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Nonprofits get $10 million grant from Google to expand AI

Mashable Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Google.org , the tech giant's philanthropic arm, is investing millions of dollars into getting nonprofits up to speed on generative AI , part of a massive funding effort to empower organizations to adopt the tech, including Google 's own AI offerings. SEE ALSO: Character.AI SEE ALSO: Character.AI

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zeroheight raises $10M round led by Tribe Capital to scale DesignOps for UX teams

TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

But scaling the impact of UX teams is not simple, and in recent years teams have turned to what’s know as DesignOps platforms to help them. Now, a new startup hopes to become a key DesignOps platform for UX teams, and has raised money to help it, in turn, scale-up.

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Microsoft teams up with Cruise on self-driving cars, chips in for $2 billion investment

The Verge

JANUARY 19, 2021

billion investment from the SoftBank Vision Fund. Later that year , GM teamed up with Honda to design a purpose-built self-driving car. Cruise recently began testing its fully driverless vehicles in San Francisco for the first time. In 2018, Cruise secured a $2.25

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Stanford engineers team up with Michelin-star chef to build modular restaurants

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The trio paired up with Michelin-star chef Eric Minnich, who was previously part of the founding culinary team and executive chef of Spanish restaurant The Commissary in San Francisco, to start Mezli , a company building fully autonomous modular restaurants. Animation of how a Mezli bowl comes together. Image Credits: Mezli.

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8VC raises $880M in new fund that aims ‘to fix a broken world’

TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Austin-based venture firm 8VC, led by controversial Palantir founder Joe Lonsdale, has raised $880 million in its fifth fund. He also shared that the 8VC team has grown to more than 60 people. In 2020, 8VC famously moved its headquarters from San Francisco to Austin, Texas. I really hope we can keep it this way.”

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A Blueprint to Building a New Model of Community Care

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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Alta closes $12.4M seed round led by Makers Fund and Andreessen Horowitz

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. . Alta plans to raise another funding as early as this year to increase its headcount across the globe, said Allison Howard, COO of Alta.

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How to earn a shot at $100,000 in equity-free funding at TechCrunch Disrupt

TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

Just imagine what $100,000 of equity-free funding could do for your startup. This how-to begins here, and it ends onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt , which takes place in San Francisco on October 18-20. And, if they’re good enough, founders will have a shot at taking home $100,000 in equity-free funding.

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Visual collaboration company Miro valued at $17.5B following $400M in new funding

TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The new capital infusion gives Miro $476 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2011 by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin. Visual collaboration is something that allows teams in companies to better be on the same page. We are thrilled to continue our partnership with Andrey and the entire Miro team.”.

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OpenAI will give roughly 10 AI startups $1M each and early access to its systems

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

OpenAI, the San Francisco-based lab behind AI systems like GPT-3 and DALL-E 2, today launched a new program to provide early-stage AI startups with capital and access to OpenAI tech and resources. Called Converge, the cohort will be financed by the OpenAI Startup Fund , OpenAI says.

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Employee leave startup Cocoon launches after raising $20M in new funding

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In addition to the launch, the San Francisco-based company announced it raised a $20 million Series A funding led by Index Ventures, with participation from First Round Capital, SemperVirens, XYZ, Magnify Ventures and a group of individual investors. It’s similar to what we saw in the early Plaid team.”.

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Faction raises $4.3M to deploy 3-wheeled EVs for driverless delivery

TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

million in seed funding led by Trucks VC and Fifty Years. Faction, which is about a 10-person team, is working with other companies for the autonomous vehicle stack. Now, with prototypes built and an ambition to scale, McKendrick has raised $4.3

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Kapor Capital, Square co-founder Sam Wen back TomoCredit in its $10M Series A funding round

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The San Francisco-based startup is announcing today that it has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Kapor Capital and KB Investment Inc. The new capital comes just over seven months after TomoCredit raised $7 million in seed funding, and brings its total raised this year to $17 million.

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Playbook, where ‘Pinterest meets Dropbox’ for designers, closes on $18M in funding

TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Playbook, a startup that describes itself as a “creative file manager for designers” where “Pinterest meets Dropbox ,” has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. She realized that her teams were spending about 90% of their time digging around Dropbox looking for assets.

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Insightly helps engineering teams increase productivity and reduce burnout

TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Insightly Analytics helps engineering teams stop problems before they happen, like slow release cycles, bottlenecks and uneven workload distribution that can lead to employee burnout. Its user base includes a total of 12,000 engineers, including teams in the U.S., India, Kenya and Israel. Insightly’s cockpit.

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FlyMachine raises $21 million to build a virtual concerts platform for a post-pandemic world

TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

San Francisco-based FlyMachine is aiming to seek out the holy grail of the digital music industry, finding a way to capture some of the magic of live concerts and performances in a live-streamed setting. The virtual concert industry didn’t have as big of a lockdown moment as some hoped for.

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Culinary marketplace Shef whips up nationwide expansion with new funding, growth ingredients

TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Today, the San Francisco-based company operates in 11 states plus Washington, D.C., million Series B round of funding that the company closed in June 2022 and only now announced, Grassia said. TechCrunch profiled the company in 2021 when it raised a $20 million Series A and was only in seven cities.

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How to Raise First Dollars in a Difficult Market: The Venture Perspective

TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

It’s a vital question, and it’s why we’ve invited three investors — who we think know their stuff — to share their insight and advice on the TechCrunch+ stage at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18-20 in San Francisco. He is also the GP of the 500 Fintech fund. Early action equals bigger savings. Prices increase July 29.

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Real estate tech startup Side raises $50M more at a $2B valuation as it preps for an IPO

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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In edtech, history matters: Reach Capital just closed its largest fund to date

TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

The San Francisco-based venture firm saw an increase in digital infrastructure, remote learning and society’s ever fickle attention as an opportunity — and unsurprisingly, those same tailwinds then helped Reach close its largest fund to date.

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This West Point grad started a booking system for restaurants, and VCs just funded it

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 Above: Perfect Venue’s small but growing team, with Hutchison at far right. Army as an infantry officer.

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Startup cynicism and Substack, or Clubhouse, or Miami, or …

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? While San Francisco and distantly New York and Boston remain the clear hubs of tech startups in the U.S., Do you switch jobs or stay and double down?

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Experts from Front, Mural and WorkBoard discuss how to manage a distributed workforce at Disrupt

TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

That’s why we’re excited to announce that Mathilde Collin, co-founder and CEO at Front, Deidre Paknad, co-founder and CEO at WorkBoard and Adriana Roche, chief people officer at Mural, will tackle this topic onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18-20 in San Francisco. Early action equals bigger savings.

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Sequoia India’s Surge backs engineering analytics startup Hatica in $3.7M funding

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

million in a funding round led by Sequoia India and Southeast Asia’s Surge, they said Thursday. The San Francisco-headquartered startup aims to boost the productivity and well-being of developers by helping them better understand how they are spending their time with detailed engineering analytics.

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Giving Trends in Kenya: How the Growth of Mobile Payments Are Transforming Community Giving

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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HeadsUp helps PLG sales teams understand how and when to sell

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

For many non-technical sales teams at product-led growth companies, it’s difficult to sift through reams of data to find out the best way to engage with potential paying customers. The San Francisco-based startup announced today it has raised $8.5 Imagine you’re a seller at a developer tooling company.

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Bolt makes first acquisition with Tipser, launches ‘Remote Checkout’

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

San Francisco-based Bolt is fresh off of raising $393 million in Series D funding in October, bringing total capital raised to date to $600 million. It is very strategic to have them on our team.”. The entire Tipser team is staying put, so Bolt will be adding 100 more people to its team.

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Arianna Simpson talks crypto at Disrupt and why a16z bets billions

TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2023

In May 2022, a16z announced a fourth crypto fund to the tune of $4.5 billion, which brings the total amount of funding it has raised for crypto and web3 alone to more than $7.6 Prior to joining the VC firm, Simpson founded Autonomous Partners, an investment fund focused on cryptocurrencies and digital assets.

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With customers like Coinbase and Shopify, remote hiring startup Deel raises $425M at a $5.5B valuation

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As a result, Deel — a San Francisco-based startup which provides payroll, compliance tools and other services to help businesses hire remotely — has seen a massive surge in demand. billion valuation , the startup is announcing it has raised $425 million in a Series D funding round that gives it a valuation of $5.5

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Nigeria’s lender Payhippo raises $3 million in seed funding to extend quick loans to SMEs

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Nigeria’s lending startup Payhippo has raised $3 million in a seed round, funding the company plans to use in sourcing the talent needed to optimize its technology as it ramps up effort to extend speedy credit to more small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the West African country. .

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Uber’s fraught and deadly pursuit of self-driving cars is over

The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Uber is selling its autonomous vehicle business to Aurora Innovations, a San Francisco-based startup founded by the former head engineer of Google’s self-driving car project, the two companies announced Monday. We are working through the details with Aurora and will notify our teams in the coming weeks.”.

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Playbook, which aims to be the ‘Dropbox for designers,’ raises $4M in round led by Founders Fund

TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

When Jessica Ko was head of design at Google and then Opendoor, she realized that her teams spent about 90% of their time digging around Dropbox looking for assets. Finance teams were constantly needing them for things like creating pitch decks. In many cases, they’d find older versions. It was such a chaotic process,” Ko recalls. “We

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Riot prepares your team against highly sophisticated cyberattacks

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

It now also offers customized educational content that can help grow the cybersecurity culture in your team. While it is still quite difficult to raise a funding round in the current economic environment, Riot managed to put together an interesting list of investors. It is available on Slack, Microsoft Teams or through a web interface.

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Uber sells self-driving unit Uber ATG in deal that will push Aurora’s valuation to $10B

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

billion following a $1 billion investment last year from Toyota, DENSO and SoftBank’s Vision Fund. Bagnell, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon, helped launch Uber’s efforts in autonomy, ultimately heading the autonomy and perception team at the Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh.

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The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

This year’s top auctioneers are driving impactful change, raising crucial funds and leveraging their expertise to make a difference for great causes worldwide. Each of these auctioneers was selected by the greater fundraising community as they are nominated, vetted and then opened up to nationwide voting to arrive at the finalists.

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Paradigm invests in Solana wallet app Phantom at $1.2 billion valuation

TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

The San Francisco crypto startup is turning this Solana attention into a fat $109 million funding round led by Paradigm on a $1.2 billion fund. ” Crypto startup Phantom banks funding from Andreessen Horowitz to scale its multichain wallet. . billion valuation. Crypto VC firm Paradigm debuts monster $2.5

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Serverless Stack raises $1M for open-source application framework

TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

Open-source framework startup Serverless Stack announced Friday that it raised $1 million in seed funding from a group of investors that includes Greylock Partners, SV Angel and Y Combinator. The company was founded in 2017 by Jay V and Frank Wang in San Francisco, and they were part of Y Combinator’s 2021 winter batch.

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Banking giant Truist acquires fintech startup Long Game in effort to reach younger demographic

TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Specifically, the San Francisco-based startup wants to drive bank customer engagement using prize-linked savings and casual gaming to motivate smart financial behaviors. As part of this latest acquisition, Long Game’s engineers, designers and executives will join Truist’s Innovation team. . “We million raise in 2017.

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SoftBank commits $3B more to investing in Latin American tech companies

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Today, the Japanese investment conglomerate is announcing the launch of the SoftBank Latin America Fund II, its second dedicated private investment fund focused on tech companies located in LatAm. SoftBank is launching the new fund with an initial $3 billion commitment. billion in 48 companies with a fair value of $6.9

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Daily Crunch: Former employee says Patreon has laid off its entire security team

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

More layoffs : Patreon, a company that enables content creators to offer monthly payment subscriptions to customers, confirmed that it let go of five people from its security team. Over the past decade, startups migrated north from Silicon Valley to make San Francisco the country’s hottest tech hub. Startups and VC.

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Alchemy raises $80M at a $505M valuation to be the ‘AWS for blockchain’

TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Blockchain developer platform Alchemy announced today it has raised $80 million in a Series B round of funding led by Coatue and Addition, Lee Fixel’s new fund. The startup is based in San Francisco and has an office in New York. . “We We also expect to 5x the team this year.”. million since it launched in 2017.

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Aero raises $65M for its semi-private airline

TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

and Europe, today announced that it has raised $65 million, with $50 million of those as a Series B funding round co-led by Albacore Capital Group and $15 million in convertible notes. A typical one-way trip from San Francisco to Los Cabos will set you back about $2,300. In the U.S., Image Credits: Aero.

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Monzo, the British challenger bank nearing 5 million customers, has recruited a new U.S. CEO

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

team is still roughly ten people as the bank works through its U.S. waitlist, and that post pandemic Monzo will choose San Francisco for its U.S. CEO comes hot on the heels of Monzo reportedly raising further top up funding. Since then, Monzo U.S. has only seen a tentative soft launch, reminiscent of its early U.K.

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Talkdesk’s valuation jumps to $10B with Series D for smart contact centers

TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Talkdesk , a provider of cloud-based contact center software, announced $230 million in new Series D funding that more than triples the company’s valuation to $10 billion, Talkdesk founder CEO Tiago Paiva confirmed to TechCrunch. San Francisco-based Talkdesk now has $498 million in total funding since its inception in 2011.

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Nonprofits get $10 million grant from Google to expand AI

zeroheight raises $10M round led by Tribe Capital to scale DesignOps for UX teams

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Microsoft teams up with Cruise on self-driving cars, chips in for $2 billion investment

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Stanford engineers team up with Michelin-star chef to build modular restaurants

8VC raises $880M in new fund that aims ‘to fix a broken world’

A Blueprint to Building a New Model of Community Care

Alta closes $12.4M seed round led by Makers Fund and Andreessen Horowitz

How to earn a shot at $100,000 in equity-free funding at TechCrunch Disrupt

Visual collaboration company Miro valued at $17.5B following $400M in new funding

OpenAI will give roughly 10 AI startups $1M each and early access to its systems

Employee leave startup Cocoon launches after raising $20M in new funding

Faction raises $4.3M to deploy 3-wheeled EVs for driverless delivery

Kapor Capital, Square co-founder Sam Wen back TomoCredit in its $10M Series A funding round

Playbook, where ‘Pinterest meets Dropbox’ for designers, closes on $18M in funding

Insightly helps engineering teams increase productivity and reduce burnout

FlyMachine raises $21 million to build a virtual concerts platform for a post-pandemic world

Culinary marketplace Shef whips up nationwide expansion with new funding, growth ingredients

How to Raise First Dollars in a Difficult Market: The Venture Perspective

Real estate tech startup Side raises $50M more at a $2B valuation as it preps for an IPO

In edtech, history matters: Reach Capital just closed its largest fund to date

This West Point grad started a booking system for restaurants, and VCs just funded it

Startup cynicism and Substack, or Clubhouse, or Miami, or …

Experts from Front, Mural and WorkBoard discuss how to manage a distributed workforce at Disrupt

Sequoia India’s Surge backs engineering analytics startup Hatica in $3.7M funding

Giving Trends in Kenya: How the Growth of Mobile Payments Are Transforming Community Giving

HeadsUp helps PLG sales teams understand how and when to sell

Bolt makes first acquisition with Tipser, launches ‘Remote Checkout’

Arianna Simpson talks crypto at Disrupt and why a16z bets billions

With customers like Coinbase and Shopify, remote hiring startup Deel raises $425M at a $5.5B valuation

Nigeria’s lender Payhippo raises $3 million in seed funding to extend quick loans to SMEs

Uber’s fraught and deadly pursuit of self-driving cars is over

Playbook, which aims to be the ‘Dropbox for designers,’ raises $4M in round led by Founders Fund

Riot prepares your team against highly sophisticated cyberattacks

Uber sells self-driving unit Uber ATG in deal that will push Aurora’s valuation to $10B

The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Paradigm invests in Solana wallet app Phantom at $1.2 billion valuation

Serverless Stack raises $1M for open-source application framework

Banking giant Truist acquires fintech startup Long Game in effort to reach younger demographic

SoftBank commits $3B more to investing in Latin American tech companies

Daily Crunch: Former employee says Patreon has laid off its entire security team

Alchemy raises $80M at a $505M valuation to be the ‘AWS for blockchain’

Aero raises $65M for its semi-private airline

Monzo, the British challenger bank nearing 5 million customers, has recruited a new U.S. CEO

Talkdesk’s valuation jumps to $10B with Series D for smart contact centers

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