TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Anchor, a Nigerian banking-as-a-service (BaaS) provider, has raised $2.4 million in seed investment. Justin Kan’s Goat Capital led the financing round which also welcomed participation from FoundersX, Rebel Fund and some existing investors, including Y Combinator and Byld Ventures.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2020

By Kayla Matthews , writer at ProductivityTheory.com and journalist dedicated to helping others better their productivity. In the last few decades, telethons were a valuable tool for raising money for nonprofit organizations. If you’re struggling to raise funds, consider trying out one of these new ideas.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The proposed adjustments, approved by the governors of the Postal Service, would raise mailing services product prices approximately 2%. The United States Postal Service filed notice with the Postal Regulatory Commission of mailing services price changes to take effect Jan.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Let’s walk through four basic steps to building productive community partnerships to bolster your mission. You need to find the right fit to ensure that your partnerships remain productive and valuable for the long term. Identify your needs. The power of community partnerships lies in their inherent flexibility.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2025

They often burden organizations with high technical debt, substantial engineering resources, and usability challenges for non-technical staff, not to mention inflated costs during the lifetime of ownership as licenses for new products or solutions are sold to organizations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 11, 2022

According to The State of Modern Philanthropy 2021 , “The median amount raised by events in which attendees raise money on behalf of an organization through peer-to-peer fundraising pages, typically is 4.5 A peer-to-peer fundraising event is one in which your supporters raise money on behalf of your cause.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 5, 2022

We’re excited to share that Bloomerang and Kindful nonprofit customers raised more than $42.4 Bloomerang and Kindful customers raised more funds than in previous years. Over the past year, we’ve made a number of enhancements to our product that make it easier for fundraisers to do just that. million on Giving Tuesday 2022.

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Futurism

APRIL 11, 2025

The wealth of incriminating documents included in the countersuitform what Electrek is calling Musk's "web of lies" surrounding his attempts to assume control over OpenAI is coming to light and raises the question of how much damage Musk's credibility can stand as his fibs and dubious timelines start to sound more like PT Barnum than Steve Jobs.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

A few will succeed, but the ones that succeed will be based upon good marketing, not just good product. The bladder isnt big enough to handle them all, Gary Stibel, CEO of New England Consulting Group, told AdAge.

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Engadget

APRIL 9, 2025

OpenAI announced plans to transition to a public-benefit corporation in 2024, and reportedly has two years to pull it off or risk a large portion of the money its raised become debt. OpenAI's primary justification for going for-profit is to raise more money.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Maka, an African fashion and beauty e-commerce platform, has raised a $2.65 million pre-seed round led by Pan-African venture capital firms 4DX Ventures and Janngo Capital. Other investors include Palm Drive Capital, angel investor Jonathan Shipman, founder of EVP and Twitch founding member, and executives from delivery platform Wolt.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2023

is the one of the latest generative AI startups to raise funding. Today, the AI art production platform for consumers and enterprise users announced a $31 million USD round from investors including Blackbird, Side Stage Ventures, Smash Capital, TIRTA Ventures, Gaorong Capital and Samsung Next. Sydney, Australia-based Leonardo.Ai

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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. . Integrating an ecosystem of products.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In the frenzy of exciting discounts and hot new product trends, it can be a challenge for nonprofits with online shops to compete with big brands and e-commerce giants that have significantly larger marketing and advertising budgets. Is the product from a socially conscious or ethical brand? Tag your products in Stories and Posts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The number one concern was “if we go virtual, will we raise money?” In addition, you can also pivot some of the money you earmarked for the ballroom, catering, bar(s), valet and wifi to a video production company. Organizations had planned, booked and were ready to hold in-person events. followed by “how do we even go virtual?”.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

The sheer amount of misinformation becomes even less surprising when looking at the fact that about half of the TikTok creators analyzed in the study were using the platform to promote products like fidget spinners or services such as ADHD coaching. None of them were found to be licensed mental health professionals.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 12, 2021

2) Nonprofits Can Raise as Much (or More!) Virtual fundraising events can raise a lot of money, some even surpass their in-person version. And for those events that don’t quite raise as much virtually as in-person, they still net more due to lower overhead costs. as In-Person Fundraising.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Today, the unified payments app is announcing that it has raised $32.8 At the time, the Ghanaian fintech was raising $8 million–a large seed in its own right–and had acquired just a little over 200,000 users with transactions reaching $250 million. million in an oversubscribed seed round.

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TechSpot

MARCH 12, 2024

News that LG Display has announced it is raising 1.2925 trillion won ($971 million) comes from the Korean Times (via What Hi-Fi). The company confirmed that the money will be used to increase the number of OLED products in all its business areas, "ranging from large, medium and small." Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

So instead of going out and raising venture capital, we decided that we were going to bootstrap because we could convince some landlords to list their homes on this platform that we had built and derisk some of their problems.”. led by MaC VC to scale its property management products by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This program promotes efficient water use in homes and businesses throughout the country by offering a simple way to make purchasing decisions that conserve water without sacrificing quality or product performance. For every 1,000 fundraising messages sent, nonprofits raised $78. Plain Language Example #2. M+R Benchmarks Report.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2023

French startup Orus has raised an $11.6 The startup offers insurance products specifically designed for small and medium companies. million Series A funding round (€11 million). Orus originally started with an insurance […]

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 1, 2021

They posted to Facebook to help raise awareness and ask for donations. It doesn’t have to be a sophisticated television production. Subsequent videos could give updates on how much has been raised, another on progress made from relief efforts and another on how the money is being put to use. 1) Text-to-Donate on Facebook.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 8, 2024

If you can plug some of those leaks, you can reclaim time that you can use for more productive activities, like generating revenue for your nonprofit. If you must have a meeting, there are some things you can do to have more efficient, more productive meetings: Start by creating an agenda of no more than 3 important items for the meeting.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

Recouping such extravagant production budgets is no easy task, especially with only a few videos released per month. In recent months, MrBeast has been in talks with investors to raise an additional $200 million, which would push the company’s valuation past $5 billion, The Verge reported last week.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 17, 2025

When the $80 price was first revealed, gamers immediately raised questions. The big one: Video game prices have been flat for a long time, even as other tech products get more expensive. wages have not kept up with inflation or productivity at all over the past several decades. But there's a lot more at play here. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Clear Street , which says it is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, has raised $270 million in the second tranche of a Series B funding round at a $2 billion valuation. New York-based Clear Street raised the first tranche of the round in May of 2022 at a $1.7 billion valuation. billion valuation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 6, 2022

You don’t need a beautiful, full-color, glossy 40-page production, but you do need some sort of accounting of the organization’s work over the past year. Nonprofit managers working on annual reports most frequently ask these five questions. Do we Really Need an Annual Report? For more resources by Kivi, visit NonprofitMarketingGuide.com.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

He joined the company as a senior director of product design but was abruptly terminated in 2022 along with some 200 others when Elon Musk took over Twitterwhich led to a Twitter exchange with Musk that made international headlines. I had some money, and I was able to quickly raise more.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

That's despite having founded his own AI company, dubbed xAI, a for-profit entity that has raised billions of dollars , much like OpenAI. In December, xAI raised $6 billion at a valuation of $50 billion , less than a third of what OpenAI was valued at the time. Many, many lawsuits, all sorts of other crazy stuff, now this.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Vimcal, a YC-backed calendar app, has raised a $4.5 million seed round from Altos Ventures to expand its team and enterprise offerings. The company, founded by CEO John Li, launched its iOS app and Outlook integration last year. Li told TechCrunch that Vimcal has improved its Outlook integration with fewer bugs.

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Futurism

MARCH 8, 2025

In the update, Pinterest claims its goal in training AI is to "improve the products and services of our family of companies and offer new features." The company is also building a text-to-image "foundational" AI model, dubbed Pinterest Canvas , which it says is designed for "enhancing existing images and products on the platform."

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Candid

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Despite the importance of raising money well, the majority of small to midsize nonprofits use suboptimal strategies—methods that are expensive, time-consuming, and yield only minimal returns on a lot of hard work. These are the kinds of revenue strategies that keep nonprofits just surviving instead of scaling.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Like Facebook Charitable Giving Tools, nonprofits are not raising much money via “Donate” stickers and “Donate” buttons in livestreams on Instagram (according to the Open Data Project ). Purchase advertising to promote your products and share your products regularly in Instagram Stories.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

The company, Moonvalley , on Wednesday launched its first model, named Mareya nod to early cinema pioneer tienne-Jules Mareywhich could soon help Hollywood studios dramatically speed up production and cut costs. The startup raised a $70 million seed round last year, backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst.

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TechSpot

APRIL 9, 2025

In a letter to its US clients, Micron explained that the surcharge is necessary under the new trade conditions. Executives had already warned customers during a March 21 post-earnings call that the company planned to pass tariff-related costs onto affected buyers. The timing of this surcharge closely follows a separate. Read Entire Article

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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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