Impact & Social Good Startups

Nexif Energy develops, finances, and operates power generation and renewable energy projects across Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and Australia. The company owns and operates a diversified portfolio including coal, gas, hydro, wind, solar, and waste-to-energy power plants.

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Next In Natural is a boutique hybrid holding company and venture studio that invests capital and operational expertise in early-stage organic and natural food and beverage brands, helping them scale into category leaders. It works with better-for-you CPG entrepreneurs across offices in the USA, Spain, Brazil, Israel, and the Philippines.

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Next City is a nonprofit news organization that publishes journalism and reporting on urban issues and change-making in cities, and hosts webinars featuring practitioners working on urban challenges.

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NextDrop crowdsources water-supply data and builds algorithms and visualizations to improve urban water distribution in emerging markets, notably India. It alerts urban residents by text about water arrival, cancellations, contamination, or low pressure, while giving utility engineers a live feed of distribution problems.

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NextGEN is a nonprofit entrepreneur support organization in Greenville and the Upstate of South Carolina, offering programs, workshops, mentorship, and networking events to help high-growth founders launch and scale their businesses. It connects entrepreneurs with mentors, investors, and community partners across the regional startup ecosystem.

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Nexus Point is a private investment firm that integrates sustainability and responsible investing principles across its evaluation, investment, and value creation processes. The firm actively manages its portfolio companies to advance environmental, social, and governance initiatives aligned with UN-supported standards.

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Nia builds continuity infrastructure for migrant workers in India, providing systems that help them preserve income, savings, and social connections across job transitions and relocations. The platform serves industrial workers and aims to break the cycle of financial restart with each migration.

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Nia Technologies is a Canadian non-profit social enterprise developing and deploying 3D printed prosthetics and orthotics for children with disabilities in resource-limited countries. The organization works to make medical devices more accessible globally through collaborative innovation and digital tools.

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Nice runs an event and access platform where organizers can create events and gate VIP experiences behind actions like volunteering and donating. The company has organized impact-focused gatherings and fundraising campaigns, including work tied to clean water access and social-impact community events.

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Nideport focuses on natural capital restoration, recovering and enriching degraded ecosystems through reforestation with native species and biodiversity conservation programs including wildlife inventories. It sells carbon credits to businesses seeking to offset greenhouse gas emissions, using monitoring technology such as IoT, blockchain, and drones, and allocates part of its sales to support local community education, health, and infrastructure.

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Nilus is a social-impact initiative that connects suppliers, local shops, and communities to deliver essential branded products at affordable prices in low-income neighborhoods of Argentina. It negotiates directly with suppliers and distributes through existing neighborhood stores, warehouses, and community organizations rather than competing with them.

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Nisto develops software for generating credible, comparable, and auditable social impact reports with built-in compliance capabilities. The company serves organizations seeking to measure and report on their social and environmental impact.

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Nobelprize.org provides open data about the Nobel Prizes and Nobel Laureates to developers through a REST API and as Linked Data (RDF/SPARQL). The data is free to use, returned in JSON or CSV, and updated alongside the main website including at the time of new Laureate announcements.

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Noble Schools operates 17 free, open-enrollment public charter schools in Chicago, serving more than 12,000 students with a focus on college access and persistence. The network emphasizes college-bound outcomes and equity-focused, culturally relevant education.

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NoFloods develops and deploys temporary modular flood barrier systems as an alternative to sandbags for emergency flood prevention and protection of critical infrastructure. The company serves governments, emergency agencies, and infrastructure operators globally with reusable, rapidly deployable flood protection solutions.

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Nonprofit Association of Washington (NAWA) is a membership organization that advocates for the nonprofit sector and provides trainings, learning guides, and resources to nonprofit staff, board members, and volunteers across Washington State. It offers events, educational materials, and member directories to support nonprofit operations and compliance.

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Noocity installs and operates community vegetable gardens for organizations in public or private spaces, focusing on eco-transition and employee/community wellness. The company provides gardens using proprietary low-water-consumption growbeds, maintenance support, and facilitation of team engagement around shared gardening projects.

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Noonday Collection sells handmade jewelry and accessories created by artisans globally, offering guidance on caring for various material types including metals, leather, and textiles.

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Nordic Alpha Partners is an investment firm with a portfolio of companies across six sustainable greentech investment areas, managed through Fund I and Fund II.

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Nordic Knots designs and produces high-quality home textiles including hand-knotted rugs, curtains, and bedding, blending Scandinavian design principles with artisanal craftsmanship. The company sources premium materials and manufactures through partnerships with master artisans in India and weavers in Italian mills.

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Norrsken Evolve is a pre-seed venture capital investor that backs early-stage European founders with capital, a network, and an in-person accelerator sprint. It targets companies working on energy, manufacturing, logistics, construction, food, healthcare, cybersecurity, and climate resilience.

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Norrsken Launcher is an early-stage deep tech impact fund within the Norrsken ecosystem that runs a concentrated portfolio, making 2–3 investments of roughly €1–3m per year and working closely with founders for 3–9 months on team-building, commercialization, and fundraising. It backs science- and engineering-led companies addressing major world challenges across areas such as energy, materials, and diagnostics.

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North Highland is a change and transformation consultancy that helps businesses implement organizational change with a focus on people and culture. The firm provides process improvement, business analytics, program and project management services.

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Northern Arc provides retail credit access to under-served households and businesses in India, operating across sectors including MSME financing, microfinance, consumer finance, vehicle finance, affordable housing finance, and agriculture finance. It also focuses on climate and renewable financing and offers a proprietary integrated technology product suite tailored to these sectors.

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