Impact & Social Good Startups

Avant is a Malaysian personal care brand producing halal-certified skincare and cosmetics. Its formulations use plant-derived and non-toxic ingredients selected to address common skin concerns without causing irritation. The products are sold to consumers seeking cosmetics that comply with halal requirements.

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AVIFES is a Spanish mental health advocacy organization founded in 1986 by families of people with mental illness, working to improve mental health resources and combat social stigma.

1 investor

Avioneta is a Mexican digital health company focused on alcohol use. It sells a monthly subscription program that combines clinical and educational services to help subscribers, or a family member, reduce their drinking, with progress tracked against defined outcome measures.

1 investor

Avondale Private Capital is a credit-focused private markets advisory and risk participation firm working in private credit, carbon markets, credit insurance, and impact investing. It serves insurers, banks, pensions, family offices, foundations, hedge funds, alternative lenders, and corporates.

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Awabah is a financial platform for Africa's informal sector and gig economy, bundling pensions, health insurance, accident cover, and life assurance into welfare packages (Valubah) and enabling retirement savings remittances (Penpay). It serves informal-sector workers, SMEs, startups, large corporates, and associations, and offers APIs for partners to embed its products.

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Awana Digital co-develops technology with local and Indigenous communities to protect culture, food sovereignty, and critical ecosystems. It works on social justice and environmental defense causes, aiming to give affected communities a voice in decisions that affect them.

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Axe Living designs and builds CSA A277-certified modular homes—including backyard ADUs, secondary suites, and multiplexes—using an in-house team and factory workflow, managing the full process from feasibility and permits through delivery and occupancy. It serves homeowners, infill developers, churches, non-profits, and municipalities in Ontario, Canada, focusing on missing-middle and affordable housing.

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Axius Water provides advanced nutrient removal technologies for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants, as well as potable and process water treatment, operating through a group of specialized companies. Its technologies target nutrient pollution that causes toxic algal blooms in waterways.

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AyaHQ trains talented Africans in technology and helps early-stage startups develop and launch competitive products through training programs, hackathons, incubation, and physical builder hubs. The organization connects African talent with global ecosystems to create economic opportunity across the continent.

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Adapt Your World 2024 is a one-day venture and innovation conference focused on climate-resilience and adaptation solutions, held at Nymphenburg Palace in Munich. It gathers selected startups, investors, and corporate leaders to discuss topics such as flood and wildfire prevention, urban resilience, biodiversity restoration, and regenerative agriculture.

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Azolla Projects designs and manages regenerative agriculture projects that generate carbon and natural-capital credits, offering methodology development, monitoring, and certification services to organizations and agricultural producers. Based in Spain, it works with public-funded innovation projects and consortia to establish agricultural carbon markets in Mediterranean regions.

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Aztro Energy sells functional and healthy energy products and channels sales into solar energy for underserved communities. The company connects consumer purchases with the funding of solar power for communities in need.

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Azul Bio is a public benefit company that develops live biotherapeutics—custom microbial-based treatments—to help coral reefs resist heat-induced bleaching, disease, and pollution. It also provides coral treatment application, rapid biotherapeutic development, and marine genomics and microbiome analysis services for reef monitoring, coral aquaculture, and marine research.

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Babilou Family operates childcare centers across 10 countries, serving families seeking childcare and employers looking to provide childcare support for their teams. The company emphasizes education, sustainability, and nature as core pillars of its early-childhood offering.

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Baby Despensa is a social project by Fundación Meridional that distributes baby food (fruit, fish, meat and chicken purees), whole and formula milk, and diapers to families at risk of social exclusion with children aged 0–3. It supports over 300 children through weekly deliveries in Spain.

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BabySafe Solutions provides insurance coverage and support services for employees who are parent-caregivers of children born prematurely or with disabilities, offering medical, administrative, and psychological assistance. The company's guarantee product (GDN) is financed through collective supplemental insurance and is designed to cover costs not reimbursed by France's mandatory social security system.

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BAKE Inc. is a Japanese confectionery company that manufactures and sells baked sweets through specialty retail brands such as BAKE CHEESE TART, PRESS BUTTER SAND, and RINGO, and also runs e-commerce shops and web media. It operates 88 stores across Japan and overseas markets including Singapore, China, the US, and Taiwan.

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Balloon Ventures provides loans plus six months of business support to small and medium-sized "brick-and-mortar" enterprises in East Africa, digitising SME cashflows to inform credit decisions for un-banked and under-banked entrepreneurs. It focuses on Kenya and Uganda with a goal of creating better-paid, formal jobs and reducing poverty.

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Bangalow Koalas is a community-based environmental not-for-profit that restores and rehabilitates native habitat for koalas and other endangered species. It focuses on the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia, organizing community plantings and fundraising to protect koala habitat.

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Redemption Bank is a Black-owned national holding company acquiring a depository institution to become a Minority Depository Institution focused on expanding access to capital for people of color. It plans a tech-enabled, concierge banking platform serving relationship-oriented consumers and business owners, in partnership with other MDIs and a mortgage lending platform.

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Banque des Territoires is a French public financial institution (part of Caisse des Dépôts) that supports local and regional public and private actors with advisory services, loans, equity and quasi-equity investments, deposits and banking services for general-interest projects. It finances territorial development in areas such as infrastructure, social housing, local economic development, energy transition and sustainable mobility.

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Banverde provides structured financing lines of $50 to $400 million pesos to companies developing sustainable projects, funding their portfolios or new clients based on project cash flows without additional collateral. It packages these assets into standardized instruments aimed at institutional investors, combining financial returns with environmental impact in emerging markets.

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BAYCAT is a nonprofit media production company and academy in San Francisco that provides free digital media education, paid internships, and workshops to youth and emerging creatives who are people of color and women. Its professional arm, BAYCAT Studio, produces socially driven media for clients, creating a pathway from education to careers in media and creative industries.

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Bayes Impact develops AI tools and platforms designed specifically for public-service organizations, governments, and nonprofits to improve frontline service delivery. The organization builds open-source civic technology solutions including case management systems, employment services, and administrative automation, distributed under the MIT license.

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