The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 22, 2024

FreeWill has acquired GrantAssistant, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven platform designed to provide nonprofits and international development organizations with a proposal workflow toolkit that streamlines the grant application process. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. GrantAssistant’s full team, located in Washington, D.C.

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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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Futurism

MARCH 18, 2025

I t's a platform where millions of monthly users the company has declined to say how many are children and teens, but it's clearly a dominant portion of its audience engage in immersive conversations with AI chatbots designed to act like real-life celebrities, beloved fandom characters, and original personas. is striking.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

The San Francisco-based startup’s SaaS (software-as-a-service) platform currently processes over $5 billion in mortgages and consumer loans per day, up from nearly $3 billion last July. Today, Blend made its debut as a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange, trading under the symbol “ BLND.” million in 2020.

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Non Profit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Image Credit: Jon Tyson on unsplash.com X Corp, the company formerly known as Twitter, sued a nonprofit dedicated to exposing and counteracting digital hate speech which has published research critical of the tech company’s handling of hate speech on its platform. The group has also turned a critical eye toward X Corp (formerly Twitter).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Walnut raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by Eight Roads Ventures, to continue developing its sales experience platform. In addition to Tel Aviv, the company has offices in New York and London. Vilner intends to use the new funding to grow the team across the U.S,

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In 2024, the company made its North American debut with Horizon of Khufu , an exhibit in which visitors to sites in Montreal, Atlanta, and New York City don VR headsets to explore Egyptian life in the time of the pharaohs. It soon established a permanent venue in New York.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 9, 2020

By Elizabeth Ngonzi , Adjunct Faculty at New York University Center for Global Affairs and Former CEO of Afrika Tikkun USA. International organizations planning their fundraising strategies for the new decade and looking for new funding sources may be wondering how to maximize their success in attracting U.S.

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Engadget

MARCH 25, 2025

In 2020, Discord briefly rebranded itself as a general purpose chat app after many young people turned to the platform to stay in touch with their friends during lockdown. "After According to a recent New York Times report , the company could go public as early as later this year.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Amazon has launched Explore , a new platform which it promises will let you “explore anything from lessons to landmarks.” Image: Amazon. It works via a video stream, with tour guides, instructors, and personal shoppers providing one-on-one sessions.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

New York-based startup Sketchfab has been acquired by Epic Games , the company behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine. Sketchfab has been building a platform to upload, download, view, share, sell and buy 3D assets. On the technology front, Sketchfab lets you view 3D models on any platform. It also works with VR headsets.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In 2017, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings infamously told investors his streaming platform not only competes with its counterparts for attention but also with sleep. The New York Times also launched its own audio app in beta with an explicit outline of where it might be able to conquer still-unaccounted-for ear time.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

Millions and millions of people” are staying and living at Airbnb listings on a monthly basis, he says, and in cities like New York, that figure is more like 60 percent. Chesky says that nearly a quarter of Airbnb bookings are “long term,” or 28 days and longer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One of the quickest ways to build a list of cell phone numbers is through a text-to-donate or text-to-give mobile platform. In contrast, text message spam is almost always viewed, making it more annoying to donors. So how can you legally and easily build your list?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Today, the company has more than 120,000 rentals under management and about 10,000 new rentals per month. Its rental platform is live in 40 cities across Brazil, while its home-buying marketplace is live in four (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre) and seeing more than 10,000 sales in annualized terms. “We

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Earlier today, we reported that New York-based startup Adapty raised $2.5 Why mobile subscription management platforms are enjoying tailwinds by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch. million to date to help mobile app developers grow their revenue. million in total, including a $40 million Series B in 2021.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The New York-based startup, which provides a scale-out, unstructured data storage solution designed to eliminate tiered storage (i.e. Vast Data, to make an obvious pun, is raising vast sums of cash.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2022

auction platform, but the institution also held a series of smaller in-person wine and cheese “previews” where donors could come and view (and bid on!) One New York City-based organization held a similar event but framed it as a decentralized version of their “gala.” Fundraiser Ideas for Smaller Groups . art auction ?this

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

A new peer-reviewed study from researchers at New York University and the Université Grenoble Alpes in France will show that misinformation got six times as much engagement on Facebook as real news, The Washington Post reports. Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

The pair had one previous successful exit in Dealtable.com, a social data room platform. . TechCrunch reported on the New York-based startup’s $10 million Series A raise in mid-March 2021. Jeff Myers and Ryan Belanger-Saleh co-founded Gatsby, a commission-free options and stock-trading app aimed at younger traders, in 2018.

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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. “The new funding will support continued investment in our platform and tech capabilities and help to build out global sales footprint.” ” Image Credits: Beamery.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

We felt like it was something that we really wanted to encourage and incentivize our platform. Ceara Jane OSullivan, who records simultaneously in New York, positions herself as a check on that impulse. When we are reviewing episodes back, I always listen to the transcript audio-only, OSullivan says.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2019

A few years ago, Hunger Solutions New York (HSNY) targeted service providers as their primary audience. We work quickly to create and disseminate content, and look at metrics on our various digital platforms. Have there been demographic, economic, or policy changes that affect your messages and offerings?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Creating a spend and procurement platform from scratch might’ve been a big risk, but it appears to have paid off for Jobani, who claims that PayEm now has “hundreds” of customers and fast-growing revenue (up 550% over the last year).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Allow fans to bid for shared screen time with their favorite TikTok celebrities, and it’s one that’s attracted the attention of a few of the platform’s stars with several million followers. PearPop’s platform works by letting TikTok celebrities set a price for sharing screen time. ” Mason said.

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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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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Facebook apologized to misinformation researchers for providing them with flawed, incomplete data for their work examining how users interact with posts and links on its platform, the New York Times reported. Facebook eventually released the shelved report.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

R/GAs new partners at Truelink have established a $50 million Innovation Fund for a boost in new skill sets and talent, as well as acquisitions for new capabilities, emerging tools, and platforms. As other holding companies have done in recent years IPG has sold and consolidated many of its agency holdings.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Following its 2023 unveiling of two of the largest quantum computers ever made, IBM expanded and upgraded its cloud quantum service and its open-source Qiskit quantum software platform in 2024. The same month, IBM delivered its first quantum computer on a university campus, at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

One of those people is Alex Levin, the CEO and co-founder of New York City-based Regal.io. ” In a sign Regal’s vision is resonating with at least some customers, the platform now powers more than a million conversations a month for brands including Angi (formerly Angie’s List), Career Karma, Fidelity Life and SoFi.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

and Canada find email to be the communication channel that most inspires them to contributebeating all other platforms. Types and examples of nonprofit emails Best practices for nonprofit email marketing What are the best email marketing platforms for nonprofits? Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park memorial in New York City.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Yesterday (the pre-push) was really strong for our NPOs, which was encouraging to see,” said a spokesperson for platforms GoFundMe and Classy. The Classy platform data was showing organizations are “generally holding strong compared to last year, and we are seeing an uptick in big gifts coming online,” according to the spokesperson. “We

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Airbnb managed to create a product extension through its own cultural intermingling, and now its Icons platform allows guests to book stays in IRL pop-cultural locales. billion impressions and 19 million views across all platforms. The goal was to gamify the idea of replacing at least some of your screen time with a run.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Intel rolled out a portfolio of AI products aimed at the data center, cloud, network, edge and PC at its AI Everywhere event in New York City last week. Intel is on a mission to bring AI everywhere through exceptionally engineered platforms, secure solutions and support for open ecosystems," CEO. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

million seed round, and while that may be the kind of funding a younger company takes, the livestream shopping platform is actually a “veteran” in this emerging way of shopping. to take part in the New York Fashion Tech Lab, she saw the impact influencers were having on shopping and created a video-enabled tool they could use.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The bipartisan coalition, led by New York and California, alleges that TikTok's platform is designed to be addictive and exploits young users. A group of 14 state attorneys general has filed lawsuits against TikTok, accusing it of harming children's mental health and violating consumer protection laws. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

Today, Hack The Box , one of the startups that’s built a platform to help cultivate more of the latter group with a gamified approach, is announcing $55 million in funding to expand its business after racking up 1.7 Hack The Box, a gamified cybersecurity training platform with 1.7M million users.

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