Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) announced the new cohort of participants joining its Social Good Startup Program. This tech accelerator program is designed to empower early-stage software ventures within the social impact sector. And, 61% of the founders in the cohort are from backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented in the tech industry, according to an announcement from Blackbaud.
“The Social Good Startup Program is more than an accelerator – it’s a catalyst for innovation in the social impact space,” said Rosalyn Lemieux, director, Product Management and Strategy at Blackbaud. “By connecting these visionary founders with Blackbaud’s ecosystem, we’re helping them scale solutions that empower nonprofits and socially responsible organizations to achieve more than ever before.”
The startups in the January 2026 cohort include:
- AppsNXT is a software development company focused on enhancing fundraising and event management workflows for nonprofits, higher education institutions, and healthcare organizations by building tools that integrate seamlessly with existing Blackbaud solutions.
- Bridgit is an integration hub for charities. The firm automates data management to give charities more time to focus on fundraising by eliminating spreadsheet wrangling for charity teams and providing self-serve integrations, making it scalable and easy to implement without consultants.
- CORAA AI is an AI-native platform that transforms complex, manual CSR and ESG compliance processes into highly automated workflows. CORAA automates nonprofit due diligence and compliance management, along with grant spend utilization and impact benchmarking, delivering audit-ready reports in minutes instead of days or weeks. Additionally, its voice and chat agents streamline 24/7 stakeholder communications across champions, nonprofits, and donors in over 30 languages, setting a new standard for speed, accuracy, and accountability in social impact operations.
- DonorAtlas is an AI‑native donor intelligence tool. The platform turns scattered public/private data into unified donor profiles –searchable via natural language — so fundraisers spend less time researching and more time cultivating prospects.
- Givalgo is a multi-agent AI platform purpose-built for grantmakers, automating manual and fragmented grantmaking workflows into a cohesive, low-friction experience. With an initial focus on nonprofit due-diligence, Givalgo automates vetting, compliance reviews, and multi-layer risk analysis across the grant lifecycle, enabling grantmakers to make faster, more informed giving decisions.
- Grasshopper Signup provides ad-free, AI-enabled, mobile optimized event signup forms for education, nonprofits, religious organizations, businesses. Explain the form you want to create, AI generates it, you adjust settings, then get links to collect responses and analyze data.
- Kindora is a fundraising technology startup focused on democratizing access to professional grant discovery and application support for under-resourced nonprofits. TheAI thinks like an experienced program officer, analyzing foundation websites, forms, and giving patterns to reduce thousands of potential funders down to the most relevant matches.
- MatchNice is a real-time donation matching platform that helps nonprofits turn any donor into a matcher instantly. Nonprofits embed a plug-and-play matching banner on their website to activate matching funds as donors give through existing fundraising platforms. Organizations that use MatchNice see up to two times more donations and twice the average gift sizes, and earn as much as six times campaign revenue, all with no upfront cost.
- NetOutlook
- SwiftGrants is a grant management platform built directly inside Raiser’s Edge NXT. It replaces spreadsheets, email chains, and manual reminders with a structured workflow that tracks applications, reporting requirements, assignments, and deadlines in one place. Designed by grant professionals, SwiftGrants follows the natural cadence of the grant-seeking process and provides real-time visibility into every grant through a filterable dashboard and calendar view.
- Aqueduct Analytics delivers a comprehensive Raiser’s Edge NXT dataset into a secure data warehouse you control. With a single, consolidated source of truth, teams can build accurate dashboards, reports, and analytics on any BI platform that drive confident, data-informed decisions.
- PlanPerfect equips small to midsized nonprofits with an AI-assisted strategic planning and risk management platform that helps organizations create, manage, and operationalize their strategic plans — transforming them from static documents into actionable, fundable roadmaps that bridge the gap between mission, execution, and measurable outcomes.
- Untapped Solutions provides modern infrastructure for organizations serving untapped and underserved communities—helping workforce, reentry, supervision, and human services teams track progress, coordinate services, and connect people to critical resources like jobs, housing, healthcare, and education. By replacing manual processes and disconnected systems, Untapped increases efficiency, improves outcomes, and enables staff to do more with less — without losing the human touch.
- Vitalcy is a software platform that helps membership-based nonprofits build long-term financial stability through automated community, alumni, and donor engagement. The platform centralizes historical content and relationships, uses AI to power ongoing storytelling, networking, and mentorship, and processes and recognizes donations, all without adding work for already-stretched teams.
“The companies in the January 2026 cohort are seriously impressive, with 12 globally distributed teams collectively bringing decades of lived experience working with and for top nonprofit organizations and technology companies,” said Lizzie Schaffer, general manager of Blackbaud’s Social Good Startup Program. “These founders are not just building products, they’re shaping the future of how technology serves purpose-driven organizations and their innovative solutions will delight Blackbaud customers looking to raise more, engage more, and accelerate measurable progress toward achieving their missions.”
Since the launch of the first cohort in January 2020, Blackbaud has supported 77 startups through 10 prior cohorts, with these organizations collectively raising upwards of $230 million in funding and contributing more than 40 new solutions to the Blackbaud Marketplace. While the average success rate for tech startups is less than 50%, and most startups face a 65% failure rate within 10 years, the Blackbaud Social Good Startup program has seen an 86% success rate, with 66 of the 77 startups still operating today, according to the company.
Blackbaud accepts applications for the Social Good Startup Program on a rolling basis. For consideration in the January 2027 or other future cohorts, learn more and apply here.
