Watsi blog · May 2026
Watsi announced its India launch and India Surgery Fund, said it has funded 34,000+ surgeries across 35 countries, and described a seed contribution of $50,000 for the new fund.
Watsi is the first global crowdfunding platform for medical…
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Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Watsi is a San Francisco-based nonprofit healthcare crowdfunding platform that connects donors directly to patients needing surgery and related care, with 100% of donations going to treatment and donors receiving updates after care. Public leadership currently lists an Executive Director rather than a CEO.
Primary product
Healthcare crowdfunding platform for patient-funded surgery and the Universal Fund
Founded
2012
Headquarters
548 Market St #75903, San Francisco, CA 94104, United States
Team size
10-20
Work style
Remote
Industry
Non-profit Organizations
Sub-industry
Healthcare crowdfunding / global health financing
Offices
548 Market St #75903, San Francisco, CA 94104, United States (mailing address)
Distributed remote team across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia
Business model
donation-based crowdfunding
monthly giving via Universal Fund
philanthropic multi-year funding for operations
gift card / directed-giving products
Funding
Stage
Series A
Total raised
$4.7M
Latest round
Series A (philanthropic round) · Nov 2015
Latest amount
$3.5M
Philanthropic round / Series A
Nov 2015
Jul 2013
People & investors
Leadership
Executive Director
Chief Financial Officer
Director of Marketing & Insights
Senior Software Engineer
Kimmy Coseteng
Program Advisor
Jane Ngige-Muturi
Program Advisor
Program and Operations Associate
Work & culture
Small, mission-driven, 100% remote, radically transparent, patient-first, and engineering/product-led; emphasizes direct impact, high trust, and lean execution.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
No current public salary bands were found. Historical public postings include unpaid volunteer/intern roles and older engineering roles without disclosed salary ranges.
Benefits
Flexible hours (historical public engineering internship posting)
Mentorship (historical public engineering internship posting)
Apple hardware / proper dev environment (historical public engineering internship posting)
Product & market
Pricing
Donation-based: donors can give as little as $5; 100% of public donations go to patient care, with operating support funded separately.
Differentiators
- —100% of donations go directly to healthcare
- —Patient-specific campaigns with post-care updates
- —Global surgery focus rather than general fundraising
- —Radical financial transparency
- —Nonprofit structure with no cut taken from donations
- —Universal Fund for recurring monthly giving
- —Partnership model with vetted medical partners
- —Lean remote team and startup-style execution
Technology
Ruby on Rails
Backbone.js
SCSS
PostgreSQL
Redis
Sidekiq
Heroku
RSpec
Jasmine
GitHub
Mailgun
Customer.io
Segment
Mixpanel
Customers
individual donors
monthly givers
corporate supporters
philanthropic supporters
medical partners / hospitals
Competitors
GoFundMe medical fundraising
CarePal Group
CrowdHealth
Shuidichou
Milaap
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M
Estimated monthly visits
9.1K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Latest news
Watsi blog · Jan 2026
Milestone post celebrating $20M directed to healthcare, 33,000+ people supported, and the role of the Universal Fund and transparency in Watsi's model.
EIN Presswire · Sep 2025
Partner press release says ZoomRx donors funded 376 patients across 31 countries and over $343,903 in care through Watsi's model.
Watsi blog · Jul 2025
Watsi introduced its Emergency Surgery Fund, backed by anonymous foundation seed funding, and said it had supported 35+ emergency surgeries across Uganda, Kenya, and Burma.
Watsi blog · Jun 2025
Watsi said it was featured on ABC News and highlighted a community fundraising story around young Ryan and patient-specific crowdfunding.
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