Indian social entrepreneurs facilitate funding for MENA non-profits

Earlier this year, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner posted a blog post on the site calling for an app that could generate random acts of kindness, suggesting how you could give back to your community depending on your interests and circumstances.

While Weiner’s suggestion was rather speculative, the founders of KarmaSnap have taken this concept of spontaneous benevolence to heart. They’ve created a tool to match charity organizations with people looking to give their money and time to help others.

KarmaSnap is a mobile app designed to connect the dots between non-profit organizations and the donors and volunteers they depend on to carry out successful campaigns. The platform allows charitable organizations to streamline their operations when it comes to raising funds and volunteers.

Three friends from Bangalore founded the startup, then successfully pitched it to Dubai’s Turn8 seed accelerator, winning $30,000 USD in funding and a five-month stint to develop the idea at The Cribb in Dubai.

CEO Ram Narayanan, COO Mahboob Imtiyaz, and CMO Gautham N started developing the business in October 2013, later meeting CTO Jayanand Sagar at the Microsoft-backed Weekend Ventures hackathon event in Bangalore.

The partners have now launched the beta stage of the app and rolled it out on Android with a limited feature set.

“People in the non-profits can place volunteers now and in the next few weeks organizations will also be able to raise funds as well,” said Narayanan. “It will take another three months for us to get the whole thing right including the crowdfunding part and the website.”

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Indian social entrepreneurs facilitate funding for MENA non-profits