Futurism

MARCH 8, 2025

Pinterest has updated itsprivacy policy to reflect its use of platform user data and images to train AItools. Pinterest has promoted tools like a feature that lets users search by body type and its AI-powered ad suite, which according to Pinterest's most recent earnings report has boosted ad spending on the platform.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 11, 2023

By Jennifer Wemhoff , Communications Manager at GolfStatus.org – the leading event management platform for golf fundraisers. Here’s why: 1) You’ll raise money and awareness. Golf’s fundraising power is massive—the sport raises nearly $4 billion for charity annually. 2) The right tools automate time-consuming tasks.

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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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VentureBeat

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Phynd raised $10 million for its subscription-free smart TV cloud gaming platform. It comes from a man with an interesting pedigree. Read More

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2022

In addition to general business practices, your nonprofit must also be able to accurately track the effects any increases or decreases in fundraising expenses might have on the overall financial picture. . Offering your stakeholders transparency in how you manage your business helps to ensure confidence in your organization overall.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2023

African corporate cards and spend management platform Bujeti has raised $2 million in seed funding.

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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. This model has led to customer complaints on both sides of the platform.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 5, 2023

Email raises millions of dollars for nonprofits every year, and organizations on the EveryAction platform took over 34 million advocacy actions in 2022—many of which were across digital channels. Running the right experiments can help busy nonprofit staff develop a stronger and more engaged digital advocacy program.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

One of them was Singapore-based Endowus , which raised two rounds in rapid succession: a Series A in June 2021 followed just seven months later by $25.6 This time it’s $35 million with new investors, including Citi Ventures and MUFG Innovation Partners, bringing the company’s total raised so far to $95 million.

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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 They pay a one-time fee based on the complexity of their structure.)

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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.

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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. Taeillo , a Lagos-based startup innovating around these issues relating to time, quality and cost via its online furniture e-commerce store, has raised $2.5

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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. Glean , for example, puts cutting-edge AI search capabilities in the hands of employees so that they can tap into various apps and platforms to find documents and corporate intelligence. Blackbird.AI believes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2024

AppDirect, a San Francisco- and Montreal-based platform for buying, selling and managing tech through a network of IT advisors, has raised $100 million from CDPQ to expand its financing program for small- and medium-sized tech businesses.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 2, 2020

The social media platform has more than 1 billion users — beating Twitter, Snapchat, and TikTok — and is especially popular among people aged 18-29. The platform, however, is different than Facebook or Twitter. Instagram offers two account types — business and personal profiles. Start With the Right Profile Type.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2024

Nigerian fintech Cleva, focused on creating a banking platform for African individuals and businesses to receive international payments by opening USD accounts, has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by 1984 Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In February, Disha , a Nigeria-based platform that allows digital creators to curate, sell digital content, create portfolios and receive payments from their audience globally, announced that it was closing shop. With Flutterwave, we now have a way to drive both value for creators and revenue to sustain the business.

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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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Candid

JANUARY 14, 2025

billion raised in the United States. In this analysis, well look at subject areas, which are derived from Candids Philanthropy Classification System and based on the organizations stated mission and programmatic descriptions from the IRS Business Master File.

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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. Some of that healthcare is provided by Reliance Health directly– through its telemedicine platform, drug delivery system, and two clinics based in Lagos, Nigeria. 3,500 (~$7.00) to ?148,500

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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. Adewale Opaleye founded Alerzo in 2018 as a last-mile distribution platform that helps retailers stock inventory directly from manufacturers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Because golf events have unique components—like handicaps, flighting, hole assignments, scoring—having a platform that’s specifically designed for golf is crucial. Make sure your live-scoring platform is reliable and simple to use. The right technology tools are key to easy planning and successful execution of a golf fundraiser.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

San Francisco-based Postman, which operates a collaborative platform for developers to help them build, design, test and iterate their APIs, said on Wednesday it has raised $225 million in a new financing round that values it at $5.6 API platform Postman delivers $150M Series C on $2B valuation. Image Credits: Postman.

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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

MARCH 9, 2021

In total, Flutterwave has raised $225 million and is one of the few African startups to have secured more than $200 million in funding. . based payments company with offices in Lagos and San Francisco, Flutterwave helps businesses build customizable payments applications through its APIs. Launched in 2016 as a Nigerian and U.S.-based

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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. These are the kinds of revenue strategies that keep nonprofits just surviving instead of scaling. Fundraising mistake #2.

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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. “From telling us to set up takes days. Here’s a use case on how it works.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

Just as notable, though, is its unfussy movie player software, which clears away all the cruft of modern streaming platforms to focus on the films themselves. But if that’s the goal, Kaleidescape may eventually need to reckon with the streaming business models it’s spent all these years rejecting.

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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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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

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. Germany’s Wefox last year raised $400 million at $4.5 ” The company had previously raised around $24.4 The underwriting factor.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

French startup Welcome to the Jungle has raised a new $54 million (€50 million) Series C round. Essentially, a profile on the platform should look like a feature article in a fancy magazine. The startup has also developed its own applicant tracking system and some companies use the platform directly for their hiring processes.

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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

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. of the gross notional U.S.

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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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