Donor Management Tool Keela to Join Aplos

Nonprofit software provider Keela will join Aplos, the companies announced today.

This follows Aplos welcoming Raisely to the company about a year ago. Aplos, a 15-year-old  accounting and financial management tool that has served 40,000 mission-driven North American organizations, is backed by software company ASG, which is funded by Alpine Investors and purchases software-as-a-service companies.

Combined, the three companies will offer a complete suite of nonprofit technologies, with Raisely offering fundraising capabilities, such as donation forms, peer-to-peer campaign and event ticketing, and Keela featuring donor management tools.

“Keela is the missing puzzle piece in our quest to offer the industry’s first dedicated cloud — a fully integrated technology platform across the most enabling technologies for nonprofits: accounting, fundraising and now CRM,” Anush Vinod, Aplos’ CEO, said in a statement.

”We’ve seen a real shift in customer sentiment when it comes to their software stack,” Meera Patel, chief operating officer of Aplos, added in a statement. “Nonprofits are often stuck between the choice of tediously stringing together a set of point solutions or committing to a large provider that doesn’t meet their unique needs. We are thrilled to bring together a full set of capabilities to serve nonprofits, backed by a team with decades of experience serving them.” 

In 2013, Nejeed Kassam founded Keela, which has assisted more than 1,000 North American nonprofits in raising about $1.5 billion in the past decade. The donor management system allows nonprofits to streamline donor acknowledgments, tax receipts, gift processing and data entry through automation to build personalized donor journeys. Kassam will continue in an advisory role with the company.

“I’m so proud of the remarkable work that Keela has done over the years,” Kassam said in a statement. “There’s no question. Nonprofits deserve the best to maximize the important work being done to build communities. By marrying Keela and Aplos, we’re aiming to build something truly special — providing nonprofits with a platform and a company that will build, grow and innovate for our sector. Ultimately, this new platform will provide organizations with best-in-class tools that they need to build thriving organizations.”