Name

Humanitarian Toolbox

Legal name

Humanitarian Toolbox

Website

https://htbox.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Humanitarian Toolbox is a small US non-profit that connects people, tools, and resources to support crisis response, having merged its mission with CrisisCommons to serve humanitarian organizations and disaster-affected communities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Humanitarian Disaster Response Technology

NAICS

Emergency and Other Relief Services (62423), Emergency and Other Relief Services (624230)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Humanitarian Coordination, Information Management & Needs Assessment (BPAGAAAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Humanitarian Coordination, Information Management & Needs Assessment (BPADADAL), Humanitarian Logistics, Supply Chain & Air/Sea/Land Relief Transport (BPAGAAAI)

Keywords

• Humanitarian technology
• Crisis response tools
• Disaster management software
• Volunteer coordination
• Open source software

Headquarters

HQ city

Medina

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations

Core offering

Humanitarian Toolbox (HTBox) is a nonprofit humanitarian technology organization that builds and provides open-source software tools and resources to support disaster and crisis response. It has merged with CrisisCommons to combine efforts in connecting people, tools, and resources for crisis responders.

Product overview

Humanitarian Toolbox (HTBox) is a humanitarian technology organization that merged with CrisisCommons to combine efforts in connecting people, tools, and resources to support crisis response. The organization focuses on developing technology solutions for disaster and crisis management scenarios.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Humanitarian Toolbox (HTBox) Platform A humanitarian technology initiative that connects people, tools, and resources to support crisis and disaster response efforts, developed for humanitarian organizations and crisis responders.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• CrisisCommonscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHTBox has joined CrisisCommons in a combined mission to connect people, tools and resources to support crisis response. The HTBox team has been welcomed to merge efforts with CrisisCommons, building out the community in service of humanitarian goals.

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• NetHope: Humanitarian technology consortium connecting NGOs with tech-sector partners (Microsoft, Google, Cisco) to deploy solutions for crisis response and international development — a directly comparable volunteer/coordination function, but at significantly larger scale.
• Ushahidi: Open-source crisis-mapping and information-management platform built by volunteer technologists to support election monitoring and disaster response — closely comparable in both mission (technology for crisis coordination) and community-driven model.
• DataKind: Nonprofit that pairs volunteer data scientists with humanitarian and development organizations to apply analytics and AI for social impact — analogous volunteer/NGO-matching model with a humanitarian-tech focus.
• InSTEDD: Nonprofit that designs and deploys open-source technology (including crisis-mapping and early-warning tools) for humanitarian and development response — closely comparable in coupling open-source technology with NGO field deployments.
• CrisisCommons: Direct peer and now merged partner organization that convenes volunteer technologists to build tools for crisis response via CrisisCamp events and online discussion forums — the same community-driven model HTBox operated within.
• Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT): Global nonprofit that mobilizes volunteer mappers to produce open geospatial data for disaster response, humanitarian operations, and SDG programs — directly comparable volunteer-driven humanitarian-technology model.
• CartONG: French nonprofit specializing in geographic information management and information management for humanitarian response — comparable in producing information management and coordination tooling for crisis-response organizations.

Broad incumbents

• American Red Cross: Largest US-based humanitarian organization with extensive volunteer infrastructure and disaster-response operations; broad incumbent that both competes for volunteer mindshare and represents a potential partner or customer channel for HTBox.
• UN OCHA: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs — the dominant incumbent coordinating humanitarian response globally; sets the needs assessment and information-management standards that volunteer-tech organizations like HTBox plug into.
• Direct Relief: Large humanitarian aid organization operating global logistics and supply-chain relief programs; a broad incumbent in the humanitarian coordination space against which HTBox's niche volunteer-tech positioning is benchmarked.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/htbox
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/han-university-of-applied-sciences

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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