2025 has been an incredible journey of growth and learning for all of us at Project Tech4Dev. We grew from 20+ to 50+ people. We added two new platforms: Sashakt, a large-scale assessment platform, and Kaapi, our AI integration platform. The Fractional CxO initiative evolved into a Fractional CxO and tech team initiative, adding the Grassroots Initiative as one of its programs.
Here are a few things that we are pretty happy with, and a couple of things that did not work out as expected
- Our vision has always been to enable and strengthen the ecosystem, and in 2025, we hosted at least 16 events and engaged with 300 NGOs. It was gratifying to see our long-term vision gain significant traction with so many of these events in collaboration with our other ecosystem partners. A big shoutout to Dasra and The Agency Fund, with whom we hosted multiple events.
- We doubled down on our AI initiatives, growing the team to 8 people at the end of 2025. We released the first version of Kaapi, featuring integrations with Glific and Dalgo.
- We think we might have made a small breakthrough on “how to get more NGOs onto our platforms” bizdev/sales issue. All our platforms experimented with the Launchpad concept, which onboarded an NGO onto the platform in 2 days through an intensive workshop.
- All our platforms grew at a reasonable pace, though we are likely to miss our goals by a small percentage. From a sustainability perspective, we are trending in the right direction, with revenue growth slightly outpacing expense growth.
- Our fundraising continues to grow, with a very high funder retention rate and a strong inflow of new funders. Our funders have been attending sprints to see our work in action and interact with our partner NGOs. This year, we connected some of our NGO partners with new funders through our cohort programs.
- Finally, I’m proud of our willingness to experiment, learn from our mistakes, and iterate toward something that has a better chance of working. We’ve significantly improved our hiring and onboarding processes, considering a fellowship/sabbatical program for mid-career engineering talent, exploring a funder gathering, and more.
Here are each of our major verticals with their own reflective blog post, definitely worth a read for those of you who might be interested in a lot more details.
