NOVAI
About
NOVAI is a France-based nonprofit technology company founded in 2026 that offers AI-powered grant management software for NGOs, social enterprises, and impact-driven organizations. The platform covers the full funding lifecycle, from grant discovery and eligibility assessment to AI-assisted proposal writing and expert consultations, in English, French, and Arabic. Built by a team with nearly a decade of experience inside the NGO sector, NOVAI serves organizations across 66 countries and is part of the French Tech ecosystem.
NOVAI's profile
Mission
To help non-profit organizations access funding more effectively by combining AI tools, expert guidance, and grant management infrastructure in one platform.
Vision
To become the primary funding intelligence platform for impact-driven organizations across languages and geographies.
How it began
1) Feryal El Moghraby spent nearly a decade working with NGOs and repeatedly saw the same bottleneck: finding relevant grants was slow, and most applications failed on eligibility or compliance, not on the quality of the work.
2) Structuring this as a company rather than an NGO was a deliberate choice to keep the operation commercially sustainable and free from the grant dependency that constrains the sector it serves.
3) The founding team brought together NGO operators, a developer, an engineer, and a co-founder investor, covering the operational and technical ground needed to build the product properly from the start.
How it's going
1) Within months of launch and before any paid marketing, 300+ organizations from 66 countries registered on the platform and generated over 350 proposals.
2) Converting free trial users into paying subscribers is the primary commercial challenge; the NGO sector’s cost-consciousness makes the sales cycle longer than typical B2B.
3) The team has appeared at Web Summit Qatar, ChangeNOW Paris, and GITEX Africa, and is part of the French Tech ecosystem, giving the platform early international credibility.


