£800m+
raised across campaigns our founding and advisor team has led and advised
We build AI with the third sector, not just for it. Non-profits, foundations, family offices and philanthropists get bespoke tools at a cost the mission can justify.
IN OUR ORBIT — ADVISOR AND FOUNDER EXPERIENCE
ABOUT
The organisations solving the world's hardest problems should not have the least access to strategic intelligence. Ambition is not what's missing. Access is. Philanthropel exists to close that gap.
We have spent our careers inside the third sector, raising funds, shaping strategy and navigating the realities of delivering social impact.
Philanthropel turns that experience into intelligent solutions designed for the realities of the sector and built to scale its impact.
£800m+
raised across campaigns our founding and advisor team has led and advised
6+
bespoke solutions live making client workflows smarter and more efficient
12weeks
brief to live use on average
100+ years
combined sector experience on the founder and advisor bench
4
regions Europe, the Global South, Asia, Asia-Pacific
Deep sector experience, transformed into intelligence for impact.
THE PHILANTHROPEL DIFFERENCE
✦ SECTOR-NATIVE. BUILT WITH CLIENTS. PROVEN IN PRACTICE.
01We know the work
Our team has raised funds, built campaigns, advised leadership teams and sat in the rooms where critical decisions are made. That experience shapes every solution we build, grounding technology in how philanthropy actually works.
02Built in practice, not in theory
Our solutions are developed alongside real organisations and refined through live use. We are live in competitive engagements and our bespoke solutions operate in daily workflows.
03Intelligence across the ecosystem
Our work spans both sides of philanthropy: organisations seeking and deploying resources, and the funders and philanthropists behind them. That perspective gives us a view of the sector few technology providers have.
04One intelligence ecosystem
Our products are not standalone tools. Each is designed to contribute to a deeper understanding of funders, organisations, opportunities and missions. As the ecosystem grows, so does the intelligence organisations can draw from.
Client data stays inside the engagement. We work to GDPR standards, and donor records are never used to train models shared with anyone else. If a tool cannot meet that bar, we do not ship it.

The value made sense financially
Marco VitaleFINANCE DIRECTORThe capability stayed with our team
Beatrice OwusuFOUNDING TRUSTEE
They understood what we were building
Monisha ThyagarajanCREATIVE PRODUCER · AWEDACIOUS ORIGINALSThey deeply understood how nonprofits work
Yuki SatoPROGRAMME DIRECTOR
More time with donors, finally
James TurnbullMAJOR GIFTS OFFICER
We could pursue more opportunities
Amara DialloFOUNDER · GLOBAL SOUTH NGOTen years of data became useful
Jae-won ParkHEAD OF STRATEGY
Our trustees started asking better questions
Sarah KimaniGOVERNANCE LEAD
Donor follow-up became much easier
Anika SharmaMAJOR GIFTSWe found the right partners faster
Robert EllisonDIRECTOR OF PARTNERSHIPS
Practical solutions which work
Abhinav BansalRETAIL ADVISOR & OPERATOR · ALIXPARTNERS
Made a complex change feel manageable
Arun MirchandaniMANAGING DIRECTOR, HRWe saw opportunities we'd missed
Kwame BoatengPARTNERSHIPS
The efficiency justified the investment
Lin ZhaoFINANCE LEAD
It understood our sector and audience
Nkechi ObiCOMMUNICATIONS LEADGave our board something concrete
Joseph MensahTRUSTEE
We stopped rebuilding bids from scratch
Peter NakamuraHEAD OF BIDS
They understood our operating reality
Yusuf KarimCOUNTRY DIRECTORFinally, something built around programmes
Fatima Al-RashidPROGRAMME LEAD
We moved from brief to live
Ines FerreiraGRANTS MANAGER
It made the process much simpler
Vaishnavi BadamHR OPERATIONS · MEDWAY CARE SERVICESGovernance stayed part of the conversation
Margaret DoyleCOMPANY SECRETARYOur board got clearer on the capability of AI
Takeshi MoriBOARD CHAIR
Our case for support got sharper
Hannah VogelHEAD OF PHILANTHROPYIt understood how our funders think
Karim AzizDIRECTOR · MENA REGION
Better intelligence on the right funders
Ravi MenonPHILANTHROPY ADVISOR
We were part of building it
Grace MbekiTRUSTEE · GRANT-MAKING BODYWe knew where to focus
Kenji WatanabeCAMPAIGN CHAIR
Built for our sector, not adapted
Alan PritchardCHIEF EXECUTIVE
They got to the solution so quickly
Runjhun SrivastavaSTRATEGY & MARKETINGEvidence our trustees could act on
David OkonkwoDEVELOPMENT LEAD
They made the data make sense
Bani Ghei AhluwaliaMEDICAL AFFAIRS · NORDBERG MEDICAL
We got the bid out faster
Rafael DuarteDIRECTOR OF FUNDRAISINGEvery application had a head start
Mei-Lin ChenHEAD OF GRANTSResearch our fundraisers could use
Hiroshi TanakaHEAD OF DEVELOPMENTWe could compete with bigger teams
Adaeze NwosuFOUNDER · WEST AFRICAPHILANTHROPEL
The full bench

Srishti Bakshi
Philanthropic strategist and technologist
Partner · Philanthropel
Turns fundraising practice into product — every tool in the portfolio began with a problem met on the floor

Anmol Pratap Singh
AI engineer and systems architect
Head of AI · Philanthropel
Builds the infrastructure the portfolio runs on, so each product makes the next one sharper

Ben Morton Wright
President & Group CEO, Global Philanthropic
Global Philanthropic Worldwide · International advisory
Anchoring the portfolio in how philanthropy is actually commissioned and delivered worldwide

Seymour Banks
Deputy Chair, Global Philanthropic Holdings
Global Philanthropic Holdings · Former Chair
Holding the venture to the governance standard the sector expects of its advisers

Rohit Bakshi
Enterprise AI & product leader
Cisco · Box · Google · BCG
Turning sophisticated AI into practical, scalable intelligence for the sector

Archana Ramana
Sales strategy & operations leader
Meta · Global technology
Helping build the operating models that take good ideas to scale

Deepak Ramola
Wisdom historian & educator
Project FUEL · Stanford · MIT
Keeping human intelligence at the heart of what we build

Abha Shri Saxena
Gender equality & development specialist
Global Center for Gender Equality · USAID · UN ecosystem · Global development
Ensuring the intelligence we build works for the communities it is designed to serve

Lisa Heinrichs
Global campaigns & mobilisation leader
United Nations SDG Action Campaign · Global Goals
Bringing the lens of global movements to how ideas mobilise people and scale impact
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