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Free Webinar on February 7! How NGOs Worldwide Use Online Technology and Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Time: 1pm EDT (New York). Over the last two decades the global NGO sector has embraced online technology, but economic and political factors and the quality of Internet infrastructure regionally often affects how well NGOs worldwide can use new technology. Date: Tuesday, February 7. Cost: Free.

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Checkout.com raises $450 million and reaches $15 billion valuation

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Payments company Checkout.com is raising once again. The company has closed a $450 million Series C round with Tiger Global Management leading the round — Greenoaks Capital and all existing investors are also participating. According to the startup, it is now the fourth-largest fintech company globally.

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Ghanaian fintech Dash raises $32.8M seed to build connected wallets for Africans

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Global financial transactions are facilitated mainly by payment processors such as Visa or Mastercard. Today, the unified payments app is announcing that it has raised $32.8 Dash’s seed round, led by New York-based Insight Venture Partners , is one of the largest of its kind in Africa; only PalmPay’s $40 million tops it at the moment.

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Squarespace raises $300M at a staggering $10B valuation

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Squarespace has raised $300 million in a round of funding that values the company at a staggering $10 billion valuation. New backers include Dragoneer, Tiger Global, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, funds and accounts advised by T. That round was raised at a $1.5 Rowe Price Associates, Inc.

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African payments company Flutterwave raises $170M, now valued at over $1B

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New York-based private investment firm Avenir Growth Capital and U.S. hedge fund and investment firm Tiger Global led the Series C round. In total, Flutterwave has raised $225 million and is one of the few African startups to have secured more than $200 million in funding. . Launched in 2016 as a Nigerian and U.S.-based

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Doola raises $3M to help global founders launch an LLC in the US

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Doola, a startup that aims to help global entrepreneurs form a U.S. business, has raised $3 million in seed funding. We wanted to focus on building product, talking to users and growing our new business, and we thought, ‘ what if we could click a button and initialize a company?’ ,” said co-founder and CEO Arjun Mahadevan.

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Global investors flee from Chinese tech stocks after the government crackdown on Ant and Alibaba

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Global investors are running from Chinese tech stocks in the wake of the government’s crackdown on Ant Group and Alibaba, two high-flying businesses founded by Ma Yun (Jack Ma) that were once hailed as paragons of China’s new tech elite. China postpones Ant’s colossal IPO after closed-door talk with Jack Ma.