Raiser
Raiser provides a free, all-in-one fundraising platform that helps small charities build a reusable Impact Story™ and deploy it across grant applications, reports, and funding conversations. The platform uses AI to help charities blend qualitative stories with quantitative impact data, reducing the time and cost of grant seeking. Over 100 charities are already using the platform, with the largest grant won so far totaling £240,000.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Software Only
- Data & Analytics
- Financial Technology
Funding
Raised to date
£26KRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Est. $33Kacross 1 round
£26K · Pre-Seed
Announced Oct 2026 · from article date
Disclosed cumulative: $33K
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Small charities spend 38% of their grant income just on the process of applying for funding, with weeks lost to repetitive paperwork, arbitrary word counts, and months-long waits for decisions. The current grant system is broken, favoring organizations with dedicated fundraising staff while penalizing smaller groups that lack time and resources.
Solution
Raiser provides a free, all-in-one fundraising platform that lets small charities tell their story once and reuse it across every grant application, report, and funding conversation. The platform centers on the Impact Story™, a living record of what a charity does, who it helps, and the difference it makes, which grows richer with each update. Charities can build this story through guided tools and then deploy it across multiple bids without redoing the work each time. The platform is designed to shift the dynamic from "please fund our project" to "here's incredible change happening in the world," enabling genuine partnership between charities and funders. Raiser uses AI to help charities interrogate both qualitative and quantitative impact data, allowing personal stories of change to carry weight alongside statistics. The platform is also developing a meaning-based grant-matching engine that connects charities and funders through outcomes achieved rather than keywords.
Target Audience
Primary users are small charities and community organizations in the UK that rely on grant funding but lack dedicated fundraising staff or resources to manage complex applications. The platform also serves funders seeking better visibility into the impact of organizations they support.
Features
- Impact Story™ builder that creates a reusable, living record of charity work and outcomes
- One-time data entry that populates across multiple grant applications and reports
- AI-assisted tools for interrogating "fuzzy" but meaningful impact data, blending qualitative stories with quantitative metrics
- Free forever pricing model with no cost to charities, now or in the future
- Open Impact Standard framework for measuring and communicating impact consistently
- Meaning-based grant-matching engine in development that connects charities and funders through outcomes, with explainable recommendations
- Built on Ruby on Rails with a focus on open-source technology and privacy-first analytics using cookieless tracking