Campground announced that it has raised more than $2.2 million to date from investors including Precursor Ventures, Acumen Americas, Underdog Labs, Access Georgia Foundation, Bloomerang founder Jay Love, and angel investors.
The company recently relaunched its platform, which is designed specifically for workforce development, human services, and community-based organizations. Campground provides an AI-native infrastructure platform that replaces disconnected spreadsheets, generic CRM systems, and costly custom-built software with a unified system for participant tracking, employer engagement, task management, and real-time reporting.
Founded by CEO Sruti Bharat, Campground currently serves more than 200,000 beneficiaries across 36 organizations nationwide and maintains a 100% enterprise retention rate. The company said its platform has generated more than $20 million in technology savings for customers and has helped support approximately 1,400 job placements.
Campground’s AI-enhanced platform is designed to help organizations work more efficiently while preserving the human judgment required for delivering social services. The company aims to help organizations demonstrate outcomes to funders and policymakers while reducing the administrative burden placed on staff.
Among its customers is the Career Exploration Experience, a collaboration between Rise East and the East Oakland Youth Development Center. The organization adopted Campground to replace paper-based processes and fragmented data systems. Through the platform, the program supported 958 students with work-based learning and coaching while saving approximately $100,000 and achieving a 99% participant satisfaction rate.
Campground is also supporting the Missouri Works Initiative and the Associated General Contractors of Missouri. Through the platform, contractors can access profiles of Apprenticeship Ready Construction program graduates year-round, while administrators can track engagement and outcomes through a centralized system. The network currently includes 166 graduates and 36 contractors.
Since its founding, Campground has focused on providing purpose-built software for the social impact sector, helping organizations consolidate operations and improve reporting while avoiding the high costs associated with legacy systems.
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“As a former nonprofit program leader and board member, I’ve seen frontline staff delivering extraordinary results every day, but they’re wrestling with tools that were never built for them. In this time of budget cuts, staff don’t have the capacity to spend hours entering and cleaning data; they should be out in their communities providing services. With this funding and a new product foundation for responsible AI usage, Campground is making it possible for organizations to scale their work, report on outcomes, and raise more money – without spending six figures and years on tech projects.”
Sruti Bharat, Founder And CEO, Campground
“Before Campground, we were managing a growing program with tools that couldn’t keep up. Now our data is organized, our workflows are more sustainable, and our participants have an interface that is really easy to use. That means we can spend more of our time providing services and less time figuring out logistics.”
Selena Wilson, CEO, East Oakland Youth Development Center
“When Campground showed up, we knew this is exactly what we were looking for to connect contractors with young people looking for construction jobs.”
Len Toenjes, President, AGC Of Missouri
“Over the decade plus we’ve been investing, we’ve observed the social impact sector underserved by technology for too long. Sruti and her team understand this market deeply because they’ve lived it. Campground isn’t adapting a tool built for the private sector, it’s purpose-built for the way these programs actually operate. That’s why their partners stay and that’s why we’ve invested in them.”
Yichen Feng, Investment Director, Acumen Americas
“Campground is solving a problem with real economic gravity. As nonprofits and government agencies face tightening budgets, proving impact with data is existential, not optional. Campground is helping create an entirely new class of software buyer in a historically underserved market, and that’s why we invested in the company.”
Charles Hudson, Managing Partner And Founder, Precursor Ventures
“I’ve spent my career building technology for the social sector, and I know how rare it is to find a founder who truly understands both the mission and the operational reality. Campground is solving one of the biggest infrastructure gaps in this space, and they’re doing it at a price point that makes it accessible to the programs that need it most.”
Jay Love, Founder, Bloomerang
