Futurism

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

During a Bloomberg interview at the Paris AI Action Summit today, Altman took another jab at the richest man in the world. That's despite having founded his own AI company, dubbed xAI, a for-profit entity that has raised billions of dollars , much like OpenAI. "No thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74

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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. Prateek Sharma, VP at Sequoia Capital India, said that InVideo is part of a growing number of startups in India that are building a SaaS platform for the world.

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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

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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

While the world continues to await the arrival of safe, reliable and cost-effective self-driving cars, one of the pioneers in the world of autonomous vehicle software has raised some substantial funding to double down on what it sees as a more immediate opportunity: providing technology to industrial companies to build off-road applications.

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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. “All of our business units are growing,” founder and CEO Markus Villig said in an interview this week. billion ($8.4 billion).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

Healthcare startup Color has raised a sizable $167 million in Series D funding round, at a valuation of $1.5 We saw it multiple times, with lab testing, with antigen testing and now with vaccines,” Color CEO and co-founder Othman Laraki told me in an interview. billion post-money, the company announced today.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Here’s how Fast Forward operates, as the managing partner explained in an interview with TechCrunch. 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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Parallel to these developments, multiple private companies have introduced plans to build commercial space stations for science, manufacturing and even tourism. Gravitics, which emerged from stealth today following the announcement of a $20 million seed round, is calling the building block “StarMax.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Eden Life , strategically positioning itself as the go-to platform for home service needs, has raised a $1.4 When the founders, ex-Andelans (a term to describe previous Andela staff), launched the home service app two years ago, it raised some eyebrows. million seed round to deepen its market share. LocalGlobe, a U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Cartona , one of the major players digitizing the traditional trade market, including mom-and-pop stores, FMCG producers, wholesalers, and distributors in Egypt, has raised $12 million in Series A funding. We won’t expand like crazy without having positive unit economics in every city,” CEO Mahmoud Talaat told TechCrunch in an interview. “We

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Raise your hand if you have ever experienced burnout during your career? I sense many raised hands. Fortunately, according to Dr. Kandi Wiens , author of the new book, Burnout Immunity , you can learn how to build immunity to burnout. The five EI skills are: Build self-awareness to identify what makes you vulnerable to burnout.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

That led Hess to found Consensus, a platform for interactive video demos, which today announced that it raised $110 million from Sumeru Equity Partners. Consensus lets engineering teams build a library of reusable, interactive video demos that sales teams can send out on demand. million last September.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

It has raised a $6.2 To them, it made sense to build another platform — ANKA — where merchants, with an omnichannel dashboard, can monitor their sales and inventory across all these channels: Afrikrea, social media and websites. He said the company is building out a mobile application to make the process smoother.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Supernormal today announced that it raised $10 million in a funding round led by Balderton with participation from Acequia Capital and byFounders VC. The new cash brings the company’s total raised to around $12.9 In 2020, the two spent two weeks brainstorming what to build next. It’s a strong sales pitch.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

They can be a video interview with the donor about the mission. To build your organization’s bank account and volunteer base, you need a flourishing community of supporters. How can you grow your email list to activate and build your organization’s power? Mention the donor in a dedicated email blast or several. Plaque or award.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The investors behind virtual hack.summit() , the world’s largest blockchain programmer event, have launched a $200 million crypto seed fund under the Hack VC umbrella, fund partner Alex Pack told TechCrunch in an interview. It’s hard for a traditional VC firm to build [that] because of structural reasons,” Pack said.

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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. Learn more at funraise.io.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Refyne has raised a new financing round, just seven months after securing its previous funding, as the Bengaluru-based startup scales its platform that helps workers access their earned salaries in real time. Tiger Global led Refyne’s $82 million Series B funding, the two said Wednesday. times since the Series A in June.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2021

German drone technology startup Wingcopter has raised a $22 million Series A – its first significant venture capital raise after mostly bootstrapping. This new Series A round was led by Silicon Valley VC Xplorer Capital, as well as German growth fund Futury Regio Growth.

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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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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

So, how did they raise multimillion dollar donations? Here are five ways you can build a nonprofit brand , (regardless of the size of your organization) that will attract multimillion dollar gifts: 1. You can’t build a brand by constantly sharing statistics. Utilize your connections to build your brand.

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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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Juno, a startup that provides checking accounts to crypto enthusiasts and allows them to take their paychecks in digital tokens, has raised a new funding round as it expands its offerings to include a tokenized loyalty program. On Saturday, Juno announced it has raised $18 million in a Series A financing round.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

“Our bigger vision is to connect the metaverse through avatars,” said Timmu Toke, co-founder and CEO, Ready Player Me, in an interview. “Our bigger vision is to connect the metaverse through avatars,” said Timmu Toke, co-founder and CEO, Ready Player Me, in an interview.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Today, one of the trailblazers in this area, Kuda Technologies , is announcing funding to continue building out its specific ambition: to provide a modern banking service for Africans and the African diaspora, or as co-founder and CEO Babs Ogundeyi describes them, “every African on the planet, wherever you are in the world.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Remento , a company focused on capturing and preserving family stories, has raised $3 million in seed funding led by Upfront Ventures. Remento was founded in 2020 by Charlie Greene, who came up with the idea for the company after filming a series of interviews with his mother shortly after she was diagnosed with cancer.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pakistan’s embedded finance platform Neem has raised $2.5 If you look at the embedded finance space, it is a $167 billion opportunity,” Shaikh said in an interview with TechCrunch. Pakistan’s Neem raises $2.5M million in a seed funding round as it works to support underbanked communities in the country.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Schools, city governments, retailers, corporations, individuals, and big and small nonprofits have been participating in GivingTuesday by the thousands, and many of them are working together to raise funds for those 24 hours and beyond. Well Aware implemented automated matching on their Shower Strike campaign to raise over $300k!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

A startup founded by ex-Apple design and engineering team Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, Humane , today raised another $100 million to build what it calls an “integrated device and cloud services platform” for AI. Humane’s work is shrouded in mystery. The husband-wife duo promise a reveal this spring.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

We’ll cover a range of topics during the interview, particularly on the technical side of Sensi.AI’s platform, which monitors patients’ rooms in an ostensibly privacy-preserving way. is building AI for remote patient monitoring by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch Register here.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A Manila-headquartered startup called CloudEats , which operates cloud kitchens across the Philippines and Vietnam, just raised a $7 million Series A extension led by Nordstar to accelerate the digitization of food service in Southeast Asia. . We are taking the best practices along with key learnings to our next market launch.” .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

Cologne, Germany-based DeepL is not disclosing the full amount that it’s raised — it doesn’t want to focus on this aspect, CEO and founder Jaroslaw Kutylowski said in an interview — but as we were working on this story we heard a range of figures. It will also continue to invest in R&D.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Carmack said Friday his new artificial general intelligence startup, called Keen Technologies, has raised $20 million in a financing round from former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Cue founder Daniel Gross. Thrilled to be leading this round and supporting him in building Keen Technologies!

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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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