Predictive AI that turns a charity's donor data into a ranked to-do list - who to focus on, and what to do next.
Every nonprofit sits on a database it does not fully use. Names, gifts, dates, lapses - years of donor history logged into a CRM and then largely left to gather dust. Dataro, a predictive AI company founded in Sydney in 2017 and now headquartered in San Francisco, was built on a simple observation: the data is good, but nobody on a stretched fundraising team has time to read it.
The product answers a question fundraisers ask every morning - who should we contact today? Dataro analyzes the donor records already inside a charity's CRM and scores every supporter: who is likely to give, who is drifting toward lapsing, who is ready to move from a one-time gift to a monthly commitment, and who might be a major-gift prospect. The output is not a report. It is a ranked list of actions.
That distinction - recommendation rather than reporting - is the heart of the company's pitch. "Fundraisers should focus on impact and relationships, not managing tools," CEO Tim Paris has said. The premise is that commercial companies have scored their customers for over a decade, and charities deserve the same rigor without the same data-science budget.
The founding team is an unusual pairing. Paris trained as a neuroscientist; co-founder David Lyndon, the CTO, is a software engineer; Chris Paver, the COO, rounds out the trio. They launched through the FuelID accelerator in Sydney, expanded into the United Kingdom in 2022, and entered the United States in 2023.
By early 2026, the bet was paying off. Dataro closed a $14.28 million Series A led by Blueprint Equity, with participation from Basis Set and - notably - Save the Children, an organization that is both a customer and now an investor. More than 300 nonprofits across 20-plus countries were using the platform, from World Central Kitchen and Amnesty International to Greenpeace and Australia for UNHCR.
Then came scale. On July 1, 2026, Dataro's integration with Bloomerang went live, putting predictive donor scores inside a giving platform used by more than 24,000 nonprofits - no separate login, no data export, no new contract required.
The problem it solves. Fundraising teams are chronically stretched. Faced with tens of thousands of donor records, they tend to guess on targeting and over-mail the supporters they can least afford to lose. That leads to donor fatigue, wasted print and postage, and relationships eroded by too many asks. Dataro replaces the guesswork with donor-level prediction, so teams can send fewer, better-targeted communications.
Who its customers are. Dataro sells to nonprofit fundraising and development teams - direct mail, digital, monthly giving and major gifts programs. Its named customers include World Central Kitchen, Stand Up To Cancer, Amnesty International, Save the Children, Greenpeace, MAZON, Australia for UNHCR, the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and the Baker Institute.
Reported results. The company points to figures like a 161% revenue increase in targeted appeals at Bristol & Weston, and 531 additional monthly donors retained at Greenpeace through churn-risk outreach. "Every metric of our appeal improved substantially," said Nicole Tafoya, Deputy Director of Development at MAZON. (Results are self-reported and vary by organization.)
Where it fits. Dataro positions itself as an AI-native layer that sits on top of existing nonprofit CRMs and giving platforms - not a replacement for them. It delivers predictions and recommended actions back into the tools fundraisers already use, rather than asking them to learn a new system.
Bars are proportional to total funding raised. Earlier-round figure is approximate, inferred from reported totals.
Generates AI predictions for every donor in the database - propensity to give, churn risk, upgrade potential - so teams make the right ask, to the right donor, at the right time.
A nonprofit BI layer combining dashboards, visualizations and reports with industry benchmarking, so teams can monitor, measure and grow their fundraising programs.
A generative writing tool that helps nonprofits draft fundraising content roughly 10x faster - pairing the message with the audience Dataro Predict identifies.
On-demand research that compiles a donor's giving history, affinity signals and recommended next steps, surfacing mid-level and major-gift candidates.
Fundraisers should focus on impact and relationships, not managing tools.Tim Paris · Co-founder & CEO, Dataro
Business model. Dataro runs on B2B SaaS subscriptions sold to nonprofit organizations. It integrates directly with CRMs and giving platforms - Bloomerang, Salesforce, Fundraise Up - and increasingly reaches customers through platform partnerships that embed its predictions inside larger systems. Revenue scales with the number of organizations and the depth of each integration.
Expertise. The company's edge is domain-specific machine learning: models tuned to the messy, longitudinal shape of donor data rather than generic customer analytics. It reads the technologies of a modern data company - Python, AWS analytics, React - but the differentiator is that its predictions are built for fundraising, and delivered as actions.
How it is different. Traditional wealth screening produces one-off capacity scores. Dataro produces continuously updated, action-oriented predictions for every donor and pushes recommended next steps into existing workflows. The aim is a system fundraisers act on daily, not a report they read quarterly.
Where it fits in the market. Alternatives include Gravyty, DonorSearch, iWave/Kindsight, Windfall, Boodle AI and Momentum, plus in-house data teams and traditional RFM segmentation. Dataro's positioning is the AI-native layer for the nonprofit stack - CRM-agnostic, embedded, and focused on the decision rather than the dashboard.
Tim Paris, David Lyndon and Chris Paver launch Dataro through the FuelID accelerator in Australia.
Dataro begins serving UK charities as demand for predictive fundraising grows internationally.
The company moves into the US market and releases AI Assist for generative fundraising content.
Blueprint Equity leads the round, with Save the Children and Basis Set participating, to fuel US growth.
Predictive donor intelligence becomes available inside Bloomerang to more than 24,000 nonprofits.
Sources include dataro.io, PR Newswire, Bloomerang, The NonProfit Times and reported coverage of the February 2026 Series A. Some figures are self-reported or approximate.