Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

Little surprise, then, that the YouTube star has spent the past few years leveraging his fame to build businesses that have nothing to do with the social media platforms he started out on. Now, the most profitable arm of Beast Industries is its commerce division, led by the chocolate brand Feastables.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

Why it matters: The issue with Volvos new ad is not necessarily that it relies on AI tools (most advertising professionals will tell you that AI tech is bound to reshape the entire industry , whether we like it or not), but more so that said AI was used so clumsily. Wow the bbl aesthetic is really out.

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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). It lets them track and improve the most important metrics of the industry — cost of acquisition, retention and session times.

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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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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

In November, 58% of Missouri voters approved Proposition A, which raises the state minimum wage to $15 by 2026 and requires employers to provide paid sick leave. Theyre taking away the choice of businesses to engage in [the] free market. Its not just lawmakers trying to undo the will of the voters, however.

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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. Organizations across many industries believe their employees are more productive and efficient with AI tools such as chatbots and coding assistants at their side. Read more about Anysphere , honored as No.

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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

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. There is no more blaming or cutting corners because the system validates that and also makes construction a healthier industry to work in.”. Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia and China.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

With so many fintechs laying off staff , it can be easy to assume that the entire industry is in distress. “The brightest stars in fintech today are similarly succeeding despite the macro backdrop because they’re solving real problems that consumers, businesses, and financial institutions are dealing with every day.”

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Others found ways to expand the opportunities within existing hometown industries: NCBiotech built pathways to bring more local residents into the Research Triangles booming life sciences sector. STACKT s small-business incubation concept, comprised of repurposed shipping containers, is breathing new life into Torontos street life.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Shared transportation in Nigeria, Africa’s largest country by population, is a thriving business, at least when done the conventional way: offline. After years of bootstrapping, the company has raised $1.6 Yet, that was enough to onboard its first set of business clients. Despite raising just ? Image Credits: Shuttlers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2023

RepeatMD recently raised a $50 million Series A round to serve the exploding med spa industry that is built on consumer beauty trends. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Additionally, gamification can be layered on top, where teams or individuals compete to see which team or individual can raise the most money for the nonprofit. Peer-to-peer and team giving creates camaraderie and even friendly competition to raise funds as part of a large campaign or towards a larger goal for a nonprofit.

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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

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 million.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

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. That pivot has proven to be a smart move for the company, which today announced it has raised $275 million in a Series F “growth” funding round at a $7.25 billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Per reports, the continent’s cloud computing industry coupled with the Middle East is expected to grow to $31.4 The company’s eponymous product is a cloud-based, end-to-end HR software that helps businesses manage and streamline their entire human resource processes and workflow. billion in 2026 from $14.2 billion last year.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Socure , a company that uses AI and machine learning to verify identities, announced today that it raised $450 million in funding for its Series E round led by Accel and T. billion this March when it raised $100 million for its Series D. The round brings its total funding raised to $646 million since it was founded in 2012.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Appzone, having built both banking and fintech layers, wants to connect individuals and businesses to their services. Before now, Appzone closed a $2 million round from South African Business Connexion (BCX) in 2014. Four years later, it raised $2.5 But overall , the company says it has raised $15 million in equity funding.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In the midst of an artificial intelligence boom thats reshaping almost every facet of the business world, companies are competing in an arms race to build the best and brightest models and fully embrace the nascent technology, whether thats as a product or service for customers or as an integralcomponent of their organizations processes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2025

This is certainly due to the global, social, and political climate, however its also due to trends that are transforming the tech industry itself. The nonprofit sector in the United States stands at a crossroads. This may come as a surprise, given our opening about the changes in the tech needed by nonprofits.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

You can participate in person at the American Society of Anesthesiologists, 1061 American Lane in Schaumburg, IL, or online.orgCommunity was created to keep the excitement of our industry alive and growing. Navigate Industry 4.0 Back in 2017, we could see that business was changing. But Industry 4.0

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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

JANUARY 25, 2021

The raise comes after Pula closed $1 million in seed investment from Rocher Participations with support from Accion Venture Lab, Omidyar Network and several angel investors in 2018. . Agriculture insurance has traditionally relied on farm business. South African startup Aerobotics raises $17M to scale its AI-for-agriculture platform.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

His startup, Terraform Industries , aims to operate at these ambitious scales. Terraform Industries has developed a system that captures carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the air and creates hydrogen from water, all using cheap solar power. In this case, it’s the business plan. Trillions of acres.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

MLOps platform Qwak today announced that it has raised a $12 million Series A1 funding round from Bessemer Venture Partners. The startup, which offers a fully managed platform that combines machine learning engineering and data management tools, previously raised a total of $15 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Ideally, it is expected of every business to reach its customers effectively. Termii , a Nigerian communications platform-as-a-service startup that solves this problem for African businesses, announced today that it has closed a $1.4 More than 1,000 businesses and developers are also using Termii’s API. million seed round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The space industry is on the cusp of a revolution. If space stations are the next phase of business in orbit, they’re going to need standard parts — and Gravitics aims to be the one making them. The startup is headed by space industry veteran Colin Doughan, who surveyed these currents and saw a gap in the market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Japanese space startup Gitai has raised a $17.1 specifically, as it seeks to expand its stateside presence in a bid to attract more business from that market. million funding round, a Series B financing for the robotics startup. That mission is currently set to take place in 2023. Gitai will also be staffing up in the U.S.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

At the same time, our industry has shown remarkable resilience in times of greatest need, and this year has been no exception. Arguably the biggest impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nonprofit industry was the cancelation of in-person fundraising events. millions followers on Twitch to raise over $2.3

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VentureBeat

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

PaperplaneTherapeutics has raised $1.5 million to treat patients for pain and anxiety using virtual reality. Read More

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

African startups raised between $4 billion to $5 billion in 2021, according to various reports. However, for all their effort and importance to the tech ecosystem, raising significant venture capital seemed elusive to startups in Africa’s digital media landscape that rely on grants and personal funding to scale.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It would appear that OpenAI’s Chat GPT allying with Bing will not be the only threat to Google’s search business model in the future. With its release of WhatsApp Business app (WAB), Meta is effectively building a sort of rival search engine to Google to keep us all inside the app. While this may not trouble U.S. per month).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

and Europe are on a mission to bring some of that industrial work back to its own shores. Robco , a Munich-based startup that has built a platform for designing low-cost modular robots for small and medium industrial businesses, has picked up €13 million (abut $13.8

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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. MaxAB, the Egyptian B2B food and grocery delivery startup, raises $40M for expansion.

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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 has over 10 years’ experience helping businesses scale across Africa, while Oyateru is a nutritionist and consumer goods expert. How Parfait is using AI to upend the $13B custom wig industry.

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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. Alex Tabor, Paul Ascher and Juan Pascual met each other on the engineering team of Peixe Urbano, a company Tabor co-founded and he referred to as a “Groupon for Brazil.”

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