TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Andela has been pivotal to placing the continent’s tech talent globally. AltSchool, which is now Altitude Learning) has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding to scale its efforts, said chief executive Adewale Yusuf to TechCrunch. Nigeria’s Decagon raises millions to finance and train software engineers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

hedge fund and investment firm Tiger Global led the Series C round. New and existing investors who participated include DST Global, Early Capital Berrywood, Green Visor Capital, Greycroft Capital, Insight Ventures, PayPal, Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Management, Worldpay FIS 9yards Capital. . Launched in 2016 as a Nigerian and U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Payments company Checkout.com is raising once again. The company has closed a $450 million Series C round with Tiger Global Management leading the round — Greenoaks Capital and all existing investors are also participating. According to the startup, it is now the fourth-largest fintech company globally.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 29, 2024

A championfor affordable and decent housing, he and Rosalynn Carter donated their time and leadership each year to build and improve homes with Habitat around the world, was the official statement from Habitat For Humanity International, based in Atlanta. Habitat for Humanity joins the world in mourning the death of former U.S.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 23, 2025

Since its inception, about 115,000 nonprofits in more than 50 countries have leveraged this program globally to help promote their organizations and missions online. Educating the Public: Campaigns can raise awareness around key issues, helping nonprofits fulfill their missions by informing and engaging communities.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

InVideo, a Mumbai-based startup that has built a video creation and editing platform, has raised $15 million as it looks to court more users and customers worldwide. Tiger Global, Hummingbird, RTP Global and Base also participated in the round. InVideo ’s $15 million Series A financing round was led by Sequoia Capital India.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 18, 2020

As large donors tighten their spending, you may be wondering how to get charity donations during a global pandemic. They will only get more generous with age as they earn more disposable income, which is why it’s crucial for you to build relationships with new and existing donors. Why are small donations important?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Organization Name] is a global network of philanthropy organizations, changemakers, and critical thinkers committed to ensuring that philanthropy reaches its fullest potential by serving as a catalyst for social change and social progress. For every 1,000 fundraising messages sent, nonprofits raised $78. Global Trends in Giving Report.

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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. The platform is being utilized on major building projects in countries like the U.S., Buildots raises $16M to bring computer vision to construction management.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Global investors are running from Chinese tech stocks in the wake of the government’s crackdown on Ant Group and Alibaba, two high-flying businesses founded by Ma Yun (Jack Ma) that were once hailed as paragons of China’s new tech elite.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

SeamlessHR , a Nigeria-based company that wants to help African businesses “leverage the continent’s greatest asset: abundant human capital” with its cloud-based human resources (HR) and payroll software, has raised $10 million in Series A funding for its next phase of growth and regional expansion.

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VentureBeat

MARCH 12, 2025

Opus Major has raised $10 million in funding to build a global game studio dedicated to crafting games and entertainment. Read More

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

According to one source, generative AI startups raised $1.7 As for Re, he’s co-founded various startups, including SambaNova , which builds hardware and integrated systems for AI. There’s even been attempts at building community-powered, free services for running AI text-generating models. Google Cloud, AWS, Azure).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Even though billions of dollars have been raised online since 1999, it’s surprising how many nonprofits make the donation process more complicated than it should be. Launched in 2002, GlobalGiving.org is a crowdfunding platform for NGOs, charities, and nonprofits worldwide which has raised nearly $500 million online.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Even before Facebook helped raise $10 million dollars for the Center for Disaster Philanthropy for Hurricane Harvey relief, Facebook “Donate” buttons and fundraisers created by Facebook users were popping up in the feed with increased frequency. 2017 Global Trends in Giving Report. 14% said Twitter. 10% said Instagram.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

PhonePe has raised another $100 million as part of an ongoing round , a deliberation that has now helped it pull $450 million in recent weeks despite the market downturn, as the Indian fintech giant bulks up its war chest following the recent separation from the parent firm Flipkart.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Revel , an NFT or “social collectibles” platform, raised $7.8 Revel blends them both, helping consumers build a “portfolio of media [and] of the people they collect,” Sideman said. (As Revel raises $7.8M million in seed financing led by Dragonfly Capital, the startup’s CEO, Adi Sideman, exclusively told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

And third, although early believers who witnessed InstaDeep’s growth from a local firm to a global startup knew it had enough exit options, they didn’t think the acquisition would happen this fast, said Khaled Ben Jilani , senior partner at AfricInvest, one of InstaDeep’s earlier investors, on a call with TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

On the heels of Heroes announcing a $200 million raise earlier today, to double down on buying and scaling third-party Amazon Marketplace sellers, another startup out of London aiming to do the same is announcing some significant funding of its own. North Wall Capital was behind the debt portion of the deal.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

With its Series C round , the company raised $450 million at a $15 billion valuation — it represents a 167% valuation jump in 12 months, which is not too bad. Checkout.com is building a full-stack payments company — it acts as a gateway, an acquirer, a risk engine and a payment processor. Why did Checkout.com raise so much money?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Opsera, a startup that’s building an orchestration platform for DevOps teams, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Felicis Ventures. Ranganathan then spent the last three years at Uber, where he ran that company’s global infrastructure. Image Credits: Opsera.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In the latest development, Bumpa , one of them which says it is building the infrastructure to power online commerce and enable African small business owners to start, manage and grow their businesses from their mobile devices, has raised a $4 million seed round. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Clear Street , which says it is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, has raised $270 million in the second tranche of a Series B funding round at a $2 billion valuation. New York-based Clear Street raised the first tranche of the round in May of 2022 at a $1.7 billion valuation. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Since 2014, Twiga Foods has been using technology to build supply chains in food and retail distribution on the continent, starting with Kenya. Per Crunchbase , Twiga has raised over $100 million in both debt and equity financing rounds. We see ourselves as building a one-stop-shop for the informal retailer and all their needs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

It’s a great way to tear the curtain back a bit and get unvarnished commentary from the folks building, and funding, what they consider to be the future. Today’s business climate is different from the one in which Thrive raised its massive Series C, which Kleiner helped lead. See you there!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 11, 2024

There is no doubt that social media, no matter the platform, remains a powerful way for people to build communities and connect with the causes and nonprofits they care about. When raising money online (or offline) you must be able to succinctly answer this question for your potential donors: Why this? 2) Make it urgent.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

They are the backbone of most economies: Globally, SMEs represent about 90% of existing businesses and create more than 50% of employment. South Africa’s Yoco raises $16 million to boost digital services to small businesses. Yoco has raised a total of $107 million. Now, that number has quintupled. Image Credits: Yoco.

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OneCause

MARCH 27, 2023

Raise 2023, presented by OneCause, is for nonprofit and fundraising professionals wanting to raise their fundraising game. RAISE is part interactive learning + part crowd-sourcing = and 100% FUNdraising! Here are the top 7 reasons to be at RAISE 2023: 1. The schedule for Raise 2023 will be released in summer of 2023.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

Admittedly, in the ‘developed’ countries of Western Europe, startups are generally better off skipping accelerators and raising directly from Angels, HNWs and pre-seed funds. Vieira told me: “Three years ago, before Shilling, I was working with 500 Global, doing accelerators for them around the world. Of course, “your mileage may vary.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Economies of scale are an essential cornerstone for on-demand companies, and to that end one of the hopefuls in the space has raised a big round to grow its business. ” He added that Bolt is working on partnering with more city governments to build out its services as part of their updated transportation strategies. billion ($8.4

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

An Interview with Matt Roberts-Davies , General Manager of M-Changa – an official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. The platform ensues funds are collected in a transparent way so that anyone interested in giving can also read the fundraisers story and see how much has been raised already.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

It starts with an “impact-focused” idea that Fast Forward can build a solid business around. Nigeria’s AltSchool raises $1M pre-seed to build an alternative school for Africans. Purple Elephant Ventures, Kenya’s tourism-focused startup studio, raises $1M pre-seed funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

There’s no denying the growth of healthtech globally over the past three years thanks to the pandemic. Lagos- and Texas-based digital healthcare provider Reliance Health is the latest beneficiary and is doing so in grand style, raising $40 million. Reliance previously raised a $2 million seed round months post-YC in 2017.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Tuna is on a mission to “fine tune” the payments space in Latin America and has raised two seed rounds totaling $3 million, led by Canary and by Atlantico. What Tuna is building will help companies navigate the situation and make it easier for more customers to buy online. “The

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The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 8, 2025

Callahan is a native Oklahoman who has spent more than 25 years working across the nonprofit and corporate sector to build global movements that raised billions of dollars. Prior to her work at ALSAC, she was senior vice president of Global Marketing & Networks at Susan G. During that period St.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Now entering its sixth year, #GivingTuesday is a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media. Available in العَرَبِيَّة, English, français, Português, and español, the 2017 Global NGO Technology Survey seeks to gain a better understanding of how NGOs and NPOs worldwide use technology to engage their supporters and donors.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Berlin Brands Group, now valued at $1B+, raises $700M to buy and scale merchants that sell on marketplaces like Amazon. in 2019, driven largely by the global pandemic as sales shifted online while brick-and-mortar stores closed. Online retail, as a share of total retail sales , grew to 19.6% in 2020, up from 15.8%

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