TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In other words, Blast wanted to give users a way to save money while playing video games. Now as 2021 comes to a close, Cruttenden’s latest fintech, Ant Money, is announcing it has raised $20 million in funding (a mix of previously unannounced seed and Series A capital) and acquired Blast via a stock-for-stock merger.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Thepeer , an African tech infrastructure startup connecting businesses’ wallets, has raised a $2.1 Like other API-based startups, Thepeer powers infrastructure for mainly fintech businesses, from small to medium-sized. In that process, we discovered more consumer and business problems.”. Here’s how it works.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

They offer a chance to dress up, get together with others, and have a good time — while also raising money for a good cause. Activities such as performances, live entertainment, and sit-down dinners regularly attract a large audience and generate significant money for charity. A Gala is a well-known charity fundraising event.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2023

Instead, Swytch uses the money from deposits to fund production on an almost a la carte basis. million customers who have registered interest in the next release; Swytch recently had to close preorders because it is sold out until May and is busy fulfilling over 5,000 orders per month to customers today. There’s a waitlist of over 1.5

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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

APRIL 3, 2023

Amit Jain, the former head of Uber’s Asia Pacific division, revealed his new venture, Zamp Finance , that aims to simplify the process for businesses to invest their excess capital in US Treasury bills to hedge against bank failures and other uncertainties. The platform serves businesses of all sizes, it said.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

Creating a nonprofit business plan is an important step for any organization whether you’re about to launch or are well established in your community. . A nonprofit business plan is slightly different to the commercial sector. In this article I will go over the fundamental steps to creating an effective nonprofit business plan.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

But while both small- and medium-sized businesses and enterprises admit that they’re spending more on the cloud, they’re also struggling to keep costs under control. “Companies were not only looking to save money, but they were [also] forced to cut staff. ” Those are lofty promises to be sure.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

So what are hospitality businesses to do? Qwick uses a matching algorithm that takes into account factors like distance, the availability of “VIP” workers and supply to fill gigs for hospitality businesses, including stadiums, senior living facilities and corporate catering. Image Credits: Qwick.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Smile Identity , a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve , a Ghanaian developer of identity verification software. Other prominent use cases include AML checks, customer onboarding and fraud prevention.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Tom Iselin will show you how to increase your likability and “memorability” among donors that will deepen relationships, help you raise more money, and create greater donor loyalty. We got five excellent tactics for you that’ll help you raise more money, and improve your donor relationships through personal branding.

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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. We’ve tied all that together,” said Mayfair co-founder and COO Munish Chopra. in interest.”

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.orgSource

JULY 3, 2023

Consider these statistics: Businesses using video marketing grow revenue 49% faster than those who don’t. Understand the New Environment Back in 2019, when I interviewed Dan for our book “Association 4.0: Some professionals still think of video as a one-off initiative. Animoto) Dan Stevens, President of Association.TV/WorkerBee.TV,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

“We’re pleased that Deepgram achieved its highest-ever pre- and post-money valuation, even despite the challenging market conditions,” Stephenson told TechCrunch in an email interview. “Deepgram’s business continues to grow rapidly.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Although money may be the object of concern, the triggers for loss are frequently pulled by circumstances outside the finance committee’s scope. In a Harvard Business Review Article , authors Robert S. A formal business meeting isn’t a venue that is conducive to debate. These conversations are limited to bottom-line issues.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

To put our ideas into real-world context, we interviewed leaders who are using this approach to grow their organizations. 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.

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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 6, 2022

Namibian business-to-business e-commerce startup JABU confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised a $3.2 Last year saw venture capital firms and institutional investors scramble to back newly formed and existing business-to-business e-commerce retail startups. million financing round.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

They had just released their mobile app in April of 2012,” Jhawar told me in a phone interview. You know that P2P is successful when they leave money in their account because they’re going to come back,” he said. With Lydia, you can send money to another user in just a few seconds. When we acquired Venmo it was only 15 people.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

In an email interview with TechCrunch, CEO Simon Taylor said that the proceeds will be put toward expanding HYCU’s 300-person team with a particular focus on customer success and partnerships as well as funding the development of new products and services, including a software-as-a-service product. .

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The Verge

AUGUST 12, 2021

The company continues to build and sanitize its business , removing racist, misogynist, and otherwise controversial communities, as it prepares to go public at some point in the future. “We All good companies should go public when they can.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The Indian startup said Tiger Global, Kora, Luxor, Fidelity (FMR), D1 Capital, Baillie Gifford, Mirae and Steadview participated in the round — a Series J — which gives Zomato a post-money valuation of $3.9 Making money with food delivery has been especially challenging in India. Unlike Western markets such as the U.S.,

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The South China Morning Post reported the numbers earlier , citing an interview with an Amazon Asia VP on state-owned television. Amazon banned the practice of incentivized reviews in 2016, but it’s a tricky business: some of these offers are disguised as a VIP testing program or an extended warranty.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The startup had raised $86 million in the first tranche of the financing in June of 2021 at a post-money valuation of $600 million. Since then, we have just gotten more ambitious and continued to grow so we needed more money to fuel more growth,” Schwarzkopf said in an interview with TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

upr, Rohlik CEO and founder, told TechCrunch in an interview. Founded in 2014, Rohlik’s funding comes at an interesting and key moment in the online grocery business, in Europe and beyond. upr’s previous startups was a restaurant delivery business, acquired by Delivery Hero ) to build its platform. ” Rohlik, ?upr

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Traveling the country, meeting these extraordinary individuals, and helping them craft resumes and participate in mock interviews opened my eyes to the incredible work being done by nonprofits also in this space. In the nonprofit world, donors want to see their money in action. Developing a five-year strategic plan was pivotal.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

But as consolidation and, simply put, bad business shapes the industry, Veo has maintained a steady and profitable pace. Rather than raising tons of money to expand as quickly as possible in the hope of achieving favorable unit economics, Veo has slowly focused on being sustainable, one city at a time.

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The Verge

JANUARY 22, 2021

What is so heartening to me,” Cathy Zoi, EVgo’s CEO, told The Verge in an interview, “[is] the market now has an appetite to support businesses that do what EVgo does.”. It certainly won’t be the last, either, as startups like Lucid Motors and even Faraday Future are in talks to do the same.

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The Verge

JULY 19, 2021

Arora was WhatsApp’s chief business officer until 2018 and a key figure in negotiating the Facebook deal. Both Arora and Donohue declined to be interviewed for this story, citing a desire to avoid press attention so early in the app’s lifespan. They both worked at WhatsApp before and after Facebook bought it for $22 billion.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

and Senegal-based mobile money provider, has raised $200 million in Series A round of funding. The mobile money market in sub-Saharan Africa is growing exponentially. This past year, up to $500 billion has moved through the accounts of 300 million active mobile money users in the region. Wave , a U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

So we believe that with this money, we would reach profitability. We will use this money for sustainable growth and only sustainable growth. 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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Recode by Vox

MARCH 13, 2025

I reach out to sources with Gmail and then interview them over Zoom, on my laptop. I have a million deeply weird questions Im too busy and/or lazy to answer who invented the You Cant Hurry Love bassline? . | Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images My entire job takes place on my laptop. I coordinate with my editor in Slack on my laptop.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

An Interview with Fanny Villiers , Directora General of Donadora – an official partner of the Global Trends in Giving Report ( en español ). 3) What is the greatest obstacle that NGOs in Mexico need to overcome in order to raise more money online? What is your vetting process to ensure the money raised on Donadora is well spent?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Prior to its pre-seed round, Rebundle had raised what CEO and co-founder Ciara Imani May described as six-figures worth of grant, and other non-dilutive capital in an interview with TechCrunch. M25 , a venture firm with a geographic focus on the Midwest, led the funding event.

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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. An organisation can register an account on M-Changa and within 5 minutes they’ll have their own web page to accept payments using Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and mobile money.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Green Labs, which raked in $140 million in a Series C in January 2022, ran out of money as it overstretched its expansion, TechCrunch reported last month. In other words, the startup pays farmers and buyers early and receives money from them late. Its global peers include Dehaart and Farmers Business Network.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Kippa , the Nigerian startup improving the lifecycle of small businesses across the country with its financial management and payments platform, has raised $8.4 Kippa said the investment will allow it to develop financial products that help SMEs grow their businesses and grow its team in Nigeria. The company announced its $3.2

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