TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Startups that solve the supply-chain and operational challenges of players in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry–by helping buyers access products from sellers on a single platform–keep attracting venture capital from investors. This model has led to customer complaints on both sides of the platform.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2024

Nigerian fintech Cleva, focused on creating a banking platform for African individuals and businesses to receive international payments by opening USD accounts, has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by 1984 Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Aye Finance, an Indian startup that offers its digital lending platform to small firms, has raised $37.18 million in a fresh funding round led by British International Investment, as it looks to continue to help micro enterprises grow their businesses and employees expand their incomes.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Instead of creating a one-off, ad hoc solution, Sharma spearheaded a platform, Simpplr, which later spun off into its own company. Simpplr this morning announced it raised $70 million in a funding round led by Sapphire Ventures with participation from Norwest Ventures, Tola Capital and Salesforce Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

AeroCloud , a cloud-native airport management software startup used by dozens of airports across the world, has raised $12.6 it counts Tampa International and John Wayne Airport as customers, processing some 150 million passengers each year across the board. million in a Series A round of funding. Founded out of Chester, U.K.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

San Francisco-based Postman, which operates a collaborative platform for developers to help them build, design, test and iterate their APIs, said on Wednesday it has raised $225 million in a new financing round that values it at $5.6 API platform Postman delivers $150M Series C on $2B valuation. Image Credits: Postman.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 20, 2022

Whether virtual, in person, or hybrid, raffles are an effective way to raise money for your nonprofit (case in point—the $9,420,506 raffle organizers on Eventgroove have earned for their causes since November 2019). This is where a fundraising platform enters the chat. . Why Sweepstakes Are a Great Option over Raffles.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech platform OPay is in talks to raise up to $400 million, The Information reported today. The $170 million raised so far came from mainly Chinese investors who have collectively begun to bet big on African startups over the past few years. last year to over $2 billion in December.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

If you follow #beautytok, #beautytube or any beauty content on social media platforms, you know that popular product trends are hard to keep up with. Summer International stays ahead of the game by identifying the most influential content creators, and working with them to incubate new brands.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

We live in a platform world, where technological apps connect consumers directly with goods and services. Electronic transaction platforms like Amazon, Uber, Grubhub, and Airbnb have perhaps permanently changed the way that we live and work. Platform apps seem to offer convenience at low cost and with little effort.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Fashion items are among the most — if not the most — sought after on many e-commerce platforms. While general e-commerce activities between African shoppers and global brands have occurred informally via long-held relationships, several platforms have used tech to centralize these processes across various shopping brackets.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Today, ContactMonkey, a platform that lets companies create, send and track internal comms from Outlook and more, announced that it raised $55 million in a Series A round led by Updata Partners. Email is quite profitable, as it turns out. Or rather, email communications software is.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Even before Facebook helped raise $10 million dollars for the Center for Disaster Philanthropy for Hurricane Harvey relief, Facebook “Donate” buttons and fundraisers created by Facebook users were popping up in the feed with increased frequency. Increased Reach for Pages that share Fundraisers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

In total, Flutterwave has raised $225 million and is one of the few African startups to have secured more than $200 million in funding. . When the company raised its Series B, we reported that Flutterwave had processed 107 million transactions worth $5.4 African fintech firm Flutterwave raises $35M, partners with Worldpay.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Co-founder and CEO Afif Khoury says that the new capital — a combination of debt and equity of which Khoury wouldn’t provide a very detailed breakdown — will be put toward mergers and acquisitions, customer success and international expansion. To date, Soci has raised nearly $240 million.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Online collaboration platforms are key to this success, and in return, can help your nonprofit raise more funds through the power of connections. However, when it comes to collaborating with people outside of your organization, it may be difficult to get everyone using one common platform. Internal Efficiency. cureo.com.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

French startup Welcome to the Jungle has raised a new $54 million (€50 million) Series C round. Essentially, a profile on the platform should look like a feature article in a fancy magazine. The startup has also developed its own applicant tracking system and some companies use the platform directly for their hiring processes.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2025

Mobile giving trends Best practices for raising more through mobile giving How mobile giving technology can help What is mobile giving? Mobile giving is raising funds through a mobile device, whether via text, the Internet, an app, or email. The transition may take some internal adjusting, but it shouldnt be a complex integration.

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Candid

JANUARY 29, 2025

It can help you decide on the revenue categories youll focus on, the likely mix of revenue from those categories, and the capabilities required to raise that revenue. What are the capabilities and assets that helped raise funds from your largest revenue sources? based nonprofits. .; Annual reports can provide valuable insights.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

It is critically important to craft your key messages in specific language that reflects their values and on platforms they can relate to. Even though you might be sick of the messages because you’ve said them multiple times on multiple platforms, it’s likely that your audience members have only noticed them once or twice.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 22, 2025

Renting one of those vessels for an oceanographic expedition like this can cost upwards of $50,000 per day, according to Ferretti, a huge sum to raise for many scientists facing budget constraints. The luxury vessels participating in this scientific matchmaking vary widely.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Legend: 30% BLUE: Partnerships with Corporate & Digital Platforms Partnerships played a critical role in extending reach and credibility. Many campaigns relied heavily on corporate relationships and digital platform integration to boost their visibility and engagement, making this a significant factor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Blobr , a Paris-based startup operating in the no-code space with tech to make it easier for companies to expose and monetise their existing APIs, has raised €1.2 Those platforms are tailored for internal APIs but are not thought of and optimized to manage APIs as products. million in pre-seed funding.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

In this guide, we’ve rounded up top online fundraising platforms to help you make the most of digital fundraising. Search for a platform that offers essential fundraising features such as: Branded donation pages. This enables you to seamlessly share data across platforms to better track your fundraising efforts and donor base.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

According to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law , there are 6,500+ NGOs registered with the NGOs Coordination Board in Kenya. M-Changa has also partnered with GlobalGiving to enable NGOs already of the platform to accept mobile payments. Finally, M-Changa seeks to build trust from both local and international donors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Plain Language Association International. For every 1,000 fundraising messages sent, nonprofits raised $78. Select a Crowdfunding Platform. Resource: 8 Powerful Crowdfunding Platforms for Nonprofits. is the average amount raised by a nonprofit crowdfunding campaign. The Center for Plain Language. GivePanel ].

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Oyo has raised $3.23 billion in equity (primary + secondary) and debt funding rounds over the years, according to insight platform Tracxn. Oyo originally planned to raise up to $1.16 SoftBank cuts internal valuation of $10 billion Oyo to $2.7 India’s Oyo valued at $10B after founder purchases $2B in shares.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

When you hear the word “intranet,” chances are your mind is conjuring up images of badly designed internal communications platforms from the early aughts: a place for your internal communications team to post announcements you’re not going to read. The company today announced that it has raised a $4.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

No-code platforms have developed into a hot market , and Stacker , a London-based no-code platform is attempting to bring the concept to a new level. Today’s investment brings the total raised to $23 million, according to Crunchbase data.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It costs millions to build a tech platform. Ultimately, tech platforms require too much time and care to be just a side-project for most nonprofits. Combining a tech platform with fiscal sponsorship, Open Collective can take on the compliance side—like dealing with the Internal Revenue Service—so that groups can focus on their work.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

When payments giant Stripe raised $600 million at a $95 billion valuation in 2021, it made headlines for raising capital at the highest-ever valuation for a privately-held startup. The fintech company has reportedly approached investors about raising more capital — at least $2 billion — at a valuation of $55 billion to $60 billion. .”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But since the unicorn changed its business model to a pure marketplace focusing on senior developers, other platforms such as AltSchool Africa are trying to fill one of the gaps it left: training people to become junior to mid-level engineers. Nigeria’s Decagon raises millions to finance and train software engineers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Women for Women International does a good job of keeping their supporters updated with stories of women impacted by their program. Lifting Hands International uses a donation tier, which is particularly effective in boosting online donations when accompanied by stories of impact.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

The startup uses blockchain technology to help brands build customer loyalty without having to rely on buying up pricey ads on third-party social media platforms, Haney explained. “[Outdoor Voices] would spend 30% to 40% of our dollars raised directly to the big [social media] platforms.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

One beneficiary of that increased spending is London-based Beamery, a startup developing a talent lifecycle management platform. Beamery today announced that it raised $50 million in a Series D round that values the company at $1 billion, bringing the company’s total raised to date to $228 million.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Chatfuel is platform that enables users to create Facebook Messenger bots without any coding experience. Specifically for nonprofits, Lightful is a social media management platform that enables organizations to schedule social media posts ahead of time and provides analytics to help organizations raise more awareness and funds.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Stacked , a web-based platform that provides passive investment tools for retail investors interested in crypto, just announced it raised a $35 million Series A co-led by Alameda Research , a crypto trading firm owned by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Bybit and BitDAO partner Mirana Ventures co-led the round alongside Alameda.

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