Top 35 Enterprise Software Startup Investors in Kenya (November 2026)

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• Komaza — Komaza is a tech-driven sustainable forestry company revolutionizing the wood industry in Africa with its farmer platform. It combines technology, training, and service to create a new sustainable wood supply for Africa at an 80% cost disruption over traditional plantations. The company was founded in 2006 by Tevis Howard.
• Kueski — Kueski is one of the largest buy now, pay later (BNPL) and online consumer lending companies in Latin America, providing financial services to consumers and connecting the Mexican economy through its innovative product ecosystem. This ecosystem consists of Kueski Pay, the company's BNPL product available online and in-store, and Kueski Cash,its personal loans product. Founded in 2012 with the mission of making the financial lives of people in Mexico easier, Kueski leverages technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data to expand access to traditional financial products and services. To date Kueski has raised over $300 million in equity and debt financing and, among its growing list of accolades, was recently named to CB Insights' Fintech 250 List.
• Drexel Schools — Drexel Schools is a resource-rich, cutting-edge approach to Catholic education. Committed to redefining student engagement through robust technology and data-driven instruction, Drexel Schools is transforming Catholic education. Drexel Schools seeks to prove that the creation of a new model of Catholic schools is possible and scalable. The networkof Drexel Schools forms the whole person through faith, knowledge, community, and by leveraging the resources and knowledge of a network of Catholic schools. Drexel Schools are recognized for sending forth into the greater community Christ-centered, compassionate, and confident leaders and problem solvers who exercise moral courage and service to others in their daily lives.

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• e-dash — e-dash is an IT firm that develops and provides software e-dash for visualizing and reducing CO2 emissions.
• Kite Mobility — A sustainable multi-vehicle amenity for residents and guests
• Penske Automotive Group — Penske Automotive Group is a diversified international transportation services company and a premier automotive and commercial truck retailer.

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• Athel AI — Athel AI provides an AI-powered clinical intake platform for physicians and healthcare teams. Its tools conduct patient interviews through voice, chat, and video, capture clinical histories, and generate structured summaries for physicians. The platform also supports AI-assisted reception, dictation, multilingual interviews, and automated clinical workflows. Athel AI provides clinical decision support while keeping diagnosis and treatment decisions under the physician's authority.
• Vidrovr — Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video. It processes videos with specific domain constraints, such as in sports, government, and media verticals. Its technology enables its users to search an indexed video corpus and retrieve content inside videos and link it to other media likephotos and text.The company Integrates social media to enable direct interactions between multimedia content. Vidrovr was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
• TasksMind — tasksmind turns urgent but ambiguous bug reports into fixed code and customer follow-up, so bugs don't become churn.

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• BioBuu — BioBuu focuses on the development of manufacturing capacity and environmentally sustainable production.
• Farmoja — FarmMoja builds integrated, seedling-to-export value chains for global markets.
• YYTZ Agro-Processing — YYTZ Agro-Processing specializes in sourcing and processing cashew nuts.

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• Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
• Peptilogics — Peptilogics is a biotechnology platform company that develops best-in-class novel peptide drugs for unmet medical needs using its proprietary computational discovery platform.
• Alloy Therapeutics — Alloy Therapeutics empowers scientists with access to pre-competitive biologics drug discovery technologies and services across 6 modalities

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• Bamba — Bamba is an android application allowing micro-merchants across Africa to run their entire business utilizing their phones. It focuses on simple tools for merchants to manage their customers, get paid, payout as well as takeout cash advances against their future cash flow.
• Lilo — Lilo is the first invest-and-experience platform offering the most sought-after properties around the world.
• Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.

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• Wisecut AI — Wisecut is an automatic video editor based on voice recognition
• mogul club — Mogul is a real estate investment company specializing in crowdfunded commercial property investment and acquisition. Mogul can help you buy rental property and expand your investment portfolio.
• Austin Sensing Company — Austin Sensing Company develops sensing systems and autonomy software for airspace awareness, drone operations, and defense applications. The company designs and manufactures radar, passive RF, and acoustic sensors to detect and track aircraft and drones.

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• Lawhive — LawHive provides local UK solicitors for half the cost of a law firm. Connect with licensed solicitors online. Use any computer or smartphone.
• Goodstack — Goodstack is on a mission to make it easy to do good. We empower your business to do good globally with our safe and efficient donation rails, as well as access a world of verified organizations.
• Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.

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• BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.

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• Monito — Monito is a comparison website for international money transfer services. They compare and review more than 450 money transfer operators, to help you find the best option for each of your international transaction.They have affiliation partnerships with money transfer operators, which allow us to sustain their operations, they insure that all theinformation they provide is always accurate and transparent.
• BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
• Flyability — Flyability is an EPFL spin-off dedicated to creating safe, collision-tolerant robotics to access inaccessible places, replacing dangerous human operations with unmanned devices.

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• NOVUS GmbH — Discover the NOVUS One: a lightweight electric motorcycle combining progressive design, carbon-fibre engineering, urban range, and distinctive performance.
• Pally — Pally is an AI personal assistant you text. Use it on iMessage, Android RCS, or Telegram for email, calendar, reminders, research, and errands.
• FirstWork — Applied AI for frontline enterprises. Forward-deployed AI agents that automate workforce operations inside your existing systems.

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• Turn.io — An impactful conversation at a key moment can change a life. Turn.io is a chat platform to build services that improve millions of lives.
• ARC Marine — ARC marine delivers nature-inclusive design, scour protection and reef technologies for coastal defence, offshore and habitat restoration worldwide.
• Biochar Industrial Group — Biochar Industrial Group partners with agricultural processors to convert biomass waste into biochar through industrial pyrolysis. The company finances, installs, and operates biochar production systems that process agricultural residues such as palm kernel shells, cashew husks, and sawdust. It manages biochar production, carbon creditverification, carbon credit sales, and revenue sharing with its partners. Biochar Industrial Group also provides waste value assessments and partnership programs for eligible agricultural processors.

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• GovSky — Building cybersecurity technology to secure America’s supply chain.
• Kashable — Kashable is on a mission to help employees handle unexpected expenses and tackle high-interest debt. Our platform provides financial wellness solutions that help employees to preserve retirement savings, improve their credit scores, and navigate financial hardships responsibly. Plus, Kashable provides employees access to free Financial Literacy resources to help plan for the future.
• Carbon Robotics — The Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder solves one of agriculture's biggest problems: weed control. Laserweeding kills weeds without herbicides or tilling by harnessing computer vision and thermal energy to identify and destroy weeds at the meristem. It's healthier for crops and land, and safer for farmers.

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• Salad Money — Salad provide small, affordable loans to meet your urgent needs. The first responsible lender, we offer fair lending to public & private sector employees
• Robust International — Robust International the company initially dealt in plantation logs. It has gradually and steadily expanded into the Agribusiness industry while concurrently reducing and eliminating its profile in the timber logs segment.
• INNOVA Health Supplies — The mission of INNOVA Health Supplies is to guarantee that everyone has access to safe and efficient solutions for their needs related to sexual and reproductive health.

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• BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.

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• Nilus — Nilus is an impact-driven company that aims to eradicate malnutrition by applying technology to deliver affordable and healthy food to low income people. Nilus is creating a new value chain for the base of the pyramid, based on food rescue, disintermediation and inclusive design. Our vision is to become the largest and most impactful food companyin the Americas, by servicing the more than 360 million people living in poverty.
• Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
• Let Me Snack — Let Me Snack offers gourmet snacks made from popped water lily seeds. Our healthy snacks are grain-free, vegan, with clean ingredients and no seed oils.

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• Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
• Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
• Cloud9 - Africa's Lifestyle Network — Cloud9xp.com is a online marketplace and booking service for leisure experiences.We believe that everyone deserves to have fun, feel good and be happy. We believe happiness starts with a drop, becomes a ripple and creates a wave. We believe happiness is amplified when shared.Put simply, Cloud9 is in the business of happiness and are passionateabout giving people more #HighOnLIfe moments.All of our products; across apparel, consumer electronics and lifestyle items are authentic, and we only work with the most upstanding, and energetic brands in the world to bring you the best possible products.

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• Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
• Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
• Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

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• Orita — Orita combines advanced AI with easy-to-use tools to help brands maximize the value of their current customer lists. Optimize campaigns and flows across Email, SMS, and Direct Mail.
• Nscale — Nscale full-stack AI cloud platform and services are designed for scale, resilience, and speed.
• Homeward — Stand out in today's tough real estate market with a more competitive bid. Make a cash offer. Buy your new home and then sell your old one. Homeward is homebuying the way it ought to be.

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• Afterwind — Afterwind® exists to preserve natural resources for future generations by recycling glass fibre assets into circular advanced materials with full traceability.We help asset owners and industrial manufacturers in Advanced Materials, Renewable Energy, and Construction recover and reuse end-of-life and byproduct materials without compromising theiroriginal properties, including glass and carbon fibres, PET and PVC foams, and resin powders.Team Afterwind is expanding across Europe, working on- or near-site to help our clients cut costs, CO2, and risks, while supplying stable, high-quality, circular advanced materials that deliver on EU Taxonomy and green targets.
• Salva Health — Salva Health is a healthcare solutions provider company that develops products to enable the prevention and early detection of diseases.
• Affinity — Join over 150,000 who trust Affinity to manage their personal and business banking, from payments to savings, as well as loans

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• Angani — Angani offers cutting-edge & affordable solutions in cloud infrastructure, backup & disaster recovery, media streaming, cloud PABX and data analytics. Enjoy local support, low latencies, and faster response times.
• BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
• Cropin — Founded in 2010, Cropin is a pioneer in the Agtech space, having built the first global Intelligent Agriculture Cloud. Cropin's platform enables various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to leverage digitization and AI at scale to make decisions that increase efficiency, scale productivity, and strengthen sustainability. Cropin has workedwith 250+ customers and has digitized 16 million acres of farmland, improving the livelihoods of more than 7 million farmers. It has built the world's largest and most diverse farming data insights over a decade, spearheading a global 'Ag-intelligence' movement with a knowledge of 488 crops, and 10000 crop varieties in 56 countries. With its AI/ML platform tailor-made for the agriculture ecosystem, Cropin has computed 0.2 billion acres of farmlands across the globe.

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• Bboxx — Bboxx exists to solve energy poverty. We transform lives and unlock potential through energy access.
• BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.

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• Funium — Funium, a Provo, Utah-based Facebook games developer. The flagship game is Family Village, which is currently in Alpha testing. A limited beta test is planned for Q2 2011.
• BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
• ImpactAlpha — Breaking news, data and analysis to sustain an edge in impact investing. Trusted insights. Climate. Policy. Sustainability. Finance.

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• BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.

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• Bamba — Bamba is an android application allowing micro-merchants across Africa to run their entire business utilizing their phones. It focuses on simple tools for merchants to manage their customers, get paid, payout as well as takeout cash advances against their future cash flow.
• Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.

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• Dollaride — Connecting commuter van drivers with passengers on their daily route.
• Everytable — Fresh, scratch-cooked meals made with quality ingredients. Order online for pickup or delivery, visit an Everytable location, or subscribe and save.
• Totem — Totem was developed and sponsored by Native Americans with the goal of establishing digital banking as a means of financial inclusion for Indigenous people.

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• Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
• Revrag — Embed AI agents directly into your BFSI product. Automate onboarding, re-engage drop-offs, and drive conversions with In-App and Calling AI agents.
• Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.

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• Forest3 AI — Forest3 multiplies forest management productivity with small, semi-autonomous equipment for fire prevention and precision harvesting. Forest professionals are empowered to get more coverage in less time with much greater safety.
• Shellworks — Reimaging nature's packaging with beautifully sustainable, truly compostable alternatives to plastic for cosmetics and beauty products.
• Merino Energy — Electric cooling and heating installed in an hour or less.

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• Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
• Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
• Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.

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• Bboxx — Bboxx exists to solve energy poverty. We transform lives and unlock potential through energy access.
• BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
• BibliU — BibliU is an innovative learning enablement platform that gives students access to the course materials they need, from etextbooks to courseware and monographs.

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• MAX — Make mobility accessible, safe, reliable, and sustainable for 1 billion Africans
• ARC Ride — Affordable, reliable and clean e-mobility solutions for rapidly growing African cities.
• Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.

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• Bamba — Bamba is an android application allowing micro-merchants across Africa to run their entire business utilizing their phones. It focuses on simple tools for merchants to manage their customers, get paid, payout as well as takeout cash advances against their future cash flow.
• Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.

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• iMerit — iMerit's end-to-end data labeling solutions combined with Ango Hub data annotation tool is a best-in-class platform to scale your AI and machine learning data pipelines.
• Neogrowth — Best loan offer for your small business. Apply for Collateral Free Business Loan online & get instant loan disbursal. For more details call us at 18004195565.
• Smile ID — At Smile Identity they believe anyone should be able to prove their identity easily, anywhere in the world. Their team is made up of American and African engineers and financial services professionals with experience across global markets in highly regulated environments. They have built encryption, authentication and security solutions. They havedeveloped image processing technology from the chip level up. They have been part of security investigations and have pursued fraudsters.Having worked with, or for, telecoms, lenders, banks and startups, they know the challenges of building world class technology and they understand the needs of the African consumer and enterprise customer. They are backed by leading Silicon Valley & African investors and they have pan-African reach, with representation in the United States, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Rwanda.

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• Eduze — Eduze is a digital media platform that commercially distributes digital content to mobile devices without the need for 3G, ADSL, or even mains electricity. It helps users to browse, stream, and download digital content to a mobile device with no buffering or data charges.Eduze was established in 2013 and is headquartered in Johannesburg, SouthAfrica.
• Monzo — Spend, save and manage your money, all in one place. Open a full UK bank account from your phone, for free.
• Canop — Canopy is a solution-based NGO committed to protecting forests, biodiversity, and climate.

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• Voatz — Voatz uses cutting edge technology to enable secure and accessible mobile voting from anywhere.
• StoryFit — Earlier audiences' insights empower your content and improve its performance. StoryFit's AI technology platform helps you understand the true value of your
• Percent Pledge — Promote corporate philanthropy in your workplace with Percent Pledge. Learn about our Workplace Giving Platform, Employee Volunteer Programs, and impact reports.