The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Now imagine if they had been constrained by funding streams that stipulate how, when and where to spend money. Occupations in for-profit companies and in other industries with these same requirements receive higher pay, despite nonprofit human services workers sometimes having a higher level of skill and responsibility.”

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 22, 2024

“Grant Assistant is a vertical application built on top of industry leading AI technologies but really we are workflow focused,” said Mustafa Hasnain, founder and CEO of GrantAssistant. FreeWill, a New York City-based public benefit company that is mostly remote, was launched in 2017 and generates income from subscriptions from nonprofits.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

While the world continues to await the arrival of safe, reliable and cost-effective self-driving cars, one of the pioneers in the world of autonomous vehicle software has raised some substantial funding to double down on what it sees as a more immediate opportunity: providing technology to industrial companies to build off-road applications.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

This morning Brazilian neobank Nu, better known as Nubank, announced that it has filed to go public. Today its S-1 filing remains private, but the announcement of its existence implies that Nu is on track to go public soon, perhaps inside of 2021. We’ll know soon enough. The Nubank EC-1.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Japan's industry minister, Ken Saito, recently announced a substantial increase in public funding to support Kioxia and Western Digital's chip business. These two major memory manufacturing companies are planning to boost chip production in Mie and Iwate prefectures, anticipating significant growth in the memory business.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The space industry has enjoyed a honeymoon period with hundreds of startups popping up in the past five to seven years following SpaceX’s success. The space industry has enjoyed a honeymoon period with hundreds of startups popping up in the past five to seven years following SpaceX’s success. Exits are driving investments.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Founded in 2012, the startup has steadily grown to be a leader in the mortgage tech industry. billion valuation at the time of its last raise in January — a $300 million Series G funding round that included participation from Coatue and Tiger Global Management. It’s a relatively large industry that has lots of change.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

In that Economist report, I spoke about society entering an “Industrial Revolution of Data,” which kicked off with the excitement around Big Data and continues into our current era of data-driven AI. The second aspect of the “Industrial Revolution of Data” that I expected was the emergence of standardization.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

Healthcare startup Color has raised a sizable $167 million in Series D funding round, at a valuation of $1.5 This latest investment into Color was led by General Catalyst, and by funds invested by T. billion post-money, the company announced today. including those related to the “last mile” delivery of COVID-19 vaccines.

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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

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. They are intended for use by clients in the semiconductor, electronics, chemicals and textile manufacturing industries. The round was led by Darwin Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

For years, tech publications run by local digital media startups have worked hard behind the scenes in placing African startups at the faces of global investors, shaping the narrative of African tech and its build-up to an inflection point last year. million in seed funding to expand its audience and build new verticals.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

While the Sequoias and the Andreessen Horowitzes of the world continue to swell in size, their influence on venture capital may be heading in the opposite direction as micro funds increase their impact on the industry. I’ve written about the rise of micro funds in the U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

The move comes as IPG awaits approval of its merger with fellow public holding company Omnicom , which would create the worlds largest advertising services firm. Both focused on the age-old industry debate between the freedom and flexibility to innovate in independence versus ultimately being a cog in a much larger publicly traded machine.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Others found ways to expand the opportunities within existing hometown industries: NCBiotech built pathways to bring more local residents into the Research Triangles booming life sciences sector. And PIDC , a public-private investment group in Philadelphia, is redeveloping the centuries-old U.S. Ford Motor Co.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The next two months are, without a doubt, the most pivotal hardware launch season the video game industry has seen in almost a decade. Why, in the year 2020, are companies as large, experienced, and well-funded as Microsoft, Sony, and Nvidia still failing at preorders? Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge. Image: Sony.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

From major reports published on the impact of longevity by the National Academy of Medicine and McKinsey to every leading newspaper, public discourse highlighted how our global healthcare, financial and housing infrastructure was failing to serve a rapidly growing older adult population. Health span is the new life span.

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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. It’s not just Plaid, by the way.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

Better.com finally went public last week, and the stock’s performance was worse than expected. Better.com finally went public The biggest fintech news of the week centered around Better.com’s no good, very bad public market debut. To sum it up, digital mortgage lender Better.com made its public debut on August 24.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Regardless of where those funds came from, one thing is certain: not-for-profit (NFP) organizations must maintain the publics trust if they wish to continue receiving donations. Using a fund accounting system built for nonprofits simplifies designating and tracking funder intent. This statement is true regardless of a NFPs size.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2021

However, raising funds for these organizations can present unique challenges. While it is true that the Anglican Diocese of Niagara is fortunate enough to be able to provide some funding support for various programs and ministries, they do not have ‘pools of money’ and operate on a shoe-string budget as many other groups do,” she said.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 25, 2019

Some of the most notable donations include $100M+ to Fidelity Charitable, $29M to Donors Choose , $4 million to the Ellen Wildlife Fund , $50M to a dozen universities, and $56M to almost 60 different charities from an anonymous donor. The next generation of tech millionaires and billionaires are being created in the cryptocurrency industry.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Upload your avatar/logo (250 x 250), a cover photo(1128 x 191), add a description and website URL, your company/organization size, industry, and city and country. If your nonprofit has a large following on LinkedIn and a signature program that is well-known to the public, then a Showcase Page could be worth time and effort.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

But industry experts say it’s difficult to know where plastic ends up or get rid of it completely, even with the best intentions of reuse and recycling programs. But the agriculture industry itself only accounts for a little over 3% of all plastics used globally. But we need more crops. AP is solely responsible for all content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2023

Does it seem like everyone you know is raving about a new tool that’s revolutionizing the way employees in all industries are doing their work? We’ve done the legwork and compiled the top ways Chat GPT and AI can help your team save resources, perform tasks, and raise more funds.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 3, 2024

We are also monitoring a few other industry trends, such as recurring giving growth and social sharing, but it’s too soon to make any predictions there or on the other data points we are monitoring.” The donations total came from 12,816 donors, with 9,444 public school teachers benefitting. The platform’s donors raised $1.2

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Despite shrinking investment into startups in 2022, venture capital funds of all sizes are still being raised. The above makes Nichole Wischoff something of an exception: Her solo venture capital firm Wischoff Ventures closed a second fund of $20 million, a sizable increase from her first $5 million fund. ” Beyond fintech.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Today, Muck Rack is making another kind of connection, with investors: it’s raised $180 million in what it’s describing as its first outside funding, having been bootstrapped since being founded back in 2009. A lot of traditional publications (outlets) have disappeared or morphed to keep up with the times.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Kaszek Ventures , one of Latin America’s first venture firms, has raised $975 million across two funds. Specifically, the São Paulo-based firm has closed on Kaszek Ventures VI, a $540 million early-stage fund and Kaszek Ventures Opportunity-III (KVO-III), a $435 million vehicle for later stage investments. billion in capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Dakotah Rice spent years working in the investment banking industry at firms such as Goldman Sachs, Carlyle and Coatue. One thing that stood out to him was how only a small group of select people and firms could invest in venture capital and private equity funds. The Imagine fund is all venture capital firms.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

As unease spread amongst a handful of entrepreneurs, alarmed at radical “reforms,” proposed by the Benjamin Netanyahu-led government, to the independence of the judiciary, WhatsApp groups were fired up, and were quickly flooded with volunteers from the tech industry. But the delay looks like being only temporary.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Rocketplace, a startup that aims to build a “next-generation asset management platform for crypto,” has raised $9 million in a seed funding round. It wants to go a step further by making fund distribution and management the center of its offering. But on the other side of the business, you have fund distribution.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Last May, the company raised $1 billion in funding, giving it a $12 billion valuation. The companys researchers have alerted the public to a number of cloud vulnerabilities in everything from Microsofts Azure cloud system to the cloud systems of Oracle and IBM. As Wizs fortunes rose, so too did its reputation.

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2020

The money will be administered through Humanity Forward’s Coronavirus Relief Fund, which, while it doesn’t target areas specifically based on coronavirus cases, provides one-time cash payments to low-income workers most likely to be affected by the virus’s impact on the economy. UBI to me represents a floor,” Dorsey said on the podcast. “A

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2023

Traditional venture capital dollars are harder to come by these days, but institutional investors are still looking for smart investments, and industry watchers are hungry for the good news a new round of financing suggests. Another reason founders hesitate is if all or part of the new capital is through a debt investment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Socure , a company that uses AI and machine learning to verify identities, announced today that it raised $450 million in funding for its Series E round led by Accel and T. The round brings its total funding raised to $646 million since it was founded in 2012. CEO Ayers confirmed that Socure is considering going public. “We

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

With 1-Click Clusters, users of any size can get on-demand access to state-of-the-art Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs and GH200 Superchips in a public cloud, enabling large-scale model training without having to lock in long-term contracts. In a May publication in Science Advances , researchers from Quantinuum, the U.S.

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