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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This year, we fundraised for Grassroot Soccer —an organization that leverages the power of soccer to educate, inspire, and mobilize at-risk youth in developing countries—and exceeded our $60,000 goal and raised a total of $72,000. Our team created a peer-to-peer campaign using Grassroot Soccer’s messaging and branding.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 11, 2022

According to The State of Modern Philanthropy 2021 , “The median amount raised by events in which attendees raise money on behalf of an organization through peer-to-peer fundraising pages, typically is 4.5 If you’re not 100% sure what the heck peer-to-peer fundraising (aka p2p) is, you’re in good company. This video will: .

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Adetola Onayemi was part of the negotiation team that saw the agreement take effect in January 2021. “Our solution is for people in the local market moving into their first market or a company in their fourth market trying to scale their enterprise.” ” Onayemi launched Norebase with Tope Obanla in September 2021.

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TechNode

APRIL 22, 2025

On April 21, Chinese entrepreneur Luo Yonghao announced multiple job openings via Weibo, focusing on AI product managers and large language model algorithm engineers, following earlier hardware team layoffs. The company raised $50 million in an angel round led by Meituans investment arm, achieving a valuation of around $200 million.

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Engadget

APRIL 1, 2025

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said last week that the company is delaying its rollout to free tier "for a while," because the tool was way more popular than they had expected. Prior to its rollout to the free tier, the tool was only available to Plus, Pro and Team subscribers. OpenAI is still fixing the issue.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 9, 2022

The company's unique approach helps development teams find more prospective donors in less time, improve the lead quality throughout the donor pipeline, and raise more money. iWave announced the launch of Prospect Lists, a new feature that reimagines prospecting in the nonprofit space.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Twitter’s recent acquisition spree continues today as the company announces it has acqui-hired the team from news aggregator and summary app Brief. As part of its current M&A strategy, the company is on the hunt for acquiring talent that will complement its existing teams and help to accelerate its product developments.

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The Fundraising Authority

AUGUST 6, 2021

Your goal as a fundraiser is to make sure that you are maximizing your events to raise as much money as possible, without wasting valuable time and resources. The fundamental rules of fundraising don’t disappear just because you are raising money through an event. #2: 2: Who you have on your team matters.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

French startup Homa Games has raised a $15 million seed round led by e.ventures and Idinvest Partners. The company has built several in-house technologies that can take a game from a prototype to an App Store success. Both companies agree on a revenue-sharing model. Other games include Sky Roller, Idle World and Tower Color.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Now, the team plans to expand the initiative to Paris and Lviv, Ukraine. He joined the company as a senior director of product design but was abruptly terminated in 2022 along with some 200 others when Elon Musk took over Twitterwhich led to a Twitter exchange with Musk that made international headlines.

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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. Rebundle is a DTC company, selling its products through its website. Enter venture capital.

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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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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In proactive planning, companies take measures to ensure resources are available to protect their employees, facilities, and manage recoveries. Within many companies, Business Continuity works tirelessly to align all business units, secure leadership approval for processes, and allocate the necessary support for such events.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

A big part of our vision is to be a window on the language, and the people, and the culture, says CEO and cofounder Lea Perret, who dreamed up the company with cofounder and COO Julien Frei. Since the pandemic, her team also launched online classes toover 50,000 students. By next yearif the team can raise the $1.2

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

French startup Homa has raised a $100 million Series B funding round. The reason for that is that it has become incredibly challenging to stand out when you build a hypercasual, casual or board game with a small dev team. The company’s metrics are mind boggling. Quadrille Capital and Headline are leading the round.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 23, 2020

By Paige Kutliek , SEO Manager at GoFundMe Charity – an easy-to-use platform that helps nonprofits raise money by offering robust fundraising features , such as custom branding, registration and ticketing, advanced data reporting, and customizable donate buttons. Spin class disco. Here are a few specific ideas: Cooking classes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Today, the unified payments app is announcing that it has raised $32.8 Founder and CEO Prince Boakye Boampong started the company in 2019. The Dash team. In total, it has processed over $1 billion since its launch in 2020 from 1 million customers the company has acquired from Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria, Boampong said.

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The Fundraising Authority

JANUARY 2, 2021

Like great sales organizations, great development operations need a constant stream of prospects… individuals, companies, and foundations that are, or are likely to be, interested enough in your mission to donate funds to your non-profit. Creating and growing a prospect list is one of the key responsibilities of your fundraising team.

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VentureBeat

APRIL 8, 2025

The Global Gaming League (GGL), a gaming and media company, has raised $10 million for matches with celebrity-owned teams. Read More

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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. We are also sitting on piles of data from construction sites.

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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. Launched in August 2020, t he company streamlines various financial data in a single API for companies and third-party developers. Abdul Hassan (CEO) and Prakhar Singh (CTO).

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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. ” TechCrunch was surprised to learn of the company’s $1.5

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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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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

APRIL 21, 2021

But most of these companies and developers find it difficult to access real-time banking data. Since 2019, Plaid-esque companies, but with different twists to their offerings, have emerged to solve these issues. In total, Okra has raised $4.5 Fara Ashiru Jituboh and David Peterside founded the company in June 2019.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Today, the company is announcing $83 million in Series C funding to scale offline and online offerings and expand to new markets. South Africa’s Yoco raises $16 million to boost digital services to small businesses. Wazen corroborated this, but didn’t provide an update about where the company is with these offerings.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

.” While Precursor doesn’t particularly focus on audio-first startups, the team has seen a number of opportunities in that space. “The last two companies that I feel really innovated in this category were Tinder and Bumble. . The company raised the pre-seed round of $750,000.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2021

Buzzy live voice chat app Clubhouse has confirmed that it has raised new funding – without revealing how much – in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz through the firm’s partner Andrew Chen. The app was reported to be raising at a $1 billion valuation in a report from The Information that landed just before this confirmation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

One would be out of touch with reality to say they haven’t noticed this phenomenon in Lagos, Africa’s startup capital city, where mid to senior-level engineers are leaving in droves to seek better pay and opportunities in companies outside Africa. The company (not to be confused with U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

The company is announcing a $10.5 In total, Alerzo has raised more than $20 million since its launch. The company also said it closed a $2.5 “Growing up in Ibadan, I watched my mother operate two informal retail stores to raise my three siblings and me. million Series A round led by New York-based Nosara Capital.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

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. MrBeast did not respond to Fast Company s request for comment.)

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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. The proceeds will be used to propel its research and development in artificial intelligence and synthetic speech and grow the team. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Supernormal hopes to demonstrate the value of generative AI with its tech, which creates meeting notes by integrating with Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and other conferencing platforms. Supernormal today announced that it raised $10 million in a funding round led by Balderton with participation from Acequia Capital and byFounders VC.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Now, with prototypes built and an ambition to scale, McKendrick has raised $4.3 While the company is building the chassis from the ground up, McKendrick says it can be accomplished at a fraction of the cost of manufacturing an automobile. Delivery, or micro-logistics as McKendrick calls it, is the first focus of the company.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Austrian synthetic data startup MOSTLY AI today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series B round. Its data sets “look just as real as a company’s original customer data with just as many details, but without the original personal data points,” the company says. where it already has offices in New York City.

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