TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

Equally, teens are going through a stage in life where almost every social interaction seems to carry portent of some kind of other. This would explain in part why apps like SendIt, NGL, and Nocapp (some are Snapchat connected tools) took off as ways for teens to anonymously comment on each other. Just ask Snapchat.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

SparkRx is a self-guided therapy program for teens run entirely on a phone. . So far the company has raised $9 million in Series A funding, which closed in May 2020. SparkRx, which is designed to help teens manage depression, is the company’s first product to be clinically evaluated. They completed about 63.5%

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

French startup Vybe has raised a $2.9 million) to build a challenger bank for teens. Overall, 260,000 teens have pre-ordered a card already. As The Information’s Kate Clark reported , Greenlight , Current and Step are all raising new funding rounds with a valuation between $1 billion and $2 billion. In the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

The Mashable blog raised the question, "Why don't they tweet?". Yesterday, I had an opportunity to ask about 100 teens attending the Asian Liver Center's Youth Leadership Conference on Asian and Pacific Islander Health this question directly. International Youth Conference. View more presentations from kanter. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

I still look back on all the time that I spent as a teen, crushed by stigma and afraid to talk about mental health with my friends and family,” says the Stanford grad. Teens, often with the support of their parents, are matched through the Somethings system with mentors who have similar backgrounds and situational experiences.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

For rounds of the week, Mary Ann chatted through the recent Umaro raise — who d1oesn’t love talking about bacon? And we closed with notes on Copper and Step and the ethics of teens investing in crypto. — and Alex picked the latest from the self-driving front. Which led us to question putting crypto in your 401(k).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

After all, Spring Health recently raised $76 million for its service that helps companies offer their workers mental health benefits, Mantra Health disclosed that it has raised $3.2 million in new capital to “grow its remote therapy service for teens and young adults,” per GeekWire.

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NetWits

JULY 13, 2011

Do you ever find your self thinking … “ How can I empower my nonprofit supporters to raise money for a cause they love ”? High Schools projects, teens wanting to be active, bake sales, and birthday wishes are only a few ways you can leverage Friends Asking Friends. In fact it’s something I think about often.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

challenger bank Current, which has doubled its member base in less than six months, announced this morning it raised $131 million in Series C funding, led by Tiger Global Management. When Current raised its Series B last fall , it had over 500,000 accounts on its service. Today, it touts over 2 million members.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

Z1 , a Sao Paulo-based digital bank aimed at Latin American GenZers, has raised $2.5 Notably, Mantis has also backed Step , a teen-focused fintech based in the U.S., Teen banking service Step raises $100M Series C, announces Steph Curry’s investment. million in a round led by U.S.-based based Homebrew.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 7, 2024

This accomplishment significantly raises the theoretical limits for top scores. A two-time Tetris world champion recently became the first person, without machine assistance, to activate endless play by completing level 255 in the NES version, causing the game to restart at level 0. Read Entire Article

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

Charlotte, A Young Teen, Helping To Save Horse Farm Through A Kick Starter Campaign. Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1 She is trying to raise money by selling one of her horses and crowdfunding money to help with her legal fees. Raising Money To Fight Food Insecurity. Look out world!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

based challenger bank Current , which has now grown to nearly 3 million users, announced this morning it has raised a $220 million round of Series D funding, led by new investor Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Teen banking service Step raises $100M Series C, announces Steph Curry’s investment. MrBeast is also an investor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Berkeley-based fintech Flourish has raised $1.5 from Brazil as a teen, while Eting is the daughter of a Filiponio father and mother of Mexican descent. -based investors backing Latin American startups. But it’s not every day that we hear of Latin American VCs investing in U.S.-based based startups. Moura came to the U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2022

Now, for-profit companies, influencers, and nonprofits alike are using TikTok to spread information, advertise, and raise funds for causes. TikTok Videos: Not Just for Dancing Teens. TikTok’s interface is particularly useful for creating videos that tell entire stories in 15 to 60 seconds. The majority of U.S.

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Engadget

MARCH 26, 2025

The legislation is intended to protect children and teens, according to bill sponsor Todd Weiler, a Republican state senator. However, it has also raised questions about privacy and where the burden of responsibility falls to ensure that underage users don't see inappropriate content. Meta, Snap and X have supported the measure. "We

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Since the last raise in April, the company’s revenue grew 26 times and continues to do so at almost 40% per month, CEO Thompson said via email. Homebrew leads Z1’s effort to bring digital banking to Latin America’s teens. Z1 also grew its customer base by eight times during the same time at a rate of 30% per month.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Minnesota’s ‘Networked Nonprofits’ raised over $10M in one day by Jeff Achen of GiveMN.org. “Do Here at GiveMN , we’ve harnessed the power of our networks to raise record amounts of money online for nonprofits in Minnesota and engage record numbers of people in an annual, one-day giving event— Give to the Max Day.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This year, we fundraised for Grassroot Soccer —an organization that leverages the power of soccer to educate, inspire, and mobilize at-risk youth in developing countries—and exceeded our $60,000 goal and raised a total of $72,000. your connection to soccer, teens, nonprofits, Classy, etc.). Keep up the great work!

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Hands on Fundraising

MARCH 22, 2022

Whether you’re dedicated to providing mental health care to teens in marginalized communities or working to raise awareness about environmental issues, it’s people who care that help you […]. The post Designing Your Nonprofit Website To Look the Part: 5 Tips appeared first on Hands-On Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Minnesota’s ‘Networked Nonprofits’ raised $13.4M million was raised to benefit Minnesota nonprofit organizations. In total, GiveMN has helped raise $46 million for nonprofit organizations across the state of Minnesota since launching in November 2009. Minnesota’s ‘Networked Nonprofits’ raised $13.4M

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Even though billions of dollars have been raised online since 1999, it’s surprising how many nonprofits make the donation process more complicated than it should be. Launched in 2002, GlobalGiving.org is a crowdfunding platform for NGOs, charities, and nonprofits worldwide which has raised nearly $500 million online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2012

When I saw DoSomething.org CEO Nancy Lublin’s TED talk about creating a national Crisis Text Line for teens, I knew I wanted to be a part of this effort to reach teens using the medium they now love most – SMS. In other words, we needed to do some serious coalition building. Get together in person.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

In fact, the founder had just joined Twitter in March, where he intended to aid the social network by building out new product experiences for teens via its 0–>1 team. Although the startup will take the learnings from social apps and products he’s helped create for teens, its apps won’t be solely aimed at Gen Z users.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

An Indian startup that is bridging this gap on Thursday said it has raised $6.5 Students going to the top colleges is just 10% of the potential audience,” explained Chaturvedi, who spent his teen years attending talks from startup founders and also made money by bringing more people to those talks.

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frontstream

JULY 28, 2023

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and a great time to raise awareness and funds for treatment against the leading disease-related killer of children in the US.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Dubai-based Zywa, a neobank for Gen Z, plans to fuel its growth in the United Arabs Emirates (U.A.E), and to kick-start its expansion to Saudi Arabia and Egypt after raising $3 million seed funding at over $30 million (110 million AED) valuation. The new funding follows the $1 million pre-seed backing it secured in February this year.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Throughout my life, from teenage years to now, my career has been filled with leadership training programs: Teen leadership, student leadership, emerging leadership, and executive leadership. I cant think of a term more widely used in the professional world than leadership. Its an idyllic view of leadership.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

As the oldest of 12 children, Bunim Laskin spent much of his teen years looking for ways to help keep his siblings entertained. That year, Swimply did around 400 reservations and raised $1.2 Earlier this year, we reported on Neighbor, w hich operates a self-storage marketplace, raising $53 million in a Series B round of funding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Growing up, my kids have posed for photos in t-shirts , emptied their piggy banks , helped me make fundraising videos , contributed clothing or other items to drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events. I recently keynoted the Social Good Brazil Conference in November. Faber is a Philanthroteen.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Interactive voice advertising startup Instreamatic , which can insert interactive voice ads into an audio stream, has raised $6.1 Some 55% of teens use voice search daily. million in a Series A funding led by Progress Ventures , joined by Accomplice and Google Assistant Investments. Voice assistant usage is booming.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

On the heels of this growth, The Juggernaut announced today that it has raised a $2 million seed round led by Precursor Ventures to hire editors and a full-time growth engineer, and expand new editorial projects. .” During COVID-19, The Juggernaut’s net subscribers have grown 20% to 30% month over month, she said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

seed capital raise from U.S.-based Describing itself as an “evidence-based gamified mental health game for teens and young adults”, eQuoo is now aiming its platform at the 50% of teens and tweens who self-report struggling with one or more issues of mental health. based Morningside Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Yahya Bouhlel started coding in his early teens. It raised $850,000 seed in October 2020. Within this timeline, he interned at several companies in Palo Alto, California. Most of his work revolved around building apps and iPhone games. When he came home to Tunis, he met many students who wanted to build products like him each summer.

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Kindful

MAY 1, 2021

Mission: Under the Laughs for the Troops umbrella, you will find many other great programs to help our veterans, increase awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), raise funds, and recruit volunteers. Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens.

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sgEngage

JULY 16, 2024

Read on to see how we have been able to grow our annual fund with targeted appeals, increasing our dollars raised per appeal, boosting engagement with our social media content, and multiplying click-through rates on our appeal emails. For example, the internal theme of our summer appeal was “How ASM Prepares Teens for Life After High School.”

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