Ars Technica

MARCH 24, 2025

In her remembering, Harrington's nephew had used funds she had sent for school supplies on a CD replicator, then sent her "a lovely thank you note essentially saying how happy he was to copy and share games with his friends." PC Gamer pulled that interesting tidbit from a talk Harrington gave at last week's Game Developers Conference.

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sgEngage

JUNE 26, 2024

Over the past year, I’ve spoken with more than 100 heads of schools and industry leaders about the independent school business model. ” When I asked this pre-COVID, I likely would have heard something like, “Peter, people have been saying this model has been challenged for at least 20 years, but yet we’re still here.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 19, 2023

How does someone test an idea for a nonprofit without committing the time, effort, and money to apply for 501(c)(3) status, find a board, and secure long-term funding? Chamber of Commerce ,“Social entrepreneurship is the process by which individuals, startups and entrepreneurs develop and fund solutions that directly address social issues.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Its been gradual, but generative AI models and the apps they power have begun to measurably deliver returns for businesses. Google DeepMind put drug discovery ahead by years when it improved on its AlphaFold model, which now can model and predict the behaviors of proteins and other actors within the cell. Blackbird.AI

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

So that means your business model slide needs to paint a picture that shows where you’re at now and how the business can grow over time. This was the example business model slide I used for my book “Pitch Perfect.” ” You can see the full template here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Although the most popular accounting software products- like QuickBooks and SAP- handle the needs of businesses in many industries, nonprofits have a unique business model and accounting standards and require different features and functionality from accounting software. Many receive a combination of both.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Indian fintech KreditBee has raised an additional $100 million in a funding round, it said, as the lender looks to scale its business in the South Asian market. The new cash infusion is part of the larger Series D funding , which KreditBee said has now closed at $200 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech company OPay raised $400 million in new financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Bloomberg reported Monday, valuing the company at $2 billion. The new financing also comes two years after OPay announced two funding rounds in 2019 — $50 million in June and a $120 million Series B in November.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Previously, the stunning intelligence gains that led to chatbots such ChatGPT and Claude had come from supersizing models and the data and computing power used to train them. o1 required more time to produce answers than other models, but its answers were clearly better than those of non-reasoning models.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Three years after announcing its sixth fund, OpenView Venture Partners is back with $570 million in capital commitments for its new, seventh fund. It represents a 25% increase over the firm’s $450 million sixth fund, its largest to date. That gives you a range, and that range is from right about where we closed the fund.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2018

Ray’s experience in launching and building businesses spans nearly three decades, including leadership positions in multiple technology companies. The benefits of recurring gifts are obvious—more predictability in funds and the ability to plan operations. Non-profits aren’t immune to the changes driven by new technology.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Then, that information is fed to the underlying AI model along with the user’s query and any other instructions, so it can use it to formulate a response. Hebbia announced a $130 million Series A funding round in July and claims clients like the U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

Shares of GameStop fell more than 15% on Thursday after the company’s plan to finance its bitcoin pivot raised questions about the timing of its move and its strategy to turn around its struggling retail business. “Investors are not necessarily optimistic on the underlying business,” said Bret Kenwell, U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

The management team leading the agency back to private business is headed by R/GAs global CEO, Robin Forbes, and chair and global chief creative officer Tiffany Rolfe. It made sense that, for the kind of company that we are, we needed to ensure we can change how we work and the model that we deliver to clients with more autonomy, says Rolfe.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

In a recent joint interview, Brink and Goldstein explained how co-leadership permeates the entire organizationmost of Genslers offices and its regions are led by pairsand the way the model helps nurture managerial talent and train future managers to collaborate. and Brink is in Los Angeles), and why the co-CEO model isnt for every company.

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Recode by Vox

MARCH 13, 2025

The newest reasoning models from top AI companies are already essentially human-level, if not superhuman, at many programming tasks , which in turn has already led new tech startups to hire fewer workers. Fast AI progress, slow robotics progress If youve heard of OpenAI, youve heard of its language models: GPTs 1, 2, 3, 3.5,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

One of these is OpenStore , a company founded in 2021 as a way for Shopify entrepreneurs looking to move on to sell their businesses in a matter of days with a cash offer and less stressful experience. Over the past 18 months, OpenStore acquired dozens of businesses representing tens of millions in revenue.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

But if that’s the goal, Kaleidescape may eventually need to reckon with the streaming business models it’s spent all these years rejecting. While Kaleidescape gets the same source files from studios as every other digital movie store, it’s not in the business of seeing how much compression it can get away with.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

A new startup lifting elements of competing businesses is far from unusual in today’s venture world, but sometimes competing founders don’t find the imitation all that flattering. ” They said they view Eco as a competitor similar to how Uber and Lyft compete for business. Copycats are usually subtle.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

Preparing to raise a round of funding is one of the most important tasks every founder goes through. But for many founders, the most challenging item required is often the most crucial: building a financial model. Your model is your financial roadmap.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The platform has already secured an undisclosed amount of funding from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), as well as Scott Galloway, an NYU professor and tech commentator. Post News, a Twitter alternative, gets funding from a16z by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch. Post News’ goals are ambitious.

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sgEngage

JULY 3, 2024

A Director of Finance at a nonprofit shared this sentiment with us during our research on the value of AI in fund accounting. AI in fund accounting has the power to drive deeper analysis and increased efficiency across your nonprofit accounting team, with the right safeguards for accuracy and privacy. Not bookkeeping.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

And due to traffic congestion and long working hours, most busy professionals find it hard to cope with mundane tasks ranging from cooking to home cleaning. Initially, Eden employed a basic distribution model where it delivered food picked by customers from a wide range of third-party service providers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Yet another startup hoping to cash in on the generative AI craze has secured an eye-popping tranche of VC funding. Called Fixie , the firm, founded by former engineering heads at Apple and Google, aims to connect text-generating models similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT to an enterprise’s data, systems and workflows.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Retaining overqualified talent isn’t just about avoiding disengagement, it’s about turning their expertise into a competitive advantage for the business. Offering hybrid work models, results-driven schedules, or even sabbatical opportunities can keep them engaged and refreshed. Then, share your knowledge.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Individuals or businesses buying furniture in Africa can purchase from local furniture stores or global furniture retailers like IKEA. million in “expansion” funding from Aruwa Capital, a Nigeria-based early-stage growth equity and gender-lens fund. . When Dada launched the platform, its target audience was solely businesses.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

If your organization serves individuals dealing with mental health issues and if any of these funders serve your community, visit their website and discover if there’s a funding opportunity for you. Visit Grantli to learn more tips on how to do the best grant research and how your organization can find even more funding opportunities.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Jenfi , a “growth-capital-as-a-service” platform, can provide online businesses with revenue-based financing in a little as a day. million in pre-Series B funding, led by Headline Asia. This lets Jenfi continuously monitor its borrowers’ business activity, including revenue growth and marketing return on investment.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 31, 2025

Well look at what grant consultants really do, the different ways they specialize and niche down, and the pricing models that are most common in the field. Plus, if youre interested in launching or growing a grant consulting business, well share some of our top tips for building a business you love.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

Wefox , the German insurtech startup, has closed a new funding round from existing investors. The funding amount isn’t going to impress anyone as the company managed to secure $55 million. Many startups are struggling to raise funding rounds or have to lower their valuation. The fact that Wefox is still valued at $4.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Jia, a blockchain-based fintech providing loans to micro and small businesses in emerging markets, has raised $4.3 The fintech plans to use the funding to double down on its operations in Kenya, and the Philippines, before exploring new markets in West Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The most innovative companies in agriculture for 2025 include forward-thinking businesses and nonprofits with at least one eye firmly on this future. If scaled nationwide, this opt-out model could turn food and utility consumers into a vast revenue base. Read more about Zero Foodprint , honored as No.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Those talks with association CEOs and executives who head businesses that service the association industry formed the basis for two books. With a growing business, things change, but they don’t get easier. These funds are designated for experimentation. But the typical association model challenges agility. Association 4.0:

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This is especially true of younger generations, who hold businesses and organizations accountable at much higher levels than their older peers. The model isn’t set up to facilitate growth, and profits aren’t the priority — the impact is. While restrictive, this bold model clearly explains how donations are used.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Historically, female founders have received just 12% of venture capital investment for their businesses. She and Soberal plan to eventually bring Bitwise’s businesses into 40 cities nationwide. For example, Bitwise helps Salesforce and DocuSign customers design, build and deploy apps that streamline the business’s process.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

million in pre-Series A funding. Flow intends to use the funding to include other social media platforms such as TikTok and LinkedIn and other advertising channels like digital out-of-home billboards. The proptech marketing platform is announcing that it has raised $4.5 Does everyone want to be a landlord, or what?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

While running the business, Alley received several complaints from her customers regarding the janitors: Although they did thorough cleaning in the mornings, they were primarily absent to carry out the necessary touch-ups throughout the rest of the day. “And On the other hand, the startup offers APIs and dashboards to its business clients.

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