CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Since you probably raise a good percentage of your fundraising goal during the month of December, you have to make the time count! Try these 13 successful, yet underutilized strategies to help you raise more money and create stronger relationships this year-end. Most of the time, you’ve asked for money to create change.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Let’s talk money, startups and spicy IPO rumors. Earlier this week TechCrunch broke the news that Public, a consumer stock trading service, was in the process of raising more money. billion raise , a deal that was shocking for both its scale and speed. So its impending valuation is going to test public traders.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

French startup Homa has raised a $100 million Series B funding round. Homa also fosters A/B testing at scale to optimize user engagement. Overall, the company has raised $165 million and now works with 160 people. Quadrille Capital and Headline are leading the round. After that, Homa helps you monetize with ads.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

The surge of interest in e-sports, online fantasy leagues and more extensive online financial infrastructure have made the concept of real-money gaming more popular among consumers and games developers. Triumph has been in a quiet beta phase up to now, building some of its own games to test out the tech and working with early customers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 19, 2022

With fiscal sponsorship, individuals and organizations can bypass the complicated 501(c)(3) application process, saving time, money, and a lot of effort. When a new organization enters into a sponsorship agreement with its fiscal sponsor, they’re able to immediately start raising funds that are tax deductible for donors. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This means that if a head of credit, for example, wants to make a change to the lending criteria, they have to raise a ticket with the IT department. While there, they found that many automated decisions were poorly designed, hardly ever tested properly and required a lot of engineering capacity — ultimately leading to guesswork.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

At Classy, we put our own fundraising skills to this test with our annual #ClassyGives initiative, where our staff collectively fundraises for a nonprofit organization. HUGE shoutout to Team Sarah who is in the lead with $6,599 raised, and Alison and Phil who are on our individual leaderboard—plus Gabe who is not far behind!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

Healthcare startup Color has raised a sizable $167 million in Series D funding round, at a valuation of $1.5 billion post-money, the company announced today. We saw it multiple times, with lab testing, with antigen testing and now with vaccines,” Color CEO and co-founder Othman Laraki told me in an interview.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

With its Series C round , the company raised $450 million at a $15 billion valuation — it represents a 167% valuation jump in 12 months, which is not too bad. Checkout.com customers can send money to a bank account. Why did Checkout.com raise so much money? That’s a stark increase compared to last year’s valuation.

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Candid

MARCH 24, 2025

Secure multiple funding streams No money, no mission, the saying goes in the nonprofit sector. We raise significant funds from the U.S. At Save the Children, we often do tabletop exercises to test our readiness for change. Yet, most nonprofits build business models that rely on one or two major funding sources.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

‍Eco, which has built out a digital global cryptocurrency platform, announced Friday that it has raised $26 million in a funding round led by a16z Crypto. After a “successful” alpha test with millions of dollars deposited, the company’s Eco App is now available to the public. How do we think that will happen?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

By Nathan Hill , Optimization Evangelist at NextAfter , works every day to share how testing and optimization can lead to fundraising growth that can transform organizations and causes. If you want to dig into all of the results, you can check out the full study (including 32 unique and data-driven test ideas) at: recurringgiving.com.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Berkeley-based fintech Flourish has raised $1.5 A rewards engine designed to incentivize users to save or invest money. Flourish began by testing end-user mechanics with organizations such as CommonWealth and Opportunity Fund. The startup makes money through a partnership model that focuses on user activation and engagement. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Louis-based voice assistant startup Disruptel is announcing that it has raised $1.1 The money comes from an impressive group of investors who seem well-aligned with what the startup is aiming to do — namely, build a voice assistant that can provide detailed information about what’s happening on your TV screen. million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The investment, which catapults Zilliz’s to-date raise to over $53 million, is a sizable amount for any open source business around the world. There’s one caveat for investing in the area: don’t expect to make money in the first 3 to 5 years.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 11, 2025

This company enjoyed some success in raising money for its so-crazy-it-just-might-work idea of catapulting rockets and satellites into the sky, a concept SpinLaunch calls "kinetic launch." Ars Technica has mentioned SpinLaunch, the company that literally wants to yeet satellites into space, in previous Rocket Report newsletters.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The software was called Proctorio, an online test-proctoring tool that monitors students for suspicious behavior while they take virtual exams. The problem has inspired a growing business of remote proctoring services, which monitor students during their tests, since long before COVID-19. It was really frustrating,” she says. “It

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Often Im testing organizations while I consider whether to become more or less involved. If the exchange is all one-way, theyre not getting my money. Do these nonprofits even realize that by not reaching out, even minimally, theyre leaving money on the table? As you suggest, true friend raising is very personal.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Zambian card issuing fintech Union54 has raised $12 million in a seed extension round led by Tiger Global. Trusting that merchants will get settled on time, that merchants don’t lose money across currency conversions, and that consumers trust the card itself are crucial to making this work.

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Whole Whale

JULY 17, 2024

No matter your nonprofit’s size, scale, or mission, you’ll find useful tips and tricks in this article that will have you raising money in no time. Get companies involved, have people come out to the course, and raise money for your organization. Embarrass the Boss Add fun to team challenges by raising the stakes!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Mobile apps have to be bug-tested across countless devices to ensure they work as intended. Users don’t look kindly on poor experiences — 88% say they’ll abandon apps based on minor glitches, according to software testing vendor Qualitest (which admittedly has a horse in the race). ” Image Credits: Mobot.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

AltSchool, which is now Altitude Learning) has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding to scale its efforts, said chief executive Adewale Yusuf to TechCrunch. We need to find a shortcut for people, whereby they will be able to make money and provide for their family and add value to the economy. The company (not to be confused with U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

NALA , a Tanzanian cross-border payments company that recently pivoted from local to international money transfers, said Thursday it has raised $10 million in a new fundraising round. In that time, NALA built a mobile money service in East Africa and scaled it to more than 250,000 users. Remittance is NALA’s low-hanging fruit.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For starters, it can help you raise money. There are lots of reasons to measure the impact of your volunteers. By showing your donors and funders not just how immensely resourceful you are, but how deeply invested the community is in your program. appeared first on Bloomerang.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

raised more money from venture capitalists in 2021 than ever. On the bright side, founding teams counting both women and men as members raised 17% of VC investments in Africa in 2021. Women-founded startups in Africa to have raised $100 million or more are led mainly by white CEOs. Women-founded companies in the U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

By Rob Leighton , Executive Director and Founder at iMission Institute – a social sector marketing agency and technology consulting firm specializing in helping nonprofits raise more money, fire up engagement, and streamline work. 2) A/B Testing Not sure what subject line to go with? Test both! Which email copy is best?

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

At $699 for the Gameboard it’s not exactly an impulse buy, either, but the fact of the matter is people spend a lot of money on gaming, with some titles running into multiple hundreds of dollars for all the expansions and pieces. Image Credits: The Last Gameboard. Tabletop is now a more than $20 billion industry.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

It has raised $170 million, funding that it said it will be using to kick off its first air taxi services, which it noted in an announcement would be “in cities like Singapore, Rome, and Paris.” ” The money is part of a Series E, and Volocopter describes it at a first closing made at a pre-money valuation of $1.7

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Today, the company, which is building an “all-in-one expense management platform” for global startups, is announcing that it has raised a $57 million Series B at a $500 million valuation. Jeeves is currently beta testing in Brazil and Chile and Thazhmon expects that by year’s end, it will be live in all of North America and Europe.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

For example, you need to make sure the grant or endowment money you are spending for a particular program is being spent according to the grant or endowments terms. Standard accounting systems often allow tracking and reporting against revenue and expense lines at the account level.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

5% of 2018’s overall fundraising revenue was raised online, a record high 1. 26% of funds raised were donated through a website 2. However, by setting your default to a higher giving level, you may bring in less donors but it may help you raise more money, especially with existing, loyal donors.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

So far, it has been doing this mostly by powering A/B testing for paywalls, but it has a broader road map, its co-founder and CEO, Vitaly Davydov, told TechCrunch. Paywall A/B testing helps optimize revenue, by letting developers figure out which conversion screen will bring the best results.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Fundraising events provide a great opportunity to bring in funds for your organization, while raising awareness for your cause. However, organizing an event also costs money to produce, as well as resources to manage all the details. Yet, there are still a number of hard-costs required to produce an event.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Nonprofit-facing fundraising apps are those that your nonprofit staff members use to raise money on the go. 25+ Fundraising Apps for Your Nonprofit to Consider Fundraising apps can be powerful tools for raising more for your mission, but each one is different and will provide different benefits to your organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The risk is low, and the potential rewards are great, so be sure to consider testing this channel as part of your next fundraising effort. It calculates how much money you’ve raised for every dollar spent. If you plan to invest in fundraising ads over time, there’s a good chance you can improve your ROI by A/B testing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Although generative AI is exceeding my expectations, the Turing test is mostly intact in my personal experience. Finding your startup’s valuation: An angel investor explains how TechCrunch+ roundup: Beyond the Turing test, 3 VCs on SVB, usage-based pricing tactics by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Less than a year after launching , Somewhere Good announced this morning that it has raised $3.75 The money will be used for continued product innovation and expanding its nine-person team. “For The startup is testing out user reaction to these sorts of fundamental structural changes over the next couple of weeks.

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