Bloomerang

JUNE 17, 2022

With that in mind, I wanted to share a list of funding and grant resources available for nonprofits serving that community. Grant Research Tip : As you search for funding opportunities, keep an eye on the grant application deadlines. Funding Priority: LGBTQ+. Urgent Action Fund. Visibility Impact Fund.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Early-stage fintech-focused venture firm Better Tomorrow Ventures has raised $225 million for its second fund — triple the amount it raised for its debut fund that closed in September of 2020. It has also reserved $75 million for an opportunity fund for follow-on investments. It’s committed to three so far.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 4, 2024

Aplos is backed by private equity firm Alpine Investors in San Francisco. We are building one cohesive front-end system,” he said, with “one design language, one look and feel.” There was also seed funding in both 2009 and 2012. Aplos already owns Raisely, a fundraising software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Austin-based venture firm 8VC, led by controversial Palantir founder Joe Lonsdale, has raised $880 million in its fifth fund. In 2020, 8VC famously moved its headquarters from San Francisco to Austin, Texas. The fund is believed to be the biggest Texas-based venture fund for startups, according to AustinInno.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

million seed funding co-led by Makers Fund and Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors include Pioneer Fund, Boost VC, muru-D and Thomas Rice. . Alta’s next goal is to expand and build networks of virtual worlds across multiple platforms, incorporating elements of the metaverse, Anoshechkin said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

million in seed funding led by Trucks VC and Fifty Years. While the company is building the chassis from the ground up, McKendrick says it can be accomplished at a fraction of the cost of manufacturing an automobile. Now, with prototypes built and an ambition to scale, McKendrick has raised $4.3 Image Credits: Faction Technology.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The large difference is that most funders tend to direct a majority of their arts funding to local and regional organizations. These organizations are currently offering grant and funding opportunities and/or accepting letters of inquiry or project ideas. . Funding Priority: Arts & Culture. Ford Foundation. Ford Foundation.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2020

If you build it, they will come, but they sure as hell are going to complain about everything until they do. Others involved individual decisions on where to live: do you bet on the future of San Francisco or do you want to partake in the growth of some other startup hub? Who had that on their bingo board?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The lack of trust between NGOs and local Kenyans and the expectancy that NGOs are funded from outside Kenya are the key reasons for limited local fundraising towards NGO in Kenya. M-Changa also makes it easy for NGOs to account for funds coming in from multiple paymnet channels with automatic reporting and statements.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The trio paired up with Michelin-star chef Eric Minnich, who was previously part of the founding culinary team and executive chef of Spanish restaurant The Commissary in San Francisco, to start Mezli , a company building fully autonomous modular restaurants.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The new capital infusion gives Miro $476 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2011 by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin. The last time we checked in with Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, was in 2020 when the company raised a $50 million Series B round led by Iconiq Capital.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

The San Francisco-based startup’s SaaS (software-as-a-service) platform currently processes over $5 billion in mortgages and consumer loans per day, up from nearly $3 billion last July. In 2020, the San Francisco-based startup significantly expanded its digital consumer lending platform. That compares to a $3.3

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Certainly, he never imagined launching a private event management platform for restaurants and venues, but that’s what he is building, and VCs think enough of it that they just seed funded the company to the tune of $3.6 Interestingly, the idea ties to Hutchison’s five years in the U.S. Army as an infantry officer.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Data streams with continual, real-time updates of information are a critical building block of how apps and sites function today, and now a startup that has built a platform to power those data streams is announcing a growth round of funding on the back of strong growth in its business into a wider set of use cases.

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The Verge

MAY 8, 2021

Both sides had agreed that the fine should be $1 million, but a spokesperson told the Mercury News that Tesla will pay $750,000 directly to the air district’s general operating fund.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Today, the San Francisco-based company operates in 11 states plus Washington, D.C., million Series B round of funding that the company closed in June 2022 and only now announced, Grassia said. Then we were heads-down building the operations for national expansion.” Also elevating those expansion efforts is a $73.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

The San Francisco-based venture firm saw an increase in digital infrastructure, remote learning and society’s ever fickle attention as an opportunity — and unsurprisingly, those same tailwinds then helped Reach close its largest fund to date.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

Open-source framework startup Serverless Stack announced Friday that it raised $1 million in seed funding from a group of investors that includes Greylock Partners, SV Angel and Y Combinator. The company was founded in 2017 by Jay V and Frank Wang in San Francisco, and they were part of Y Combinator’s 2021 winter batch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

HomeLight , which operates a real estate technology platform, announced today that it has secured $100 million in a Series D round of funding and $263 million in debt financing. The financings bring the San Francisco-based company’s total raised since its 2012 inception to $530 million. in the coming months. .

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The Verge

JANUARY 6, 2021

Amazon has pledged to spend more than $2 billion over the next five years to build tens of thousands of affordable housing units in three of the e-commerce giant’s major employment hubs, underscoring the ongoing housing crises affecting parts of the US where large, high-paying tech employers reside. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Douwe Osinga and Jack Amadeo were working together at Sidewalk Labs , Alphabet’s venture to build tech-forward cities, when they arrived at the conclusion that most spreadsheet software doesn’t scale up to today’s data challenges.

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The Verge

JANUARY 19, 2021

billion investment from the SoftBank Vision Fund. Cruise recently began testing its fully driverless vehicles in San Francisco for the first time. Cruise recently began testing its fully driverless vehicles in San Francisco for the first time. In 2018, Cruise secured a $2.25 Volkswagen signed on in October 2018.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Blockchain developer platform Alchemy announced today it has raised $80 million in a Series B round of funding led by Coatue and Addition, Lee Fixel’s new fund. We realized that in order for space to thrive and build to its full potential, we needed to build a developer platform layer for blockchain,” Viswanathan told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Juno , a proptech startup which aims to build more sustainable and affordable apartment buildings, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round. By creating buildings that are worthy of being repeated, tools and systems can be created to enable continuous improvement and increase efficiency.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Coming out of stealth today with $150 million in debt financing and $11 million in seed funding, Arc is building what it describes as “a community of premium software companies” that gives SaaS startups a way to borrow, save and spend “all on a single tech platform.” Image Credits: Arc.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

If you’re not familiar with the company, Checkout.com wants to build a one-stop shop for all things related to payments, such as accepting transactions, processing them and detecting fraud. Just a year later, Checkout.com added $150 million in funding at a $5.5 Checkout.com is now valued at $15 billion based on today’s funding round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

San Francisco-based venture capital firm Global Founders Capital led the seed round. Y Combinator, Hustle Fund, Liquid 2 Ventures, Hack VC and Soma Capital participated, including individual local investors and early backers such as Paga CEO Tayo Oviosu, Remita CEO John Obaro and Magic Fund. . million and $1.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Specifically, the San Francisco-based startup wants to drive bank customer engagement using prize-linked savings and casual gaming to motivate smart financial behaviors. It was formed in 2019 as a merger between BB&T and SunTrust banks. TechCrunch covered the startup’s $6.6 million raise in 2017.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Today, the Japanese investment conglomerate is announcing the launch of the SoftBank Latin America Fund II, its second dedicated private investment fund focused on tech companies located in LatAm. SoftBank is launching the new fund with an initial $3 billion commitment. There’s so much to build for so many people and businesses.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Jonathan Pasternak, a partner in the bankruptcy, restructuring and creditor rights group at New York-based Davidoff Hutcher & Citron, believes the company’s Chapter 11 filing was inevitable despite it reaching unicorn status after raising $400 million in Series C funding in August 2019.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Kikoff , a personal finance platform aimed at helping consumers build credit, announced today that it has raised $30 million in a Series B round. For them and so many others, we wanted to create a better way to build good credit than existing offers in the market.” The capital is in addition to the $12.5 Department of the Treasury.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

billion following a $1 billion investment last year from Toyota, DENSO and SoftBank’s Vision Fund. Aurora, which was founded in 2017, is focused on building the full self-driving stack, the underlying technology that will allow vehicles to navigate highways and city streets without a human driver behind the wheel.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

million in seed funding. And because the startup aims to build a long-term relationship with its workforce, Euston said it will also invest by providing additional benefits, starting with sick leave credits earned when you work and next-day payments to your debit cards.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

This positions the startups building popular wallet apps closest to the firehose of consumer crypto opportunities, while also leaving them to take charge in tackling many of web3’s unsolved problems including steep onboarding challenges and a hostile fraud environment. billion fund. billion valuation.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Apart from AI, some of the most exciting technology developments took place in quantum computing, with companies large and small taking different approaches to building utility-scale systems. In March 2024, Blackstone loaned the company $600 million to finance the build of Aligneds newest and largest data center, in West Jordan, Utah.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

As the number of people becoming independent workers rises, investors are taking notice of startups helping these workers build their businesses. HoneyBook is the latest to feel some love in this area, unveiling Wednesday that it raised $250 million in Series E funding, just six months after securing $155 million of Series D capital.

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