TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Homa Games is raising a $50 million Series A round led by Northzone. The company is raising this Series A round just seven months after raising its seed round (led by Headline and Eurazeo). Game developers can build a prototype with Unity and submit it to Homa Games. So far, the company has released 40 games.

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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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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Many organizations raise 30%, sometimes as much as 50%, of their individual giving in December. Collect data (ideally the last two years, but at a minimum for the previous year) How much did we raise at end of year? How much did you raise for GivingTuesday ? Test your appeal for free with this appeal writing checklist.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

With many nonprofits raising as much as 50% of their budget in December alone, there’s a lot at stake — and a lot of end-of-year fundraising problems to overcome. My favorite tool for testing email subject lines is sendcheckit.com because, on top of rating your subject line, it gives you advice on how to improve it.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 17, 2025

Our seamless, built-in, nonprofit CRM training experience brings live and self-paced learning directly into the platformso your team can build their skills without breaking their flow. Build long-term skills that keep your nonprofit strong, no matter whos on the team. Bloomerang Learning changes that.

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Candid

MARCH 24, 2025

Yet, most nonprofits build business models that rely on one or two major funding sources. We raise significant funds from the U.S. Build partnerships to stand stronger together It may be tempting to focus inward in times of upheaval, but doing so can be a mistake. We should focus on what we can influence.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

A time when many nonprofits raise 25-50% of their entire budget. My friends at Magic Wheelchair are total pros at building show-stopping costumes for kids in wheelchairs—and they get it: a little flattery goes a long way to getting those fundraising emails opened. They didn’t just hit the target—they soared past it, raising $31,150!

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Some are working on reinvention: Huntsville , the Alabama town famous for its history with NASAs rocketry program, has remarketed itself as a music, arts, and cultural destination; while Hilliard , an Ohio city of less than 40,000 in the Columbus area, continues to build out infrastructure to incubate innovative startups. Ford Motor Co.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

London-based SigmaOS is one such startup, which is building a Mac browser for productivity nerds. The company has raised $4 million in seed funding led by LocalGlobe and participation from Y Combinator, 7percent Ventures, Moonfire Ventures, Shine VC, TrueSight Ventures, Pioneer Fund and Venture Together. Image Credits: SigmaOS.

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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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CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Since you probably raise a good percentage of your fundraising goal during the month of December, you have to make the time count! Try these 13 successful, yet underutilized strategies to help you raise more money and create stronger relationships this year-end. To build momentum, keep your supporters updated on your campaign progress.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Knowing where your donors come from is the first piece to building an excellent donor experience, and growing your charity. The breakdown of campaign/source/term/medium used as UTM parameters is a tried and tested structure for understanding acquisition. Test with a couple of links to see how it all works. Hierarchy matters.

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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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 20, 2023

In other words, use trial and error to test out fundraising strategies to find out what works for your nonprofit organization. Determine your starting point and end goals, then build around them. 4) Think of each fundraiser as a test. Participants can raise funds by the number of hours (or minutes) they create.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Lilium, the five-year-old venture-backed startup from Munich, announced that it will build a 56,000-square-foot transportation hub for its aerial taxi service in Orlando, Florida. Lilium burst out onto the scene in 2017 when it announced the first test flight of its two-seater prototype. Image: Lilium. Petersburg.”.

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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. While there, they came up with a way to use A/B testing to create a way of dealing with payments in different markets.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

By Rob Leighton , Executive Director and Founder at iMission Institute – a social sector marketing agency and technology consulting firm specializing in helping nonprofits raise more money, fire up engagement, and streamline work. 2) A/B Testing Not sure what subject line to go with? Test both! million nonprofits in the U.S. ,

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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. . Our big announcement is finally here!

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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. Serverless Stack’s technology enables engineers to more easily build full-stack serverless apps.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

At Classy, we put our own fundraising skills to this test with our annual #ClassyGives initiative, where our staff collectively fundraises for a nonprofit organization. HUGE shoutout to Team Sarah who is in the lead with $6,599 raised, and Alison and Phil who are on our individual leaderboard—plus Gabe who is not far behind!

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The new funding brings the total amount raised by Uncover, since launch in 2020, to $1.225 million. Mehta co-founded Uncover with Jade Oyateru (COO) and Catherine Lee (Advisor) inspired to build a data driven, digital-first, health and wellness brand for the African woman, by leveraging their experience and expertise.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

She helps brands grow engagement and build relationships with their audience. In fact, behavioral science should inform the ways you recruit and engage supporters as well as raise awareness for your cause. By Michelle Chen is an independent scholar with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Today, the company, which is building an “all-in-one expense management platform” for global startups, is announcing that it has raised a $57 million Series B at a $500 million valuation. Jeeves is currently beta testing in Brazil and Chile and Thazhmon expects that by year’s end, it will be live in all of North America and Europe.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Whether you’ve just secured some VC funding or finally achieved product-market fit, you’ll need to build a growth marketing team to really drive your startup’s next phase of growth. Today, I’ll share what I learned from that experience about what it takes to build a solid growth marketing team. Organic/SEO.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The three-year-old Chinese startup, which builds open source software for processing unstructured data, recently closed a Series B round of $43 million. The investment, which catapults Zilliz’s to-date raise to over $53 million, is a sizable amount for any open source business around the world.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Working with, microservices-based development environments presents a unique set of testing challenges. North and co-founder Sergei Egorov (who was a co-maintainer of Testcontainers) founded AtomicJar in 2021 to build a commercial company on top of the open source tooling. It gives developers a tool they can use.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Even when there is funding to build a tech solution, perhaps from a large foundation, there is rarely the long-term funding to maintain it, let alone improve it. It costs millions to build a tech platform. How can we build something that is immune to the whims of the for-profit market? Sustainability and resilience are key.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 11, 2025

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." Ars got the scoop , with the company's CEO detailing why and how it plans to build a low-Earth orbit telecommunications constellation with 280 satellites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

5% of 2018’s overall fundraising revenue was raised online, a record high 1. 26% of funds raised were donated through a website 2. Start building your most streamlined, mobile-friendly donor experience with these steps: Make your ‘Donate’ button on your website easy to find. Start testing these strategies for yourself.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Email marketing for nonprofits is a powerful tool that can do much more for your brand than just raising awareness. Brand awareness: Marketers consistently say that email marketing is one of the most effective ways to build brand awareness and connect with current and prospective audience members.

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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

MAY 18, 2021

Less than a year after launching , Somewhere Good announced this morning that it has raised $3.75 To build a platform that allows for us to have consultants who are thinking about accessibility, safety and privacy, we have to pay them.”. We thought ‘Why don’t we build a technology layer that communities like Ethel’s club need?’”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 19, 2022

When a new organization enters into a sponsorship agreement with its fiscal sponsor, they’re able to immediately start raising funds that are tax deductible for donors. . For these types of organizations, the ability to raise funds as soon as possible is a critical part of their mission.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

raised more money from venture capitalists in 2021 than ever. On the bright side, founding teams counting both women and men as members raised 17% of VC investments in Africa in 2021. Women-founded startups in Africa to have raised $100 million or more are led mainly by white CEOs. Women-founded companies in the U.S.

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