The NonProfit Times

JUNE 4, 2024

Aplos is backed by private equity firm Alpine Investors in San Francisco. The plan is to have all three products on one platform, according to Anush Vinod, CEO of Aplos in Fresno, California. “We There is a “stick in the ground” to have a single sign-in for the platform by late 2024 or early spring 2025, he said.

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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

JULY 7, 2021

Unit21 , a startup that helps businesses monitor fraudulent activities with its no-code software, announced today it has raised $34 million in a Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global Management. This funding will support our mission to democratize data and make it more accessible to operations teams.”. Image Credits: Unit21.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

For remittance platforms like Western Union, it will cost a transfer fee and take between one to five business days for money sent from a U.S. Crypto remittance platforms are rising to the challenge of fixing these cross-border payment issues by reducing time and fees. Sending money from the U.S. running early-stage startups.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Manish Maheshwari, the former head of Twitter India who recently moved to San Francisco to work at a different division within the company, is leaving the firm to launch an edtech startup, according to nine people familiar with the matter. Maheshwari and Twitter didn’t respond to a request for comment two weeks ago.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

million seed funding co-led by Makers Fund and Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors include Pioneer Fund, Boost VC, muru-D and Thomas Rice. . 1 on the Oculus charts and produced historical engagement metrics for the platform, according to the company. Upon its release, it spent more than seven weeks at No.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Family offices and accredited investors are eager to get involved in high-quality funds, but face hurdles like access to fund managers. The company, founded by Samir Kaji and Hana Yang in February 2021, is developing an approach to venture capital fund investing that provides a way for investors of any size to participate.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

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. M-Changa also makes it easy for NGOs to account for funds coming in from multiple paymnet channels with automatic reporting and statements.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

While working as a software engineer in Japan, Singapore and San Francisco for the past 10 years, Ryo Chikazawa , CEO and co-founder of Autify , came to realize that there’s one common problem in the software development industry; software testing takes excessive time. The latest funding brings Autify’s total raised to $12.2

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Narrato , a AI content creation and collaboration platform, announced today it has joined the ranks of other generative AI startups with VC funding. Based in San Francisco, Narrato raised a $1 million pre-seed round led by AirTree Ventures, the Australian firm that was an early investor in Canva , Linktree and Employment Hero.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Accord opened up its previously announced $6 million seed round to accept over $1 million from a group of CEOs and sales leads at companies they are working with to officially launch its business-to-business sales platform. Accord launches B2B sales platform with $6M seed. Rich expects a Series A round to quickly follow.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2021

Based in San Francisco and Ho Chi Minh City, ELSA announced today it has raised a $15 million Series B, led by VI (Vietnam Investments) Group and SIG. Other participants included returning investors Google’s AI-focused fund Gradient Ventures, SOSV and Monk’s Hill Ventures, along with Endeavor Catalyst and Globant Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Virtual veterinarian care platform Dutch has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Forerunner Ventures and Eclipse Ventures. The San Francisco-based company’s latest round comes seven months after its market launch and brings its total funding raised to $25 million. Image Credits: Dutch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

million in seed funding led by Trucks VC and Fifty Years. ” Faction , which launched last year and graduated this winter from the Y Combinator accelerator program, started with a three-wheel motorcycle platform. However, it has developed a core platform with safety features that will step in if the autonomous system fails.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Glean , for example, puts cutting-edge AI search capabilities in the hands of employees so that they can tap into various apps and platforms to find documents and corporate intelligence. In June 2024, the company transformed its existing enterprise AI assistant and search engine into a platform called Work AI platform.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The platform launched Wednesday across all 50 states and is designed for any type of employee leave, like parental, medical, caregiver or bereavement. This brings the company’s total funding to $26 million, co-founder and CEO Mahima Chawla told TechCrunch. Oyster snaps up $20M for its HR platform aimed at distributed workforces.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

‍Eco, which has built out a digital global cryptocurrency platform, announced Friday that it has raised $26 million in a funding round led by a16z Crypto. Founded in 2018, the SF-based startup’s platform is designed to be used as a payment tool around the world for daily-use transactions. million funding round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

million in pre-seed funding. San Francisco-based Global Founders Capital (GFC) led the round. The fintech landscape, as described by Bakori, is one where while startups create silo interfaces that allow their customers to send or receive funds between themselves, issues always arise when global financial systems come into play.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

BoxGroup has quietly, yet diligently, been funding companies at the early stage for over a decade. Today, BoxGroup is announcing it has beefed up its war chest so that it can be that “first yes” to more companies with the closure of two new funds totaling $255 million of capital. Each fund amounts to $127.5 million. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2024

AppDirect, a San Francisco- and Montreal-based platform for buying, selling and managing tech through a network of IT advisors, has raised $100 million from CDPQ to expand its financing program for small- and medium-sized tech businesses. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Prive , a months-old, San Francisco-based startup founded by two former Uber product managers, just raised $1.7 million in pre-seed funding to create what it describes as a far more customizable e-commerce subscriptions platform for D2C brands. 5 predictions for the future of e-commerce. billion.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Less than a year after its $3 million seed round, San Francisco- and Africa-based fintech Pngme has snapped up another $15 million for its financial data infrastructure play. The company is also describing itself as a machine learning-as-a-service platform. “It’s a highly data-driven user experience. .”

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

SF New Deal began with a vision of San Francisco as a world class city that provides an abundance of support, opportunity, dignity, respect, and appreciation for small businesses and neighbors in need. SF New Deal launched in March 2020 as a rapid response to the COVID pandemic in San Francisco.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Sequoia Capital India led the San Francisco and Bangalore-headquartered startup’s $30 million Series B round. A number of investors, including Qualgro, Lachy Groom and Chiratae Ventures, also participated in the round, which pushes the five-year-old startup’s all-time funding to $43 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Today, the San Francisco-based company operates in 11 states plus Washington, D.C., Thousands of “shefs” are now using the platform — 85% of whom are women and 80% people of color — and many are immigrants or refugees cooking homemade dishes representing nearly 100 countries. Also elevating those expansion efforts is a $73.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Creating a spend and procurement platform from scratch might’ve been a big risk, but it appears to have paid off for Jobani, who claims that PayEm now has “hundreds” of customers and fast-growing revenue (up 550% over the last year).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Others involved individual decisions on where to live: do you bet on the future of San Francisco or do you want to partake in the growth of some other startup hub? Clubhouse believes it can reinvent radio with the right interactivity and build a unique social platform. It’s a new social platform, with new social dynamics.

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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. On the other end of the spectrum, startups like Fireflies.ai

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

HomeLight , which operates a real estate technology platform, announced today that it has secured $100 million in a Series D round of funding and $263 million in debt financing. The financings bring the San Francisco-based company’s total raised since its 2012 inception to $530 million. in the coming months. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Enable , a startup developing a cloud-based software tool for business-to-business rebate management, announced Wednesday a $45 million Series B funding round. and moved to San Francisco in 2020, was co-founded by Andrew Butt and Denys Shortt in 2015 but launched fully in 2016. The company, which started in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

In one of the latest developments, Coralogix , which has built a platform to harness those data streams into one mighty river is announcing a mighty round of funding to expand its business. “Our goal with Corlogix was always to expand to a full observability platform, which we have now done,” Assaraf said in an interview.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Speak , an English language learning platform with AI-powered features, today announced that it raised $27 million in a Series B funding round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund , with participation from Lachy Groom, Josh Buckley, Justin Mateen, Gokul Rajaram and Founders Fund.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

While the global pandemic was still in full force, Dipti Desai, who had been building data platforms at Uber at the time, started working with a nonprofit selling masks on Shopify. So, she decided to take that on and founded Crstl , a San Francisco–based SaaS application and platform that is now making its national launch after raising $4.4

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Sundae , a residential real estate marketplace that pairs sellers of dated or damaged property with potential buyers, has raised $80 million in a Series C funding round co-led by Fifth Wall and General Global Capital. The San Francisco-based company declined to reveal at what valuation its Series C was raised.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

But in late 2020, Cent’s small, San Francisco-based team created Valuables , an NFT market for tweets, and by March, the small blockchain startup was thrown a serendipitous curveball. million, and he donated the proceeds to Give Directly’s Africa Response fund for COVID-19 relief. million on the platform himself.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Substack , the five-year-old newsletter platform that has aggressively positioned itself as a disruptive force in media, has abandoned efforts to raise a Series C round, the New York Times is reporting today. Substack told Axios late last year that the top 10 writers on the platform collectively generate $20 million in annual revenue.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Certainly, he never imagined launching a private event management platform for restaurants and venues, but that’s what he is building, and VCs think enough of it that they just seed funded the company to the tune of $3.6 Interestingly, the idea ties to Hutchison’s five years in the U.S. Army as an infantry officer.

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