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The New Safe Haven Isn’t Gold, It’s Electricity

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NEW YORK, June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. dollar is cracking—and the market knows it. After years of monetary excess, swelling deficits, and policy uncertainty, the world’s reserve currency is losing its grip as a store of value. Capital is fleeing paper promises and piling into hard assets at a pace not seen in decades.  Companies mentioned in today’s commentary includes:  Bitzero Holdings Inc.  (NASDAQ: AIBZ) (CSE: AIBZ-U), Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD), Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: PLTR), Quanta Services, Inc. (NYSE: PWR), SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX).

Nowhere is this more visible than in precious metals: Gold has surged to above $4,100 per ounce, silver has ripped past $70, and palladium—once written off—has clawed its way back to $1,350. Add an unstable geopolitical backdrop stretching from war in the Middle East to Venezuela and the ongoing Ukraine War, and it’s no surprise that traditional safe havens are looking increasingly crowded—and increasingly fragile. But here’s the twist: even as precious metals soar, the smartest money in the room is already looking past them.

Gold doesn’t generate cash flow. Silver doesn’t power economies. And when trades get crowded, volatility cuts both ways. The dollar debasement trade and overbought precious metals have pushed some institutional investors into something with steady, growing cash flows: generating power for the Data Centre boom. This is something that Canadian billionaire investor Kevin O’Leary understands like no other.

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Securing land and dirt-cheap power contracts is the number one pre-requisite for data centre developers, hyperscalers and crypto miners. In a recent interview, O’Leary highlighted how BitZero (NASDAQ: AIBZ) (CSE: AIBZ-U), a company in which he is a strategic backer, created a unique strategic advantage by being able to lease power for compute business such as data centres or crypto miners.  At a time that Big Tech is scrambling for capacity, the real winners control Gigawatts of power capacity and real estate in strategic locations. Smart money didn’t even need a wake-up call.

“The need for new capacity is very urgent—it needs to be procured now,” says Tania Tsoneva, Head of Infrastructure Research at CBRE Investment Management, one of the world’s largest real-estate investment firms. By partnering with operators that have already locked in land, permits, and power supply, hyperscalers can fast-track new compute deployments, effectively bypassing years of development work and moving straight to installing their hardware.

BitZero succeeded in those two hardest challenges and has secured sites with long-term, low-cost electricity at the outset of the AI-boom. This is exactly what sets BitZero apart from its competitors. Because the company owns its land, power infrastructure, and hardware, its cost base is largely fixed. That structure protects margins and allows expansion without renegotiating leases or power-purchase agreements.

Leveraging True Energy Sovereignty

Founded in 2021, Bitzero has quietly assembled one of the most scalable clean-energy portfolios in the digital infrastructure sector, with more than 1 gigawatt of growth capacity across four strategic sites in Norway, Finland, and North Dakota. Its flagship hydro-powered facility in Namsskogan, Norway, already delivers 40 MW of self-mining capacity at power costs below $0.05 per kWh, among the lowest globally.

According to CEO Mohammed Bakhashwain, each million dollars of capital deployed into Bitzero’s grid and mining equipment generates roughly $700,000 in annual net profit. That efficiency comes from vertical integration: the company owns its high-voltage connections and operates as a licensed grid operator at the 132 kV level, eliminating middle-layer grid fees that most competitors still pay. With expansion capacity exceeding 320 MW in Norway, a one-gigawatt campus in Finland, and up to 300 MW staged in North Dakota, Bitzero has achieved something rare in this market: true energy sovereignty. And it’s this energy sovereignty that institutional investors value so much. We’re living in an age where new generation capacity is bottlenecked and new connections to the grid are almost impossible.

Bitzero’s energy sovereignty gives it a rare two-fold advantage in today’s compute economy: it can either lease scarce, low-cost power directly to hyperscalers and data-center operators, or deploy that same power internally to mine Bitcoin at industry-leading margins and potentially run its own GPU clusters. Bitcoin‘s economics now heavily favor miners who control their energy destiny—at current hash difficulty, every fraction shaved off power costs drops straight to the bottom line. Bitzero’s all-in energy cost of about 4.3 cents per kWh—less than half that of major U.S. peers like Riot Platforms and Marathon Digital—puts its cost per Bitcoin near $50,000 today and below $40,000 once new hardware is fully deployed.

That efficiency, combined with ultra-lean operations where five staff run a 40 MW facility using fully automated monitoring and fault-response systems, creates powerful optionality. When Bitcoin economics are attractive, Bitzero mines; when hyperscalers need capacity fast, it can redirect power to AI-ready data centers. This flexibility is already visible in its purpose-built 200 MW Norwegian site on a former UN airbase, designed exclusively for AI compute and expandable to 500 MW on offshore-wind-backed grid capacity—turning energy control into a switchable revenue engine across both Bitcoin and AI. 

The real inflection point for BitZero (NASDAQ: AIBZ, CSE: AIBZ-U) in 2026 may now be its newly announced 110 MW Norway project, which has the potential to transform the company from a profitable Bitcoin miner into a major AI infrastructure and hyperscaler landlord almost overnight.

Under the binding letter of interest, the site would generate roughly $176 million in annual recurring revenue through long-term contracted compute capacity, with the customer covering energy costs separately and pricing escalating by 3% annually. That structure dramatically improves margin visibility and reduces exposure to power-price volatility, potentially allowing the project to generate well over $135 million in annual net income once operational. Just as importantly, the project highlights why BitZero’s Norwegian assets are so strategically valuable in today’s market: while many competing AI data-center developments face 3–5 year build timelines due to grid bottlenecks and permitting delays, BitZero believes this facility could be delivered as early as Q3 next year thanks to already-secured power access, existing infrastructure, and partnerships with established EPC contractors and cooling-system providers. In a market where hyperscalers are desperately searching for immediately deployable capacity, that speed-to-market advantage could prove enormously valuable.

Skyrocketing valuations in the AI-space

The handful of technology companies that have successfully built a proprietary energy moat similar to BitZero’s now command multi-billion-dollar valuations. Yet despite rising institutional interest in BitZero’s power-first model and asset base, the company remains meaningfully undervalued relative to peers.

Investors in names like TeraWulf (WULF) and BitMine Immersion (BMNR) have seen one-year gains of more than +554% and +269%, respectively. Smart money has learnt that the real advantage in compute and crypto mining is cheap, scalable electricity, and this reality is repeating cycle after cycle. The dynamic in 2026 is no different. 

Other companies to keep an eye on:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) reported Q1 2026 data center revenue of $5.8 billion, up 57% year over year — an all-time record — with total Q1 revenue of $10.25 billion, up 38%, beating Wall Street consensus by roughly $350 million. Free cash flow more than tripled to $2.57 billion. CEO Lisa Su called the quarter “a clear inflection in our growth trajectory,” and guided Q2 revenue to $11.2 billion, with server CPU revenue alone expected to grow more than 70% year over year. The stock surged roughly 14% in after-hours trading following the release.

AMD’s data center story runs on two rails that NVIDIA’s does not. First, EPYC server CPUs, which now hold significant market share in hyperscaler deployments across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, deliver four consecutive quarters of record server CPU revenue. Second, Instinct GPUs are gaining traction as an alternative to NVIDIA in AI training and inference — and the demand signal is large. Meta signed a multi-year agreement to deploy up to 6 GW of AMD Instinct GPUs, with the first 1 GW built around a custom version of the MI450 accelerator and Meta named as a lead customer for AMD’s upcoming sixth-generation EPYC processors.

Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: PLTR) sits in a different part of the AI data center stack than most names on this list — it’s the software layer that makes the data inside those data centers actionable for governments and large enterprises. Q1 2026 revenue grew 85% year over year to $1.633 billion, the company’s fastest growth rate since going public in 2020. U.S. revenue grew 104% to $1.28 billion, with U.S. government revenue up 84% to $687 million and U.S. commercial revenue up 133% to $595 million. The company reported a GAAP operating margin of 46%, an adjusted operating margin of 60%, and a Rule of 40 score of 145 — a metric where 40 is considered strong.

The government side of the business is increasingly anchored by AI-enabled defense and intelligence programs. Palantir’s Maven AI system — which analyzes battlefield data and supports targeting and command decisions in real time — is moving closer to becoming a formal U.S. Department of Defense program of record. The Pentagon expanding long-term use of Maven means the revenue base here is contracted and durable, not project-by-project. A $10 billion U.S. Army contract and a $300 million USDA deal in the quarter are concrete data points for what that looks like at scale.

Quanta Services, Inc. (NYSE: PWR) builds and maintains the electrical infrastructure that connects data centers to the grid — transmission lines, substations, high-voltage distribution systems, and the last-mile electrical work that no data center can operate without. It’s not a flashy AI story, but it’s a foundational one: none of the $200 billion Amazon is spending on data centers in 2026 translates into operational compute capacity without the grid connections Quanta builds. CEO Duke Austin has pegged the company’s addressable opportunity at $2.4 trillion through 2030, driven by data center electrification, grid hardening, and renewable interconnection combined.

The constraint driving Quanta’s order book is simple physics: large transformers for high-voltage substation connections have lead times of two years or more, and the skilled labor to install them is in short supply nationally. Quanta has both the relationships with utilities and hyperscalers, and the crew deployment capacity, to capitalize on that constraint. Its backlog has been expanding steadily as hyperscaler capex converts from announced projects into actual construction contracts.

SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) completed the largest IPO in history on June 12, pricing at $135 a share for a $1.77 trillion valuation and topping $2 trillion in market cap on its first trading day. The listing raised roughly $75 billion and made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire on paper. But the AI data center story here isn’t really about rockets. It’s about what SpaceX became after merging with xAI in February: a company that now describes itself in its own IPO filing as the operator of “the largest AI training data center clusters on Earth.”

Those clusters are Colossus 1 and Colossus 2, the xAI supercomputers built near Memphis, Tennessee, originally to train Grok. In May, SpaceX struck a deal with Anthropic that hands over essentially the entire Colossus 1 facility — more than 300 megawatts of capacity across roughly 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, including H100, H200, and GB200 accelerators. Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25 billion a month through May 2029, a contract that could bring in more than $40 billion over its life. It’s a striking arrangement: a direct AI competitor renting out the infrastructure that was supposed to be Grok’s competitive edge, in order to monetize compute Grok wasn’t fully using.

By. Tom Kool

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SLACAL Launches Executive Forum Video Series Featuring Lloyd’s Americas President Marc Lipman

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SLACAL CEO Benjamin McKay and Lloyd’s Americas President Marc Lipman discuss wildfire, AI, new sources of capital and the future of insurance coverage in California.

SAN RAMON, Calif., Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Surplus Line Association of California (SLACAL) today released the inaugural episode of its Executive Forum video series, featuring a wide-ranging, on-the-record conversation between SLACAL CEO & Executive Director Benjamin J. McKay and Lloyd’s Americas President Marc Lipman. Moderated by SLACAL Chief Industry & Regulatory Officer David Kodama Jr., the discussion pulls back the curtain on how wildfire risk, artificial intelligence and a new wave of global capital are reshaping where, and how, California residents and businesses find coverage.

California is the world’s fifth-largest economy on its own, and its surplus lines sector now accounts for roughly $24 billion in annual premium. Lloyd’s is proud to be a critical partner; it held an 18% share in the California E&S market in 2025. McKay and Lipman explain why that growth happened, why they say the industry’s biggest reputational myth is flat-out wrong and what’s coming next as AI, data centers and other emerging risks outpace what traditional insurance was built to handle.

In the conversation, viewers will hear:

Why McKay says California’s insurance troubles are “a wildfire crisis, not an insurance crisis,” and how Proposition 103 has shaped the market ever since.Why McKay says surplus lines insurance is safer than most people assume.Why Lipman says the old idea of surplus lines as insurance’s “dumping ground” no longer holds up, and what he calls it instead.How private equity, hedge funds and sovereign wealth are quietly funding California’s next generation of risk transfer.How parametric insurance products emerging from the Lloyd’s Lab—which accelerates the development and adoption of new insurance products and operational solutions for the Lloyd’s market—can help California homeowners after a wildfire or earthquake.

▶ Watch the full conversation now on SLACAL’s YouTube Channel 

The Executive Forum conversation is the first in a planned series exploring the issues shaping California’s insurance market. New episodes, along with additional educational content, will be added to SLACAL’s Learning Center throughout the year.

About the Surplus Line Association of California
As the advisory organization appointed by the California Department of Insurance, the Surplus Line Association of California oversees the state’s nearly $25 billion surplus lines marketplace, serving as a market stabilizer, information authority and early-warning system for regulators and market participants. SLACAL supports regulatory oversight, helps brokers comply with California laws and regulations, processes surplus lines insurance policies and monitors the financial condition of companies on California’s List of Approved Surplus Line Insurers.

About Lloyd’s
Lloyd’s is the only insurance marketplace of its kind in the world. It brings together more than a hundred syndicates and thousands of investors, enabling the market to shoulder more insurance risk for every unit of capital than any other financial institution in the world. The role of the Corporation is to advance and protect the market—by maintaining underwriting discipline and our financial strength; and by attracting expertise, innovation and scale. Our unique global licenses and excellent financial strength ratings provide the infrastructure, oversight and confidence required to understand, price and manage complex and interconnected risks. Risk transfer—properly executed—underpins economic growth, resilience and innovation around the world. This is the role Lloyd’s has played for 337 years, and it remains central to our purpose today.

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Cross-border Counselor LLP: Chinese E-Commerce Sellers File Class Action Seeking to Void Thousands of “Schedule A” Default Judgments Entered After Email Service the Seventh Circuit Has Held Invalid

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Bilateral class action under Rule 60(d)(1) seeks relief from void judgments, an accounting, and restitution of money collected from mainland-China defendants in the Northern District of Illinois

CHICAGO, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A Ningbo-based cross-border e-commerce seller has filed a class action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois seeking to void default judgments entered against mainland-China defendants in thousands of “Schedule A” cases, and to require the plaintiffs who obtained those judgments to account for and return the money collected under them.

The complaint, filed by Ningbo Jiaruisi E-Commerce Co., Ltd., which formerly operated on Amazon under the storefront name GENISBULB, asks the court to declare the thousands of default judgments void for lack of personal jurisdiction, to halt their continued enforcement, and to order restitution of funds seized from seller accounts.

The Seventh Circuit’s decision in Kangol

The suit follows a May 29, 2026 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the federal appellate court with jurisdiction over the Northern District of Illinois. In Kangol LLC v. Hangzhou Chuanyue Silk Import & Export Co., 177 F.4th 793 (7th Cir. 2026), the court held that where the Hague Service Convention applies, it supplies the exclusive means of serving process abroad — and that because no provision of the Convention authorizes service by email in China, email service on a mainland-China defendant is not authorized by Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 4(f)(3).

For years before Kangol, judges in the Northern District of Illinois routinely granted Schedule A plaintiffs leave to serve Chinese sellers by email or by posting documents to a website. Sellers who never learned of the case did not appear, and default judgments followed.

The scale of the practice

The Northern District of Illinois is the country’s busiest Schedule A forum. According to the complaint, more than 8,900 Schedule A cases were filed there between 2012 and May 2026, by more than 1,900 different named plaintiffs, with each case typically naming dozens or hundreds of online sellers under a collective caption. The complaint alleges that thousands of those cases ended in default judgments against mainland-China sellers served by email or electronic publication rather than through the Convention, that tens of thousands of sellers were affected, and that tens of millions of dollars were collected from them.

“Kangol corrected an error that was repeated thousands of times in the Northern District,” said Wesley E. Johnson of Cross-Border Counselor LLP, lead counsel in this action and in Kangol. “This case seeks to remedy those errors. Spread across tens of thousands of sellers, it adds up to an enormous uncompensated transfers of value out of the Chinese cross-border e-commerce sector.”

The named plaintiff

In December 2022, WHAM-O, owner of the FRISBEE trademarks, filed a Schedule A action in the Northern District of Illinois, WHAM-O Holding, Ltd. v. The Partnerships and Unincorporated Associations Identified on Schedule “A,” No. 1:22-cv-06802. On Dec. 13, 2022, the court entered a temporary restraining order that also authorized service by email and electronic publication. GENISBULB was listed as defendant No. 44.

The court later entered a default judgment awarding WHAM-O statutory damages of $200,000 against each defaulting defendant and directing third parties holding the defendants’ funds to restrain those accounts and turn the money over. Amazon released $4,393.41 from GENISBULB’s account to WHAM-O. The balance of the $200,000 judgment, along with a permanent injunction, remains outstanding against the company, and the complaint alleges that marketplaces and payment processors continue to treat the judgment as an adjudicated finding of infringement.

A bilateral class structure

The complaint proposes a plaintiff class of mainland-China Schedule A defendants and, unusually, a defendant class of the Schedule A plaintiffs who obtained non-Hague service authorization and then took default judgments. WHAM-O, which the complaint alleges filed at least 116 Schedule A cases, is named as the proposed representative of the defendant class. A subclass would cover sellers whose funds were actually turned over.

No class has been certified, and the court has not ruled on any of the allegations in the complaint.

Information for affected sellers

Many sellers named in Schedule A cases never received notice that a judgment had been entered against them, and some learned of it only when a marketplace account was frozen or closed. Sellers who believe they may have been affected — or who are simply unsure whether a judgment was entered against them — are welcome to contact the firm with questions. There is no cost or obligation to make an inquiry.

About Cross-Border Counselor LLP

Cross-Border Counselor LLP is a law firm with offices in Illinois, California, Washington and New York that represents United States and Chinese companies in U.S. litigation involving international legal issues, with a particular focus on intellectual property actions and cross-border enforcement.

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Sources: Complaint filed Sept. 3, 2026 (N.D. Ill.); Kangol LLC v. Hangzhou Chuanyue Silk Import & Export Co., 177 F.4th 793 (7th Cir. May 29, 2026); WHAM-O Holding, Ltd. v. The Partnerships and Unincorporated Associations Identified on Schedule “A,” No. 1:22-cv-06802 (N.D. Ill.).

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Funraise Debuts Fundraising Events Software, Replacing Point Solutions with One System for Nonprofits

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New suite unites ticketing and registration, guest check-in, table management, auctions, paddle raises, real-time reporting, and more in a single fundraising workflow designed by Funraise alongside leading nonprofit organizations.

COSTA MESA, Calif., Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Funraise, the fundraising platform built by nonprofit professionals, announced the launch of Funraise Events, a fully integrated events suite that connects event fundraising directly to a nonprofit’s fundraising campaign sites, donor communications, and donor management system. The launch addresses a problem nonprofit fundraisers have voiced for years: event technology that exists in a silo, disconnected from the rest of an organization’s fundraising and donor data.

Learn more about the next wave of fundraising event systems and how Funraise Events will change the future of fundraising events.

Funraise has partnered directly with five nonprofit customers to build side-by-side with our engineering team, giving Funraise users unrestricted access to our product design team and creating a near-perfect fundraising event suite.

For most nonprofits, events aren’t a side initiative; they’re the lifeblood of the fundraising calendar. A gala, walk, or auction can represent the single largest fundraising and community-building night of the year, and it can make or break an organization’s annual goals. That reality is exactly why Funraise Events was designed and built in direct partnership with leading nonprofit organizations, for nonprofits everywhere. The result is a set of purpose-built, highly specific interfaces built for the workflows a fundraising event demands.

Unlike standalone ticketing or auction tools that solve a single friction point and force staff to reconcile data across multiple systems afterward, Funraise has built one continuous fundraising events workflow, from the first pre-event invitation to the post-event thank-you and every report in between.

Ending the point-solution era for nonprofit events

Most nonprofit event technology on the market today was built to solve one problem: sell tickets, run an auction, or manage a paddle raise. Fundraisers are then left to manually stitch that data back into their donor database, often days or weeks after the event, at the cost of mission momentum and relationship-building follow-up.

Funraise Events was built to eliminate that gap entirely. Because it lives inside Funraise’s platform, every ticket sale, sponsorship, meal choice, table assignment, pledge, and paddle raise flows automatically into the same donor record used across a nonprofit’s campaign sites, peer-to-peer fundraisers, donation forms, and email and SMS communications. No need to export and re-import into separate software with a separate login.

“Every nonprofit we’ve talked to has the same story: their event software works fine for the event, but the second the night is over, someone on their team is stuck manually re-entering data into their source-of-truth donor management system,” said Justin Wheeler, CEO and Co-founder of Funraise. “Instead of following the trend and building yet another point solution for events, we built events directly into the fundraising machine nonprofits already run everything else through. That’s the whole idea—one system, from the first invite to the thank-you call, so a team’s best night of the year makes every day after it better too.”

A workflow system, not a feature list

Funraise Events is organized around the full lifecycle of a fundraising event:

Before the event

Custom fundraising campaign sites and event pagesPeer-to-peer fundraising pages tied to the same eventBranded donation forms with custom questions built into ticketingEmail and SMS messaging to engage guests before, during, and after the eventSponsorship and table management with a drag-and-drop interface for seating assignments

During the event

Guest check-in, with mobile app ticket scanning and on-the-spot paymentPaddle raise with configurable giving tiers, assigned paddle numbers, and realtime, trackable pledgesLive auctions run through an easy, guest-friendly bidding experienceLive donation display showing momentum-building totals and goal progress on-screenPledge fulfillment featuring automated follow-up emails and contribution trackingRealtime revenue reporting that gives staff a live view of tickets, donations, auction proceeds, and pledges as they come in

After the event

Connected guest, donor, and pledge records in the nonprofit’s donor CRMAutomated tasks routing follow-up to the right staff memberCustom reports and dashboards that turn event-night data into long-term fundraising intelligence

“Funraise Events solves fundraising events for nonprofits,” said Tony Sasso, Chief Product Officer and Co-founder of Funraise.

Real-time reporting, built on one data model

Because Funraise Events is part of the same system as Funraise’s donor CRM and fundraising tools, reporting isn’t a backward-looking process that happens after the event; it’s continuous.

“Nonprofits don’t need another dashboard to check a week or month after an event. They need to know, in the ballroom, whether they’re going to hit their number,” said Jason Swenski, Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Funraise. “Because ticketing, pledges, auctions, and donations convene in real time, a development director can watch their event progress live, and then walk into Monday’s staff meeting with a donor report that’s already built.”

Designed by nonprofits, for nonprofits

Funraise was founded by a team that built forward-thinking fundraising tools while building a nonprofit movement. Their firsthand experience shaped Funraise from day one.

Rather than build in isolation, Funraise worked hand-in-hand with five nonprofits to design Funraise Events. Met Council, New York Cares, Liberty in North Korea, Tim Hortons Camps Foundation, and Chick Mission tested early versions of the product and advised Funraise on what to build, what to fix, and what an ideal event workflow should feel like, from the chaos of event night check-in to the exhaustion of post-event follow-up.

Funraise asked these teams a simple question: what does it feel like when an event goes right? Not just when the numbers are good, but when your staff gets to actually spend the evening with donors instead of fighting with a check-in tablet. That’s the version of success we built toward.

About Funraise

Funraise is the top all-in-one fundraising platform designed specifically for nonprofits. Leading with innovative, user-friendly software that includes comprehensive CRM and donor management capabilities, integrated email marketing tools, and advanced analytics, Funraise’s mission is to empower nonprofit organizations with beautiful, effective technology that enhances their ability to raise funds and create impact. Learn more about Funraise Events. 

What is Funraise Events?

Funraise Events is a nonprofit event management suite built into Funraise’s fundraising platform, covering registration and ticketing, sponsorship and table management, check-in, paddle raise, auctions, pledge fulfillment, live donation display, and real-time revenue reporting, all connected to a nonprofit’s donor management system, campaign sites, and communication tools.

How is Funraise Events different from other nonprofit event software?

Most event fundraising tools are point solutions that manage a single task, such as ticketing or auctions, in isolation from a nonprofit’s broader donor database. Funraise Events is built directly into Funraise’s platform, so event data—tickets, sponsorships, pledges, and donations—flows automatically into the same donor records used across a nonprofit’s other fundraising tools, eliminating manual data entry and post-event reconciliation.

Who helped design Funraise Events?

Five nonprofit organizations—Met Council, New York Cares, Liberty in North Korea, Tim Hortons Camps Foundation, and Chick Mission—worked directly with Funraise’s product team to shape the system workflows before launch.

Does Funraise Events include donor management and reporting after the event?

Yes. Guests, donors, and pledges captured during an event automatically populate a nonprofit’s donor CRM and portfolios, trigger automated follow-up tasks, and feed real-time reports and dashboards.

Who is Funraise built for?

Funraise is built for nonprofit fundraising and development teams that want a single platform rather than a collection of disconnected tools. Hundreds of nonprofits of all types and sizes use Funraise to run donation forms, fundraising websites, peer-to-peer campaigns, recurring giving, events, and donor management.

Media Contact

Erin Booker, erin@funraise.org

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