Impact & Social Good Startups

Africa Foresight Group (AFG) connects homegrown African companies with local talent and consultants to support private-sector growth across the continent. Founded in Ghana, the firm focuses on bridging the talent gap and advancing job creation in Africa.

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Afrika Tikkun Bambanani provides early childhood development (ECD) educational services and learning tools for children aged birth to 6 years in South Africa, operating across over 105 schools with a focus on developmentally appropriate milestones and educational equity.

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Against Malaria is a nonprofit that funds insecticide-treated nets and oversees their distribution and use to protect people from malaria. It tracks where nets go and monitors and reports on their use and impact.

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Agilis Partners is a Ugandan food and agriculture enterprise that grows grains and oilseeds, trains and supports smallholder farmers, and aggregates and distributes produce to food manufacturers and protein producers across East Africa. It operates farming and grain-trading divisions and serves the regional agricultural commodity market.

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AGORA Centre for Research is an online digital public square established in 2023 that promotes human rights, public accountability, and social justice, using platforms like X to host discussions and hold authorities accountable. Focused on Uganda, it publishes articles and reports and conducts activities such as prison visits and public accountability work.

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Agricane is an agricultural engineering company that designs and implements large-scale farming systems, water infrastructure, and irrigation projects across Africa. The company serves commercial farmers, rural communities, and conservation initiatives, focusing on productivity, community development, and environmental protection.

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AgriCapitals is an investment company that connects investors with agricultural production projects, offering turnkey development from technical planning to financial management. Its current project is a pistachio plantation ("Pistachos El Ramblón") in San Juan, Argentina, aimed at investors seeking sustainable passive income.

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Agri Evolve is a profit-for-purpose business that works with over 15,000 smallholder farmers in Uganda's Rwenzori region to improve coffee yields and quality, and exports green speciality arabica coffee to roasters and coffee companies worldwide. It operates in the agriculture and coffee sector with an emphasis on farmer income and community development.

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A microfinance provider that offers credit and financial services to underserved social groups in Albania, including women, farmers, young people, and entrepreneurs who face economic hardship or lack access to financial services. It focuses on funding small businesses and ideas to improve household welfare and living standards.

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Agronomics is an investment company that offers exposure to cellular agriculture and food technology startups—such as cultivated meat and precision fermentation firms—through a single publicly traded stock. It targets both individual and institutional investors seeking ESG- and climate-aligned exposure to companies developing more resource-efficient food production methods.

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Aguanea sells Alpine spring water sold in infinitely recyclable, plastic-free aluminum cans, available in still or sparkling form and by monthly subscription. The company markets itself around ocean restoration, funding real coral reef planting with each purchase, selling directly to consumers in Spain.

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AgUnity develops digital tools and platforms for smallholder farmers and their cooperatives to improve supply chain transparency, regulatory compliance, and market access. The solutions enable offline-first operations with blockchain integration for traceability and data management across agricultural value chains.

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Agventure is a farmer-owned company that promotes sustainable rain-fed conservation agriculture practices in non-irrigated cereal systems across six counties in Kenya. The company operates a network of farmers, produces finished food products under the Pure Mountain brand, and provides seed distribution and agricultural training services.

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AHAD-AP (Association for Haemophilia and Allied Disorders – Asia Pacific) is an independent group of healthcare professionals working to improve care for people with haemophilia and other hereditary bleeding disorders in the Asia Pacific region through education, training, research and advocacy. It collaborates with the World Federation of Haemophilia and offers membership to regional healthcare professionals.

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Ahya sources carbon offset projects from accredited global verified registries that follow rigorous MRV standards and ICVMI principles. It operates a security-focused platform for managing carbon credit projects, with compliance certifications including ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, and related standards.

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AIC T-Hub Foundation is a startup incubator formed as a partnership between the Government of India's Atal Innovation Mission and T-Hub, supporting MVP-stage deep tech startups across five sectors including healthcare and clean energy. It provides incubated startups in India with access to investors, mentors, industry experts, and other resources.

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AID:Tech delivers international aid and payments using blockchain technology, with a focus on digital identity. The company enables individuals to own and control their self-sovereign identities.

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AidKit provides software infrastructure that helps government agencies and nonprofits administer and distribute aid and benefit programs, covering areas such as disaster relief, housing security, food security, worker relief, and maternal and infant health. It serves relief programs across the United States, supporting teams running local, statewide, and national initiatives.

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aiESG provides product-level ESG analysis and evaluation, tracing supply chains to assess ESG impacts including human rights and biodiversity using a database co-developed by Kyushu University researchers combined with proprietary AI. It offers ESG consulting and a cloud service for companies seeking to evaluate and improve supply chain sustainability, based in Japan.

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The AI Foundation develops personal AI systems designed to align with each individual's values and goals. It operates around a mission of responsible AI deployment for the general public.

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African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) develops and manages private equity funds that invest long-term institutional equity in unlisted African infrastructure projects, with USD 3.8 billion in assets under management across eight funds. It operates across North, East, West and Southern Africa, with offices in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and Cote d'Ivoire.

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Aira offers remote, on-demand visual and American Sign Language interpreting through video, connecting blind, low-vision, Deaf, and hard-of-hearing users to professional interpreters via its Aira Explorer and Aira ASL apps. Organizations partner with Aira to provide the services for free to their employees, students, or customers, and the services are available at Access Partner locations worldwide, with ASL interpreting offered across North America.

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Tula Tula sells hand-brushed, woven blankets made from ethically sourced materials, designed and manufactured in South Africa. The company emphasizes sustainable production and providing well-paid unionized jobs to underserved communities, particularly women and children, in Southern Africa.

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AirMiners is a community and accelerator focused on carbon dioxide removal, offering a founder accelerator program (Launchpad), a networking community of like-minded innovators, and a multi-week learning course for newcomers to the field. It serves founders, professionals, and people interested in contributing to atmospheric carbon dioxide removal.

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