TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

The company, which enables underbanked customers in select African markets to access a broad range of products and services without collateral or a guarantor, announced today that it has raised $75 million. M-KOPA’s total equity raise stands at $190 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

No-code platforms have developed into a hot market , and Stacker , a London-based no-code platform is attempting to bring the concept to a new level. Today’s investment brings the total raised to $23 million, according to Crunchbase data. The company has a big vision to be the software development tool for business units.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2018

28% of nonprofits raise between 26-50% of their annual funds from the year-end ask. Here are 5 ways that you can use social media to raise even more money at year-end. . Over $300 million in donations have been raised via Facebook Fundraisers since the roll-out of that tool last year. 5) Raise money using Facebook Live.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In an increasingly post-literate world , companies continue to turn to video to communicate with key stakeholders, and two of this years business services honorees help enterprises produce streamable content more efficiently. SimpleClosure, which has raised $5.5 Read more about SimpleClosure , honored as No.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2022

Nonprofit managers can show the board (and others) that the organization has maximized efficiencies by accurately measuring the amount (and types) of resources going to marketing and fundraising activities. Offering your stakeholders transparency in how you manage your business helps to ensure confidence in your organization overall.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

Despite a comparatively tiny budget and time investment, the ad went viral for convincing many viewers, and even some marketing professionals, that it was authentic. A few will succeed, but the ones that succeed will be based upon good marketing, not just good product. Wow the bbl aesthetic is really out.

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Candid

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Despite the importance of raising money well, the majority of small to midsize nonprofits use suboptimal strategies—methods that are expensive, time-consuming, and yield only minimal returns on a lot of hard work. Events, social media, and marketing are only small links in a much bigger chain of interactions with supporters.

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The Fundraising Authority

APRIL 11, 2021

For most fundraising events , the majority of your money should be raised through sponsorships. If you are setting an ambitious fundraising goal for your event, it will be far easier to reach that goal if you can raise 50%+ of the revenue from large sponsors than if you are trying to raise 100% through individual ticket sales.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

The sale would raise about $1.5 CoreWeaves roadshow, which began last week, received a weaker-than-expected reception as risk-averse investors in a volatile market weighed concerns over the companys long-term growth, financial risks and capital intensity, according to four sources familiar with the matter. million shares, 23.5%

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 21, 2022

Successful marketing means updating approaches. Staying up-to-date on the latest trends can help you expand your nonprofit marketing and achieve your goals in new ways. Staying up-to-date on the latest trends can help you expand your nonprofit marketing and achieve your goals in new ways. Smart business leaders know this.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Louis, announced that it has raised $1.4 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. This morning Rebundle , a hair-focused startup based in St. million in a pre-seed round.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Starting and growing your organization is a lot easier when you have a nonprofit business plan. Maybe they don’t know what a nonprofit business plan can do to help them. There’s also a common misconception out there that because your organization is labeled a “nonprofit” it doesn’t need to operate like a business.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2024

To reach the right audience and inspire action, you need a strong understanding of nonprofit marketing essentials and a thorough strategy. We understand how marketing and technology go hand-in-hand, and throughout this guide, we will focus on how to apply nonprofit marketing best practices using your organizations technology.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

The investment comes nine months after the company raised $500,000 in pre-seed last September and two months after receiving $125,000 from YC. “The way I see it, our market is not that big. Compare the payments market now with 2016, when Paystack and Flutterwave just started. For instance, think about open data for telcos.

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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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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

But this insistence that Amtrak should be profitable is an effort to impose a highly selective business model on what is really a public service. The market is exactly the wrong place to put something if you want a rail transportation system that meets the needs of all of America. Amtraks business performance is strong.

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Lagos- and Texas-based digital healthcare provider Reliance Health is the latest beneficiary and is doing so in grand style, raising $40 million. Reports say healthtech in Africa should reach a market value of over US$11 billion by 2025 and Reliance Health is looking to play a pivotal role in the continent reaching that capitalization. “So

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Email Marketing and Customized Giving. These types of donations, once set up, are easily executed with nonprofit software such as Giveffect – an all-in-one nonprofit management software that includes donation management, relationship management (CRM), volunteer management, email marketing, and more in one easy-to-use suite.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 24, 2023

By Coralie Meade Rodriguez , Senior Production Specialist at Firefly Partners – a women-owned, LGBTQ+ certified, and minority-owned digital marketing agency that develops accessible online experiences that empower progressive organizations to thrive.

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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

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

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). Just days after Voodoo acquired Beach Bum , another French mobile gaming company has news to share.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

And in trying to sweet-talk investors, what’s not taken into context or often disregarded is that Africa is a fragmented $3 trillion market. Trade has the least startup activity in a market that received $5 billion in VC funding last year. The continent is also home to more than 1.2

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The continent’s retail markets are highly fragmented and mostly made up of small and informal retailers and intermediaries, which is why a ton of tomatoes that costs around $100 in the U.S., Per Crunchbase , Twiga has raised over $100 million in both debt and equity financing rounds. for instance, costs about $400 in Kenya.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

By Kristina Brunnler , Marketing Manager at MobileCause. Let’s face it, most nonprofits and even most businesses don’t have influencers in their marketing budget. Many encourage their supporters to post “unselfies” to spread your message and raise visibility on #GivingTuesday. 6) Go live on and before #GivingTuesday.

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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. Buildots went after new funding once it was able to show product market fit and was expanding into other countries. Buildots raises $16M to bring computer vision to construction management.

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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

MARCH 18, 2025

Its been gradual, but generative AI models and the apps they power have begun to measurably deliver returns for businesses. It allows employees of all technical backgrounds to quickly generate personalized, accurate answersand even create their own no-code tools to make the agents work better for the specifics of their jobs and businesses.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

This is the fourth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. 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.

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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. Sign up here.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Aside from the normal holiday hullabaloo, you’re also busy planning fundraisers and engagement opportunities to round out your organization’s calendar year. Since you probably raise a good percentage of your fundraising goal during the month of December, you have to make the time count! How many people do you need to serve?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

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 Global financial transactions are facilitated mainly by payment processors such as Visa or Mastercard. Africa has it different.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Perhaps your organization may be hoping to raise money at the charity event, but the main function of the event is to gain publicity, or reach out to a new network. Fundraising Goal: In conjunction with the event host committee, organization staff, and key fundraisers, you must decide what amount of money you plan to raise at the event.

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