TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

In a new class action lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California this week, two parents accuse Roblox of illegally facilitating child gambling. Roblox also added support for limited edition virtual items in recent years, allowing developers to offer special virtual goods sold in numbered quantities.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2025

Mobile giving trends Best practices for raising more through mobile giving How mobile giving technology can help What is mobile giving? Mobile giving is raising funds through a mobile device, whether via text, the Internet, an app, or email. Well cover: What is mobile giving?

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 29, 2024

By facilitating greater information exchange and joint training initiatives, it promises to enable humanitarian, aid, and development organizations and the ecosystem of stakeholders they engage with to operate more securely in complex environments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

Recently I facilitated an online session about how to get better at online meetings for Lightful in the UK where I am a Senior Advisor at Lightful, among other activities, facilitate online master classes for their BRIDGE programme. An online meeting is more effective when you have at least two facilitators. Don’t wing it alone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 23, 2019

Posting about training sessions to their family and friends, educating their network about why they’re working so hard, and giving praise to their supporters are great ways to drive even more awareness and dollars raised. Facilitate this natural phenomenon by encouraging team fundraising within your event. Encourage team fundraising.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In the latest development, Bumpa , one of them which says it is building the infrastructure to power online commerce and enable African small business owners to start, manage and grow their businesses from their mobile devices, has raised a $4 million seed round. . We want to be that connecting platform on the continent.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

With its Series C round , the company raised $450 million at a $15 billion valuation — it represents a 167% valuation jump in 12 months, which is not too bad. Why did Checkout.com raise so much money? In particular, Checkout.com plans to support marketplaces and payment facilitators later this year. Because they can.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The firm came across the problem in its work around “default global,” in that banks really want to facilitate more cross border money movement – especially as the world is increasingly global. “We’ve Payall previously raised $8.2 A group of strategic individual investors also participated in the latest financing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Ayoken, an NFT marketplace for creatives, has raised $1.4 His career includes helping scale AZA (Bitpesa), a Nairobi-based platform that leverages bitcoin to facilitate cross-border remittances and where he first got introduced to crypto and blockchain technology.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Technology facilitates much greater drilling down today, and you’re in danger of malpractice if you don’t use some of the new tools available. AI facilitates radical connection in a manner most directly aligned with individual identities, interests, and preferences. Remember the rising tide that raises all boats.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 22, 2025

“Sometimes you need hands, or you need other people to do stuff for you, to facilitate even the most trivial things, like organizing buckets or helping with sampling. Rob McCallum, who helps facilitate these matchmaking arrangements through Yachts for Science, describes his organization as “the Tinder of the seas.”

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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

JANUARY 11, 2021

SoleSavy, a community built around buying hot sneakers and related items that are increasingly hard to acquire at retail, raised $2 million in a round that closed late last year. Second-market startups like StockX and GOAT have sprung up to facilitate those who don’t mind paying 30%-200% premiums on each release. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Source.ag’s technology, then, aims to enable growers to make better-informed decisions about their crops and greenhouses to facilitate more sustainable harvests. ” Gotham Greens just raised $310M to expand its greenhouses nationwide To the company’s founder, Source.ag ” Source.ag

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company, with bases in both Austin and Australia, was started in 2009 and facilitates exits for millions of online business owners, some that operate on e-commerce marketplaces, blogs, SaaS and apps, the newest data integration being for Shopify, Blake Hutchison, CEO of Flippa, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Tuna is on a mission to “fine tune” the payments space in Latin America and has raised two seed rounds totaling $3 million, led by Canary and by Atlantico. Up next, he wants to be able to show traction in payments optimization and facilitators in Brazil before moving on to other countries.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Multiplier , a startup that enables companies to hire and pay remote workers while complying with local laws, announced today that it has raised a $60 million Series B at a valuation of $400 million. Multiplier raised a Series A of $13.2 Remote raises $35M to help orgs with global workforce payroll, benefits and more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2022

We are here to educate, facilitate and communicate,” he said. “We Through stock donations, your nonprofit can raise more from existing donors, attract new supporters, and grow your online brand. We work with nonprofits to educate donors on the benefits of donating appreciated stock. Then we make it easy for them to take action.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

XanPool , a payment infrastructure provider that facilitates faster crypto and fiat settlements, announced today it has raised a $27 million Series A led by Valar Ventures. The funding brings XanPool’s total raised since it was founded in 2019 to over $32 million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Coming off a year of exponential growth, it has raised a $48 million Series B to provide more alternative payment solutions to its millions of merchants and consumers. At the time, most fintechs and banks did not recognize the need for using bank payments to facilitate online transactions. Since the company’s Series A raise of $2.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

French startup Roundtable has raised a $3.2 AngelList isn’t the only company facilitating startup investment. The platform currently charges 1% of the amount raised by the vehicle with a minimum of €5,000 and a maximum of €15,000. million (€3 million) funding round from a hundred business angels. For instance, in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Nonprofit fundraising changed drastically in 2020 with a shift toward virtual galas and a need to raise money online. There’s something really nice about catching up with fellow donors during a luncheon or participating in a fun run to raise money for a nonprofit. Beyond that, in-person fundraisers are appealing social events.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Afrikrea , an Ivorian startup founded in 2016, is one of the few platforms facilitating product exports. It has raised a $6.2 In total, the company, which LoftyInc Capital and other local investors back , has raised $8.1

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Candid

APRIL 14, 2025

While some organizations like food banks may struggle to offer online opportunities, otherssuch as literacy programs that deliver tutoring sessions over Zoom, or advocacy networks that leverage volunteers to facilitate or monitor group forumsare finding new ways to involve virtual volunteers. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

These preferences, though, raise questions about what support seniors want and need in their current homes. This will mean providing actionable support with emotional concerns, especially social isolation, by surfacing and facilitating a seniors human connections. Most of us want to remain in our existing homes as we grow older.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 22, 2022

I write a LOT about the role of the fundraiser as “ philanthropy facilitator.” Philanthropy facilitators don’t do the work for donors, but with them — standing by their side along the journey. Except it’s not “fundraising” so much as what I like to call “ philanthropy facilitation.”. Because… money.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Tink , a startup out of Stockholm, Sweden that aggregates a number of banks and financial services by way of an API so that those can in turn be accessed via new channels, has raised €85 million (or $103 million at current rates), at a post-money valuation of €680 million (or around $825 million). It has now raised €175 million in total.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

raised more money from venture capitalists in 2021 than ever. On the bright side, founding teams counting both women and men as members raised 17% of VC investments in Africa in 2021. Women-founded startups in Africa to have raised $100 million or more are led mainly by white CEOs. Women-founded companies in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Finclusion Group , a fintech that uses AI algorithms to provide financial services to African customers via an array of credit-centric products, has raised $20 million in debt and equity pre-Series A financing. The Africa-focused fintech has disbursed over $300 million worth of loans to more than 240,000 customers up until this point.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2025

Our focus is on creating products that empower organizations to harness the right data, in the right context, with the right front-end to meet your organizations needs where theyre at, so you can act to enable program teams to craft impactful stories, deliver their programs effectively, and raise more funds.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

NALA , a Tanzanian cross-border payments company that recently pivoted from local to international money transfers, said Thursday it has raised $10 million in a new fundraising round. O ther players in the space facilitating transfer from the U.K. With Africa being the most expensive region to send money to, with 10.6%

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

The provision of virtual foreign bank accounts has become a common strategy for fintechs to enable Nigerians and Africans to facilitate international transfers. Last year, the startup raised an undisclosed pre-seed investment and got accepted into YC’s winter batch this March.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

In fact, behavioral science should inform the ways you recruit and engage supporters as well as raise awareness for your cause. A key benefit of this campaign is giving their supporters free rein of how they wish to raise money for the organization, promoting creativity and a sense of ownership. Leverage social information and norms.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Charles Hoskinson, the co-founder of IOG and Cardano, while commenting on their investment in Pezesha, said in a statement that, “Facilitating the movement of capital into emerging markets to support economic growth and job creation is a core promise of blockchain and cryptocurrencies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Remote working options and workplace flexibility can be a bit of a head-scratcher for employees and employers alike, but Gable , which has just raised $12 million in Series A funding following on a $3.25 Gable raises the roof (and $12M) for better remote working options by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

Valar led a $20 million Series A funding round in Link while Tiger led a $10 million seed round; to date, Link has raised $30 million. year-over-year alone in 2021, and that transactions facilitated by open banking could hit $116 billion globally by 2026. Other data suggests volume on ACH — the backbone of U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

million pre-seed funding it has raised from the Founders Factory Africa, FrontEnd Ventures, Adaverse, Gullit, Five35, Renew Capital, Changecom, XA Network, Ajim Capital, Artha Ventures, Daba Finance, Google Black Founders Fund, and several angel investors. BuuPass raises $1.3M

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