Almabase is a San Francisco-headquartered SaaS company providing donor engagement, fundraising and community management software for schools, colleges, universities, healthcare foundations and nonprofits. Its platform combines alumni engagement, online giving, fundraising campaigns, events, donor communications, mentorship and community networking. Its TrueSync technology synchronizes constituent, donation and engagement data with Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT and other CRM systems, reducing manual data entry. Its products include Events, Giving, Beacon and AI-powered communication tools such as Emily AI. Founded by Kalyan Varma and Srihari Maneru, the company serves more than 500 organizations across North America and other markets. Almabase reports helping customers raise over $100 million for their causes and operates a profitable, capital-efficient business with an engineering and operations presence in Bengaluru, India.
Almabase offers opportunities to build SaaS products that help educational institutions, healthcare foundations and nonprofits strengthen donor engagement and raise funds. The company reports more than 500 customers, over $100 million raised for customer causes and profitability achieved through capital-efficient growth. Its strategic partnership with Blackbaud and expansion into healthcare create opportunities to work on complex CRM integrations, secure data synchronization, fundraising workflows and AI-assisted communications. Engineering roles reference Python, Django, React, MySQL, Redis, Celery and AWS. Almabase is a certified Great Place to Work and advertises remote-friendly arrangements, unlimited leave, health insurance for dependents and equity for selected employees. Its careers page recommends office collaboration at least twice weekly. Actual compensation, equity eligibility and working arrangements vary by role.
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Co-founder and CEO of Almabase. Studied engineering at the National Institute of Technology Warangal and previously worked as an analyst developer at Goldman Sachs. He also founded SocialHeart, a social-impact e-commerce venture. His experience helping alumni fund scholarships inspired Almabase, which he built to strengthen alumni relationships and institutional fundraising. He leads company strategy, product direction, partnerships and growth.
Co-founder of Almabase, also known as Sri Maneru. Studied at the National Institute of Technology Warangal and previously worked with Strand Life Sciences and Boltell Infomedia. Founded Lakshya Foundation to support educational scholarships and community development. Helped establish Almabase and scale its alumni engagement software business. After approximately a decade with Almabase, he moved on to build Shifu Studio and Shifu Ventures.
Identified as an Almabase co-founder in the Upekkha accelerator portfolio. Also associated with the company's early sales and commercial development. His founding contribution was connected to building Almabase's alumni engagement and fundraising software business. Detailed information about his education and earlier professional experience could not be independently verified.
Joined Almabase in April 2025 to lead sales and commercial growth. Has more than a decade of experience scaling B2B SaaS sales organizations, including leadership roles at Cirrus Insight, PerfectServe, ThankView and EverTrue. Studied at the University of Tennessee. Responsible for sales strategy, enterprise customer acquisition, revenue operations and expanding relationships with educational and nonprofit organizations.
Leads customer success and engineering at Almabase. Joined the company as a software developer in 2016 and progressed into senior leadership. Previously worked at Synerzip and Cybage Software and studied at Nirma University. Has experience in SaaS engineering, customer integrations and technical problem-solving. His responsibilities connect product reliability, engineering delivery and customer outcomes.
Leads product management and design at Almabase. Has experience in B2B SaaS product development, product operations and cross-functional execution. Works with engineering, design and customer-facing teams to translate institutional fundraising and engagement requirements into product improvements. His responsibilities include product development processes, usability and coordinating delivery across the company's software offerings.
Leads demand generation and growth marketing initiatives at Almabase. Previously held account-based marketing and sales development responsibilities within the company. Studied at the National Institute of Technology Warangal. His expertise includes B2B SaaS marketing, lead generation, campaign management, revenue operations and sales pipeline development. He supports customer acquisition and expansion across Almabase's target markets.
Appointed Director of Customer Success in 2026 after progressing through customer-facing responsibilities at Almabase. Focuses on customer experience, implementation outcomes, retention and helping institutions realize value from the platform. Works with customer success and engineering leadership to improve service delivery and long-term customer relationships.
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Almabase published findings from its 2026 survey of 103 advancement professionals representing approximately 90 institutions. The research examines year-round alumni engagement, staffing constraints, personalization, measurement of fundraising outcomes and the growing use of AI in advancement operations.
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Almabase introduced a structured migration approach for organizations transitioning from Blackbaud NetCommunity and related products ahead of their planned support changes in September 2027. The offering includes dedicated implementation assistance, migration planning, data continuity and replacement of existing fundraising and engagement workflows.
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Almabase launched a fundraising platform designed for healthcare foundations, expanding beyond its established education market. The solution combines Events, Giving, Beacon and TrueSync with Raiser's Edge NXT integration and workflows designed to support healthcare privacy requirements. Essentia Health Foundation was identified as an early development partner.
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Almabase published findings from research conducted with the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. The survey covered more than 150 colleges, universities and independent schools, examining how Giving Days are evolving toward broader donor participation, community engagement and more sophisticated fundraising measurement.
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Almabase introduced a feature allowing donors to commit to future contributions directly through checkout pages. The functionality supports scheduled and recurring pledges, payment card tokenization through Blackbaud Merchant Services and automated pledge-status tracking through Raiser's Edge NXT.
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Almabase described its strategic collaboration with Blackbaud to support healthcare foundation fundraising events. The integration enables organizations to manage registrations, sponsorships, auctions, payments and donor communications while synchronizing engagement information with Raiser's Edge NXT and Blackbaud CRM.
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Almabase introduced Emily AI, an assistant integrated into its email communication tools. The feature helps advancement professionals generate context-aware drafts for donor appeals, event invitations, alumni announcements and follow-up messages while reducing repetitive content creation work.
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Almabase appointed Aaron Riley to lead sales and commercial growth. Riley previously held sales leadership positions at ThankView, EverTrue, Cirrus Insight and PerfectServe. The appointment strengthened the company's focus on enterprise sales, customer acquisition and expansion of its digital engagement and fundraising platform.
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