Neowin News Feed for: Fundraising

OpenAI becomes a $852 billion giant with record-breaking $122B funding round

Pradeep Viswanathan — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:18:01 +0000

OpenAI has announced a funding round so massive it dwarfs previous records, setting the stage for a new era of global AI dominance. Read more...

Meta introduces new fundraising resources to celebrate GivingTuesday

Fiza Ali — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 17:42:01 +0000

In connection with the GivingTuesday on November 30, Meta offers new resources and charity tools, including the Giving Exchange feature, and brings back the #BuyBlack Friday campaign for its users. Read more...

Amid Microsoft's GitHub buy, code repository site GitLab secures $100 million in funding

Jay Bonggolto — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 05:52:01 +0000

Microsoft's $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub in June has spurred GitLab, a startup company offering code collaboration and DevOps platform, to do a series D funding, in which it raised $100 million. Read more...

Facebook adds features to donation tool and eliminates fee for personal causes

Paul Hill — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 08:26:02 +0000

Facebook Fundraisers have received several new features from the social media giant. Additional fundraising categories have been added and fundraisers can now pledge to match donations up to $2,500. Read more...

Funraise and PayPal advance the science of giving

Scott James — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 02:10:01 +0000

In a bid to boost fundraising for nonprofit organizations, Funraise and PayPal have teamed up to provide support with a combination of software and hardware-enabled "swipe and give" technology. Read more...

Facebook enhances birthday celebrations in new update

Paul Hill — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:34:01 +0000

Facebook is rolling out new features in order to allow its users to enhance their birthday experience. Well-wishers will be able to send birthday videos and make donations to nonprofits as a gift. Read more...

Facebook users will soon be able to raise funds through their profile

Shreyas Gandhe — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 16:50:02 +0000

Facebook has unveiled that users will soon be able to start fundraisers for a variety of causes on the social network, and Pages will be able to accept donations during live videos. Read more...

The ReactOS team wants your money

Alfonso Maruccia — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:34:41 +0000

The Foundation that wants to recreate Windows (XP) outside Windows is seeking money to cover the main programmers' work as a full-paid job. In this way, the project will evolve faster. Read more...

Happy Birthday Kickstarter! Updates and interesting stats

Christopher White — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:34:39 +0000

Today marks the second birthday for the fundraising site Kickstarter. It’s been a few weeks since we’ve done a proper Kickstarter Week in Review segment, but we figured it’d be a good idea to see... Read more...