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4 Ways Nonprofits Can Beat AI Blandification

Nonprofit Tech for Good

At face value, AI appears to be a gift from the fund development and marketing gods. ChatGPT and Gemini repackage all that information, rendering it into headlines, social posts, and emails crafted to feel human. AI tools seemingly transform campaign development from a hands-on, intensive process into hit-enter ease. Thats the problem.

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Iceland built 1,756 wheelchair ramps in the past 4 years. Why can’t other countries do that?

Fast Company Tech

So in 2021, Thorleifsson launched Ramp Up Reykjavk to fund the installation of 100 ramps in places with the most foot traffic across Icelands capitalcafs, restaurants, and shops. We fund, design, build, and get all the permits; it’s all free for the shop owner or the person who owns the building.

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Pear VC’s Anand Iyer goes solo with new $20M fund for crypto developer tools

TechCrunch

Now, the blockchain aficionado who got his start in trading Bitcoin in 2013 is joining the ranks of a growing group of solo GPs raising venture funds built on their own name and reputation. Iyer has raised $20 million in what he says was an oversubscribed round for his inaugural fund, Canonical Capital, he told TechCrunch.

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F*ck creator funds, we need a creator index fund

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week, Natasha and Alex brought on the Most Online reporter at TechCrunch, Amanda Silberling to talk about one of her recent pieces, “maybe creator funds are bad.”

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Meet Neo Beta: Your new, slightly creepy humanoid robot home assistant

TechSpot

Robotics company 1X Technologies (1XT) made headlines earlier this year after securing over $100 million in backing from OpenAI and EQT Ventures, Europe's most prominent technology startup-based capital fund. The support helped to put the Norwegian firm and its latest robot creation, Neo, in a position to compete with industry.

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Climate justice in the field: An interview with the Hive Fund 

Candid

With the climate crisis making headlines every day, the urgency of tackling this issue is clear. Watch this video to hear Rogers explain how funders can strengthen the impact of their climate justice funding efforts by “working in solidarity” with their grantees, and what that looks like. But it does not have to be that way.

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Jenfi raises more funding for its “growth capital as a service” platform

TechCrunch

million in pre-Series B funding, led by Headline Asia. The new funding will be used to grow its customer base in Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia, and expand into new markets in Southeast Asia, like Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. In a statement, Headline Asia partner Aki Okamoto and principal Jonathan M.

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