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Quillary

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Grant applications drafted in hours, not weeks

AI & machine learningTractionSouth Africa
Active users
380
Paying customers
75

The problem

Small nonprofits miss funding because each grant application takes weeks of staff time they don't have.

The solution

Quillary gives them a simple product that fixes this end to end, priced for small teams and live within a day of signing up.

Who it's for

Small and mid-sized organisations in our home market first.

Market

Bottom-up: ~40k target customers at ~$1,500 a year.

Competition and edge

What people use today

Spreadsheets and enterprise suites that are too heavy for this segment.

Why this team wins

Founders lived this problem for years and already have the first customers lined up.

The team

Thandi spent years on the customer side of this problem; Ruan built the technical core at a previous company.

Worked together
1–3 years

About the founder

Thandi Nkosi

CEO & co-founder · South Africa · 6 years of experience

Previously built products in ai & machine learning for six years; started Quillary after seeing the problem first-hand.

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