Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Organizations across many industries believe their employees are more productive and efficient with AI tools such as chatbots and coding assistants at their side. Other standout AI apps focuse on specific industries. The company closed two funding rounds in 2024: $200 million in February and $260 million in September at a $4.6

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

His platform AngelList has helped individual founders-cum-investors source and participate in deals via collectives. However , some venture firms have taken this up a notch by bringing founders to create a fund and invest together. MAGIC Fund has 12 founders who act as general partners. Fund of micro funds but more than money.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

million in “expansion” funding from Aruwa Capital, a Nigeria-based early-stage growth equity and gender-lens fund. . When Dada launched the platform, its target audience was solely businesses. The initial product brought in $165,000 in seed funding from investors such as CcHUB Growth Capital, Montane Capital and B-Knight.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

One Impression, an Indian influencer marketing platform that does business in markets including Indonesia, Dubai, Europe and the U.S., has raised $10 million in a funding round led by the South Korean gaming company Krafton. Currently, One Impression has enabled its platform for Instagram and YouTube.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

San Francisco-based Postman, which operates a collaborative platform for developers to help them build, design, test and iterate their APIs, said on Wednesday it has raised $225 million in a new financing round that values it at $5.6 API platform Postman delivers $150M Series C on $2B valuation. Postman API platform’s offerings.

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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. A few years ago, when you could read ‘machine learning’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ in every single pitch deck, some startups chose to focus on the financial industry in particular.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Fez Delivery , a Lagos-based last-mile logistics startup with hubs across Nigeria, has raised $1 million led by pan-African investor Ventures Platform with participation from Voltron Capital, Acasia Ventures and other angel investors. While l ogistics is one of Nigeria’s fastest-growing industries, it is also one of its most fragmented.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

million in Series A funding. The funding will be used on Profet AI’s expansion in Japan, Southeast Asia and China, with plans to sign joint ventures with overseas partners. The company’s flagship products are its AutoML Virtual Data Scientist Platform and Ready To Go Applications. The round was led by Darwin Ventures.

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Classy

JULY 13, 2021

These industry experts, thought leaders, and changemakers shared a plethora of resources that have been influential in their careers, so we rounded up their top recommendations in an easy-to-digest list to inspire your next read. . The post 14 Nonprofit Books Recommended by Top Industry Experts appeared first on Classy.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The AI industry hit a significant bend in the road toward artificial general intelligence in 2024. And all the while a small AI lab in China was quietly developing new AI models, including reasoning models, that would begin sending shockwaves through the AI industry by the end of 2024. The rest of the industry has followed its lead.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

And Recursion is harnessing the largest supercomputer in pharma to power a drug discovery platform used by Big Pharma customers, while advancing multiple AI-based candidates of its own through clinical trials. The companys 2024 full-year revenue of $302.3 million was a 56% year-over-year increase over 2023.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Zero Foodprint takes the top slot, for funding regenerative farming through a model so simple, it becomes radical: Restaurants, grocers, and food companies are asked to contribute 1% of consumer purchases to directly fund farm conversions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

By Stephanie Kanak , Content Strategist at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. Don’t be afraid to reach out to event sponsors, grant funders and major donors to see if they’d be willing to work with you on how unspent funds are allocated, such as event table sponsorships.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

R/GAs new partners at Truelink have established a $50 million Innovation Fund for a boost in new skill sets and talent, as well as acquisitions for new capabilities, emerging tools, and platforms. Forbes says the focus of the fund is on three distinct areas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

When evaluating CRM software for your nonprofit, you need to look for these five key differentiators: 1) Importance of Platform. It is important to look at the platform the CRM system is built on. Does the platform integrate with your existing infrastructure? Is their expertise – nonprofit industry specific?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 12, 2023

By Megan Allison , Content Marketing Specialist for Qgiv — an online fundraising platform empowering 20,000+ nonprofit fundraisers to raise money for their causes while keeping costs low. Going overboard on hashtags can restrict your reach on social media platforms because algorithms may read the excess of hashtags as spam content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 1, 2021

Plus, in the case of platforms like Instagram and TikTok, where you may not be able to include a link in your post, it may be the easiest method for someone to take action and give to your cause. This summer, they’re running a raffle to raise funds and give fund prizes to their supporters. 1) Text-to-Donate on Facebook.

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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. Image Credits: The Last Gameboard.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Startups that solve the supply-chain and operational challenges of players in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry–by helping buyers access products from sellers on a single platform–keep attracting venture capital from investors. million pre-Series A funding last September. Jordan and U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

MLOps platform Qwak today announced that it has raised a $12 million Series A1 funding round from Bessemer Venture Partners. The startup, which offers a fully managed platform that combines machine learning engineering and data management tools, previously raised a total of $15 million.

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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. We can all agree, 2020 was a doozy of a year, bringing indelible changes to the landscape of fundraising.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

As a teletherapy platform, Parallel Learning enables schools and special education providers to counsel students and track their progress. The six-year-old company, which has raised upwards of $40 million in venture funding and served over 2 million students, is now being used across more than 1,800 districts and in 3,000 schools.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

As the cannabis industry continues to boom, LeafLink introduced a first-of-its-kind platform that guarantees payments to brands based on retailer sell-through, improving cash flow for companies that are often operating on challenging margins. SimpleClosure, which has raised $5.5 billion to $3.1

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Xreal announced in January 2024 it had raised an additional $60 million in funding for further development of its AR glasses. In 2024, it added new features to its Fundamental Surgery platform to track user gestures, letting educators and makers of medical devices more efficiently see how quickly doctors understand products and techniques.

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Non Profit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Image Credit: Jon Tyson on unsplash.com X Corp, the company formerly known as Twitter, sued a nonprofit dedicated to exposing and counteracting digital hate speech which has published research critical of the tech company’s handling of hate speech on its platform. The group has also turned a critical eye toward X Corp (formerly Twitter).

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 3, 2024

“Yesterday (the pre-push) was really strong for our NPOs, which was encouraging to see,” said a spokesperson for platforms GoFundMe and Classy. The Classy platform data was showing organizations are “generally holding strong compared to last year, and we are seeing an uptick in big gifts coming online,” according to the spokesperson. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

And it’s evident that proptech, unlike other industries, has lagged in utilizing social media to make sales. The proptech marketing platform is announcing that it has raised $4.5 million in pre-Series A funding. Sperling and Levy founded Flow in 2018 as an app that rewards tenants for early rent payments.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Nonprofits focused on the preservation of local journalism are being called to step up, and many of the country’s largest private foundations have announced $500 million in funding over five years to support them, an extraordinary initiative called Press Forward. The first grants are to be awarded later this year.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Still, Sheel Mohnot, who was formerly a general partner at the fintech fund of 500 Startups, and Jake Gibson, co-founder of personal finance startup NerdWallet, were a little taken aback by investor interest in their fintech-focused early-stage venture firm, Better Tomorrow Ventures , or BTV.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Other institutional investors include Techstars Boulder, Magic Fund, Hustle Fund, Norrsken Foundation, Microtraction, DFS Labs, Oxford Seed Fund, Enza Capital, Agrolay Advisors, and angel investors such as Buycoins’ Ire Aderinokun, Jesse Ovia and Ademola Adesina. said the CTO in a statement. Last year, 80% of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Essentially, a profile on the platform should look like a feature article in a fancy magazine. The startup has also developed its own applicant tracking system and some companies use the platform directly for their hiring processes. This is changing over time as the company keep adding new clients and industries.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

Creative platform EVEN , which allows artists to sell music directly to fans, said it has closed a $2.2 The platform positions itself as the first stop before artists release music on streaming platforms. million seed round led by CSA Partners. Fans, in return, receive access to exclusive content and experiences.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

“The industry has shown reluctance to abandon its legacy processes — many shippers still pay freight brokers on 30-60 day terms despite carriers expecting near-instantaneous payments. Beyond this, the Denim platform integrates with accounting software like QuickBooks to allow brokers to share data between various existing systems.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Generative AI is disrupting industries — with understandable controversy. Earlier this month, Danny Postma, the founder of Headlime, an AI-powered marketing copy startup that was recently acquired by Jasper , announced Deep Agency , a platform he describes as an “AI photo studio and modeling agency.” billion by 2026.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

With Black History Month upon us, and a very different industry environment than a year ago, Mashable caught up with Mancini to discuss the latest with her organization and how she stays optimistic during this strange time. This highlights not just a tech industry issue but a broader societal challenge.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

AI is making inroads across the entire healthcare industry from genomic research to drug discovery, clinical trial workflows and patient care. Healthcare has a more severe labor shortage than any other field the industry is expected to be short 10 million workers by the end of the decade, according to the World Health Organization.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Indian insurtech Acko is in late-stage discussions to secure $120 million in a funding round at a time when weak global market conditions have subdued large financing deliberations in the South Asian market. Amazon-backed Acko nears $120 million in new funding by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

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