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Raiser

Raiser is the first company to build tech exclusively designed for the needs of small charities (which is nuts, because they make up the majority of the sector 🤦‍♀️) While the hundreds of thousands of small-but-mighty community organisations are busy delivering extraordinary impact across society, they're stuck navigating systems designed for massive organisations. Grant applications that take forever to complete, reporting requirements that suck time away from actual charity work — basically, everything makes running a small charity way harder than it needs to be. We're here to end the craziness! Our vision is simple: small charities should have access to world-class technology that amplifies their impact, not bureaucracy that drowns it. Our first product transforms how small charities access funding. Instead of those soul-crushing application forms, we're building an impact-driven platform where charities showcase the difference they make, and funders can discover and support them based on real outcomes. Think LinkedIn meets JustGiving, but actually designed for the charity sector — where updating your impact becomes as natural as posting on social media, and every update strengthens your ability to attract support. But this is just the beginning. From here, our vision is to tackle one inefficiency after another — from monitoring and evaluation, to volunteer management, HR training and development, and even banking. Nothing is off limits. We won't stop until the organisations changing the world every day have bespoke technology that makes their mission easier.