TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Twitter’s recent acquisition spree continues today as the company announces it has acqui-hired the team from news aggregator and summary app Brief. Before starting Brief, co-founder and CEO Nick Hobbs was a Google product manager who had worked on AR, Google Assistant, Google’s mobile app, and self-driving cars, among other things.

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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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Bloomerang

MARCH 13, 2025

Why tech investments often fall short Youve invested in a powerful nonprofit CRM and fundraising platform, but is your team truly using it to its full potential? When training resources are inconsistent or hard to find, teams lose time, get frustrated, and miss opportunities to make the most of their tools. When new features roll out?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

French startup Homa Games has raised a $15 million seed round led by e.ventures and Idinvest Partners. Home Games has developed three products in particular to optimize mobile game creation. The company has built several in-house technologies that can take a game from a prototype to an App Store success.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Danish company LMS365 , an online learning management system (LMS) built for use inside Microsoft products, has raised $20 million in its first institutional round of funding. “We will use M&A strategically going forward, including in relation to product development.”

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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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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a provider of online fundraising tools, such as online auctions and virtual gala software , our team has helped charities move their events online. The number one concern was “if we go virtual, will we raise money?” In the process, we have heard many stories about their experience. followed by “how do we even go virtual?”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 12, 2021

By Lindsay Johnson, Marketing Team Member at MobileCause , an industry leader in virtual fundraising events and online giving, plus fundraising solutions such as peer-to-peer, text-to-donate and mobile messaging. 2) Nonprofits Can Raise as Much (or More!) as In-Person Fundraising. 7) The Future of Event Fundraising is Virtual.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 26, 2023

Being raised by a blue-collar single father in Pittsburgh, PA, we didn’t rely on or talk about luck so much. The stars aligning this time were no different, which is what led two industry veterans, Rob Wenger and Conor Sibley , to join me and the rockstar A2 leadership team. First, I looked up the definition of luck.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

And if it’s not broke and it boosts employee morale and productivity, why not make it company policy? Now, my boss would give me a stern talking to if I wrote this whole post with the single point of employee satisfaction, so rest assured these tips will encourage a boost in productivity and revenue. Corporate Culture.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

One year after raising $16 million , construction technology company Buildots is back to claim another $30 million, this time in Series B funding. Danon said though construction accounts for 13% of the world’s GDP and employs hundreds of millions of people, construction productivity continues to lag, only growing 1% in the past two decades.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

The investment comes nine months after the company raised $500,000 in pre-seed last September and two months after receiving $125,000 from YC. Therefore , Mono will use the funding to reinforce its current financial and identity data offerings and launch new products for diverse business verticals. Image Credits: Mono.

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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. Image Credits: Yoco.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2021

Buzzy live voice chat app Clubhouse has confirmed that it has raised new funding – without revealing how much – in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz through the firm’s partner Andrew Chen. The app was reported to be raising at a $1 billion valuation in a report from The Information that landed just before this confirmation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Supernormal hopes to demonstrate the value of generative AI with its tech, which creates meeting notes by integrating with Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and other conferencing platforms. Supernormal today announced that it raised $10 million in a funding round led by Balderton with participation from Acequia Capital and byFounders VC.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Today, the unified payments app is announcing that it has raised $32.8 The Dash team. 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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

“I believe that the best consumer investments come from people who have unique insights on consumer behavior and ways that new tech products can allow new forms of social interaction,” said Charles Hudson from Precursor Ventures , who led the pre-seed investment round. The company raised the pre-seed round of $750,000. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

It announced today that it has raised $4.5 The millions will be used to help Felt grow its fully distributed six-person team to bring on more front-end, back-end and product engineers, as well as product and brand designers. Felt allows users to build a map with data sets integrated into it.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Torbey was there to introduce the first product from Neoplants , the Paris-based startup he cofounded six years ago with Lionel Mora, a former Google product marketing manager. It can also impact focus and productivity and exacerbate respiratory issues like asthma.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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. In 2020, Yusuf toyed with the idea of building a physical campus where he and his team would train software engineers to get international opportunities.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

” With its insights into customer behaviour and transactions, Bankly also provides “data-as-a-service” to other service providers to offer tailored products and services to Nigeria’s informal sector. . African payments company Flutterwave raises $170M, now valued at over $1B. The product has caught on well.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

The company, which enables underbanked customers in select African markets to access a broad range of products and services without collateral or a guarantor, announced today that it has raised $75 million. M-KOPA’s total equity raise stands at $190 million. That doubled in 2020 to 5,000. And then in 2021 to 10,000. “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Lagos- and Texas-based digital healthcare provider Reliance Health is the latest beneficiary and is doing so in grand style, raising $40 million. Reliance Health has bundled both vital concepts so that users can get access to an integrated suite of healthcare products via subscriptions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Today’s investment brings the total raised to $23 million, according to Crunchbase data. Today the company announced a $20 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from existing investors Initialized Capital, Y Combinator and Pentech.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 19, 2021

Can we create the same energy with the paddle-raise? For example, watch the 2020 Raise the Region Gala from the Community Foundation of Northern Virginia: ?. Have one or two of your team log into the available live chat and moderate it. An in-person event can seem like a challenge to take online. 4) Live chat with your viewers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

SeamlessHR , a Nigeria-based company that wants to help African businesses “leverage the continent’s greatest asset: abundant human capital” with its cloud-based human resources (HR) and payroll software, has raised $10 million in Series A funding for its next phase of growth and regional expansion.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Organizations across many industries believe their employees are more productive and efficient with AI tools such as chatbots and coding assistants at their side. Four months later it raised a Series B round that closed in January 2025 with $105 million invested, raising its valuation to $2.6 Blackbird.AI

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

In this increasingly AI-driven era, creative and media teams will probably need to employ the technology to up their game on analyzing their creative assets and A/B testing — or someone else will simply beat them to the punch. their human creative team. AI platform to analyze creative advertising raises $5.1M

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

But both options have pros and cons; for the latter, local furniture stores may lack the quality that clients need, while global retailers, in addition to taking several months to ship their products to Africa, can be too pricey. . Made.com raises another $56 million.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

Fundraising productivity is not just about how much you can get done to raise money. I doubt that’s what you want, so let’s look at 12 hacks that can keep you focused, save you time, and increase your fundraising productivity. 12 Fundraising Productivity Hacks 1. That means you’ll stay right where you are.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Nonprofit fundraising changed drastically in 2020 with a shift toward virtual galas and a need to raise money online. There’s something really nice about catching up with fellow donors during a luncheon or participating in a fun run to raise money for a nonprofit. Beyond that, in-person fundraisers are appealing social events.

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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. Have people sign up for a fun field day, or pay to sponsor teams.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Union AI , a Bellevue, Washington–based open source startup that helps businesses build and orchestrate their AI and data workflows with the help of a cloud-native automation platform, today announced that it has raised a $19.1 At the time, Lyft had to glue together various open source systems to put these models into production.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

In total, Alerzo has raised more than $20 million since its launch. “Growing up in Ibadan, I watched my mother operate two informal retail stores to raise my three siblings and me. According to its website, retailers can order products via SMS, voice and WhatsApp and deliver them to their stores in less than 10 hours.

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