Raiser be raisin’!
Invest now and help us transform funding for small charities
We’re building something worth backing
This is a first invitation to invest — to the people who’ve backed us from the start, and to anyone who sees what we see: a broken system, overdue for change.
Raiser is building a better way to connect small charities with the funding they need — faster, fairer, and with far less wasted effort.
We’re not just building software. We’re transforming how funding flows, and who it works for.
It’s going to take time, care, and backing from people who understand what’s at stake.
Could that be you?
Or, to put it another way:
Who wants a piece of Raiser pie? 🥧
We’ve been baking this thing for almost 18 months with just a few raw ingredients:
- one tired charity leader’s blood, sweat, tears and late-night Ruby code
- a healthy dollop of unreasonable hope
- a sprinkle of AI
Now, we’re looking for some raising agents.
Not just to help us grow faster. But to help us bake something big enough, bold enough, and delicious enough to smash in the face of the charity funding establishment. (Metaphorically. For now.)
If you’ve been watching from the sidelines and wondering whether you can be part of it — this might be your moment.
invesT in our £50,000 friends and family round
We’re raising £50,000 from friends-and-family as the first tranche of our seed round.
Investments start at £500, and you can invest as much as you like, in £500 increments (sky’s the limit mate!).
This friends-and-family tranche is being raised via Advance Subscription Agreements (ASAs) and will qualify for the UK’s SEIS scheme, so eligible investors can claim up to 50% income-tax relief.
This £50k is an initial step, not the end goal. It sits within a wider seed round, as we continue conversations with larger and institutional backers who can help us build Raiser at the scale the mission demands.
What this £50k will do
This first phase of our seed round is all about momentum. £50,000 will give us the tools and ingredients to keep baking up something awesome:
- Lock in developer time so we can keep shipping fast without burning out.
- Turn up the volume by getting Luke and Beckie on any podcasts, trade shows, magazines etc that will have them to make sure every small charity leader in the UK hears about Raiser.
- Grow the community of early users, including funders who are keen to try giving through our platform
How this investment works
Early backers invest via an Advance Subscription Agreement (ASA). That means you invest now, and your investment converts into shares when the seed round is priced and closes (mid-April at the latest) at a 5% discount!
Some later investors in this seed round may invest directly on priced equity terms, where SEIS is not relevant. All of this capital is being raised to give Raiser the runway it needs to pursue a platform and network-effect strategy.
This first friends-and-family raise is for anyone who sees what we’re trying to do, and who believes it’s worth backing.
Whether you’re here for the impact, the upside, or both, you’d be joining us at the earliest stage of a company aiming to become shared infrastructure for the charity sector — in the UK and beyond.
We’d love you to be part of this.
Charity experience
You might be someone who’s worked in or around the charity sector and wants to help us crush funding inefficiencies! 🥊
Motivated for change
You want to see funding work better for the small but crucial organisations that hold society together 👏
Able to invest
You might be able to invest a small amount. Our most common pledge is £500, but others have invested up to £5,000. Every contribution makes a difference! 💷
Looking for success
You’re not looking for overnight returns, but you do want to see this succeed — and one day, pay off 🚀
Why we’re doing it this way
This is an early-stage, high-risk investment — and we want to be clear about that. We’re raising capital because we believe Raiser has the potential to become shared infrastructure for the charity sector, not just a useful tool.
If that happens, returns for investors would most likely come through the long-term growth in the value of the company — for example via a future acquisition, strategic partnership, or later-stage investment that creates liquidity for early shareholders. We can’t promise outcomes, but this is the kind of business we are deliberately trying to build.
We’re opening this friends-and-family tranche because we want early backers who understand both the mission and the ambition: people who care about fixing how small charities get funded, and who are comfortable backing something that’s aiming to be genuinely transformational.
So if you’re hungry for change…
you’re welcome to a slice of the pie.
Hit up the form below and we’ll be in touch to discuss next steps 👇