Gapminder Foundation

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Gapminder identifies misconceptions the public has about the world and seeks to replace them with a fact-based worldview. We gather data about global development and communicate it to people in ways that are fun and easy to understand. Gapminder is a fact tank, not a think tank. We are an independent Swedish foundation with no political, religious or economic affiliations.

Our mission is to fight devastating ignorance with fact-based worldviews everyone can understand.

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United States, New York, Sweden

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2005

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Sep 16, 2026	Veridion lands $20M to take business intelligence beyond static data	Business intelligence startup Veridion has raised $20 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered platform for providing continuously updated information on businesses worldwide. The round was led by Hoxton Ventures, with participa...
Sep 16, 2026	Veridion Raises $20M to Expand AI-Powered Business Intelligence	Veridion Raises $20M Series A For Business Intelligence Veridion has raised $20M to expand its AI-powered business intelligence platform. The round was led by Hoxton Ventures, with existing investors also participating in the financing. The...
Aug 19, 2025	Planable Joins SE Ranking to Unite SEO and Social in the Age of AI	Planable, the Moldova-born social media B2B SaaS, got acquired by global SEO platform SE Ranking The deal signifies a union between SEO and social media workflows to meet AI-driven marketing demands Both companies retain their products, tea...
Jun 16, 2025	How Teachers Are Making Computer Science Click	“Let’s do it!” That was Alexis Johnson’s reaction when she saw professional learning opportunities focused on computational thinking. A first grade teacher with no formal CS background, she jumped at the chance to explore how computer scien...
Feb 22, 2024	GapMinder Ventures Launches €80M Fund II, Largest in Romania, to Drive Tech Innovation Across SEE	Romania ~ Company: In a nutshell: Romanian-foundеd GapMinder announces that its €80M target venture capital fund, GapMinder Fund II, is already operational. The lead investors include the European Investment Fund (EIF), through InvestEU and...
Sep 21, 2023	Growceanu Calls Active and Prospective Angels to Invest in Moonicorns 2023	Growceanu Angel Investment organizes its first Invest in Moonicorns event The event is meant for active and prospective angel investors in Romania and the CEE region The date is October 27-28th, and the place is Timișoara, Romania This Oct...
Sep 15, 2023	How To Web Presents the Biggest Startup Event of the Season in CEE	This year’s How To Web Conference will take place in Bucharest this October The Conference’s tagline is ‘Keep Building,’ and the topics will revolve around resilience in driving innovation in adverse times As usual, the Conference will be c...
Sep 13, 2023	Romanian virtual assistants maker DRUID raises $30M in a Series B round	Romanian virtual assistants maker DRUID raises $30M in a Series B round 13 September, 2023, 09:35 Mariia Denysiuk --> --> --> -->--> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> DRUID, provider of a conversation...
Jan 30, 2023	Romanian HRTech Undelucram Raises EUR 400K on SeedBlink to Enter New Markets	Romania-based employer-candidate matchmaking platform Undelucram aims to raise EUR 400K on SeedBlink EUR 600K were pre-committed by the startup’s repeated investor GapMinder VC, joined by Sofia Angel Ventures The investment will power Undel...
May 3, 2022	Meet DRUID: Delivering AI-driven virtual assistant gets Romanian platform $15 million	Bucharest-based AI-driven conversational business platform that assists companies in delivering their digital transformation agendas, DRUID has raised $15 million to accelerate its growth and expansion across Europe and North America. The s...
Mar 23, 2022	Connecting brands and the e-sports streaming industry, Aggero raises $2 million	London-based Aggero has raised $2 million in a seed round. The company connects brands and advertisers with the gaming/e-sports streaming industry providing analytics and monetisation mechanics. The funding is expected to help Aggero furthe...
Nov 25, 2021	Estonian AI-based deep tech startup Alpha AR, wins €350K from How to Web Spotlight 2021	Bucharest, Romania ~ Company: AI-based startups are on a roll. In CEE, Estonia-based Alpha AR, a deep tech solution using AI to make 3D scalable for AR/VR, NFTs, and marketing, took home the big prize (€350K) at How to Web’s 2021 Spotlight ...
Jan 5, 2021	The Future Is Bright. These Five Books Show Why	Woman reading book in hammockgetty
Jun 7, 2019	Facebook AI study: Major object recognition systems favor people with more money	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Computer vision for recognizing household objects...
Jun 7, 2019	Facebook AI study: Major object recognition systems favor people with more money	Computer vision for recognizing household objects works better for people in high-income households, according to analysis of 6 major object detection systems shared today by Facebook AI researchers. The study examined object classification...
Dec 6, 2016	The United States Is Not an Apocalyptic Wasteland, Explains Steven Pinker	Donald Trump's rise to power was driven in part by an apocalyptic narrative according to which, in a phrase, you are in grave danger. This is consistent with many people's intuitions about the world, given the ongoing threat of global terro...
Sep 15, 2014	Visual energy in data - the art of informed graphics	What is all this fuss about data visualisation and how can it better my influence through my work? Data visualisation (DaViz) has been described as a "bettering journey from data to information and eventually to insight" (Oren Fra...
Apr 12, 2013	Insight Into President Kagame’s Leadership In Rwanda	Editor’s note: This piece was originally posted on Harvard Business Review By Justin Fox, author of The Myth of the Rational Market In Western business circles, Rwandan President Paul Kagame is widely regarded as a hero. The leader of the r...
Dec 19, 2012	Top Education Technology Tools - Q2 2012	BEST OF S'COOL TOOLS Q2 2012: In ES-Instruct Edition 044, we took a look at the most fascinating s'cool tools featured in the newsletter throughout the first quarter of 2012 -- those tools that had you clicking and sharing away. It's the sa...
Nov 11, 2011	How To Be An Optimist In A Pessimistic Time	Editor’s note: Contributor David Kirkpatrick the author of The Facebook Effect and founder of the Techonomy Conference, taking place Nov. 13-15 in Arizona. It’s no secret to most readers at TechCrunch that technology is changing the world. ...
Jan 4, 2011	San Francisco city government highlighted in â€˜Joy of Statsâ€™ BBC documentary	In the excellent BBC documentary “The Joy of Stats,” there is an early passage on the city of San Francisco releasing almost 200 data sets, including extensive crime data. That section begins about 6:15 into the hour-long film. The film fea...
Mar 8, 2010	Google sexes up stats with Public Data Explorer — 10 live demos	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! A new Google Labs project merges two breakthrough...
Mar 8, 2010	Google sexes up stats with Public Data Explorer — 10 live demos	A new Google Labs project merges two breakthroughs into one. Public Data Explorer brings together more than a dozen databases — health statistics, population numbers, employment figures — with a browser-based technology that lets researcher...
Apr 28, 2009	Google Begins to Make Public Data Searchable	Google just announced its first foray into making public data searchable and viewable in graph form. The company is starting with population and unemployment data from around the US but promises to make far more data sets searchable in the ...
Dec 11, 2006	Le Web3 the good, bad and ugly.	(Subscribe to the RSS feed) It’s day one of Le Web 3. So let’s start with the good. One Thousand people from around the world have converged on Paris. Loic and his team have worked really hard to pull together an impressive list of speakers...
	Meet DRUID: Delivering AI-driven virtual assistant gets Romanian platform $15 million	Bucharest-based AI-driven conversational business platform that assists companies in delivering their digital transformation agendas, DRUID has raised $15 million to accelerate its growth and expansion across Europe and North America. The s...
	GapMinder VC, €300K investment in Cartloop, an ecommerce startup	Cartloop is a conversational marketing platform that has a 3-5x higher efficiency than its competitors in helping online merchants persuade customers to return to the site and buy products from the "cart" if they left without comp...
	Connecting brands and the e-sports streaming industry, Aggero raises $2 million	London-based Aggero has raised $2 million in a seed round. The company connects brands and advertisers with the gaming/e-sports streaming industry providing analytics and monetisation mechanics. The funding is expected to help Aggero furthe...
	Сетевое государство в одной картинке	Перевод части "Сетевое государство в одной картинке" Первой главы книги Баладжи Шринивасана "Network State". Краткое описание того, что это, и навигацию вы найдете здесь. 0 Обсудить 11 просмотров Картинка выше дает предс...

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FAQ about Gapminder Foundation

When was Gapminder Foundation founded?

Gapminder Foundation was founded in 2005.

What has the press written about Gapminder Foundation?

Parsers VC has collected 30 articles mentioning Gapminder Foundation, among them “Veridion lands $20M to take business intelligence beyond static data” (Sep 16, 2026) and “Veridion Raises $20M to Expand AI-Powered Business Intelligence” (Sep 16, 2026).

Is Gapminder Foundation still active?

Yes, Gapminder Foundation is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 18, 2026.