The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

As traditional funding models shift and societal needs evolve, nonprofits are being called upon to adapt and innovate to create lasting change. This increased need is coupled with a potential shift in funding priorities, as philanthropic organizations and governments allocate more resources to address climate-related emergencies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech company OPay raised $400 million in new financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Bloomberg reported Monday, valuing the company at $2 billion. The new financing also comes two years after OPay announced two funding rounds in 2019 — $50 million in June and a $120 million Series B in November.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Its one of more than 270 schools, from rural Nepal to urban Taiwan, to work with a fast-growing nonprofit called Gravity Water to install the nonprofits tech over the last 12 months. It’s also working on new models that don’t rely on philanthropy, in order to reach more people. Over time, the system became more advanced.

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Engadget

MARCH 7, 2025

The company has revealed a whole bunch of laptops, including upgraded ThinkPads and several intriguing concept models. Building on the tech the company used in the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable, the ThinkBook codename Flip AI PC Proof of concept (to give its full name) has a fold-out screen. Both devices have a 120Hz, 6.7-inch

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Machine learning is exploding, and so are the number of models out there for developers to choose from. While Google can help, it’s not really designed as a model search engine. Both eventually got jobs at tech companies in the U.S. Today, the early-stage startup announced a $1.64

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 1, 2025

Focused on the intersection of tech and domestic violence advocacy, the law is an attempt to ensure that abusers can no longer use tracking technology installed in vehicles. Of course, theres the added issue of possibly false or misguided information when it comes to using tech interventions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Jessica is on the growth marketing team at Zageno, a multi-vendor, online marketplace for life science products, and is head of content at Elpha, a Y Combinator-backed community of 40K+ women in tech. How and when to build marketing teams at deep tech companies. Early-stage investors are in the business of funding dreams.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 28, 2025

Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent,” Musk said in a post on X, adding that the combined company would be valued at $80 billion. Neither X nor xAI immediately responded to a request for comment. Musk in February made a $97.4

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

ChatGPT , for the uninitiated, is a chatbot-like technology trained on large language models (LLMs) that can generate essays, poems, lyrics, articles, and more from simple natural-language instructions. It has also previously launched a dedicated AI fund , targeting startups building AI smarts on top of Salesforce.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

Truelink Capital is also an investor in marketing tech companies Flipp and Ansira, as well as experiential marketing firm GES. 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. and Clarifai.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Its been gradual, but generative AI models and the apps they power have begun to measurably deliver returns for businesses. Google DeepMind put drug discovery ahead by years when it improved on its AlphaFold model, which now can model and predict the behaviors of proteins and other actors within the cell. billion valuation.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Previously, the stunning intelligence gains that led to chatbots such ChatGPT and Claude had come from supersizing models and the data and computing power used to train them. o1 required more time to produce answers than other models, but its answers were clearly better than those of non-reasoning models.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Then, that information is fed to the underlying AI model along with the user’s query and any other instructions, so it can use it to formulate a response. Hebbia announced a $130 million Series A funding round in July and claims clients like the U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

A well-funded AI lab with a deep bench of research talent is releasing a powerful new model that generates high-definition video for the film and advertising industries. That compromises the models understanding of fine-grained detail, leading to uncanny or distorted outputs (like misrendered fingers).

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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

MAY 16, 2023

” The tranche, co-led by General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz, is a big vote of confidence in Hippocratic’s technology, a text-generating model tuned specifically for healthcare applications. “The language models have to be safe,” Shah said. Babylon Health , an AI startup backed by the U.K.’s

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Although the most popular accounting software products- like QuickBooks and SAP- handle the needs of businesses in many industries, nonprofits have a unique business model and accounting standards and require different features and functionality from accounting software. What is Fund Accounting? Many receive a combination of both.

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TechNode

APRIL 1, 2025

The product, accessible via web, PC, and mobile platforms, uses proprietary models to autonomously conduct web searches, analyze data, and generate reports through long-chain reasoninga self-correcting process for multi-step tasks. million) in Chengdu government funding and claims its GLM4 model outperforms GPT-4 on select benchmarks.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This model withholds judgment but acknowledges the need for balance. Impact: Describing impact is important to the makers — it helps them get customers and funding. The post Empowering Changemakers: A Framework For Public Good Tech appeared first on The NonProfit Times. Is there a roadmap to improve the tool over time?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The platform has already secured an undisclosed amount of funding from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), as well as Scott Galloway, an NYU professor and tech commentator. Post News, a Twitter alternative, gets funding from a16z by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch. Post News’ goals are ambitious.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Anthropic , a buzzy AI startup co-founded by ex-OpenAI employees, has begun offering partners access to its AI text-generating models. Quora’s experimental chatbot app for iOS and Android, Poe , uses Anthropic models, but it’s not currently monetized. Robin AI is one of the first commercial ventures to use Anthropic models.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 19, 2023

How does someone test an idea for a nonprofit without committing the time, effort, and money to apply for 501(c)(3) status, find a board, and secure long-term funding? Chamber of Commerce ,“Social entrepreneurship is the process by which individuals, startups and entrepreneurs develop and fund solutions that directly address social issues.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 19, 2022

Fiscal sponsors generally take on the responsibility of oversight, managing and distributing funds, and other back-office tasks for the organization they sponsor. There are seven different models of fiscal sponsorship to choose from, each with its own guidelines, rules, and regulations.

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Recode by Vox

MARCH 13, 2025

The newest reasoning models from top AI companies are already essentially human-level, if not superhuman, at many programming tasks , which in turn has already led new tech startups to hire fewer workers. Fast AI progress, slow robotics progress If youve heard of OpenAI, youve heard of its language models: GPTs 1, 2, 3, 3.5,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Karthee Madasamy Contributor Share on Twitter Karthee Madasamy is the managing partner at MFV Partners , a deep tech-focused venture firm. Like nearly every other sector, deep tech faced significant headwinds in 2022. ” These are positive signs for deep tech founders preparing to raise money this year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. These numbers are based on the performance of Nonprofit Tech for Good, and of course, vary depending upon how your nonprofit uses Facebook and Twitter. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

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. The Singapore-based startup announced today it has raised $6.6 Jenfi absolutely stood out to us.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

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

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Terraa , a Moroccan B2B tech-enabled food distribution platform, has raised $1.5 million pre-seed funding in a round led by FoodLabs, a European early-stage VC investor and venture studio for food, sustainability and health. Benkirane has previously worked with food techs such as Zapp, which he helped scale in both Europe and the U.S.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Each year Heather Mansfield of Nonprofit Tech for Good presents a free webinar featuring the top ten digital marketing and fundraising trends to prioritize in the following year. Meta’s advertising revenue model is failing and their future is unpredictable. Are you raising funds using Facebook & Instagram Fundraising Tools ?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

That’s why we’ve pivoted to a SaaS model. The process wasn’t precisely linear, but (looking back) we did four core things to conclude SaaS was our model: Assessed what was truly disruptive, scalable and profitable about our technology. Studied global markets and tech trends. Engaged our board and investors candidly.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The Off-Grid Energy Access Fund (FEI-OGEF), Cordaid, and Qotto’s existing investors also participated in the round. Through a pay-to-own model , it avails its products to individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa that are off-grid owing to underdeveloped national power grids.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2018

The benefits of recurring gifts are obvious—more predictability in funds and the ability to plan operations. This move could unseat nonprofit players like GoFundMe and GlobalGiving that charge a fee as a part of their business model. From here, they can set up donor-advised funds to rival organizations like Volunteer Match.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Side , a real estate technology company that works to turn agents and independent brokerages into boutique brands and businesses, has raised “$50 million-plus” in a funding round that doubles its valuation to $2 billion. Matrix Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Trinity Ventures and 8VC led its earlier rounds.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The heated race to develop and deploy new large language models and AI products has seen innovation surgeand revenue soarat companies supporting AI infrastructure. Lambda Labs new 1-Click service provides on-demand, self-serve GPU clusters for large-scale model training without long-term contracts. billion, a 33.9% increase over 2023.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Austin-based venture firm 8VC, led by controversial Palantir founder Joe Lonsdale, has raised $880 million in its fifth fund. The fund is believed to be the biggest Texas-based venture fund for startups, according to AustinInno. Lonsdale’s post about the new fund struck a philosophical tone.

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