TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We profiled Rebag back in 2015, when its name included two “g’s,” (gotta love URL availability) and had raised $4 million in seed funding to go after incumbents like The RealReal. Gorra intends to use the new capital to continue technology development on those tools, to add to Rebag’s workforce of 150 people and expand its marketing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today at TechCrunch’s crypto-focused event in Miami , OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer discussed his business and the future market for non-fungible tokens. Looking more broadly at the NFT market space itself, Finzer argued on stage that platforms like Instagram joining the industry will be net-positive.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

After all, Airbnb is a high-profile example of people turning vacation homes, for example, into revenue generators when they’re not using them. Today, it’s active in over 20 markets in North America, including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Seattle, Denver, Austin, Vancouver, and Mexico City.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

If you’re excited to make sense of the crypto world, we’ve got an event in Miami coming up in a couple of weeks — details and tickets here ! — Christine and Haje. As we just mentioned, Musk was killing spirit all over Twitter today, rolling out gray checkmarks for high-profile accounts and then deleting them. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

There has been a steady drumbeat of stories about high-profile hacks, leaks and ransomware attempts since COVID-19 arrived on the scene. If this describes you — or someone you know — please use the form to share a link to their professional profile and their contact information before March 4, 2022.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Linkletter’s experience is just one of a string of high-profile spats involving Proctorio, as teachers and students call out what they see as invasive tracking. Proctorio was founded in 2013; some competing platforms like ExamSoft were around as early as 1998. million active weekly students on the platform.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Don’t call us; we’ll call you : Kyle reports that Take Blip, an online messaging platform for businesses, today announced that it raised $70 million. Speaking of Uber and moving things, the company has a new service that will deliver specialty food items from certain merchants in New York, Miami and Los Angeles across the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2015

Earlier this week I was in Miami to do a social media pre-workshop at the Knight Digital Media Seminar. But, with so many opportunities to connect on so many different platforms, how do you manage it all? My most engaged follower on Twitter this past week is Jennifer Preston. Jennifer was observing and tweeting during the session. (If

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

On May 16, Butler Hospitality , an on-demand platform for room service and amenities, sent an email to vendors that might have been considered reassuring under other circumstances. According to a Forbes profile, he opened his first restaurant in New York City at the age of 19 — located inside a “big-box” hotel.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

How’s the weather in Miami? It was important that any sound we added would add to the experience of the black people profiled in this poem and not the white people that they were interacting with – that this was definitely a poem about the experience of black people out in nature and the dangers they face. How are you?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

And now today, Miami-based Pipe is announcing a new raise — $50 million in “strategic equity funding” from a slew of high-profile investors. In conjunction with the new financing, Pipe said it is also broadening the scope of its platform beyond strictly SaaS companies to “any company with a recurring revenue stream.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Pipe — which only launched its platform last June — has declined to comment on the deal. Just a few weeks ago, Miami-based Pipe announced a new raise — $50 million in “strategic equity funding” from a slew of high-profile investors. Since then, over 3,000 companies have signed up to use our platform.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

Well, that deal has closed and in the end, Miami-based Pipe confirms that it has actually raised $250 million at a $2 billion valuation in a round that was “massively oversubscribed,” according to co-founder and co-CEO Harry Hurst. Over time, Pipe’s platform has evolved to offer non-dilutive capital to non-SaaS companies as well.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2022

The 18-month-old startup already offers bank accounts, credit cards and a peer-to-peer payments platform to teenagers, whose parents legally own the accounts. Umba , a digital banking platform operating in Lagos, Nigeria, raised $15 million in Series A funding, reports our man-on-the-ground, Tage Kene-Okafor. Accel led its $5.3

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2022

Last week, TechCrunch’s Kyle Wiggers gave us a glimpse into Plaid co-founder’s William Hockey’s latest venture : the platform for what he believes is the first bank of its kind: a “financial infrastructure” bank. And if you want to have this hit your inbox directly once it officially turns into a newsletter on May 1, sign up here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

I’m not going to run you through the latest Twitter headlines because, similar to the introduction of this newsletter, I will probably need to update it every hour to include all the pivots, contradictions and straight up meltdowns that are happening on the platform. Thanks to all who came to Miami this week for our debut crypto conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

I just spent two days in Miami at the Knight Foundation Media Learning Seminar where I co-facilitator a pre-conference workshop on leading on social channels with Amy Gahran and Stephanie Rudat. When I asked for a photo of him with the Fast Company magazine that includes the profile of him , he modestly posed behind the magazine cover.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

While attending Harvard Business School, Rice became determined to build a platform that provides accredited investors with access to invest in such entities with as little as $1 — essentially giving them a way to be LPs without meeting the strict requirements that have historically existed. Poolit’s tech platform is phenomenal.

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Candid

MARCH 10, 2025

Dr. Cali Curley (University of Miami), Dr. Marlene Walk (AlbertLudwigsUniversitt Freiburg), and I observed nonprofits engaged in a head-to-head fundraising competition to try to answer these questions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Last weekend, the network began banning certain parody accounts following a Musk-led rule change, including the accounts of high-profile comedians. Then on Tuesday came a report from Platformer’s Casey Newton that Musk is considering putting all of Twitter behind a paywall. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch. Let AI generate it.

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The Verge

AUGUST 7, 2020

Twitter broke with precedent when, the day after the executive order on social media was signed, the platform censored a presidential tweet saying “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” on the grounds that it “glorified violence.”. For what it’s worth, I do not think America will build its own Great Firewall.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” Trump had tweeted — quoting a former Miami police chief who, in 1967, called for a violent crackdown on the city’s black community. Facebook’s scale depends on courting Republicans and Democrats equally — making regular concessions to both to ensure that the platform is as large as it can be.

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