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| Jan 18, 2024 | Ohio Senate vote marks latest battle over transgender rights | Ohio transgender rights advocates are gearing up for a final legislative fight next week — but it's not the only challenge they are facing in the state.
Why it matters: House Bill 68 would keep minors from receiving gender-affirming care, r... |
| Jun 10, 2023 | Nahvalur Partners with the It Gets Better Project to Celebrate Pride Month and Support LGBTQ+ Community | Nahvalur Voyage Pride 2023 Limited Edition
Instagram story from the It Gets Better Project sharing Nahvalur's product launch news
Be Bold. Be Proud.
We believe in fostering a world where everyone is treated with respect, dignity, and equali... |
| Mar 9, 2023 | The It Gets Better Project Announces Release of “LGBTQ+ Fundamentals” | Series of bite-sized videos lands amid widespread misrepresentation of LGBTQ+ identities and offers context to It Gets Better’s glossary of LGBTQ+ labels terms.
LGBTQ+ Fundamentals arrives at a time with the labels and identities of queer y... |
| Jan 18, 2023 | The It Gets Better Project Announces Year Two of Major Grants Initiative Supporting LGBTQ+ Students | Applications are open for 50 States. 50 Grants. in the U.S. and Canada with $690K to be awarded to school projects uplifting and empowering LGBTQ+ youth.
At a time when LGBTQ+ youth are being inappropriately drawn into political discourse, ... |
| Nov 29, 2022 | It Gets Better Project Web-Series "Industry" Highlights LGBTQ+ Professionals in STEM | Meet the faces of Industry S.T.E.M.
New Series Produced with Howmet Aerospace Foundations Highlights LGBTQ+ Professionals In Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Industries
Industry helps young LGBTQ+ people interested in STEM ... |
| Oct 29, 2022 | Raven-Symoné said she had to 'go through a mental grow up' from her days as a child star to become comfortable in her own skin | Entertainment Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options.
Voices of Color Raven-Symoné said she had to 'go through a mental grow up' from her days as a child star to become comfo... |
| Oct 19, 2022 | The It Gets Better Project Debuts Digital Content Series Making Sex Education Inclusive and Accessible for LGBTQ+ Youth | “Queer Sex Ed” pairs sex educators with LGBTQ+ young people for frank, honest discussions on critical sexual health topics missing from most school curriculums.
LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, October 19, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Today, t... |
| Sep 20, 2022 | The It Gets Better Project Releases Educational Election Content Series Ahead of Midterms | LGBTQ+ youth-focused nonprofit seeks to educate young voters with resources through partnerships with voting orgs including Rock the Vote and DoSomething.
LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, September 20, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- On National ... |
| Jun 28, 2022 | ‘It Gets Better Project’ Supports LGBTQ+ Youth With $500K In Grants | Logo for 50 States 50 Grants initiative It Gets Better Project |
| Aug 12, 2021 | Delhi-based SB Packagings gets $25 million investment from Premji Invest | Delhi-based SB Packagings (SBP) on Thursday said Premji Invest has picked up "significant stake" in the company for USD 25 million (Rs 185.5 crore).
The transaction primarily involves partial stake sale held by the existing shareh... |
| Aug 12, 2021 | OneWeb gets $300 million equity investment from Korea’s Hanwha Systems | Total equity investment since November 2020 jumps to $2.7 billion
Bharti backed OneWeb, the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, on Thursday said it has recieved $300 million equity investment from Hanwha Systems of South... |
| Aug 2, 2021 | Apnaklub gets $3.5-million seed funding from Sequoia Surge | ETtechFounded in July 2019 by Shruti and Manish Kumar, Apnaklub connects 'kirana' and general stores in semi-urban and rural areas to a wide range of consumer goods and brands through its network of digitally-connected wholesale partners.
B... |
| Jul 21, 2021 | Outplay gets $7.3-million Series A funding from Sequoia India | ETtechFounded in 2018 and launched in the subsequent year, Outplay helps automate and personalise sales calls and brings conversations from multiple channels. (Illustration: Rahul Awasthi/ETtech)
Bengaluru: Outplay has raised $7.3 million f... |
| Jun 24, 2021 | My husband and I are proudly undertaking | June 24, 2021 6 min read
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| Jun 2, 2021 | Pride Month 2021: Here’s how video game studios are celebrating | June is Pride Month, a celebration of LGBTQIA+ communities and folks around the world. Like many companies, video game studios are celebrating with a myriad of deals, donations, and free digital content for players to get their hands on. He... |
| May 18, 2021 | Affable.ai gets $2 million funding from Prime Venture, others | Getty ImagesAffable.ai, a Singapore-based marketing technology startup, has raised $2 million from Prime Venture Partners, Decacorn Capital and SGInnovate, to fuel its expansion into international markets such as the US.
Bengaluru: Singapor... |
| Apr 13, 2021 | LimeChat gets $750,000 seed funding from Pi Ventures, Stellaris | iStockLimeChat was founded by Nikhil Gupta and Aniket Bajpai in 2020 amid a pandemic-induced surge in adoption of e-commerce in India.
LimeChat, an AI-based chatbot startup, has raised $750,000 in a seed funding round led by Pi Ventures and... |
| Apr 5, 2021 | Swiggy gets $800 million funding at $5 billion valuation | ETtechSwiggy’s fundraise was oversubscribed due to the strong recovery following pandemic-induced disruption, co-founder Sriharsha Majety says in an internal email to employees. (Illustration: Rahul Awasthi/ETtech)
Mumbai: Online food deliv... |
| Mar 22, 2021 | KreditBee gets $70 million more in Series C funding round | Getty ImagesKreditBee will use the fresh funding to scale up its lending portfolio beyond unsecured personal loans.
Mumbai: Fintech lending startup KreditBee, through holding entity Finnov, has raised $70 million (Rs 507 crore) in the secon... |
| Feb 15, 2021 | KreditBee gets $75 million in Series C funding from PremjiInvest, others | Digital lending startup KreditBee has secured an investment of $75 million (Rs 544 crore) in a Series C round which saw participation of Azim Premji’s PremjiInvest and South Korea’s Mirae Asset Venture.
The equity round also saw participati... |
| Sep 22, 2020 | GoTab gets $6 million in latest funding round | GoTab Inc, a mobile POS and contactless ordering and payment platform, secured a $6 million investment to support new partnerships, integrations and launch serve-based ordering through its mobile POS. This investment can help further bridge... |
| Jun 23, 2020 | Instagram’s Favorite Fine Jeweler Is Now Available Through This Luxury Rental Platform | Starting today, Stephanie Gottlieb is making her coveted diamond pieces accessible through Vivrelle.Vivrelle |
| Apr 13, 2020 | Alnylam gets $2B funding boost from Blackstone to develop drug pipeline | Shares of Alnylam fell 4.5% on the Nasdaq following the news, while shares of Blackstone fell 5.8% on the New York Stock Exchange. Markets had been down generally following the announcement of an oil deal by OPEC to cut production by 9.7 mi... |
| Nov 25, 2019 | NephroPlus gets ₹323-crore funding from Bahrain’s Investcorp | In a ‘big ticket’ investment, NephroPlus, the fast growing dialysis service provider, has got a fresh infusion of about $45 million(₹323 crore) from Investcorp, the Bahrain based, Global alternative asset management company.
This is the big... |
| Aug 21, 2019 | Crossbeam gets $12.5M Series A to help companies organize their partnerships | When Crossbeam CEO and co-founder Bob Moore was working at previous startups, he noticed a problem around sharing information with potential partners. In fact, it was so acute he decided to create a startup to solve that problem, and today,... |
| Apr 17, 2019 | Innovaptive gets $16.3 m in Series A funding | Innovapptive, a connected work force platform for asset intensive industries, received a Series A funding of $16.3 million from investors led by US-based Tiger Global Management.
The fresh round of funding puts the company’s valuation at $6... |
| Dec 17, 2018 | Byju’s gets $540 million in funding at $3.6 billion valuation | Byju’s founder Byju Raveendran. The latest funding has more than tripled Byju’s valuation from its previous round and cemented its status as one of the breakout startups from India in the past five years. Photo: Mint Byju’s gets $540 millio... |
| Nov 13, 2018 | CleanseCar gets ₹3.5 crore angel funding from Venture Catalyst | CleanseCar, a mobile-based service start-up that streamlines the $3 billion daily car wash segment, has received a ₹3.5 crore angel funding from investment platform Venture Catalyst. Several leading angel investors from Venture Catalysts ne... |
| Sep 14, 2018 | Indiana gets $9M grant for students’ mental health needs | |
| Aug 7, 2018 | Snapchat gets $250M investment from Saudi prince for 2.3% | Snap Inc. got a fresh infusion of cash from the Saudi royal family to help it survive despite losing $353 million this quarter. Prince Al-Waleed Talal tweeted a video of him and Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, noting that he’s invested $250 million ... |
| May 23, 2018 | BetterPlace gets $3 million funding from 3one4 Capital, others | BetterPlace Safety Solutions, an online platform that caters to the blue collar workforce, counts Venture Highway and Unitus Ventures, and now 3one4 Capital, as among its investors. BetterPlace gets $3 million funding from 3one4 Capital, ot... |
| Feb 12, 2018 | nOCD gets $1M seed round to help people with obsessive-compulsive disorder | nOCD, an app created to help people treat obsessive-compulsive disorder, will launch an Android version and add more features after raising a $1 million seed round from early-stage healthcare investment firm 7wire Ventures.
The free app gui... |
| Jan 11, 2018 | BillionLoans gets ₹7 crore seed funding from Reliance Capital arm | The start-up connects borrowers to lenders directly through the use of technology
BillionLoans Financial Services has closed a seed funding round of ₹7 crore ($1 million) from Reliance Corporate Advisory Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary ... |
| Nov 24, 2017 | Reliance gets $500 m financing from EDC | The Export Development Canada (EDC), an export credit agency, has announced $500 million in financing for Reliance Industries Limited (RIL). The transaction is among the largest financing packages that EDC has ever extended in Asia.
The new... |
| Apr 18, 2017 | Randolph Regional EMS gets $65K grant | RANDOLPH — The Randolph Regional EMS Corporation was the recent recipienof a $65,239 federal grant.
U.S. Sens. Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand last week announced the federal funding for the Randolph Regional EMS Corporation that ... |
| Sep 27, 2016 | Why Are There So Few Resources for Gay Muslims Online? | An attendee of Istanbul's LGBTQ Pride Parade. Photo via Wikimedia user Alexandra Zevallos-Ortiz
Over a year ago, I told my coming out story on a popular LGBTQ YouTube channel called I'm from Driftwood. In the video, I talked about how diffi... |
| Jul 1, 2016 | Salamanca library gets $256K grant for interior renovations | SALAMANCA — The Salamanca Public Library is about to get its first major upgrade in nearly 40 years.
Thanks to a $256,296 grant included in the 2016 state budget, the Salamanca Public Library will become a more welcoming place for its thous... |
| Jun 1, 2016 | County gets $59M as part of local road-funding package | |
| Apr 21, 2016 | Zengaming gets $2.8M in funding to expand its social network for the esports business | Competitive gaming is growing quickly, and one of the sites trying to make your dreams of going pro a reality is building up to serve the future of esports.
Zengaming, a social network for gamers looking to make a name for themselves in the... |
| Mar 11, 2016 | Jacob Thomas – Better Practice, Better Care | This is part of a series of interviews with members of the Foundation for Young Australians Young Social Pioneers program which supports Australia’s best and brightest emerging social entrepreneurs and innovators, aged 18-29. The program am... |
| Dec 8, 2015 | INHP gets $26.6M grant for housing aid, community development | |
| Jul 27, 2015 | Anthem gets $26.5B funding commitment for Cigna takeover | |
| Sep 26, 2014 | Program gets $1 million federal grant to mentor ex-cons | |
| Aug 25, 2014 | Austin-Based Bearch Gets $2.1 Million in Funding for Photo Sharing App “Unseen” | Snapchat is one of the most popular apps right now for young people. |
| Jun 29, 2014 | #Love: Pride | I’ve been gay since I was… well, born.
At seven years old, I knew something was different when I felt an overwhelming affection for my 19-year-old basketball coach, Cathy. By the time I figured out how sex worked, I had also learned that my... |
| Jan 30, 2014 | GetYourGuide Gets $4.5M Series A Expansion, From Ex-Booking.com CEO (& Others), To Help It Scale Globally | Just over a year ago holiday attractions booking startup GetYourGuide closed a $14 million Series A funding round. Today it’s bulked up that round with a further $4.5 million in what it’s describing as strategic expansion funding — owing to... |
| Apr 12, 2013 | Motif Gets $25M Series C Led By Goldman Sachs For Its Theme-Based Stock Investment Platform | Bitcoins may be getting a lot of buzz, but the market for products that deal with old fashioned dollars and cents is apparently still strong.
To wit: Motif Investing, the Silicon Valley startup headed up by Microsoft alum Hardeep Walia that... |
| Mar 13, 2013 | Outlook.com comes out in support of same-sex marriage -- or is it just a marketing ploy? | I watched an advert for Microsoft’s new webmail service yesterday. It starts by showing a man changing his job from Deliveryman to Stuntman on the website. Next up, there’s a pretty young woman getting married and locking lips with her part... |
| Feb 25, 2013 | AirWatch Gets $200 Million Series A Funding | Mobile device management startup AirWatch has raised a massive series A round of $200 million, led by Insight Venture Partners.
The startup competes with others such as Good Technology and SAP’s Afaria in the mobile device management space.... |
| Oct 26, 2012 | Google Video Promotes Gay Marriage – What About Other Tech Giants? | Not so long ago, coming out in favor of gay rights would have been a corporate kamikaze mission. It’s almost surreal that now one of the most influential companies in the U.S. not only privately cultivates a climate of acceptance and divers... |
| Oct 22, 2012 | Tely Labs Gets $15 Million In Funding From Comcast And Rogers To Refocus On The SMB Video Conferencing Market | Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: A video conferencing company seeks to make multiparty chat and collaboration affordable, opening up the market to a whole new crop of customers for whom the old room-based systems were just too expen... |
| Jul 10, 2012 | Is It Dangerous for Google to Engage in Issue Advocacy? | In an effort to combat anti-homosexual laws that exist in many of the countries in which Google does business, the search engine giant has launched a new “Legalise Love” campaign in conjunction with the Global LGBT Workplace Summit held in ... |
| Mar 19, 2012 | From Lori Drew To Dharun Ravi, Punishing People Based On Others' Suicides Is A Mistake | A few years back, we covered the Lori Drew case, involving charges brought against a woman who stupidly set up a fake user account on MySpace to try to find out what was going on with a girl the woman’s daughter had some issues with. The “f... |
| Feb 22, 2012 | Minnesota gets $26 million grant to create health insurance exchange | The state’s efforts come without any legislative support so far and is being led by Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton, who set up two healthcare task forces by executive order in October.
Two bills are in the state legislature and the House versi... |
| Feb 1, 2012 | Rainbow Chronicle Aims to Be Yelp for the LGBT Community | During one lunch hour in 2010, reporter Travis Lowry was listening to NPR and heard about the It Gets Better project, with inspirational videos encouraging LGBT youth to believe that life will improve. Lowry decided that rather than telling... |
| Oct 18, 2011 | Why Facebook, Yahoo & others are celebrating LGBT Spirit Day | GLAAD (that’s the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) is promoting Spirit Day this Thursday, Oct. 20, and encouraging folks to wear purple and display that color on their online profiles. In response, Facebook and other companies... |
| May 3, 2011 | Google's Chrome Team Lends Their Support To The It Gets Better Project With A New Video | A few weeks ago, a video entered wide circulation in the tech press for two reasons: 1) it featured lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Apple employees talking about their difficulties growing up. And 2) it was very, very well ma... |
| Apr 15, 2011 | Apple employees join It Gets Better Project | Warning: You WILL cry
So far my Friday morning is going as usual. I had my cereal, my cup of coffee, and I sobbed uncontrollably for ten minutes. All because I happened to stumble upon a tear-jerking video Apple employees produced.
Apple is... |
| Mar 22, 2011 | Getting stronger | COURTESY PHOTO
Kristel Yoneda has made a video relating an uncomfortable personal experience she had in high school for the project “It Gets Better.” Yoneda, who is gay, decided to lend her voice to the project as there weren’t any other co... |
| Jan 26, 2011 | Metabolix Oilseeds Gets $203,000 Grant To Test 'False Flax' As Possible Petroleum Replacement | A Cambridge, Mass. biosciences company that makes plastics, chemicals and energy from renewable crops rather than petroleum, Metabolix, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBLX) today announced that its subsidiary, Metabolix Oilseeds, obtained a $203,000 grant f... |
| Dec 15, 2010 | 10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2011 | With more than 550 million people on Facebook, 65 million tweets posted on Twitter each day, and 2 billion video views each day on YouTube?, social media has become an integral part of our connected lives. But this is just the beginning.
Fo... |
| Apr 5, 2010 | Tri-C gets $2.5M grant to lead Midwest health IT training group | The $7.5 million first-year grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is part of a nationwide effort to meet requirements of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which mandates t... |
| Mar 12, 2010 |
Sonos Gets $25M In Series C
| Santa Barbara-based Sonos, which develops multi-room, digital music systems, confirmed today that it has raised $25M in a Series C round of funding. The funding came from Index Ventures, with Mike Volpi of Index joining the company's board ... |
| Feb 15, 2010 | Ohio group gets $43M federal grant to promote electronic health records adoption | Promoted
This Patient Experience Checklist Is Your Key To Success in 2021
As healthcare systems strive to recover from losses due to the pandemic, patient acquisition and retention have never been more urgent, and patient experience has nev... |
| Feb 12, 2010 | Ohio gets $19M in federal funds for health care job training | Promoted
Clinical Care Capacity Planning
Learn how to manage clinical care capacity more efficiently during uncertain times.
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Telemedicine’s potential to provide healthcare to the world’s most vulnerable
Teladoc Health Head of R... |
| Jan 28, 2010 | IU-Kenya Partnership gets $5M USAID grant | |
| Jan 5, 2010 | Indiana’s Orbis gets $8.65M investment for nursing education services | Promoted
Telemedicine’s potential to provide healthcare to the world’s most vulnerable
Teladoc Health Head of R&D Yulun Wang highlights the impact of virtual care in underserved populations around the globe through the World Telehealth ... |
| Dec 7, 2009 | Cleveland start-up Aeromics gets $2.25M NIH grant | As water enters the brain through the blood-brain barrier of a stroke victim, it can cause swelling and neurological damage. Aeromics’ drug would prevent water from crossing the barrier and entering the brain, while still allowing gases to... |
| Oct 2, 2009 | NPR Gets $3 Million Grant For Hyper-Local News Initiative | NPR has received $3 million in funding to launch a new journalism project that will focus on providing in-depth, hyper-local coverage on community-specific issues on an online platform. NPR received $2 million from the Corporation for Publi... |
| Jun 9, 2008 | Sinexus gets $20M, Entellus takes $15M for sinus products | Feeling stuffy? Two sinus-focused companies, Palo Alto, Calif.-based Sinexus and Maple Grove, Minn.-based Entellus, want to help out, with fresh rounds of funding for product development.
Venture funding for ear, nose & throat (ENT) com... |
| Jan 23, 2008 | BioCrossroads gets $2.5M grant from Fairbanks | |
| Jiko gets $47.7m funding for US banking ambitions | Bank-buying fintech firm Jiko is in a joyous mood as it has got $47.7 million in equity funding.
This comprised a $40 million Series A round and $7 million coming in the form of debt. The round was co-led by Upfront Ventures and Wafra, with... |
| Shuttl Gets $18 Mn Series C Boost From SPARX, Toyota Tsusho | Gurugram-based bus aggregator startup Shuttl on Monday (November 25) announced that it has raised $18 Mn in Series C funding. The company said that the investment has come in from SPARX Group Co. Ltd. (through its Mirai Creation Fund II) an... |
| MyNoticePeriod Gets INR 18 Cr. From IDG Ventures India In Series A | Bangalore-based online recruitment startup myNoticePeriod has raised INR 18 Cr. in Series A round of funding led by IDG Ventures India. This round came in just a few months after it had raised over INR 2 Cr in a seed round led by IDG Ventur... |
| Galileo gets $77m funding for maximum Accel-eration | US-based API provider Galileo has got its first institutional funding round of $77 million investment as it plots major motion fixtures.
The round was led by venture capital firm Accel with participation from Qualtrics Co-Founder and CEO Ry... |
| Pune Based Faaso’s Gets Delicious $20 Mn From Lightbox & Sequoia In Series B | Pune-based tech focussed QSR chain Faaso’s has grabbed $20 Mn in a fresh round of funding led by LightBox Ventures and Sequoia Capital. Of the total amount, $16 Mn is equity investment by Lightbox and Sequoia, and a $4 Mn debt.
Startups in ... |
| Airwallex gets $40m funding lift for paytech plans | Following April’s $160 million funding, payments firm Airwallex has picked up a further $40 million to add to its Series D round.
This takes the Melbourne and Hong Kong-based company’s total equity funding raised to date to $402 million. Ai... |
| Molo gets £266m funding for mortgage lending in UK | UK-based digital mortgage lender Molo is moving along with a £266 million raise in debt and equity funding.
This completes its series A equity funding round and comes after a first tranche of £10 million in January 2020. The investment was ... |
| Swiggy Gets $100 Mn In Series F Funding From Naspers And Meituan-Dianping | Amidst merger talks with Zomato, online food ordering and delivery platform Swiggy has raised $100 Mn in Series F funding round led by Naspers. With this round Swiggy also on board the new investor Meituan-Dianping, who is one of China’s la... |
| Rainbow Doritos are a thing — here's how to get your hands on them | Rainbow Doritos. Mexican Candy Lady
Rainbow Doritos were a limited-edition item made in 2015, but people recently discovered that it still exists.
The rainbow-colored chips were originally introduced in collaboration with the It Gets Better... |
