Candid

MARCH 24, 2025

Based on my 25 years experience working in global development, here are five tips to help nonprofits be ready to respond to unforeseen challenges. Save the Children draws funding from a range of sources: individual donors, corporations, foundations, multilateral institutions, and government agencies. Is it still relevant?

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

However, according to a 2023 study from Ipsos Global Trends , 72% of consumers are concerned that in the future, governments and public services wont look after citizens, thereby widening the large gap nonprofits must step in to fill. Google matched employee donations and the campaign raised over $800,000. Where to donate?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Skydio has raised $170 million in a Series D funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s Growth Fund. Skydio’s fresh capital comes on the heels of its expansion last year into the enterprise market, and it intends to use the considerable pile of cash to help it expand globally and accelerate product development.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Plain Language Movement started in the 1970s based on the idea to make it easier for the public to read, understand, and use government communications. For every 1,000 fundraising messages sent, nonprofits raised $78. Global Trends in Giving Report. is the average amount raised by a nonprofit crowdfunding campaign.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Every quarter we dig into the venture capital market’s global , national , and sector-based results to get a feel for what the temperature of the private market is at that point in time. I covered AgentSync for the first time last August , when the API-focused insurtech player raised a $4.4 Privacera also raised $50 million this week.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Tim Berners-Lee’s startup, Inrupt, has raised about $30 million in its Series A financing round, a source familiar with the matter said. TechCrunch reported in late October that the three-year-old Inrupt was in talks to raise between $30 million to $50 million. Inrupt’s customers include governments and enterprises.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Public App, a location-based social network that connects individuals to people in their vicinity, has raised $41 million in a new round, just six months after securing $35 million as the hyper-local Indian startup looks to expand its presence in the world’s second-largest internet market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

As startups in Africa continue to grow and raise money at a ridiculous pace, so too will their cap tables expand. Raise, a startup building Africa’s Carta is tackling these challenges and has received backing from 500 Startups to scale its technology. Image Credits: Raise.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Activity and fitness tracking platform Strava has raised $110 million in new funding, in a Series F round led by TCV and Sequoia, and including participation by Dragoneer group, Madrone Capital Partners, Jackson Square Ventures and Go4it Capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Opsera, a startup that’s building an orchestration platform for DevOps teams, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Felicis Ventures. Ranganathan then spent the last three years at Uber, where he ran that company’s global infrastructure. Image Credits: Opsera. Image Credits: Opsera.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

There’s no denying the growth of healthtech globally over the past three years thanks to the pandemic. Lagos- and Texas-based digital healthcare provider Reliance Health is the latest beneficiary and is doing so in grand style, raising $40 million. Reliance previously raised a $2 million seed round months post-YC in 2017.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

And in October, the company opened its first global quantum data center outside the U.S., In February, Lambda Labs raised a $320 million Series C venture round. Oxide, which cites Shopify as a major ecommerce customer, has raised $78M to date. in Ehningen, Germany. The company ended 2024 with more than 10,000 customers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Online education tools continue to see a surge of interest boosted by major changes in work and learning practices in the midst of a global health pandemic. “We’re seeing tremendous demand on the enterprise and government side,” said Gabe Dalporto, Udacity’s CEO who joined the company in 2019.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

The startup, which offers credit cards to underserved populations in Mexico, told TechCrunch it has raised an additional $50 million in equity at a $1.2 With this latest raise, Stori has raised more than $200 million in equity funding since its 2018 inception. . Enter Stori. billion valuation. Its new $1.2

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

Stranieri, who has worked in the cybersecurity industry for the past 20 years, got the idea for VU in 2007 after spending hours helping his grandmother verify her identity with the Argentinian government in what turned out to be a two-minute process. “It billion valuation.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

It has more than 125,000 volunteers, has responded to disasters in 700-plus communities, and raised nearly $250 million. He’s a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Global Future Council on the Future of Cities for the World Economic Forum. Team Rubicon is widely known for its innovation and unique culture.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Economies of scale are an essential cornerstone for on-demand companies, and to that end one of the hopefuls in the space has raised a big round to grow its business. ” He added that Bolt is working on partnering with more city governments to build out its services as part of their updated transportation strategies. billion ($8.4

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The data recently shared by the Indian government shows that the country has over 1.3 The co-founder said the startup’s battery management systems comply with the Automotive Industry Standards (AIS)-156 that the Indian government introduced last month to address EV battery fire issues. Tiger Global co-led the pre-Series A round of $5.2

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

” Both the firms raised capital in their most recent rounds at over $2.5 Tiger Global is one of the most prolific investors in India and is a backer of over a third of all unicorn startups in the country. The New York-headquartered firm, which counts India among its top three markets globally, has deployed over $6.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

European startup and venture capital data company Dealroom has raised a €6 million Series A, it told TechCrunch. The company’s new capital comes nearly two years after it raised €2.75 Per Wijngaarde, it has 50 government API customers that make up “about a third of [Dealroom] revenues.” million in early 2020.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Following this growth, it is planning on expanding to Egypt and the UAE, while doubling down on Saudi Arabia, against the backdrop of $5 million pre-Series A funding it has raised, in a round led by Europe-based VC Speedinvest, which marked its debut into Saudi Arabia, and RAED Ventures, with participation from MENA focused VC firm Wamda Capital. “We

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

VisibleRisk, which has raised $25 million to date, says its so-called “cyber ratings” are based on cyber risk quantification, which allows companies to benchmark their cyber risk against those of their peers, and to better understand and manage the impact of cyber threats to their businesses.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Less than a year after raising an $80 million Series C round, Anchorage is announcing that it has raised a $350 million Series D round. On top of that, Anchorage lets you trade crypto assets, stake assets to earn returns and participate in protocol governance if you own a lot of tokens for a specific protocol.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Government tends to struggle when it comes to keeping up with tech innovation. government worth just over $500,000, none of which are expected to expire, the New York Times reported. Heading into this year’s tax filing period, ZenLedger had raised just $11.5 The past U.S. Still, ZenLedger gained the trust of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

In 2021, the company raised €356 million ($385 million at today’s exchange rate). In the current funding environment, raising at the same valuation is already quite impressive. In the current funding environment, raising at the same valuation is already quite impressive. billion ($1.41 billion at today’s exchange rate).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Coming off a year of exponential growth, it has raised a $48 million Series B to provide more alternative payment solutions to its millions of merchants and consumers. African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines. Since the company’s Series A raise of $2.5 From 2016 to 2017, Ozow raised a combined $1.2

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Ed Roman, formerly a solo GP, invested in early-stage tech and crypto companies for over 10 years through Hack VC before partnering with Pack, who previously co-founded global crypto fund Dragonfly Capital and led Bain Capital Ventures’ foray into digital assets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Founded by Melanie Stricklan, David Godwin, and Thomas Ashman in 2017 and based in Austin and El Segundo, it’s raised $34.6 LeoLabs raises $65M Series B for its satellite monitoring and collision detection service. million over a two-part Series A round, the second chunk of which — worth $25 million — was announced today. (

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

Since its founding, it’s attracted interest from investors including Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Amplo, Pareto Holdings, Quiet Capital and Shutterstock co-founder and CEO Jon Oringer. Valar led a $20 million Series A funding round in Link while Tiger led a $10 million seed round; to date, Link has raised $30 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Cylus , a Tel Aviv-based rail cybersecurity startup, built a cybersecurity solution, CylusOne, to protect the global mainline and urban railway companies from an array of threats and risks. With rising government investment in critical infrastructure and growing cybersecurity regulations in the U.S., billion by 2027. “We

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Data.World, which today announced that it raised $50 million in Series C funding led by Goldman Sachs, looks to leverage cloud-based tools to deliver data discovery, data governance and big data analytics features with a corporate focus. Hurt says that the latest funding round, which brings Data.World’s total raised to $132.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

They include high-profile crypto and web3 investors such as Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research (FTX) and Distributed Global. Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets. Jambo raises $7.5M But M ARA wants to make an immediate influence.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

The company announced Thursday alongside its first-quarter earnings report that it was raising prices of the variants of its luxury Air sedan, beginning June 1. Considering that Lucid disclosed it has 30,000 reservations for the Air, it will be awhile before the company sees the benefit from these raised prices.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

While this news in and of itself is certainly attention-getting, it’s even more impressive when you consider the startup just raised a $50 million Series C last August at a $450 million valuation. The Jersey City, New Jersey-based startup raised $1.6 BlockFi, which lends money to cryptocurrency holders, just raised $18.3

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Sudo Africa , a fintech that provides a card-issuing API for developers and businesses in Nigeria, has raised $3.7 San Francisco-based Global Founders Capital (GFC) led the round. Tiger Global leads $3M round in Zambia’s Union54 for its card-issuing API. million in pre-seed funding.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Danish company LMS365 , an online learning management system (LMS) built for use inside Microsoft products, has raised $20 million in its first institutional round of funding. “Our primary markets (around 80%) are services industry, logistics, manufacturing, automotive, health care and government.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

For most people, mention of the word “taxes” conjures up unpleasant things like tedious processes, mountains of paperwork and shelling out a lot of money to the government. It raised a $3 million seed round in June of 2020. Also, the government introduced more tax credits to help support businesses during the pandemic. “So

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