The corporate-giving plumbing behind hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies runs through one Calgary software firm. Here is how Benevity turned charity vetting and payroll deductions into a billion-dollar platform.

Authorium is a San Francisco-based public benefit corporation building an AI-enabled, no-code platform that helps federal, state and local governments modernize procurement, contracts, grants, budgeting and legislative workflows. Formerly known as City Innovate, the company has more than $50 billion in public-sector projects running through its software and counts customers like the California Department of Technology and CalPERS.