Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The businesses in Fast Company s Most Innovative Companies in AR/VR reflect that trend. In January 2024, the company debuted its Xreal Air 2 Ultra line of AR glasses, equipped with the cameras and processing power necessary to provide spatial computing experiences comparable to professional devices from Apple and Meta, all for $699.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

This year, the most innovative companies in the education sector are tackling a dizzying array of challenges facing students and schools alikenot to mention parents. This June, Amira merged with 27-year-old digital learning company Istation, whose gamified educational content was being used in more than 1,000 school districts.

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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

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 10, 2024

For instance, if youre raising money to provide resources to schools worldwide, tell your donors what schools and communities their donations will support. Today, we ask you to join us as we work toward raising money to help us adapt to [the problems you mentioned above]. How does it help them make a difference?

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Futurism

APRIL 11, 2025

Musk co-founded the company in 2015 alongside current CEO Sam Altman, only to rage quit roughly three years later, citing disagreements with the group's direction. OpenAI accused Musk of trying to become an " AGI dictator ," including a scheme to buy OpenAI's nonprofit arm , a move the company claims was meant to scare off investors.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

The company made the announcement in a press release today, in which it confirmed that it had filed its Form F-1 registration statement with the U.S. eToro Group Ltd is the name of the company that operates the eToro trading platform. The company says that the number of shares it plans to offer has also not yet been determined.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Meet Taktile , a new startup that is working on a machine learning platform for financial services companies. This isn’t the first company that wants to leverage machine learning for financial products. It makes sense as banks and insurance companies gather a ton of data and know a lot of information about their customers.

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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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TechNode

MARCH 3, 2025

Chinese AI startup Zhipu announced today that it has raised over RMB 1 billion ($140 million) in a new strategic funding round. The latest round of investment in Zhipu comes less than three months after the company secured RMB 3 billion ($41.1 million) in funding on Dec. 17, 2024. Zhipu WeChat account , in Chinese]

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Just days after Voodoo acquired Beach Bum , another French mobile gaming company has news to share. Homa Games is raising a $50 million Series A round led by Northzone. The company partners with indie game studios and acts as a publisher. So far, the company has released 40 games.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

Now, the most profitable arm of Beast Industries is its commerce division, led by the chocolate brand Feastables. According to Bloomberg, the company forecasts that Feastables will triple in size over the next couple of years, while media revenue will only account for one-fifth of its total sales by 2026.

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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.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

While smartphones are still the indisputable center of our digital lives, this years most innovative consumer electronics companies aim to improve life beyond the touchscreen. The company recently announced that its sold 2 million units of the glasses since October 2023 and is gearing up to produce 10 million every year by the end of 2026.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

[I]t will accelerate our rate of innovation faster than what we could achieve as a stand-alone company.” ” It also marks the close of a fast-paced, five-year chapter for the company. And as hybrid work has continued, so has the companys expansion. The company has been on Googles radar for some time.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

The energy renovation company based in France is doing well, but it is addressing a market that is much bigger than anticipated. The company just closed a €20 million funding round (roughly $22 million at today’s exchange rate) from Felix Capital. This is the first external funding round for the company.

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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. This gives the company $46 million in total funding, Roy Danon, co-founder and CEO of Buildots, told TechCrunch. 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. In fact, some companies are finding opportunity in the masses of layoffs. The buzz and momentum for these companies is unlike anything I’ve seen before, it’s incredible.” But that’s not the case.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

. “The pandemic exposed critical vulnerabilities in traditional network infrastructure, prompting a surge in demand for contactless solutions,” Fish, who serves as the company’s CEO, told TechCrunch in an email interview. ” The market for enterprise file sync and share tools could be worth $12.84

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Helion Energy , a clean energy company committed to creating a new era of plentiful, zero-carbon electricity from fusion, today announced the close of its $0.5 Round-leader Altman has been involved in the company as an investor and chairman since 2015. Can we get it to industrial-scale power?”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Shuttlers , a “tech-enabled scheduled bus sharing” company, is itching to change that. After years of bootstrapping, the company has raised $1.6 Via its ridesharing platform, Shuttlers provides companies with better mobility options for their employees. . Despite raising just ? Image Credits: Shuttlers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 12, 2021

By Lindsay Johnson, Marketing Team Member at MobileCause , an industry leader in virtual fundraising events and online giving, plus fundraising solutions such as peer-to-peer, text-to-donate and mobile messaging. 2) Nonprofits Can Raise as Much (or More!) as In-Person Fundraising. 7) The Future of Event Fundraising is Virtual.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 26, 2023

Being raised by a blue-collar single father in Pittsburgh, PA, we didn’t rely on or talk about luck so much. The stars aligning this time were no different, which is what led two industry veterans, Rob Wenger and Conor Sibley , to join me and the rockstar A2 leadership team. First, I looked up the definition of luck. Not a chance!”

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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. Any company that tells you that all your data should reside exclusively in a CRM they will shoe-horn you into is stretching the truth at best. Are these platforms powerful and extensible?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The New York-based company raised a $20 million Series A in a round of funding led by Sonoma Brands and including Global Founders Capital, Monogram Capital, Lakehouse Ventures and Brand Foundry. He met Kim, a user experience expert, whose family owns a pharmacy, and wanted to bring technology into the industry.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

The tabletop gaming industry has exploded over the last few years as millions discovered or rediscovered its joys, but it too is evolving — and The Last Gameboard hopes to be the venue for that evolution. Tabletop is now a more than $20 billion industry.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

It is one of the few companies that builds proprietary solutions for these financial institutions and their banking and payments services. Today, the company is announcing that it has closed $10 million in Series A investment. The company based in Lagos, Nigeria, was founded by Emeka Emetarom , Obi Emetarom and Wale Onawunmi in 2008.

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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. We realized quickly that we needed to meet the needs of our customers to manage not only travel spend, but all employee spend of company money,” Cohen told TechCrunch. “We billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The space industry is on the cusp of a revolution. Parallel to these developments, multiple private companies have introduced plans to build commercial space stations for science, manufacturing and even tourism. 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

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 17, 2022

The fintech which provides credit lines for businesses has raised $17 million, funding that it will be using to bolster its offerings and expand geographically. CEO Jesse Ghansah started the company, formerly known as Swipe, with Barima Effah in 2020, and following its rebrand as Float, went live with its product in June 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

His startup, Terraform Industries , aims to operate at these ambitious scales. The company wants to turn hydrogen and atmospheric carbon into synthetic natural gas at scale. 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.

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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. The round brings the company’s valuation to $4.5 billion this March when it raised $100 million for its Series D. Rowe Price. . billion, up from $1.3

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Sam isn’t a real person — she’s a digital human created by Auckland-based tech company Soul Machines. The company has digital people repping the World Health Organization, Maryville University, Westpac bank, the New Zealand police, and SK-II skincare. Ruth is a digital baking coach who works for Nestle.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Now a startup that is building voice skins for different companies to use across their services, and for third parties to create and apply as well, is raising some funding to fuel its growth. LOVO , the Berkeley, California-based artificial intelligence (AI) voice & synthetic speech tool developer, this week closed a $4.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Today the company announced a $20 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from existing investors Initialized Capital, Y Combinator and Pentech. Today’s investment brings the total raised to $23 million, according to Crunchbase data. In fact, he has identified three ways to approach diversity.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Japanese space startup Gitai has raised a $17.1 This new funding will be used for hiring, as well as funding the development and execution of an on-orbit demonstration mission for the company’s robotic technology, which will show its efficacy in performing in-space satellite servicing work. .

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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. . Pula is one of the few African startups disrupting the farming industry with technology.

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