Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

By Emily Friedrichs of Elevation – a digital agency that s pecializes in Google Ad Grant management and exclusively serves nonprofit’s digital marketing and design needs. Elevation has been a nonprofit partner since 2007 and currently supports more than 200 different organizations in Europe and the Americas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 28, 2017

eChecks are particularly important for donors based in Europe where credit cards aren’t as popular and there are donors out there that prefer PayPal over credit cards or eChecks. 0% accept digital payments, such as Apple Pay or Visa Checkout. Dollars, Euros, British Pounds, or Indian Rupees.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

InstaCarro , a digital marketplace that connects used car sellers to dealers in Brazil, has raised $23 million in a Series B round of funding. The startup also plans to use its new capital to “improve the coverage” of its home inspection model and improve the efficiency of its digital auction process, Cafici said. Notably, U.S.-based

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TechRepublic

MARCH 31, 2025

Funding from the EUs DIGITAL programme will go toward testing immersive environments to be used in healthcare for purposes like training and virtual patient assessments.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Umba , a digital bank for emerging markets and aiming first at Africa, has secured a $2 million seed funding round from new investors including Lachy Groom, ex-Head of Issuing at Stripe; Ludlow Ventures; Frontline Ventures and Act Venture.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

It plans to use the funding to expand its footprint across metropolitan areas in its existing three markets — the Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria — as well as to break into Germany, Poland, Romania and other countries in the near future. upr, Rohlik CEO and founder, told TechCrunch in an interview.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

The Argentina-based fraud and identity protection company announced $12 million in Series B funding Monday from backers including software developer, Globant, as well as Agrega Partners, NXTP Ventures, Bridge One, the IDB Lab and Telefónica. As such, he intends to use the new funding to hire developers across Europe and in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Fintech startup and alternative credit asset manager Viola Credit has closed its latest $700 million fund, which provides asset-based lending capital to fintech, proptech and insurtech startups. The fintech sector boomed in 2021, with global fintech funding reaching a record $132 billion. Western Europe, U.K.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Blackshark.ai, the Austrian startup behind the digital globe you fly over in Microsoft’s Flight Simulator, has raised a $20M round A to develop and scale its replica-Earth tech. The potential applications for a planetary “digital twin” are many and various, and the company has a head start even on mapping giants like Google.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Two years on from its launch, Charles today announced that it has raised $20 million in a series A round of funding led by Salesforce Ventures, with participation from Accel and HV Capital. million seed round of funding it raised last year. Conversational commerce comes to Europe. This follows a $6.5 How it works.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The firm has an Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Tel Aviv presence, and now has a $160 million sack of funds to deploy across its focus areas: sustainability and technological innovation in the construction, real estate and manufacturing industries. Sebastian Peck and Talia Rafaeli are heading up the new sustainability fund for Kompas.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Google has selected 30 startups to receive a share of its $2 million Black Founders Fund in Europe, providing these companies with a spot of cash, some valuable cloud services and a bit of good old-fashioned networking among the Google crew. I’ll update if I hear back.).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

million in seed funding. FMCG distributors can onboard retailers in their network on the Duplo platform, collect payments digitally and access real-time insights into business performance. And then it becomes easier for us to digitize how payment moves between retailers and distributors,” he added.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Together, digital communications inspire 74% of donors to give. Millennials, Gen Xers, and Baby Boomers all prefer to give online and digital communications significantly influence their giving. 16) Asian donors are primarily driven by digital communications. 20) At 39% , Europe has more Gen X donors than any other region.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

million in a pre-Series A round, to tap the opportunities in emerging markets, where digital lending apps have recently sprung up in droves. The startup is currently working with 30 credit institutions, including digital lenders, micro-finance institutions and banks. million, having realized $800,000 in a seed round last May.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

Source: United Nations Population Fund. In India alone, it is estimated there are 1-2 million NGOs in operation of which the vast majority have no online presence, but in the next decade Indian NGOs will join the digital revolution by the hundreds of thousands. Source: 2017 Global Trends in Giving Report. billion by 2050.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Sennder , a large digital road freight forwarder based out of Germany, has raised $160 million in Series D financing. The whole digital freight forwarding market is booming. Only last November, Germany’s Forto, a digital freight forwarder, raised another $50 million in funding, taking its total raised to $103 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

If you plan to launch a new startup in France, Denmark or Sweden, there is a new seed fund looking for your pitch. Emblem said today that it has raised nearly $54 million (€50 million) for a new European seed fund. The next step is a proper seed fund with more capital. We are going to have an exclusive focus on seed.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

There are now over 200 local currencies in use worldwide, according to a database maintained by the Schumacher Center, with popularity greatest in Europe and Brazil. is taking the local currency digital. But if the digital platform works, it could generate interest far beyond western Massachusetts. Why Go Digital?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Showing investors are keen on the idea, Haltian recently closed a €22 million (~$24 million) funding round led by Mandatum Asset Management Growth Equity with participation from Varma, Tesi, Ventic and Inventure. Bringing the company’s total funding to date to €40 million (~$43.7 million) last year,” Leipälä said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

A new report from Endeavor Nigeria reveals that Africa’s digital economy and tech ecosystem is set to experience exponential growth periods. The report is dubbed “The Inflection Point: Africa’s Digital Economy is Poised to Take Off.”. The firm also has a fund, Endeavor Catalyst, which has backed many unicorns outside the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

The Indian hyperlocal delivery startup Dunzo is in late-stage discussions to secure about $50 million in a new financing round, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, as the Bengaluru-headquartered startup scrambles for comfort in an otherwise funding winter for younger firms. It’s a dynamic that is playing out globally.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

One of the bigger startups in Europe operating a trading platform for cryptocurrency has closed a big round of funding on the heels of very rapid growth, and plans to open its platform to a wider stream of assets. billion. . “In the EU, we probably have less than 10% of the population owning stocks.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Open banking platforms, where services that might not have previously lived next to each other are now joined up by way of APIs, has been one of the emerging trends of the last couple of years, and today one of the leaders in the space out of Europe has closed a round of funding to expand its business. million in funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

and Europe, such as Unit , Rapyd and Treasury Prime , have achieved significant scale due to the developed banking systems they enjoy in their markets. And that’s what we’re doing, building that capability to get there, which today involves a lot of different things that Credable takes the lead on when launching new digital banking products.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

The process used by millions of agents and thousands of property portals globally to reach buyers and sellers on digital channels is highly fragmented. million in pre-Series A funding. It is in talks with partners, mainly property portals and CRM platforms, to expand into Europe (France, Germany, Belgium and the U.K.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The World Wildlife Fund uses the juxtaposition of images to create a story of how human actions and decisions have endangered wildlife. As digital natives, many millennials (and younger) live on social media, which makes user-generated storytelling campaigns a great way to empower, inspire and engage this generation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Last year we covered how Barcelona-based startup Impress had digitalized the area of orthodontics, raising a $50 million Series A in the process, somewhat aping U.S.-based Impress has its own chain of orthodontic clinics in southern Europe and plans to expand internationally. based startups such as SmileDirect.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

It will be using the funds to continue expanding to new geographies and to bring more consumers and partners to its “super app”; and newer business lines, such as its 15-minute grocery delivery option Bolt Market, will be building out ‘dark stores’ in more cities to expand the service beyond the 10 where its active today.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

. — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a drone : Dronamics raised $40 million in a pre-Series A round (or really big seed round if you’d rather look at it that way) to start an autonomous cargo drone airline in Europe, Mike writes. cities safer, starting with New York, Haje writes.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The e-commerce boom that started with the Covid-19 pandemic shows little sign of slowing down, and today a company called Shopware , which provides a set of open source tools to power online shopping experiences for some 100,000 mid-sized and larger brands, is announcing $100 million in funding to capture the opportunity.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

While the pandemic prompted companies to digitize much of the way they do business, not every brand made the pivot successfully. The same survey found that over four-fifths of companies — 82% — were prevented from pursuing digital transformation projects due to the staffing, resources and expertise required.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The funding was led by Corner Ventures, with participation from Udi Angel, Vertex Ventures, and Yuval Tal, founder and president of Payoneer. Cymbio, a B2B dropship automation platform, is planning to use the new funding to grow its global footprint by establishing an office in Europe and expanding its team in the US.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

London-based Kodland , which started out back in 2018 offering in-person courses for children to learn digital skills like computer programming before switching focus to online learning from early 2020, has closed a $9 million Series A funding round to scale into more markets. Ireland, the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Fuzey , a London-based company providing what it calls a “digital one-stop shop” for small businesses and independent contractors, raised $4.5 million in seed funding. million in total funding since the company was founded in 2020 by Henrik Lysgaard Jensen and Alex Boyce. The latest round gives the company $5.2 and Canada.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s been talk of a slowdown in venture funding recently, with TechCrunch looking at it from different angles, including the fintech sector, a PitchBook report and even earlier on how startups should prepare in case it happens. We saw an average of 32% re: % of capital called in a fund’s first full calendar year. That’s new.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Dropit , a retail technology platform that bridges the digital divide by unifying merchants’ online and in-store inventories, has raised $25 million in a Series C round of funding. Since its launch six years ago, Dropit has been gaining steady traction across Europe and North America. Dropit’s consumer app.

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