Impact & Social Good Startups

Green Steel Environmental develops PSR™, a non-hazardous alternative to chemical treatments for removing phosphorus and sulfur from wastewater at treatment facilities. The technology reduces operational costs and environmental risks while improving worker safety compared to traditional chemical-based removal methods.

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Greenwood is a financial technology platform offering banking, debit card, savings, and investment services designed specifically for Black entrepreneurs and community members. The platform enables users to build wealth, redirect resources to Black-owned enterprises, and participate in a community-focused financial movement.

4 investors

Growcer provides modular growing infrastructure and ecosystem support to enable communities to produce fresh food year-round locally. The company serves schools, hospitals, Indigenous nations, and communities across North America seeking food security and resilience.

4 investors

Hakki Africa develops credit scoring algorithms and APIs for microfinance institutions and emerging market financial services in Africa, serving underbanked populations lacking formal credit history. The company also offers used car financing services leveraging its proprietary credit scoring technology.

4 investors

Homaio designs climate-focused financial products and investment platforms for private investors, with a focus on the European carbon allowance market. The company aims to align investment returns with measurable environmental impact through empirically-grounded climate assets.

4 investors

Honest Jobs operates an employment platform that connects currently and formerly incarcerated people with employers willing to hire them. It serves job seekers with criminal records (returning citizens) and the companies looking to hire them.

4 investors

Impact Capital Managers is a membership association for investment funds focused on impact investing, connecting over 150 funds managing more than $70 billion in capital deployed across thousands of companies globally. The organization provides research, education, training, and advocacy to support fund managers in scaling private capital for positive impact alongside competitive returns.

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Impact Circle builds a global team of experts in business development, microfinance, and governance to create social impact in both Japan and emerging markets.

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Innovate UK is a government-backed community platform that connects investors, innovators, industries, institutes, and government bodies to fund and scale solutions in emerging technologies and innovation sectors. The platform focuses on financing the Future Economy with emphasis on Net Zero, Health, Agriculture, Digital Technologies, and Diversity and Inclusion across the UK and international markets.

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Instil provides a modern software platform designed for nonprofits to manage relationships and increase their operational impact. The platform serves nonprofit organizations working on social impact initiatives.

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CAP (Caring About People) is a 501c3 employee crisis fund established by Intrado to provide financial assistance to employees facing emergency situations. The organization raises funds through charity events and employee contributions to support employees in crisis.

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Jeeng (PowerInbox) provides an ad monetization platform that lets digital publishers add revenue by placing personalized ads across email, push notifications, and websites, and backfills vacant ad spots. It also offers advertisers reach to a network of opt-in subscribers across email, web, and push channels.

4 investors

KAERU develops financial services aimed at elderly people in Japan's aging society, offering a payment/money service (KAERU) designed to help seniors, including those with declining cognitive ability, continue to shop safely. The company focuses on accessible, safe financial tools for the senior market in Japan.

4 investors

Koiki provides sustainable last-mile delivery in Spain, carrying out parcel deliveries on foot, by bicycle, or with electric vehicles to reduce CO2 emissions. It serves e-commerce businesses, logistics operators, and municipalities, and employs delivery workers from groups at risk of social exclusion through a network of neighborhood microcenters.

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LiORA develops soil monitoring and remediation technology to help clients restore and repair contaminated soils using science-based instrumentation and data systems. The company serves environmental teams and organizations focused on soil remediation and environmental sustainability.

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Lynx connects European companies with curated education and workplace learning providers, simplifying the process of finding quality learning solutions that match organizational needs.

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MentorCloud provides mentorship program management software tailored for hospitality organizations, helping them organize and administer workplace mentoring initiatives.

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Mentra is a talent-matching platform that connects neurodivergent individuals with employers, aiming to match candidates to careers based on their skills, work ethic, personality, and workplace preferences. It focuses on activating and supporting the neurodiverse workforce.

4 investors

Metaimpact provides a platform that helps organizations align strategy, coordinate across teams and stakeholders, and measure impact through collaborative goal-setting and shared data infrastructure. The product serves corporate leaders, foundations, and multi-stakeholder initiatives across industries.

4 investors

Milestone Technologies is a technology services company that outlines its corporate social responsibility program, covering environmental sustainability, workplace inclusion and belonging, community outreach, and employee learning and development. The page presents its CSR commitments, including reducing environmental footprint and supporting underrepresented groups in technology.

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Mitti Labs partners with smallholder rice farmers across Asia using technology-driven approaches to reduce methane emissions and advance climate action. The company employs remote sensing and carbon credit mechanisms to track and verify farming impact.

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Murphy's Naturals makes natural insect-repellent and outdoor products designed to help people enjoy time outside without bug bites. A Certified B Corp based in Raleigh, North Carolina, the company operates on a people-planet-profit model with environmental and community give-back practices.

4 investors

NatureMetrics provides a nature risk screening platform that assigns every site in a portfolio a 0–1 risk score based on ecosystem condition, business dependencies on nature, and environmental impact, helping organizations across mining, energy, infrastructure, agriculture, and financial services identify and manage biodiversity-related threats to permits, financing, and operations.

4 investors

NEAR Foundation is a Swiss nonprofit foundation (Stiftung) that supports the NEAR ecosystem, a decentralized blockchain platform for building decentralized applications. It allocates treasury resources and funds ecosystem functions to further decentralization rather than operating the network directly.

4 investors