Impact & Social Good Startups

dss+ is a management consulting firm that helps organizations improve operational effectiveness, safety, leadership capabilities, culture, and environmental/ESG impact. It serves clients across industries including agriculture and consumer goods, construction, chemicals, manufacturing, mining, energy, transportation, waste management, and private equity.

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Contribe offers a checkout plugin that lets e-commerce brands add social and environmental donation pledges to their products, along with customer analytics on the causes shoppers care about. The platform integrates with major e-commerce systems like Shopify and Klaviyo and is used by brands to increase conversion, sales, and customer loyalty.

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Convergent is a fundraising consulting firm serving nonprofit organizations across the United States, using an investment-driven approach that ties fundraising to mission alignment and delivered outcomes. Its services include feasibility studies, capital and comprehensive campaigns, development audits, resource development, and revenue benchmark analyses for economic development organizations.

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Cool Block is a community program that guides households and neighborhood blocks through practices to reduce their carbon footprint, prepare for energy blackouts and natural disasters, conserve water, and build community resilience. It is organized as a multi-chapter journey covering energy resilience, sustainable lifestyle, transportation efficiency, water stewardship, and neighborhood engagement.

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Coolso is a Taiwanese hardware company working on muscle biosensor technology for gesture recognition. Its wearable sensors read signals that indicate gesture, applied strength, and muscle fatigue, and are used for controlling augmented and virtual reality systems as well as in rehabilitation settings.

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Cooperative Energy Futures (CEF) works on community energy systems through outreach, engagement, and legislative advocacy. The organization involves community members in energy initiatives, including work related to public utility commission legislation.

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COPEDECO S. Coop. is a non-profit worker cooperative founded in 1989 that runs social and educational intervention projects and services for individuals, families, and groups to support personal development, social integration, and quality of life. Based in the Murcia region of Spain, it is staffed by professionals in the social intervention field.

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CoPower was a sustainable investment company that provided financing to clean energy and energy efficiency projects, using a green bond model to connect individual retail investors with projects seeking funding. In 2019 it was acquired by VCIB as a wholly owned subsidiary, and in 2021 its green bond fundraising model was wound down and its clean energy lending transitioned to VCIB.

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Core Innovation Capital (Core VC) is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies building infrastructure for financial services and healthcare aimed at the mass market. It backs founders working to modernize wealth and health for everyday Americans.

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CORFO (Corporación de Fomento de la Producción) is Chile's government economic development agency, offering programs, calls for proposals, credit, guarantees, and funds to support entrepreneurs and projects. It provides resources to help businesses grow and transition to digital operations.

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Cortex is an innovation district in St. Louis that supports companies at all stages with facilities, programs, and partnerships to promote regional economic growth. It connects entrepreneurs, scientists, and other innovators across the district.

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Cowtribe is Africa's first on-demand veterinary vaccine distribution platform that provides accessible and affordable animal health services to smallholder farmers. The company delivers vaccines and related healthcare solutions to livestock keepers across the continent, addressing supply chain challenges in hard-to-reach areas.

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Crack the Code delivers digital skills education—covering programming, artificial intelligence, web development, and data analysis—to young people in underserved communities across Latin America. It works with governments, companies, and foundations through public-private partnerships to integrate technology into public school curricula and train teachers.

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Crayon Partners is an investment and asset management firm focused on real estate, using OpCo-PropCo structures and technology to pursue value-add and impact-oriented returns across Europe. Its offerings include the Crayon Jaune fund, a residential "rent-to-own" strategy, targeting informed and institutional investors.

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Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that provides free copyright licenses and tools enabling creators to share their work and the public to reuse creative and knowledge content. It also publishes commentary on topics such as attribution practices and the impact of AI systems on the commons.

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CreditAccess Grameen is a microfinance institution offering loan products to low-income customers for income generation, health care, education, home improvement, water, and sanitation needs. It operates a branch network across hundreds of districts in India.

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The Carbon Removal India Alliance (CRIA) is a membership organisation supporting the development, commercialisation, and deployment of durable carbon dioxide removal technologies. It focuses on growing India's carbon removal sector with attention to scale, efficiency, and social and environmental co-benefits.

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Crisis Text Line is a nonprofit mental health organization providing free, confidential, 24/7 crisis intervention and support through a text-based platform staffed by trained volunteer Crisis Counselors. It helps people cope with issues such as stress, anxiety, loneliness, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts, and uses conversation data to inform mental health research and policy, with services in the U.S. and internationally.

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Crop2Cash provides digital tools and financial services for smallholder farmers in rural Nigeria, including AI agricultural advice, an inputs marketplace, digital payments, and offline data collection for field agents. It serves the agricultural sector, connecting farmers to information, inputs, and financial identity.

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The CrowdRound connects underrepresented, mission-driven startup founders with investors who want to align their capital with their values. It positions itself as a platform for impact-focused fundraising.

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Crowded is a financial management platform for nonprofit organizations that combines banking, expense management, payment collection, fundraising, and compliance in one system. It offers FDIC-insured accounts, budgeted Visa debit cards, AI-generated IRS forms, donation pages, and multi-chapter oversight tools.

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CSRwire is a distribution platform for corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and ESG press releases, publishing news across topics such as philanthropy, sustainable finance, and health and wellness. Operated by 3BL, it serves companies seeking to communicate their CSR and ESG initiatives to media and stakeholders.

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Children's Service Society of Utah is a non-profit dedicated to child welfare that runs programs including adoption, building blocks, a child care resource agency, GRANDfamilies (kinship care), and home visitation. It provides services such as adoption support, early childcare and education, crisis intervention, and family support for children and families in Utah.

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CUR8 helps companies build carbon removal portfolios integrated into their business operations and supply chains, offering AI-driven portfolio curation, monitoring tools, and financing solutions across nature-based, hybrid, and engineered carbon removal technologies.

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