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

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

If space stations are the next phase of business in orbit, they’re going to need standard parts — and Gravitics aims to be the one making them. The pressure tests in the first quarter of next year are the initial step toward testing a StarMax in orbit, though Doughan declined to offer any details on that timeline.

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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. At the very least, allow the learning phase to finish before you consider turning off your campaign.). It calculates how much money you’ve raised for every dollar spent.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

Summary: Out with the old: In with the new: We're still in the honeymoon phase, just thrilled the new look is finally "out there" and is well-received. " No, we didn't do runs or walks or campaigns to raise public awareness of screening. Let's Raise a Brand! No, we weren't "Katie's group."

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

To meet the surge in demand, Sift said today it has raised $50 million in a funding round that values the company at over $1 billion. Sift was founded out of Y Combinator in 2011, and has raised a total of $157 million over its lifetime. Fraud prevention platform Seon raises a $12M Series A round led by Creandum.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2020

German air taxi startup Lilium said on Monday it has raised an additional $35 million to fuel its goal of launching an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle by 2025. That’s in addition to $240 million raised by the company in early March , when much of the globe began to feel the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

The Los Altos, California-based company announced today that has raised a $50 million Series B led by Josh Buckley, the chief executive officer of Product Hunt. Placer.ai, a location data analytics startup, raises $12 million Series A. Some retailers are focused on expansion, while others are testing new concepts and formats.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

While Holy Grail has a long development and testing phase ahead, the idea has captured the attention and capital from well-known investors and Silicon Valley founders. Holy Grail recently raised raised $2.7

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

The risky nature of product research led Jonathan Widawski and Thomas Mary — software developers by trade — to launch Maze , a software product research platform that facilitates prototype tests and surveys. “Maze began with the belief that product design teams should have easy access to data during the design phase.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

So after beta testing for a year, Privacy.com launched its new Card Issuing API in 2020 to give corporate customers the ability to create payment cards for their customers, optimize back-office operations or simplify disbursements. Privacy.com, a virtual payment card startup, raises $10.2M in Series A.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

In the latest development, Umba , a digital banking platform operating in Lagos, Nigeria, has raised $15 million in Series A funding. The news comes almost two years since the fintech raised a seed round of $2 million. The fintech has raised a total of $17.5 million to date. Umba has been in operation for about two years now.

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Digital Marketing Raise Nigeria 95

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. Merchandise sales.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The company has additionally raised a $2 million round of seed funding for its product, led by Bedrock Capital. During its test period, Runway has been used by a handful of early customers, including ClassPass, Kickstarter, Capsule and others, which, as of this March, had pushed out more than 40 app releases via its platform.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

For the test flight, it took off from an airport in central Washington, ascended to 3,500 feet, then landed again, for a total flight time of 8 minutes. This flight will be followed by more test flights as they explore the limits of the aircraft and how it performs under a variety of conditions.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Researchers tested Concert in Poland, and hope it will be available to the market within the next two to three years. Then, they tested it at a hospital construction site in Krakow, Poland. They performed one test in the winter and one in the summer, with both tests lasting 10 days each.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Kay, previously Apptopia COO, is now taking over the top role from co-founder Eliran Sapir, who’s transitioning to chairman of the board as the company enters its next phase of growth. Sensor Tower, for example, raised $45 million last year, as demand for app data continued to grow. Image Credits: Apptopia.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In August, the startup raised a $60 million A round at a $400 million valuation from Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, OpenAI, Googles Jeff Dean, OpenAIs Noam Brown, and the founders of Stripe, GitHub, Ramp, and Perplexity. has raised more than $20 million in venture capital so far. Blackbird.AI

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The company is testing the Cephalopod software in conjunction with a demonstration of a thruster system by Benchmark Space Systems, on Orbit Fab’s Tanker-001 Tenzing demo refueling satellite. million Phase II SBIR contract from the U.S. Orbit Fab was a finalist in our TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in 2019.).

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

But it’s surprisingly difficult to understand the health and status of a battery without extensive and expensive testing, which isn’t always possible once a battery is in a vehicle. Battery design engineers use our simulations to reduce the testing effort [.] Audi, Daimler and Hero Motors are some of its customers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

But assembly issues — as well as challenges in balancing cost, performance, power consumption and time to market — often plague them in the early phases. With the capital, Eliyan plans to continue chasing after a chiplet market that could be worth $50 billion in 2024 — specifically by ramping up testing and implementation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

UK-based Isotropic Systems has raised a $40 million funding in an “oversubscribed” round that the startup says will help it get its next-generation broadband terminal to the production phase by its 2022 target.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Here’s how you can figure out some of those variables: Test for them. This is the reason many capital campaigns don’t go to the “public phase” until they’ve raised the lion’s share of their goal through individual major gifts. . After all, there are multiple ways to implement one strategy. . – Charity Clairity.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

To date, Soci has raised nearly $240 million. But Khoury claims Review Genius’ auto-generated responses must be reviewed by a human before they’re published, and says that Soci conducts “extensive testing and sampling” to refine both its AI and safeguards.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

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. Triumph raises $14M for an SDK to add real-money tournaments into games by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch states plus Washington D.C.), and to bring on more customers.

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sgEngage

JUNE 6, 2024

Identify major donor giving potential and help build the gift pyramid, a crucial step in the first two phases of a campaign. Planned gifts have the potential to make up a large chunk of campaign dollars raised— 30% or more in a comprehensive campaign. You’ll want these ready for gift officers in the next phase.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Engine Biosciences is one of the former, a Singaporean outfit with an expert founding crew and a different approach to the business of finding new therapeutics, and it just raised $43 million to keep growing. We need to refine and optimize these prototypes to a suitable candidate to enter the clinic for testing in humans.”

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2021

The company said on Wednesday it’s now testing a “what you see is what you get” image preview within the tweet compose box and experimenting with displaying full-frame images. Twitter also says its testing new 4K image uploading on Android and iOS as part of a broader push “to improve how you can share and view media on Twitter.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

For the next couple of years, Gotter, as CFO, was instrumental in turning IROKO — after raising over $30 million from VCs, including Tiger Global — into a household name in Nigeria’s entertainment and tech scenes. This led him to start Bamba , a mobile-based enterprise software for African micro-merchants, that has raised $3.2

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A typical time frame for a new drug from creation to market entry can take up to a decade, so it made sense for 54gene to turn its lab capabilities to COVID testing as a new source of revenue. African genomics startup 54gene lays off 95 as COVID testing business struggles. I am excited to see them take the company to its next phase.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Food tech company Better Dairy is closer to getting its aged and hard cheeses into the testing phase after securing $22 million in Series A funding. based company, founded in 2019 by Jevan Nagarajah, is still in the R&D phase of developing animal-free cheeses using precision fermentation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

NowNow Digital Systems , one such platform launched in 2018, has raised $13 million in a seed round that will allow the four-year-old startup to scale and expand its service offerings across Africa. This product has been made available to a few small businesses to test in a pilot phase.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

While the product is going live today, the startup has already tested it with real families. They’ve all kept using Willo after the testing phase. The company has raised $17 million in total funding from Kleiner Perkins, Bpifrance and Matt Rogers’ fund Incite. These children rated the device 4.73/5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Helios , a Tel Aviv–based startup that wants to make it easier for developers to understand, troubleshoot and test their distributed systems during the development phase, today announced its general availability and that it has raised a $5 million seed round co-led by Entrée Capital and Amiti VC.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2021

This makes it a valuable tool in all kinds of contexts, from day-to-day fundraising to the quiet phases of capital campaigns to ongoing donor engagement programs. . Dataro recently worked with Parkinson’s UK to test a few questions: Can AI find new donations that would otherwise be missed through traditional mailing list development?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Here’s what they had to share: Pre-MVP/customer discovery phase: Tiny Organics. The company raised $11 million in their Series A in 2021 and is growing at over 500% annually. They went through multiple exercises to test the viability of new parents’ most pressing and urgent needs: Conduct a “Start with Why” exercise.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2022

But while 54gene launched to address the gap in the global genomics market, where Africans make up less than 3% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research, its growth in 2020 overlapped elsewhere, with the COVID-19 pandemic, and it hired aggressively to meet the demands of being one of Nigeria’s largest providers of COVID testing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

“So Perforce is an industry leader in DevOps, but focused more on the planning through verification phases of DevOps, so planning creation and testing. “I set out actually to go raise money to help facilitate Puppet doing inorganic acquisition on our own. Puppet announces $40 million debt round from BlackRock.

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