TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Four years ago, MasterClass, a platform that sells celebrity-taught classes, invited chess legend Garry Kasparov to teach a class. So, now, Kasparov is launching a platform he says has been several years in the making: Kasparovchess. MasterClass, which is reportedly raising funding that would value it at $2.5

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Jio Platforms, the biggest telecom operator in India and which has raised over $20 billion from Facebook, Google and other high-profile investors this year, is leading a financing round of a San Francisco-based startup that develops augmented reality mobile games. billion in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms. Google invests $4.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

As remote work continues to solidify its place as a critical aspect of how businesses exist these days, a startup that has built a platform to help companies source and bring on one specific category of remote employees — engineers — is taking on some more funding to meet demand. Salaries have skyrocketed,” he said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The investors behind virtual hack.summit() , the world’s largest blockchain programmer event, have launched a $200 million crypto seed fund under the Hack VC umbrella, fund partner Alex Pack told TechCrunch in an interview.

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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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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

Just as notable, though, is its unfussy movie player software, which clears away all the cruft of modern streaming platforms to focus on the films themselves. No other streaming platform supports that unless you’re on a mobile device. The absence of distraction stands in sharp contrast to every modern streaming platform.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pakistan’s embedded finance platform Neem has raised $2.5 million in a seed funding round as it works to support underbanked communities in the country. It offers a lending platform that its partners use to provide tailored lending products to consumers and MSMEs. Pakistan’s Neem raises $2.5M

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

In particular, Welcome to the Jungle sends a photo and video crew to your office so that they can shoot some high-quality photos and record some quick interviews with employees. Essentially, a profile on the platform should look like a feature article in a fancy magazine. Up next, Welcome to the Jungle wants to expand to the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Juno, a startup that provides checking accounts to crypto enthusiasts and allows them to take their paychecks in digital tokens, has raised a new funding round as it expands its offerings to include a tokenized loyalty program. The eponymous platform integrates with all popular payroll platforms in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Nucleus Genomics , a genetic testing company focused on calculating a patient’s risk of certain diseases, is adding $14 million to their initial seed funding round. This “seed plus” funding round was led by Alexis Ohanian’s 776. With this round the company has raised, in total, $17.5

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2019

Special attention is paid to improving your donation pages and email campaigns, what to look for in an online platform, and when it makes sense to invest in digital advertising. Whether you’re searching for a new role or planning your long-term career, watch this interview with a nonprofit career coach.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Last September, Egyptian startup Capiter raised $33 million in Series A funding to compete in the country’s growing B2B e-commerce and retail space. Fast-forward a year later, the startup has laid off multiple employees and now its CEO and COO have been relieved from their duties after allegedly mismanaging funds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

An Interview with Matt Roberts-Davies , General Manager of M-Changa – an official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. The lack of trust between NGOs and local Kenyans and the expectancy that NGOs are funded from outside Kenya are the key reasons for limited local fundraising towards NGO in Kenya.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Kippa , the Nigerian startup improving the lifecycle of small businesses across the country with its financial management and payments platform, has raised $8.4 Kippa is one of the many bookkeeping platforms for small and medium businesses in sub-Saharan Africa. million in an oversubscribed seed round. . The company announced its $3.2

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.orgSource

JULY 3, 2023

Understand the New Environment Back in 2019, when I interviewed Dan for our book “Association 4.0: was to help them leverage and monetize assets they already owned and showcase their brands in a new context while creating a simple model that could become self-funding.” That calls for a consistent look and feel across platforms.

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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

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 We’re able to customize any.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Headroom , a startup developing AI-powered software to make meetings ostensibly more efficient, today announced that it raised $9 million in funding led by Equal Opportunity Ventures with participation from Gradient Ventures, LDV Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, and Morado Ventures. “There has been a slow rollout of AI features (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In the latest development, Curacel , a Nigeria-based platform that aims to drive insurance penetration in emerging markets via APIs enabling insurers to connect with digital distribution channels and administer their claims, has raised $3 million in seed funding. So far, its tech caters to distribution and claims automation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Accord , a collaboration platform designed to support business-to-business (B2B) sales, today announced that it raised $10 million in Series A funding from Matrix Partners, Nat Friedman and Y Combinator. “We started Accord to solve frustrating challenges in B2B sales,” Ross told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

“Today, the way people transact has evolved,” newly appointed chief business officer (CBO) of Tilia Catherine Porter told me in an interview. The goal of the startup is to help platform operators capture more of the value of all the transactions made related to their product.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The YC-backed food procurement platform has doubled down on the pivot — instrumental to the company’s $3.2 million seed round last October — to raise $30 million in Series A funding (split between $20 million equity and $10 million debt).

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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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

As the enthusiasm around AI image and text generators grows, Jasper , a startup developing what it describes as an “AI content” platform, has raised $125 million at a $1.7 Copysmith last April secured $10 million in financing for its AI-powered content generation platform, while Copy.ai closed a $10 million round in October.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

One beneficiary of that increased spending is London-based Beamery, a startup developing a talent lifecycle management platform. “The new funding will support continued investment in our platform and tech capabilities and help to build out global sales footprint.” ” Image Credits: Beamery. billion, with $4.6

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Zarta, a new ad-free creator platform that focuses on pay-per-view video content, announced today that it has closed a $5.7 The platform allows creators to upload videos, set parameters for a free preview and then charge viewers a small amount to unlock the whole video. million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Inspired to solve it, Anthony Mironov and Greg Franczyk founded Wingspan , a payroll platform aimed at firms employing mainly freelancers. “Greg and I founded Wingspan in 2019 to create the system of record and payroll platform for independent contractors. . So what does Wingspan bring to the table?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

It’s often referred to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) of web3 and says it has seen a 10x increase in the number of teams building on its platform over the past 12 months. The company says it powers over $150 billion in transactions annually for clients including NFT platform OpenSea and DeFi app Quantstamp.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 10, 2024

We understand that the GivingTuesday social media landscape can be a little intimidating, and coordinating your efforts across platforms in order to get the most impact can be a challenge. You can use tools like surveys, interviews, or data analytics to understand this (more on that below). What does this mean for you?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

In an email interview with TechCrunch, CEO Simon Taylor said that the proceeds will be put toward expanding HYCU’s 300-person team with a particular focus on customer success and partnerships as well as funding the development of new products and services, including a software-as-a-service product.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Many startups are solving these problems for African SMBs in one form or another, and the demand for their services has seen Ghanaian startup Float pick up a significant round of funding. While Cauris provided debt financing, Tiger Global and JAM Fund, the investment firm of Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen co-led the equity bit.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Now, in a spot of perfect timing, a startup out of Talinn, Estonia, called Ready Player Me — which has built a popular platform for creating dynamic, animated avatars to use across virtual worlds built and operated by others — is announcing $56 million in funding to grow its business.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

In an interview with TechCrunch, CEO Onayemi, a lawyer by profession, said the idea for Norebase came after various conversations on how his clients and colleagues in tech could leverage AfCFTA for their businesses. Trade has the least startup activity in a market that received $5 billion in VC funding last year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

“The pandemic drove consumers inside and online, inciting a shift to digital channels and fundamentally changing how consumers communicate and engage with brands,” Khoury told TechCrunch in an email interview. Those risks don’t appear to be dampening enthusiasm for Soci’s platform among its customers.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 14, 2025

Fund accounting. Is accessing the partners platform or integrated data intuitive? You might add additional funding programs that increase the number of grantees you need to communicate with, for example. Interview Other Organizations: Talk to organizations that have a similar use case and ask for partner recommendations.

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