Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Its been gradual, but generative AI models and the apps they power have begun to measurably deliver returns for businesses. Google DeepMind put drug discovery ahead by years when it improved on its AlphaFold model, which now can model and predict the behaviors of proteins and other actors within the cell. Blackbird.AI

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 28, 2025

Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent,” Musk said in a post on X, adding that the combined company would be valued at $80 billion. Neither X nor xAI immediately responded to a request for comment. Musk in February made a $97.4

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Terraa , a Moroccan B2B tech-enabled food distribution platform, has raised $1.5 Morocco is our priority at the moment, and we are building the playbook in terms of operations, building our tech and expanding in cities. We handle everything, from sourcing from the farmers to the delivery to the end consumer.

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Futurism

MARCH 24, 2025

High frame-rate footage shows the vehicle plowing right through the styrofoam obstruction, an eyebrow-raising demonstration of the company relying exclusively on video feeds for its driver assistance software. With no doubt, the Model Y would have gone through the wall," he concluded. "I

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

This past decade, Nigeria has seen several companies cater to the development and growth of software engineers and tech talent in general. So when Chika Nwobi started Decagon in 2018, the perception was generally “here comes another tech talent accelerator.” What is Andela, the Africa tech talent accelerator?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

Superscript , an insurance broker and tech platform targeting SMEs and “high-growth” tech firms, has raised £45 million ($54 million) in a Series B round of funding. Germany’s Wefox last year raised $400 million at $4.5 and across the European Economic Area (EEA). The underwriting factor.

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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. With the latest capital infusion, Side’s total raised since its 2017 inception now totals over $250 million.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2021

A lucky 25 customers received Tesla’s redesigned Model S “Plaid” at an event hosted by CEO Elon Musk in Fremont, California on Thursday night. Tesla is selling a less powerful version of the redesigned Model S with more range — 412 miles — that starts at just a hair under $80,000. It’s also expected to get around 390 miles of range.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Previously, the stunning intelligence gains that led to chatbots such ChatGPT and Claude had come from supersizing models and the data and computing power used to train them. o1 required more time to produce answers than other models, but its answers were clearly better than those of non-reasoning models.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 26, 2025

While many standing desks get bragging rights of being adjustable, this model of FlexiSpot only has one leg which means you're able to neatly tuck it over your bed or the couch. Of course, it's also adjustable in height so you can use it as a sit-down desk or raise it to a comfortable standing height. has desktop measurements of 31.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Picture this: Fast-growing startup raises a high eight-figure round. Then, a year later, it decides to raise another. But bucking the trend is Span , a hardware-focused climate tech company that’s trying to replace the home electrical panel, a device most people only think about when the hair dryer causes the lights to go out.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Andela has been pivotal to placing the continent’s tech talent globally. 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.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

A well-funded AI lab with a deep bench of research talent is releasing a powerful new model that generates high-definition video for the film and advertising industries. The challenge is that if you want to output in high definition, your inputs have to be in high definition, so you need to be able to train the model on HD footage, he says.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Today, a startup called Forward Networks — which has built digital twin modeling software geared specifically at helping to operate and maintain enterprise networks — is announcing some funding on the heels of strong growth. We’re thrilled to lead the company’s round of funding and support its next stage of growth.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2021

French startup ManoMano has raised a Series F funding round of $355 million led by Dragoneer Investment Group. So why did the company raise given that it’s already in a strong position to replicate the same model in other European markets? It is currently available in six European countries. billion ($1.42

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Eden Life , strategically positioning itself as the go-to platform for home service needs, has raised a $1.4 When the founders, ex-Andelans (a term to describe previous Andela staff), launched the home service app two years ago, it raised some eyebrows. million seed round to deepen its market share. LocalGlobe, a U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

The company, which enables underbanked customers in select African markets to access a broad range of products and services without collateral or a guarantor, announced today that it has raised $75 million. M-KOPA’s total equity raise stands at $190 million. With M-KOPA’s model, everybody is welcome.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

African startups raised between $4 billion to $5 billion in 2021, according to various reports. However, for all their effort and importance to the tech ecosystem, raising significant venture capital seemed elusive to startups in Africa’s digital media landscape that rely on grants and personal funding to scale.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Anthropic , a buzzy AI startup co-founded by ex-OpenAI employees, has begun offering partners access to its AI text-generating models. Quora’s experimental chatbot app for iOS and Android, Poe , uses Anthropic models, but it’s not currently monetized. Robin AI is one of the first commercial ventures to use Anthropic models.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

[Image: Amtrak] Nicer seats, bigger views In an announcement released earlier this month , Amtrak revealed a first look at the specs and interiors of its Airo design, and theyre a marked improvement to the rail services existing models.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

The sale would raise about $1.5 Additionally, CoreWeave’s capital-intensive business model raises questions about sustainability, adding to broader market uncertainty. CoreWeave and some existing investors had initially aimed to sell 49 million shares in the offering priced between $47 and $55 each to raise as much as $2.7

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

In total, Alerzo has raised more than $20 million since its launch. “Growing up in Ibadan, I watched my mother operate two informal retail stores to raise my three siblings and me. Alerzo owns and operates its full-stack tech-driven supply chain and logistics to process these orders. The company is announcing a $10.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Lagos- and Texas-based digital healthcare provider Reliance Health is the latest beneficiary and is doing so in grand style, raising $40 million. Reliance Health operates business-to-business and business-to-customers models. Over 200,000 individuals in total from both models use Reliance Health. 3,500 (~$7.00) to ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 19, 2022

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Each year Heather Mansfield of Nonprofit Tech for Good presents a free webinar featuring the top ten digital marketing and fundraising trends to prioritize in the following year. Meta’s advertising revenue model is failing and their future is unpredictable. Are you raising funds using Facebook & Instagram Fundraising Tools ?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

VCs continue to bet big on legal tech. According to Crunchbase, firms have invested more than $1 billion in legal tech companies, an uptick from the $512 million invested last year. Terzo recently raised $16 million for its tech that automatically extracts key data from contracts.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Karthee Madasamy Contributor Share on Twitter Karthee Madasamy is the managing partner at MFV Partners , a deep tech-focused venture firm. Like nearly every other sector, deep tech faced significant headwinds in 2022. ” These are positive signs for deep tech founders preparing to raise money this year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

In total, Okra has raised $4.5 Its business model provides integrations to developers and businesses into existing banking services and takes commissions off subsequent transactions. Nigeria is becoming Africa’s unofficial tech capital. Pngme raised $3 million in February. guaranteed uptime. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Moove , an African mobility company with a fintech play, wants to change that, and is raising $23 million in Series A to scale rapidly across the continent. The founders saw it as a huge task to address this deficit and figured that deploying an asset financing model was the go-to approach. Moove raised a $5.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Yoco’s portable card machines have proved masterful in solving this problem; when TechCrunch covered the company three years ago after its $16 million Series B raise, it had little over 30,000 merchants using its platform. South Africa’s Yoco raises $16 million to boost digital services to small businesses. Image Credits: Yoco.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The heated race to develop and deploy new large language models and AI products has seen innovation surgeand revenue soarat companies supporting AI infrastructure. Lambda Labs new 1-Click service provides on-demand, self-serve GPU clusters for large-scale model training without long-term contracts. billion, a 33.9% increase over 2023.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Generative AI is the tech industry’s buzzword of the moment. Supernormal hopes to demonstrate the value of generative AI with its tech, which creates meeting notes by integrating with Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and other conferencing platforms. The new cash brings the company’s total raised to around $12.9

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Thus, the buy now, pay later business model is now expanding into this B2B world at a rate of knots. Playter has raised backing to do this, as has Hokodo, Billie and Tranch, to name a few other players. Mondu has now raised a $43 million Series A round led by U.S. The company has now raised $57 million to date.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

That’s why we’ve pivoted to a SaaS model. Fortunately, the SaaS direction has delivered upsides: We’ve achieved relatively strong product-market fit and cash flow-positive status without big VC raises or burn rates. Studied global markets and tech trends. Like any major startup redirect, there were several “a-ha!”

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

In 2019, we strategically decided to expand our successful operating model into additional geographies, with a particular focus on the United States, and in the following three years expanded into 12 additional markets, the company wrote. How much will Klarna seek to raise in its IPO? But then, it decided to expand into the U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

Those thoughts are also a source of existential dread, even for people working at a tech company like Eventgroove! Google’s Bard is a generative language model from Google AI, trained on a massive dataset of text and code. Funds raised will go directly to helping these kids and families get the support they need to thrive.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

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