Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 26, 2017

Raised by predominantly by Gen Xers who were pummeled by the Great Recession, early research about those belonging to Gen Z indicates that they are cautious about spending money, are bargain shoppers, and more likely to save than to spend. billion individuals globally by 2020. Business Insider ]. Global Web Index ].

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2023

One startup is banking on the fact that businesses are eager to earn as much interest as possible on their cash. Mayfair is a new fintech startup that offers businesses up to 4.02% APY, a number it claims is among the highest out there. in interest.” Amity and BoxGroup co-led Mayfair’s pre-seed financing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Millions of small businesses globally, especially in emerging markets, have stayed offline for the better part of the past decade. Nigerian startup Kippa , attempting to improve the life cycle of these small businesses with its finance management app, has raised $3.2 million in pre-seed funding.

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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

MAY 17, 2023

Jia, a blockchain-based fintech providing loans to micro and small businesses in emerging markets, has raised $4.3 Jia provides loans of up to $5,000 to small businesses filling the gap currently left by digital lenders and loan apps that don’t offer credit of more than $1,000.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Global financial transactions are facilitated mainly by payment processors such as Visa or Mastercard. They are responsible for communication between banks and fintechs to settle transactions for consumers and businesses swiftly. Today, the unified payments app is announcing that it has raised $32.8 Africa has it different.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This program promotes efficient water use in homes and businesses throughout the country by offering a simple way to make purchasing decisions that conserve water without sacrificing quality or product performance. For every 1,000 fundraising messages sent, nonprofits raised $78. Global Trends in Giving Report.

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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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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. Some of these customers are white-labeling InVideo platform to their own clients.

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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. In South Africa, these businesses contribute around one-third of the country’s GDP. South Africa’s Yoco raises $16 million to boost digital services to small businesses.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Cash flow is a major pain point for small businesses in Africa. Long payment cycles, which can take 30-90 days after services or products have been rendered, and little or no capital, of which research says 85% of African small and medium businesses are subject to, are the main culprits of cash flow issues.

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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. billion in 2026 from $14.2

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2022

Worth around a fifth of all venture dollars invested last year, fintech startups raised nearly unfathomable sums of capital but with good reason. In simple terms, financial technology has been busy digitizing consumers’ lives in recent years, just as enterprise software helped corporations ditch pencils, paper and generic spreadsheets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In fact, the global crisis resulted in its revenue dropping to $0, according to CEO and co-founder Ariel Cohen. In March 2020, the company made headlines for laying off nearly 300 employees in the face of a slowdown in business related to the pandemic. With the latest round, the company has raised a total of $1.3

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Millions of small and medium businesses still operate inefficiently due to dependency on manual processes, which limits their capacity to grow and scale; this is despite contributing to about 48% of Nigeria’s GDP in the last five years, But the tide is turning. Some include Pastel , Kippa and OZÉ. .

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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. TechCrunch covered the news earlier today that Pebble, which participated in Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 cohort , raised $6.2

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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

MAY 29, 2022

Given the likely global recession, small businesses are reaching for new kinds of financing. Thus, the buy now, pay later business model is now expanding into this B2B world at a rate of knots. Playter has raised backing to do this, as has Hokodo, Billie and Tranch, to name a few other players. has raised $5.6

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

Superscript , an insurance broker and tech platform targeting SMEs and “high-growth” tech firms, has raised £45 million ($54 million) in a Series B round of funding. Founded out of London in 2015, Superscript constitutes two core insurance businesses: an online-only “self-serve” platform that’s available to U.K.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

The process of digitizing the operations of mom and pop stores in Nigeria is serious business right now. In total, Alerzo has raised more than $20 million since its launch. “Growing up in Ibadan, I watched my mother operate two informal retail stores to raise my three siblings and me. The company is announcing a $10.5

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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 Health operates business-to-business and business-to-customers models.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 47% of nonprofits purchased Facebooks Ads in 2019. According to the Global Trends in Giving Report , 32% of online donors gave through Facebook Charitable Giving Tools in 2020. Then, target a global, open audience. Of those, 89% said they would likely do it again.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In 2023, GivingTuesday raised $3.1 billion by bringing together individual donors, businesses, and communities in a unified event with a shared purpose. Attract new donors with these GivingTuesday fundraising strategies Tell your story this Giving Season and leverage GivingTuesday’s data, research, and community insights.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 15, 2018

Now 11 years after the launch of the first iPhone, social enterprises and socially-responsible businesses are finding creative ways to contribute to the mobile app economy with apps that combine lifestyle with social good. For 2018, these are the must-download mobile apps to explore. thedrivesafeapp.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

With so much noise on social channels during this global day of giving, you may be wondering how your nonprofit can stand out and more effectively fundraise for its mission. Let’s face it, most nonprofits and even most businesses don’t have influencers in their marketing budget. By Kristina Brunnler , Marketing Manager at MobileCause.

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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. Also looking at scalability of the business model of being an OEM, it’s kind of […] linear.” based drone production.

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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

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. To meet demand, Buildots will use the new funding to continue that expansion; double the size of its global team with a focus on sales, marketing and R&D; and grow on the business side.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Sponsored by GalaBid – a digital fundraising platform that helps thousands of nonprofits raise funds through live and online silent auctions, digital raffles, and donations. Online silent auctions help non-profits raise funds effectively without having to organize a full-scale in-person event. Want to see for yourself?

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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 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

MARCH 8, 2023

In that vein, I’m incredibly excited that Arianna Huffington from Thrive Global and ​​Mamoon Hamid from Kleiner Perkins are joining us on March 15 at 11:30am PT for a conversation about sleep. And Mamoon thinks that the business she’s built around the idea has a big future. See you there!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Per Crunchbase , Twiga has raised over $100 million in both debt and equity financing rounds. So that’s what we’re evolving into as a business,” CEO Peter Njonjo said to TechCrunch in an interview. Kenya’s Twiga Foods eyes West Africa after $30M raise led by Goldman. million equity and $6.25 million debt — in 2019.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 27, 2019

Since their launch in 2010, Humble Bundle has raised over $146,000,000 for charity. Owned by Facebook, Instagram recently launched “Shopping Checkout” for businesses. The 2019 Global NGO Technology Survey is now live! Diners are able to RSVP for events online and a portion of their checks are donated to charity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2023

The recent, and now past, venture capital boom was a global affair. While traditionally busy markets like North America and Europe benefited from the explosion in capital, other regions with more nascent startup scenes also saw big gains in their ability to attract funding. Chargel, based in Senegal, recently raised $2.5

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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. The service, which is only available for incorporating businesses in Nigeria, the U.S.

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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 Rowe Price, along with participation from Viking Global investors as well as others. billion post-money, the company announced today. including those related to the “last mile” delivery of COVID-19 vaccines. .

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