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Tech Entrepreneur Angela Murphy Wins Spark Tank with Nonprofit CRM Solution

  • deshaywilliams3
  • Dec 26, 2024
  • 2 min read

Updated: Jan 6, 2025

When generous donors help underestimated entrepreneurs identify community needs, EVERYONE WINS!

Angela Murphy, an entrepreneur and Spark Thomasville graduate, presents her business plan for helping nonprofits maximize their impact through CRM technology at the 2024 Spark Tank competition.
Spark Entrepreneur Angela Murphy presents her vision for nonprofit technology solutions at Spark Tank 2024, where she won first place!

This is certainly true for Tech entrepreneur Angela Murphy, a recent graduate of Spark Thomasville’s Fall 2024 cohort and winner of the annual Spark Tank competition.


Spark Entrepreneur Angela Murphy presents her vision for nonprofit technology solutions at Spark Tank 2024, where she won first place!


Angela is spearheading an approach to help nonprofits and faith-based organizations maximize their impact through better technology.

A Mission Born from Experience

“Nonprofits often don’t know what technology they need,” Angela shares with insight gained from her daily experience with Salesforce, an automated customer relationship management platform.

Her mission focuses on helping organizations streamline donor management, improve fundraising, and increase operational efficiency through powerful customer relationship management (CRM) systems.

Through her approach, Angela helps nonprofits:

  • Access free Salesforce licenses (first ten users)

  • Organize scattered constituent information

  • Enhance donor relationships

  • Multiply their community impact through automation


A Legacy of Leadership

Her father’s example nurtured Angela’s entrepreneurial spirit through his various business ventures, including property rentals and heavy equipment operations.


This early exposure to business ownership, combined with the inspiring influence of her teachers, especially one memorable literature teacher, helped shape her vision of what is possible.


“My teachers deeply inspired me,” Angela reflects. “I admired their lives as educated people. One literature teacher especially inspired me. I remember watching her teach, her speech and vocabulary, and I wanted to be like her.”


From Dream to Reality through Spark

When Angela first heard about Spark Thomasville, she felt immediately drawn to its mission of supporting underestimated entrepreneurs. Through the program’s guidance and support, she discovered that “there is so much more to starting a business than just providing an answer to a problem. You have to have a plan for everything!”


Her dedication and vision recently earned her the top prize of $3,000 in Spark Thomasville’s annual Spark Tank competition, demonstrating the community’s belief in her mission.

Five community leaders at Spark Tank 2024: Esther Marie Lawrence, Angela Murphy, Patricia Powell, Melvin Hugins, and DeShay Williams gather for first-place prize presentation, demonstrating Spark Thomasville's commitment to supporting underestimated entrepreneurs.
Celebrating community support at Spark Tank 2024: (L-R) Esther Marie Lawrence of Thomas County Chamber of Commerce, first-place winner Angela Murphy, business coach Patricia Powell, TNB banking partner Melvin Hugans, and Spark Thomasville Executive Director DeShay Williams unite to empower underestimated entrepreneurs through education, coaching, and access to capital.

Creating Ripples of Change

“I love the mission of my company,” Angela shares with enthusiasm. “When you love what you do, you are happier, you don’t feel like you are working."


Her passion for helping organizations multiply their impact through technology is creating positive change throughout our community.


Today, Angela isn’t just building a business – she’s creating a legacy of education and empowerment. “Now, I am inspiring my extended family, cousins and such to grow," demonstrating how one entrepreneur’s success can spark positive change throughout a community.


Thomasville Donors Supporting Dreams

Angela’s story is a great example of Spark Thomasville’s donors educating, training, encouraging, and supporting underestimated entrepreneurs.


Through collaboration and community engagement, our donors help transform innovative ideas into viable businesses that create economic opportunity and lasting impact.


Thank you for supporting hardworking entrepreneurs like Angela.


If you see Angela, give her a high-five for creating wealth in Thomasville!

DeShay Williams, the Executive Director of Spark Thomasville, leads the organization's mission to support underestimated entrepreneurs through education, coaching, and access to affordable capital in Thomas County, Georgia.

DeShay Williams

Executive Director

Spark Thomasville

4 Comments


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Jul 14

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Jul 13

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Pcb Cool
Pcb Cool
Jul 12

Huge congratulations to Angela Murphy for her Spark Tank win! Her CRM solution sounds like a game-changer for the nonprofit sector, where efficiency is everything. It is truly inspiring to see such innovative tech tackling real-world social challenges with such precision. Building great software, much like mastering electronics, requires understanding how components work together to manage flow. You wouldn't confuse a diode vs resistor when designing a circuit, just as you can’t overlook the specific needs of nonprofits when building CRM tools. Angela clearly nailed the design, and her success is well-deserved. Can't wait to see the impact!

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David Chris
David Chris
May 06

Great win for Angela Murphy at Spark Tank with her nonprofit CRM solution. The idea shows how tech innovation and social impact can intersect, and even reminds me of flexible PCB design guide in unexpected design thinking parallels. Impressive step forward for nonprofit CRM development overall really.

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