Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2022

It has continued to gain traction with the growth of bitcoin’s blockchain technologies, expanding NFT markets, venture capital investments, and ongoing calls to reign in the power of big tech. Creating a 3D avatar or a Snapchat lens that raises awareness for the nonprofit’s cause stem from technology that AR and the Metaverse were built on.

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APRIL 1, 2025

Focused on the intersection of tech and domestic violence advocacy, the law is an attempt to ensure that abusers can no longer use tracking technology installed in vehicles. Of course, theres the added issue of possibly false or misguided information when it comes to using tech interventions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

He recalled talking to tech-focused venture capitalists who would ask, “Why isn’t this a platform? Today it’s announcing that it has raised $41.7 The startup has now raised more than $81 million in total funding, according to Crunchbase. Getaway could be doing other things to solve that problem.”

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 17, 2025

When the $80 price was first revealed, gamers immediately raised questions. And with ongoing tariff chaos , Nintendo likely has bigger problems. The big one: Video game prices have been flat for a long time, even as other tech products get more expensive. You still can't pre-order the Switch 2 in the United States, after all.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

While most mobility tech in the country is centred around two-wheelers and car-hailing, there’s been hardly any deliberate disruption in the bus-sharing and mass transit space. Shuttlers , a “tech-enabled scheduled bus sharing” company, is itching to change that. After years of bootstrapping, the company has raised $1.6

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Typically , African financial institutions rely on using foreign technology solutions to solve their problems. But issues around pricing, flexibility to innovate and a lack of local tech support always come up. Nigeria is becoming Africa’s unofficial tech capital. Four years later, it raised $2.5

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 11, 2024

In order to be successful, you don’t need a large team, a huge budget, and oodles of time and tech-savvy. When raising money online (or offline) you must be able to succinctly answer this question for your potential donors: Why this? Data helps the reader or viewer understand that this problem needs to be addressed, and fast.

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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

APRIL 21, 2021

In total, Okra has raised $4.5 Nigeria is becoming Africa’s unofficial tech capital. Since last year, different regulatory moves from some of the country’s financial bodies have been targeted toward payments, crypto and wealth tech startups. Pngme raised $3 million in February.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 26, 2025

But that contradicts the recommendation that standing for too long can cause circulation problems. 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. Opens in a new window Credit: FlexiSpot FlexiSpot H7 adjustable standing desk (large) $99.98 at Amazon $149.99

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

An alternative payment network with connected wallets allowing a mobile money user to transact with a bank account would fix this problem, and that’s the premise of Ghana-based fintech Dash. Today, the unified payments app is announcing that it has raised $32.8 African tech took center stage in 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

His experience from this activity, coupled with working as a technical adviser to the vice president’s office in Nigeria a couple of months back, led him to launch Norebase , a trade tech startup that has raised $1 million in a pre-seed round. It’s one of the few companies offering such services, including Firstbase.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 12, 2023

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Andela has been pivotal to placing the continent’s tech talent globally. 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. African tech took center stage in 2021. The company (not to be confused with U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

The tech giant is betting on a new, community-driven system called Community Notes that draws on Xs feature of the same name and uses the Xs open algorithm as its basis. But a closer look at the underlying assumptions and design choices raises questions about whether this new system can truly deliver on its promises.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

” For example, raising a round to rev up engineering, sales and marketing sounds positive — but what if the business itself has negative unit economics? “It’s better to ask: Do we have hustle problems? “It’s better to ask: Do we have hustle problems? Product problems? Process problems?

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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. Moove raised a $5.5 In addition to its $23 million Series A, Moove also revealed that it raised $40 million in debt financing, bringing its total funding to $68.5

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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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In the latest development, Bumpa , one of them which says it is building the infrastructure to power online commerce and enable African small business owners to start, manage and grow their businesses from their mobile devices, has raised a $4 million seed round. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

In total, Alerzo has raised more than $20 million since its launch. The need to solve this problem stemmed from observing firsthand the challenges his mom faced while operating two mom-and-pop stores. “Growing up in Ibadan, I watched my mother operate two informal retail stores to raise my three siblings and me.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2019

The platform you choose should provide you with the capabilities to message supporters, see the collective amount raised, and understand how that number rolls up to your overall campaign total. If you think you can raise $5,000 but $15,000 is a major stretch, go for $5,000. Get fundraisers engaged early. Calm their concerns. “You

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Strong Compute , a Sydney, Australia-based startup that helps developers remove the bottlenecks in their machine learning training pipelines, today announced that it has raised a $7.8 That means the well-paid data scientists working on these problems spend a lot of time in a holding pattern, waiting for results to come in.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

To that end, Ejara , a one-year-old company founded by Nelly Chatue-Diop, has raised $2 million to pioneer the usage of crypto and investment services in the region. ” In 2015, she got acquainted with blockchain and thought it was the perfect technology to solve the problems she faced while growing up. So it stayed on my mind.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Countdown Capital raised $15 million for its second fund to back companies looking to “rebuild the American industrial base,” Malik said. “Because it is very capital-intensive, we aim to be the first partner and help them through the kinks for a larger institutional raise.” “That makes it really unique.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

based construction tech company that offers an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform to help project managers track work and capture data from building sites, has raised $16 million in funding. It also automatically spotlights potential problems or bottlenecks while they can still be resolved. Disperse , a U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

a banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform that aims to build “DeFi for traditional finance,” has raised $16 million in a Series A round of funding led by CM Ventures. The way that we believe that we can solve this problem is to create a decentralized financial infrastructure.”. Productfy Inc. , billion valuation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s not their fault; the problem’s challenging. 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. According to one source , the average cart abandonment rate across all industries is 69.57%.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Deep Render , a startup developing AI-powered tech to compress videos on the web, today announced that it raised $9 million in a Series A funding round led by IP Group and Pentech Ventures. “As a super deep ‘hard tech’ company, we’ve successfully finished our R&D and productization.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Termii , a Nigerian communications platform-as-a-service startup that solves this problem for African businesses, announced today that it has closed a $1.4 For us, we saw it was a bigger problem,” Emmanuel added. million seed round. Nigerian founders-turned-investors are now running syndicate funds. .”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sunstone, a higher education startup that collaborates with academic institutions to help upskill their students for employability, has raised $35 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more Indian cities. Alteria Capital also participated in the funding, which takes its to-date raise to about $68 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Hypernative , a crypto security-focused startup, has raised $9 million in seed funding as it emerges from stealth, co-founder and CEO Gal Sagie exclusively told TechCrunch. The funding round was led by boldstart ventures and IBI tech fund, with strategic investments from Blockdaemon, Alchemy, Borderless, CMT Digital, Nexo and angel investors.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2021

Dovetail is currently raising a $10 million AUD (about $7.5 As buy now, pay later startups keep raising capital, a dive into Klarna, Afterpay and Affirm’s earnings. “By That’s where Dovetail came into play, building out Afterpay’s tech platforms and helping launch its consumer-facing products.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

One of them was Singapore-based Endowus , which raised two rounds in rapid succession: a Series A in June 2021 followed just seven months later by $25.6 This time it’s $35 million with new investors, including Citi Ventures and MUFG Innovation Partners, bringing the company’s total raised so far to $95 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

With energy becoming more expensive, and energy security ratcheting-up as a geopolitical issue, tech startups looking at this problem have been proliferating. An example of this out of New York is Sealed , a climate tech company that designs, manages, and finances home weatherization and electrification projects.

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