1,000 school districts.

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VentureBeat

MARCH 17, 2025

Halliday has raised $20 million in Series A funding to develop AI agents that can safely operate on blockchain networks without requiring traditional smart contract development. The funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitzs crypto arm (a16z crypto), brings the companys total funding to over $26

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In an increasingly post-literate world , companies continue to turn to video to communicate with key stakeholders, and two of this years business services honorees help enterprises produce streamable content more efficiently. SimpleClosure, which has raised $5.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

One would be out of touch with reality to say they haven’t noticed this phenomenon in Lagos, Africa’s startup capital city, where mid to senior-level engineers are leaving in droves to seek better pay and opportunities in companies outside Africa. The company (not to be confused with U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Today the company announced a $20 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from existing investors Initialized Capital, Y Combinator and Pentech. Today’s investment brings the total raised to $23 million, according to Crunchbase data. In fact, he has identified three ways to approach diversity.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Kolena, a startup building tools to test, benchmark and validate the performance of AI models, today announced that it raised $15 million in a funding round led by Lobby Capital with participation from SignalFire and Bloomberg Beta.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

His experience from this activity, coupled with working as a technical adviser to the vice president’s office in Nigeria a couple of months back, led him to launch Norebase , a trade tech startup that has raised $1 million in a pre-seed round. Recently, Norebase began offering African companies the option to incorporate in the U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2018

By Nate Andorsky , CEO of Creative Science , a digital agency that aligns behavioral science with design and technology to help nonprofits, foundations, and mission-driven companies rethink the way that they engage with people. Behavioral Science is a powerful area of study, and can be a serious tool in the world of nonprofit fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 11, 2022

According to The State of Modern Philanthropy 2021 , “The median amount raised by events in which attendees raise money on behalf of an organization through peer-to-peer fundraising pages, typically is 4.5 If you’re not 100% sure what the heck peer-to-peer fundraising (aka p2p) is, you’re in good company. This video will: .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

The energy renovation company based in France is doing well, but it is addressing a market that is much bigger than anticipated. The company just closed a €20 million funding round (roughly $22 million at today’s exchange rate) from Felix Capital. This is the first external funding round for the company.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

While smartphones are still the indisputable center of our digital lives, this years most innovative consumer electronics companies aim to improve life beyond the touchscreen. The company recently announced that its sold 2 million units of the glasses since October 2023 and is gearing up to produce 10 million every year by the end of 2026.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Just days after Voodoo acquired Beach Bum , another French mobile gaming company has news to share. Homa Games is raising a $50 million Series A round led by Northzone. The company partners with indie game studios and acts as a publisher. Game developers can build a prototype with Unity and submit it to Homa Games.

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Futurism

MARCH 8, 2025

A new clause , published this week on the company's website, outlines that Pinterest will use its patrons' "information to train, develop and improve our technology such as our machine learning models, regardless of when Pins were posted." Later, the company provided us with an emailed statement.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

Circle has announced that it plans to become a public company. The cryptocurrency company will merge with Concord Acquisition Corp, a SPAC. A SPAC is a publicly traded blank-check company. Merging with a SPAC has become a popular way to become a publicly listed company for tech companies. at the time.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Corporate Giving Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Plan for Company Donations In the dynamic landscape of nonprofit fundraising, relying solely on individual donors can limit your organization’s potential. What Drives Companies to Donate Companies today are more socially conscious than ever.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 11, 2025

Ars Technica has mentioned SpinLaunch, the company that literally wants to yeet satellites into space, in previous Rocket Report newsletters. This company enjoyed some success in raising money for its so-crazy-it-just-might-work idea of catapulting rockets and satellites into the sky, a concept SpinLaunch calls "kinetic launch."

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The Fundraising Authority

AUGUST 6, 2021

Your goal as a fundraiser is to make sure that you are maximizing your events to raise as much money as possible, without wasting valuable time and resources. You need to build relationships (with sponsors, auction donors, guests, etc.) Net revenue is the money you raise at an event minus the event costs.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

With the growing emphasis on corporate social responsibility (CSR) among companies worldwide, now is the perfect time for your organization to start making the most of potential partnership opportunities. Let’s walk through four basic steps to building productive community partnerships to bolster your mission. Identify your needs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

French startup Homa has raised a $100 million Series B funding round. In other words, Homa builds tools that help third-party developers build games. The reason for that is that it has become incredibly challenging to stand out when you build a hypercasual, casual or board game with a small dev team.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Louis, announced that it has raised $1.4 Prior to its pre-seed round, Rebundle had raised what CEO and co-founder Ciara Imani May described as six-figures worth of grant, and other non-dilutive capital in an interview with TechCrunch. Rebundle is a DTC company, selling its products through its website. Enter venture capital.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

A private European aerospace company scrubbed its attempt on Monday to launch the first test flight of its orbital launch vehicle from Norway. The company said it could also conduct the test flight later in the week. The launch is subject to various factors, including weather and safety. Another date hasn’t yet been set.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

When more than a dozen of its buildings were destroyed in the fire, the chance arose to rebuild the camp for the unique needs of the people who have been using it for decades. During the early design stages, Perkins & Will created a large tabletop 3D model of the camp’s 311-acre site and 50-plus buildings and cabins.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

In February, Nigerian fintech startup Mono announced its acceptance into Y Combinator and, at the time, it wanted to build the Plaid for Africa. The investment comes nine months after the company raised $500,000 in pre-seed last September and two months after receiving $125,000 from YC.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

One year after raising $16 million , construction technology company Buildots is back to claim another $30 million, this time in Series B funding. This gives the company $46 million in total funding, Roy Danon, co-founder and CEO of Buildots, told TechCrunch. Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia and China.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The company has raised a $20 million Series A round of funding from Volition […] © 2023 TechCrunch. And splitting payments with others is one of the biggest challenges for creators. Mozaic (previously Jammber) is trying to solve this problem through its range of solutions including APIs and Chrome extensions. All rights reserved.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

It didn't take long for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who runs the company's for-profit arm and sits on the board of its non-profit as well , to slap down the offer. "No That's despite having founded his own AI company, dubbed xAI, a for-profit entity that has raised billions of dollars , much like OpenAI.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 12, 2021

2) Nonprofits Can Raise as Much (or More!) Virtual fundraising events can raise a lot of money, some even surpass their in-person version. And for those events that don’t quite raise as much virtually as in-person, they still net more due to lower overhead costs. as In-Person Fundraising.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

As a nonprofit, you’re called to be a good steward of the money you raise. But beyond reporting standards, transparency is critical to building long-term, loyal support among your donors. Donation pages that include a precise breakdown of where dollars go build trust among all donors, especially younger ones.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Nonprofits using GoFundMe’s software company, Classy, will have access to the enhanced sharing experience on Instagram. more than $8 billion has been raised for nonprofits on Instagram and Facebook, according to Meta, which earlier this year shutdown much of its fundraising options. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2024

A couple of years ago, Alex Yu and Amit Jain came together to found a company that’d let people capture objects in 3D using their smartphones — no additional equipment required.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

But most of these companies and developers find it difficult to access real-time banking data. Since 2019, Plaid-esque companies, but with different twists to their offerings, have emerged to solve these issues. In total, Okra has raised $4.5 Fara Ashiru Jituboh and David Peterside founded the company in June 2019.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In proactive planning, companies take measures to ensure resources are available to protect their employees, facilities, and manage recoveries. Within many companies, Business Continuity works tirelessly to align all business units, secure leadership approval for processes, and allocate the necessary support for such events.

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