Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

offers a web app that enterprises use to monitor how their brand name is portrayed in social media posts, videos, links, and memes. The company closed two funding rounds in 2024: $200 million in February and $260 million in September at a $4.6 has raised more than $20 million in venture capital so far. billion valuation.

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The Verge

JUNE 27, 2020

An inside joke about a TikTok meme among a group of friends on Twitter grew into a minor social media mystery before morphing into a fundraiser for anti-racism causes. On Thursday, the eye-mouth-eye emoji meme started appearing in people’s Twitter handles and almost immediately, the buzz started about what it all meant, Gizmodo reported.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

One such startup, G atsby , announced Monday that it has raised $10 million in a Series A round of funding. Notably, Peter Quinn , a founder of stock trading service Public.com — which recently raised $220 million at a $1.2 Millennials and GenZers seem interested in investing more than ever these days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Give Miami Day raises record $5.2 Thursday’s Give Miami Day raised $5.2 Thursday’s Give Miami Day raised $5.2 This was the first year that The Miami Foundation promoted a funding goal for Give Miami Day, set at $5 million. “As Using more visuals, such as memes, also helped.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Nowports , an automated digital freight forwarder in Latin America, has raised $16 million in Series A funding. Mouro Capital — a venture capital fund focused on fintechs and adjacent businesses that is backed by Banco Santander — led the round for the Monterrey, Mexico-based startup. Nowports raises $5.3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

534 is the average total amount raised by an individual. 9237 is the average amount raised when groups are working on a team to fundraise. The infographic also summarizes some best practices for nonprofits for crowd funding platforms: Tell engaging and personal stories to connect people to their fundraiser in an authentic way.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Raise the roof : Continuing to work remotely in 2023 remains a hotly contested issue in today’s workplaces. Okay, Haje writes about how Gable raised $12 million to not only show your remote employees a nearby workplace, but also show them if any of their colleagues are there so they can connect.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Popular, highly-scrutinized trading app Robinhood has raised $2.4 The private startup raised $1 billion on Friday , meaning that it has raised $3.4 The private startup raised $1 billion on Friday , meaning that it has raised $3.4 Forbes initially broke the news that the financing was raised as a convertible note.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Meanwhile, Amanda explores how everything is “Goncharov” as the meme-makers are going mainstream with a huge assist from AI tech. In-suring new funds : India-based insurtech company Acko, which is already backed by Amazon, is in talks for $120 million in new funding. Manish has more. Is that you, Bob?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2014

In the next 24 hours, over 7,000 nonprofits will share the work of their organizations, attract new donors, raise money for their programs, and have a lot of fun doing it. This guest post highlights some of the techniques Knight Foundation grantees are using to attract attention. Prepping is key, as is getting the word out.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Did we get that meme right? Today, we are thrilled to see a16z planning $50 crore (that’s $500 million) worth of investments into Indian startups in its newest fund. Toplyne just raised $15 million to help product-forward companies analyze their customers and figure out the best go-to-market strategies. PT, subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. Here’s what we talked about: American stocks are set to rise, bitcoin is flat and meme-stocks are mixed.

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The Verge

JANUARY 27, 2021

It’s part of a chaotic, meme-fueled effort to create an organized short squeeze, and force traditional hedge funds into losing millions of dollars on their bets against struggling companies. The AMC memes appear to be working, though. AMC appears to be next on the list. AMC stock up more than 400 percent in pre-market trading.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

Some supporters may jump at the chance to be a social media ambassador for an organization they care about, but do you really want messages about your initiatives intermingling with political rants or drinking memes? Check out: Tahirih Justice Center , Northern Illinois Foodbank , or The Homer Fund for some ideas. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

million USD) Series A funding round to help further grow its business. In addition to music, Uppbeat now offers a sound effects and clips library which works well for “meme-style” content, via an expansion to the site in September 2021. Now with over 500,000 users on board, the startup is announcing the close of its £4.6

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 9, 2024

Recent political events have shown that political candidates can raise impressive amounts of money immediately following major events. While the race will dominate the national media’s attention, it won’t impact a penny you raise through the end of 2024. There was no correlation whatsoever between money raised and election years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2021

It has even convinced some folks that causing short-term economic damage to a few hedge funds is similar to shaking up the global financial market. GameStop, meme stocks, and the revenge of the retail trader. ” M1 Finance closes $45M Series C mere months after it raised its $33M Series B.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. We’ve already discussed ad nauseam that fintech funding is not just down, but also way down. Digital lending funding was down 53% to $11.5 billion raised across 121 deals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

Mashable , a popular social media and technology blog and geek favorite, has caught the generosity meme with its Summer of Social Good , an initiative that raises money for the Humane Society of the United States , World Wildlife Fund , Oxfam , and LIVESTRONG. Approximately $30K has been raised to date. (I

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Today, a startup is announcing $55 million in funding from some big-name backers to mark its own approach on the field. We’re not here to meme on tech, that won’t enrich the industry for anyone, let alone players.” I believe games are supposed to be fun.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

II, taking itself public and raising capital at the same time. Those funds were invested at a flat $2 billion pre-money valuation. But the fact that rude people on Nextdoor is a meme stems from the same scale that the company was just crowing about. The unicorn will merge with Khosla Ventures Acquisition Co.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Band 3 is the retail cohort, the /r/WallStreetBets, meme-stock, fintech Twitter rabble that are both incredibly fun to watch and also the sort of person you wouldn’t loan $500 to while in Las Vegas. Fintech upstart LendingPoint raised $125 million at an undisclosed valuation. NYC-based Paige raised $100 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

But as ventures as an asset class grows and the documentation around raises gets thornier, the data can sometimes be missing a big chunk of what’s actually happening on the scenes. The good news is that the government is also in the dark about funding data; the bad news is that without good tracking, we don’t know how progress is being made.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

Spot bitcoin exchange traded funds, or ETFs, have been a hot topic in the crypto community for many years, but have recently gotten more attention due to Jacobi Asset Management listing Europe’s first bitcoin spot ETF almost two years after its initial approval. Follow the money BitGo raised $100 million in its Series C round at $1.75

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Let’s define some additional characteristics: Generally speaking, Gen Z is digital-native, meme-informed and progressive. Gen Z VCs have raised funds, garnered social media followings and profited from the Gen Z mentality. I certainly qualify as one. In turn, these have become the “hyped industries.” Myself included.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

TechCrunch caught up with the company when it reached out, disclosing that it raised $5.5 PitchBook details a valuation of around $22 million, post-money, for that funding event.) This meme remains stuck in my mind, for example: I got more pic.twitter.com/t4ibeRWhIf. million last June. But what Spreadsheet.com is up to is neat.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

We also dug into the latest All Raise venture capital data, and the results were abysmal. . Next up was the news that fintech startups are setting records in 2021, raising more capital than ever before. And then there was a suspicious trend when three fintech companies focused on teen banking raised in one exhale.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Kunst joined us to chat about preparing for raising capital in today’s frenetic fundraising environment , digging into the gritty mechanics for the audience. No Comic Sans font, unless you’re a deeply ironic meme-driven company. Just use one. It doesn’t have to change the world. But it can’t be ugly.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Now, the startup won’t just make it easier for other startups to raise their own party round. Party Round was this amazing, living breathing meme that was evolving and meant to entertain the community,” Hays, who built the company alongside Sarah Chase , said. After a certain point, don’t we all get peckish?

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

After launching last June with just $2 million, Collab Capital has closed its debut fund at its target goal : $50 million. We Resolved our transition puns and eventually spoke about the Affirm spin-out, which raised $60 million in a funding round for BNPL for businesses. Equity drops every Monday at 7:00 a.m.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Follow me on Twitter @Jacqmelinek for breaking crypto news, memes and more. It most recently raised $125 million in January and has raised more than $400 million to date. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important crypto stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday at 12 p.m. PT, subscribe here.

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The Verge

MAY 25, 2021

Turntable.fm, the social platform that lets people collaboratively build and perform DJ sets, has raised $7.5 million in venture capital funding, according to a Medium post by CEO Billy Chasen. But it’s not the only version of Turntable in the works now, which makes that funding more interesting. Turntable.fm

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Ten years later, Dr.Mani's team has raised over $100,000 and funded heart surgery in 23 children, with many more to follow. He also does an " Tag-A-Thon " which is a meme spreader for a cause. So Dr.Mani decided to try and help sponsor the operations. I have some much to learn from you! and change a child's life.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The funds will go toward charitable causes and WT.Social, a donation-backed social network that Wales launched in 2019. While the Wikimedia Foundation accepts donations in Bitcoin, he says the money raised through that “hasn’t been massive.” Wales has an ambivalent overall relationship with blockchain technology.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Today we have new venture funds, spyware news, Brex raising (again), and more. billion across two funds. Last year it raised $335 million , for reference. StoreDot raises capital for super-fast battery charging : EVs are great, but they are still a bit slow to recharge. raised more than half a billion.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

She examines how lead investors in funding rounds are rethinking their pro rata allocation strategy in this particularly challenged funding environment. Crypto gets more investment : Developer infrastructure expert Anand Iyer goes solo with new $20 million crypto fund, Anita reports. Startups and VC. Ford’s $3.7B

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Then they see other organizations raising $10,000, $15.000, or $25,000 and feel left out. Remember that lots of other nonprofits are raising money on the same day and yes, there is competition. A matching gift: Campaigns with matching gifts ALWAYS raise more money than those with no match. It’s not hard, and anyone can do it.

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