TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

San Francisco-based Postman, which operates a collaborative platform for developers to help them build, design, test and iterate their APIs, said on Wednesday it has raised $225 million in a new financing round that values it at $5.6 API platform Postman delivers $150M Series C on $2B valuation. Image Credits: Postman.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Building Your List of Cell Phone Numbers. Once an organization decides to communicate via text, the next logical step is to build a list of cell phone numbers—not an easy feat without permission. So how can you legally and easily build your list? Spamming is illegal, and often goes straight to a junk mail folder.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2019

At NonprofitReady.org , our mission is to give nonprofit professionals at all levels the opportunity to build skills and advance their careers. Short, interactive courses cover three critical topics – how do nonprofits operate, how do nonprofits make money, and how can I build a thriving nonprofit career.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

A tech “discovery” is the initial, independent phase of a technology project where key analysis, design and planning are performed BEFORE a buy or build decision is made. Discoveries are essentially risk mitigation exercises, and they should be a separate contract from the build phase whenever possible.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

As remote work continues to solidify its place as a critical aspect of how businesses exist these days, a startup that has built a platform to help companies source and bring on one specific category of remote employees — engineers — is taking on some more funding to meet demand. Turing is essentially tapping into both concepts.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Now, in a spot of perfect timing, a startup out of Talinn, Estonia, called Ready Player Me — which has built a popular platform for creating dynamic, animated avatars to use across virtual worlds built and operated by others — is announcing $56 million in funding to grow its business.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Startups that solve the supply-chain and operational challenges of players in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry–by helping buyers access products from sellers on a single platform–keep attracting venture capital from investors. This model has led to customer complaints on both sides of the platform.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

But making skill building an organizational priority is a hedge against the unknown that offers 360 degrees of current benefits. Be Aggressive About Learning If proactive skill-building isn’t part of your culture, it is time to consider a more aggressive approach to learning, development, and employee retention.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

It’s not a tech company this time — Awoyemi co-founded online jobs site Jobberman (which was acquired by ROAM Africa in 2016) and Whogohost, a bootstrapped hosting platform — but instead, a venture studio: Fast Forward Venture Studio. AltSchool is a Techstars-backed platform for learning coding and other tech-related skills.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

Often, first-time e-commerce entrepreneurs don’t know what they need to build an effective funnel and cart experience for their platforms. Startup founder Josh Bartlett several years ago proposed a solution in ThriveCart , a toolkit small- and medium-sized businesses can use to build e-commerce carts and funnels.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

billion if you want," Altman wrote in a scathing rebuke shortly after the WSJ published its story, referencing Musk's disastrous acquisition of the social media platform, which has since lost almost 80 percent of what it was worth when he bought it. "No thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74

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.orgSource

JULY 3, 2023

Understand the New Environment Back in 2019, when I interviewed Dan for our book “Association 4.0: Video and other electronic content allow owners to format the information for different tasks and platforms. Consider the topics and platforms that are appropriate for the various demographics. These are areas for consideration.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

As the enthusiasm around AI image and text generators grows, Jasper , a startup developing what it describes as an “AI content” platform, has raised $125 million at a $1.7 “We want to build a world-class business, [and] to do that we need capital and highly strategic partners.” billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

“Today, the way people transact has evolved,” newly appointed chief business officer (CBO) of Tilia Catherine Porter told me in an interview. The goal of the startup is to help platform operators capture more of the value of all the transactions made related to their product.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

One Impression, an Indian influencer marketing platform that does business in markets including Indonesia, Dubai, Europe and the U.S., The Gurugram-based startup is building an Amazon-like platform to help brands quickly find relevant influencers for their marketing campaigns.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pakistan’s embedded finance platform Neem has raised $2.5 It offers a lending platform that its partners use to provide tailored lending products to consumers and MSMEs. It offers a lending platform that its partners use to provide tailored lending products to consumers and MSMEs. Pakistan’s Neem raises $2.5M

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

“There are two kinds of restaurants where the majority of our focus is on — the bukkas [local restaurants] and the small restaurants, for instance,” Orda co-founder and CEO Guy Futi told TechCrunch in an interview. So, we decided to build a cloud-based restaurant software tailor-made for Africa’s massive chefs and restaurant industry.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The eponymous platform integrates with all popular payroll platforms in the U.S., Each dollar spent using the platform gives customers access to a token. The startup, based in India, is part of a growing wave of fintech and software firms in the South Asian nation that are increasingly building for the global markets.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

Copilot , a platform aimed at helping companies, including marketing agencies, accounting firms and law firms, run and grow their businesses, today announced that it raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by YC Continuity and Lachy Groom at a $100 million post-money valuation. ” Using Copilot for invoice payments.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

One beneficiary of that increased spending is London-based Beamery, a startup developing a talent lifecycle management platform. “The new funding will support continued investment in our platform and tech capabilities and help to build out global sales footprint.” ” Image Credits: Beamery.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 10, 2024

We understand that the GivingTuesday social media landscape can be a little intimidating, and coordinating your efforts across platforms in order to get the most impact can be a challenge. You can use tools like surveys, interviews, or data analytics to understand this (more on that below). What does this mean for you?

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Forum One

JULY 11, 2024

Nearly a decade old, the playbook compiles best practices designed to help government agencies build digital services that are simple, effective, and easy to use. Build the service using agile and iterative practices Develop the service in small, iterative cycles, allowing frequent testing and feedback.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Companies have IoT device administration to worry about, and also building out the infrastructure necessary to keep those devices connected and operational. Recently, a startup called Memfault raised $24 million for its platform designed to help companies manage their growing IoT device fleets. We’re able to customize any.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

POSH is an event management and ticketing platform for all users to host events large or small, regardless of if you’re an event organizer, promoter, or if you just want to charge your friends a cover for drinking all the expensive alcohol at your birthday party. And your branding is basically not seen at all,” Taylor-Lemire said.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 19, 2024

To understand audiences better, consider e xploring other websites or platforms they visit. Ideally, put some time aside to interview some real people. Four or more interviews with members of an audience can be amazingly helpful in understanding what will resonate.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The YC-backed food procurement platform has doubled down on the pivot — instrumental to the company’s $3.2 The YC-backed food procurement platform has doubled down on the pivot — instrumental to the company’s $3.2 Its platform, described as a series of stacks, is designed to mitigate losses and help food businesses thrive.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In early August 2018, Nonprofit Tech for Good published an open call for sponsors and after six weeks of interviews, Funraise (located in Long Beach, CA) has been selected as the new sponsor. Funraise is a technology company that builds delightful and functional software for nonprofits.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Prakash previously founded social media search platform Topsy, which was acquired in 2013 by Apple, where he later became a senior director. As for Re, he’s co-founded various startups, including SambaNova , which builds hardware and integrated systems for AI. Google Cloud, AWS, Azure).

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2021

“Today, most of what Facebook does is…we’re building on top of other people’s platforms,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg told The Information in an interview this week on Facebook’s VR and AR ambitions. “I

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Accord , a collaboration platform designed to support business-to-business (B2B) sales, today announced that it raised $10 million in Series A funding from Matrix Partners, Nat Friedman and Y Combinator. “We started Accord to solve frustrating challenges in B2B sales,” Ross told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Zarta, a new ad-free creator platform that focuses on pay-per-view video content, announced today that it has closed a $5.7 The platform allows creators to upload videos, set parameters for a free preview and then charge viewers a small amount to unlock the whole video. million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

OfficeBanao, an Indian startup offering a workspace interiors platform to businesses in the country, has raised $6 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed. It also leverages platforms such as LinkedIn and Instagram to attract new customers in different markets.

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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. M-Changa has also partnered with GlobalGiving to enable NGOs already of the platform to accept mobile payments. Finally, M-Changa seeks to build trust from both local and international donors.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

These findings come from recent data from careers platform InHerSight. We all have, ingrained within us, the drive to achieve and build. Creating consistent daily habits is one of the most manageable ways to exercise your influence and build resilience against future-related anxiety. However, they share a common thread.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

The deal comes just as Slack faces increased competition from Microsoft Teams, and it will also see Slack migrate its voice and video calling features over to Amazon’s Chime platform alongside a broader adoption of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Update, June 4th 5:55PM ET : Article updated with comments from an interview with Slack.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

. “Given the response from the market, it made sense to add this investment now so we can scale up to meet the demand we’re seeing,” Graham told TechCrunch in an email interview. With Strivacity’s platform, users get access to a dashboard with radio buttons and drop-down menus they can use to create sign-in flows.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Co-founder and CEO Matt Welsh describes it as the first enterprise-focused platform-as-a-service for building experiences with large language models (LLMs). Here’s the ten-thousand-foot view of Fixie platform’s: LLM-powered agents that interface with external systems. GitHub’s), productivity tools (e.g.

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