The Lesson: If someone wants to start an e-commerce platform to sell goods or services online, there are literally thousands of tools ranging from simple drag-and-drop interfaces that the biggest luddite could use, to the most comprehensive panoply of features for enterprise-level operations. But for charitable or non-profit work, even though the market cap and market velocity are similar, the tools just aren’t there. Dominic Kalms has built several platforms capable of allowing people to set up a non-profit project for whatever social good they’re trying to achieve, as easy as using Shopify.
Notable Excerpt: “There’re 1.7 million non-profits, and starting a non-profit is hard. The average cost—labor and time is very prohibitive, I mean you’re talking $20,000-plus, average, to start a non-profit. To get the IRS to approve a non-profit, that’s 6-8 months, on average, and if you want to be compliant across the federal, state, and local jurisdictions across the United States, there are over 200 documents that need to be filed. So I thought to myself ‘there’s got to be a better way,’ so what I did with GVNG is I raised a round of venture capital financing and we built a digital one touch solution for instantly launching, running and managing your own non-profit project, or donor-advised fund. Over the last 5 years we’ve powered thousands and thousands and thousands of non-profit projects, we’ve processed millions of dollars of non-profit capital through our system.
The Guest: Dominic Kalms is a venture backed entrepreneur and philanthropist with an expertise in financial tech, charity and non-profits. He has created two revolutionary philanthropic platforms, B Generous, and GVNG, a venture-backed platform that facilitates the creation of instant charitable giving accounts. He has raised over $50 million in venture and philanthropic capital during his career, but is also a public speaker of a Tedx Talk, and a long list of global forums on philanthropy on Nexus Global Summit, or TechCruch’s Global Ventures Summit.
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