TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

In total, Flutterwave has raised $225 million and is one of the few African startups to have secured more than $200 million in funding. . When the company raised its Series B, we reported that Flutterwave had processed 107 million transactions worth $5.4 African fintech firm Flutterwave raises $35M, partners with Worldpay.

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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

JUNE 23, 2021

Upon closing, the transaction will inject Embark with around $615 million in gross cash proceeds, including $200 million in private investment in public equity (PIPE) funding from investors, including CPP Investments, Knight-Swift Transportation, Mubadala Capital, Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global Management.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

To understand how much growth has occurred, African startups raised a meagre $400 million in 2015 compared to the $2 billion that came into the continent in 2019, according to Africa-focused fund Partech Africa. Did African startups raise $496M, $1B or $2B in 2019? Fintech startups raised 24.9%

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Whole Whale

MAY 5, 2021

We see those feel-good stories about amazing fundraisers on our feeds: “Viral Irish GoFundMe Raises Millions for the Navajo Nation In Act of Generosity That Bridges Historical Debt of Gratitude ”. Communicating accountability, responsibility, and impact with the general public should be a priority for any organization.

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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 Germany’s Wefox last year raised $400 million at $4.5

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Candid

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Forty years later, we remain an influential intermediary funder that raises funds from institutional grantmakers and individual donors. We’ve always solicited grantee nominations from the public through our website, social media, newsletters, and word of mouth. We’ve awarded more than 385 small grants totaling over $7.6

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sgEngage

JANUARY 9, 2025

Request a Demo Strategies for Budgeting and Raising Funds for Reserves Once you know how much should be in your operating reserve, you can start setting funds aside for that purpose. There are several strategies your organization can use to budget and raise funds for your nonprofits operating reserve.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

TechCrunch noted a week ago that private markets appeared strongly bullish on future startup value creation, while public markets were drifting lower, repricing possible exit values for today’s upstart companies. The was, it seemed, a rising gap between the level of bullishness in the private and public markets.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

While none of the platforms have publicly changed their policies on the group, moderation practices have come under close scrutiny, and many are shifting resources to ensure the policies are appropriately enforced. The company has devoted more resources to enforcing that policy in light of the ongoing unrest in Kabul.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

Its Democratic sponsors say the bill will raise awareness among consumers that combusting gas in their vehicles creates pollutants that harm their health and trap heat in the atmosphere, leading to more intense and extreme weather, wildfires, and drought. Yet the state is woefully behind in its compliance with federal air quality standards.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Reddit has raised a new funding round, totalling $250 million. This is Reddit’s 16th year of operation, and the company has raised around $800 million to date, including a Tencent-led $300 million Series D in February, 2019. Reddit also ran a 5-second Super Bowl ad on Sunday, consisting of.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

And the French government is taking advantage of this opportunity to make some progress on the tech startup policy front. As the name suggests, this new instrument is in charge of establishing a standard for startup policies around Europe. With this new mechanism, fund managers should be able to raise a new fund more easily.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Lacuna Technologies, a startup that helps cities create and enforce transportation policies by building and managing open-source digital tools, has raised $16 million in a Series A round, bringing the company’s total investment to $33.5 And I define the public right of way as not just 2D, but 3D.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This shift raises essential opportunities and challenges for companies and executives navigating todays complex media environment. The rise of Substack writers with niche but highly engaged followings, YouTubers who command audiences in the millions, and podcasters shaping public discourse means companies must rethink their media approach.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Stability AI, the company funding the development of open source music- and image-generating systems like Dance Diffusion and Stable Diffusion , today announced that it raised $101 million in a funding round led by Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC. House Representative Anna G.

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ITPro Today

APRIL 16, 2025

federal AI policy is shifting public service delivery from human-led agencies to commercially developed AI systems, raising urgent questions. A new era of U.S.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The question is: how do you raise money on YouTube as a nonprofit? This is the most effective way to raise money as it allows people to donate directly through the YouTube Platform and not leave the site. Once qualified a channel can use ads and super chat for live streams to raise money. These are…. YouTube Giving Fundraiser.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

As companies continue to delay their returns to the office and find temporary remote work policies becoming permanent, the startups building tooling for remote work-first cultures are finding a seemingly endless supply of customers. Floodgate again participated in the raise, alongside General Catalyst and a host of angels.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Low insurance uptake in Africa is somewhat due to the traditional distribution of insurance policies. They customarily rely on brick-and-mortar channels to sell and process policies. Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Aside from giving to the capital campaign or a traveling exhibit, most of the museum’s fundraising asks were to give to their open-door policy that provided free entry for families without the financial resources to pay for admission. Was your museum or arts organization able to raise more gifts from members? Admirable goal.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2021

As noted in “ American Muslim Philanthropy: A Data-Driven Comparative Profile ,” a report authored by Faiqa Mahmood in 2019 via The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, “The strongest motivations for American Muslims are a feeling that those with more should give to those with less and a sense of religious duty or obligation.” .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

ThriveCart today announced that it raised $35 million in a funding round led by LTV SaaS Growth Fund, the company’s first public outside investment. TechCrunch asked McKeand about the company’s data usage policy, but somewhat discouragingly, he declined to answer. The rapid growth piqued investors’ interest.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

The company went public last week. Twitter vs. India: India’s attempts to cow Twitter into not enacting its own content moderation policies continues. That’s going to hit revenue. Shares of the company are sharply lower in pre-marketing trading here in the United States. It’s going to be a busy week! Chat tomorrow.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

Anthony Cimino Contributor Share on Twitter Anthony Cimino , head of policy at Carta , works with policymakers and innovators to drive economic opportunity through expanding equity ownership and private market liquidity. Moreover, penalties for noncompliance could permanently damage a company’s ability to raise capital.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 7, 2025

The Privacy Trap: Public Sharing is the Default Here’s what every nonprofit professional should be aware of: LinkedIn has made game activity sharing turned ON by default. However, the fact that users must opt out rather than opt in to privacy raises important questions about LinkedIn’s approach to user experience.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Researchers raised concerns that the account suspension could have been part of a mass reporting campaign intended to disable OSINT accounts during a Russian invasion. It is unclear how exactly the suspended accounts were thought to have breached the policy. Twitter needs to do something against these locks now.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Newness , a startup co-founded by former Twitch employees, has raised $3.5 This includes offering options for both public and private streams, engagement mechanisms that reward positive contributions, moderation features and the ability for fans to earn access to free beauty products by community participation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

To help fund that growth and expand into 30 new markets over the next year and a half, HopSkipRide raised $25 million in a Series C. “We Rideshare startup HopSkipDrive raises $22M to focus on school transportation. HopSkipDrive is among a small handful of emerging startups dedicated to modernizing the public school bus system.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Some individual board members may want to start with “easier” tasks like thanking donors, but eventually, they should be directly helping raise thousands of dollars annually. Download this Board of Directors Fundraising Worksheet to help your board members execute their board pledges to raise or give donations.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Just Insure , a pay-per-mile insurance technology company, has raised $8 million in a funding round. . CrossCut Ventures, ManchesterStory and Western Technology Investments co-led the investment, which brings its total raised to $15.3 The company’s insurance policy is for 30 days. million since its January 2019 inception.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

InsurGrid gives agents a personalized platform to collect information from clients, such as date of birth, driver’s license information and policy declaration. He said that these big companies, which have either recently gone public or are planning to, still rely on agents to be successful.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

EsTech seems likely to press that line of argument — although at the time of writing it was still preparing its policy plan. On the regulation point, Spain’s first startup law — which was adopted in draft and presented to parliament in December — has been well received by the local tech community.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The funding event comes after the startup raised a pre-seed round in February led by Susa Ventures , which also participated in Shepherd’s latest fundraising event. But construction projects often also require more liability coverage, which is sold as excess or umbrella policies. million seed round led by Spark Capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Data.World, which today announced that it raised $50 million in Series C funding led by Goldman Sachs, looks to leverage cloud-based tools to deliver data discovery, data governance and big data analytics features with a corporate focus. Hurt says that the latest funding round, which brings Data.World’s total raised to $132.2

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 24, 2025

AGP Leaders will be in attendance The Collaborative by Classy Chicago, IL May 14-15, 2025 This two-day event brings the top nonprofit leaders together for learning sessions designed to uncover the next big ideas that will drive the industry forward and help you raise more money. Attend If Youre: A public media professional.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

And it’s a disastrous waste of public resources. The company announced today that it has raised $2 million in seed funding from a trio of lead investors: the Decarceration Fund , Luminate , and Stand Together Ventures Lab. Uptrust raises new money to fight mass incarceration with technology. It’s Orwellian, and also Kafkaesque.

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