TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It was building a commercial container testing platform, based on a popular open source project, always a nice combination. AtomicJar was seemingly a high flying early stage startup with a hefty (by today’s standards) $25 million Series A last January.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

A private European aerospace company scrubbed its attempt on Monday to launch the first test flight of its orbital launch vehicle from Norway. The company said it could also conduct the test flight later in the week. The launch is subject to various factors, including weather and safety.

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Engadget

MARCH 13, 2025

With all those items maxed out, the Mac Studio costs a hair-raising $14,099. All M4 Max models start with a decent 36GB of unified memory, though my test unit came with the maximum 128GB in a $3,699 configuration. It falls just below the Mac Studio with M2 Ultra on the multicore Geekbench 6 test. 265 files on the fly.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

For the first time, two people rode a hyperloop pod through a nearly airless tube at 100 mph Virgin Hyperloop announced that for the first time it has conducted a test of its ultra-fast transportation system with human passengers. The DevLoop test track is 500 meters long and 3.3 It’ll be a bit short,” Giegel said before the test.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Many organizations raise 30%, sometimes as much as 50%, of their individual giving in December. Collect data (ideally the last two years, but at a minimum for the previous year) How much did we raise at end of year? How much did you raise for GivingTuesday ? Test your appeal for free with this appeal writing checklist.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Homa Games is raising a $50 million Series A round led by Northzone. The company is raising this Series A round just seven months after raising its seed round (led by Headline and Eurazeo). After that, Homa Games can test the potential of each prototype to find out if it’s worth exploring further.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Did you know that a lot of nonprofit organizations raise 30%, sometimes as much as 50% of their annual donations during the year-end giving season ? The lion’s share of all giving comes in December. Most nonprofits bring in nearly half of their online donations in the last week of the year. You think your donors read every email you send.

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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. Homa Lab helps you learn more about the competitive landscape with market intelligence and testing tools. 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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Bloomerang

MARCH 17, 2025

Bloomerang Learning makes it easy to get the most out of Bloomerang, equipping teams with the skills to work smarter, raise more, and drive greater impact. Explore Bloomerang Learning today The post Poll Test Post | Getting the Most out of Your Nonprofit Tech: A Smarter Way To Learn appeared first on Bloomerang.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

French startup Homa has raised a $100 million Series B funding round. Homa also fosters A/B testing at scale to optimize user engagement. Overall, the company has raised $165 million and now works with 160 people. Quadrille Capital and Headline are leading the round. After that, Homa helps you monetize with ads.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

AlzPaths highly sensitive blood test can detect signs of Alzheimers disease before symptoms developand in time to potentially benefit from new treatments. Currently, AD is typically diagnosed via cognitive testing alongside expensive PET brain scans or invasive cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tests, which are costly and painful.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech platform OPay is in talks to raise up to $400 million, The Information reported today. The $170 million raised so far came from mainly Chinese investors who have collectively begun to bet big on African startups over the past few years. billion, three times what it was worth back in 2019.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

A time when many nonprofits raise 25-50% of their entire budget. They didn’t just hit the target—they soared past it, raising $31,150! Test your email subject lines with a free tool like Send Check It (add the link to your bookmarks toolbar). Did someone say “donate now?” Do you remember any emails that stood out?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

With many nonprofits raising as much as 50% of their budget in December alone, there’s a lot at stake — and a lot of end-of-year fundraising problems to overcome. My favorite tool for testing email subject lines is sendcheckit.com because, on top of rating your subject line, it gives you advice on how to improve it.

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Futurism

MARCH 18, 2025

Researchers have found new evidence for a massive subsurface ocean on Mars, again raising the possibility of microbial life lurking deep below the Martian surface. To test their theory, they scanned P- and S-waves from dry, wet, and frozen samples of a Martian rock analog, in the form of diabase rocks from Sweden.

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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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Futurism

MARCH 18, 2025

as an arms-length testing groundwhere it could quietly research the impact of human-like companion bots on the public, kids included. Our testing found that these bots were all accessible to minors, despite centering on graphic roleplays, and were seldom interrupted by the platform's filters. Despite shoveling $2.7 Character.AI

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

But a closer look at the underlying assumptions and design choices raises questions about whether this new system can truly deliver on its promises. This raises serious concerns about the system’s ability to handle complex or nuanced misinformation, where the truth may lie in the details.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Per Crunchbase , Twiga has raised over $100 million in both debt and equity financing rounds. Kenya’s Twiga Foods eyes West Africa after $30M raise led by Goldman. The funding will be used to test the concept out. This funding comes after the company’s $30 million Series B round — $23.75 million equity and $6.25

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2023

On their way to building fully-autonomous vehicles, self-driving car makers are facing a tall task: training their AIs to be able to respond reliably to any and all scenarios that a car, truck or bus might encounter as well as, or hopefully better, than a human would. Today, a startup with a platform to help […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2022

Tesla is raising the price of its “full self driving” software | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the company is raising the price of its “full self driving” (FSD) software to $12,000. Tesla began testing FSD in beta in October of 2020 — when it was priced at $8,000 — with a select group of customers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Micromobility startup Voi has raised $45 million, funds it says will be used to research and develop technology that will improve safety, keep users from riding on sidewalks and ensure scooters are properly parked.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

The sale would raise about $1.5 Additionally, CoreWeave’s capital-intensive business model raises questions about sustainability, adding to broader market uncertainty. CoreWeave and some existing investors had initially aimed to sell 49 million shares in the offering priced between $47 and $55 each to raise as much as $2.7

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

The breakdown of campaign/source/term/medium used as UTM parameters is a tried and tested structure for understanding acquisition. Raisely already has UTM tracking in place, so you can automatically capture UTMs and other attribution data on donations and sign-ups. Test with a couple of links to see how it all works.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Since you probably raise a good percentage of your fundraising goal during the month of December, you have to make the time count! Try these 13 successful, yet underutilized strategies to help you raise more money and create stronger relationships this year-end. It’s better to overachieve than risk raising less than you planned.

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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. . We’re not trying to solve things in fintech that have already been solved.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

But Michigan Central doesnt just offer an architecturally striking space to incubate ideas; it provides a test bed. Bristol has a reputation for climate action and community support for renewables; this city-scale move shows that it is raising its own bar. The initiative will also benefit local industry by slashing energy costs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The company recently opened a 42,000-square-foot facility just north of Seattle where it has already begun constructing prototypes and preparing for early module pressure tests early next year. Gravitics raises $20M to make the essential units for living and working in space by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition games starting Thursday after four years of experiments in the minor leagues. Starting in 2024, MLB focused testing on a challenge system in which the human umpire makes each original call. What is the technology?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 20, 2023

In other words, use trial and error to test out fundraising strategies to find out what works for your nonprofit organization. 4) Think of each fundraiser as a test. Participants can raise funds by the number of hours (or minutes) they create. and are well on their way to meeting the funds raised by their golf event.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The new funding brings the total amount raised by Uncover, since launch in 2020, to $1.225 million. Our production happens in Korea (one of the world’s biggest beauty markets) , where we are leveraging the best technology, labs, and scientists in the world who understand stability testing, safe ingredients, and formulations.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 7, 2021

These tested virtual event ideas are sure to help you connect with your supporters and raise awareness about your cause. Here are my top four virtual event ideas to add to your fundraising calendar.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

By Nathan Hill , Optimization Evangelist at NextAfter , works every day to share how testing and optimization can lead to fundraising growth that can transform organizations and causes. If you want to dig into all of the results, you can check out the full study (including 32 unique and data-driven test ideas) at: recurringgiving.com.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For starters, it can help you raise money. There are lots of reasons to measure the impact of your volunteers. By showing your donors and funders not just how immensely resourceful you are, but how deeply invested the community is in your program. appeared first on Bloomerang.

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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. AI platform to analyze creative advertising raises $5.1M their human creative team.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

It announced today that it has raised $4.5 While consumers will eventually be able to access a free tier, the big test for Felt is if it can find a customer base that is willing to pay, and consistently use mapping software in meaningful ways. The company is in a unique spot.

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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. When students apply to the program, they are provided with a home study kit in preparation for an assessment test. The company (not to be confused with U.S.

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