Impact & Social Good Startups

Revivn provides enterprise IT hardware lifecycle management, helping companies securely repurpose, resell, or donate their retired devices to keep them out of landfills. Serving large businesses, it offers options to recover funds for outdated assets or donate them to underserved communities.

2 investors

Rising Academies develops evidence-based educational solutions to strengthen teaching and learning within public education systems. The company offers a suite of programs including literacy and numeracy remediation, AI-powered tutoring and teacher support tools, curriculum materials, and school management software.

2 investors

RiverRecycle runs river cleanup and plastic recycling projects that collect waste from rivers and process low-value plastics, aiming to reduce ocean plastic pollution. It works with sustainability-oriented institutional partners on financially self-sustaining recycling projects, with operations in multiple countries including the Philippines.

2 investors

Rockstart is an investment and accelerator platform that supports early-stage companies.

2 investors

RoundUp.org lets donors link a credit card to automatically round up everyday purchases to the next dollar and donate the spare change to a nonprofit of their choice. It also gives nonprofits a free donation page and marketing tools to collect recurring micro-donations from supporters.

2 investors

Rubicon Carbon invests in and finances carbon removal and emissions reduction projects through forest restoration, peatland protection, and innovative carbon capture technologies. The company operates a portfolio of nature-based and technological solutions targeting climate impact across global regions.

2 investors

Rubio is an impact venture fund providing early-stage growth capital to founders building companies that combine profit and purpose. It focuses on two thematic areas: social cohesion through wellbeing, education, and inclusion, and net-zero transitions in energy, industry, and agrifood.

2 investors

SABRN Tech designs and deploys integrated healthcare systems to improve patient outcomes and strengthen community resilience, with a focus on overcoming barriers of distance, geography, and infrastructure limitations. The company serves patients and communities globally, particularly those facing crisis or resource scarcity, through decentralized telehealth and autonomous healthcare capabilities.

2 investors

Sama provides human-verified data annotation, validation, and evaluation services for computer vision, NLP, and multimodal AI, combining automation with expert human labeling. It serves AI and machine learning teams building models for production, and operates as a Certified B Corporation focused on fair-wage employment.

2 investors

Sanctu offers a platform for developing and managing projects in the Amazon region, covering land screening, land design, and mission control to move projects from planning to the ground.

2 investors

Sand Cloud manufactures Turkish cotton towels designed for durability, comfort, and water absorption, marketed for beach and water sports use.

2 investors

The Sanergy Collaborative is a network of partner organizations addressing urban sanitation through a circular economy model, building safe sanitation systems, collecting waste, and upcycling it into products such as organic fertilizer, insect-based animal feed, and ecofuels. It serves cities and low-income communities across the developing world, with operations centered in Nairobi, Kenya.

2 investors

Sanku is a social enterprise that invented an automatic flour-fortification device (the Dosifier) and built a nutrient premix factory to help mills add essential vitamins and minerals to flour, addressing micronutrient deficiency. It partners with millers of all sizes and governments across Eastern Africa, including Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia.

2 investors

co:census is a research and design firm that conducts community engagement and transportation studies for cities and government agencies. The firm integrates social science and cultural competency with technology to ensure public projects incorporate community feedback into design outcomes.

2 investors

Secure Food Solutions develops the Mini Aflatoxin Sorter, a portable device that uses UV light and computer vision to detect and remove aflatoxin-contaminated maize kernels for small-scale farming households in Sub-Saharan Africa. The technology addresses a critical food safety and public health threat linked to childhood malnutrition in the region.

2 investors

SEEDS Fincap is a non-deposit-taking NBFC (NBFC-ND) that provides secured and unsecured loans to underserved micro, small, and medium enterprises across Tier 2, Tier 3, and rural India. Operating through 156 branches in 8 states, it offers business, property-backed, dairy, invoice, and green financing with fully digital, cashless disbursement and repayment.

2 investors

Seedtrace built software to make food supply chains more transparent and accountable, including a payment-tracing project that verified direct payments to cocoa farmers. The company has ceased operations as of June 2026 and transferred its technology to KoRo.

2 investors

Seqana provides measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) for soil organic carbon projects, using remote sensing, machine learning, and ground-truth data to quantify soil health. It serves clients developing soil carbon and nature-based solutions that must meet scientific and regulatory standards.

2 investors

Sequestr provides working capital financing to farmers, landowners, and project owners in climate-related sectors including renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, and forestry, while aligning with corporate environmental objectives. The distributed team develops financial services and zero-waste market solutions focused on climate mitigation projects.

2 investors

Seva provides a digital integration platform for money transfer operators (MTOs) that enables remittance processing with payout card programs and receiver services. The platform offers API and SDK solutions with compliance, security, and developer support for global money transfer operations.

2 investors

Seventh Generation manufactures plant-based household and personal care products designed to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices. The company targets environmentally conscious consumers and is committed to climate action, sustainable sourcing, plastic reduction, and supply chain equity.

2 investors

Shamiri operates a youth mental health care model that uses trained lay and semi-professional providers to deliver brief interventions, backed by software (shamiriOS and shamiriAI) that lets governments and partners run the program themselves. It focuses on reaching young people in Africa and the Global South at low cost.

2 investors

Sheltersuit creates products to support people experiencing homelessness, operating social sewing ateliers that provide professional development training and employment while repurposing high-quality materials.

2 investors

Shift Invest is an impact investment firm that finances early-stage companies across energy transition, sustainable agriculture, green industries, and sustainable mobility in Northwestern Europe. The firm targets startups with measurable environmental impact potential and funding needs between EUR 250k-3M.

2 investors