Impact & Social Good Startups

Dirt Partners invests in farmland in partnership with regenerative farmers and ranchers, offering flexible, customized financial arrangements alongside technical support. The firm focuses on impact-aligned agricultural land projects that prioritize land stewards.

1 investor

The Disability Law Center is a private non-profit designated as Utah's Protection and Advocacy agency, providing free legal advocacy to Utahns with disabilities. It assists statewide with issues including accessibility, community living, education, employment, housing, and institutional rights.

1 investor

Discovery Health Sciences Foundation operates a network of open-enrollment charter schools in Louisiana, including three traditional campuses and one hybrid-virtual learning pod, serving over 3,300 students. Founded in 2013, the schools use no admission testing and have maintained A or B state ratings since inception.

1 investor

Diverting Hate is an applied research nonprofit working to counter online radicalization by detecting real-time trends that lead young men toward hostility and redirecting them to healthier communities and resources. It also measures behavioral change and advocates for structural reform to protect boys and men.

1 investor

DOEN Ventures is the impact-first investment company of the DOEN Foundation, providing convertible loans and equity to early-stage sustainable and social startups. It focuses on sustainable consumer products, alternative materials, circular business models, sustainable food systems, and the blue economy.

1 investor

Dollar Donation Club is a collective-philanthropy platform where members contribute $1 per month, pooling funds to support high-impact environmental and social causes such as tree planting, ocean plastic removal, seagrass restoration, and education. It uses a philanthropic vetting system it calls "impact genomics" to direct donations toward causes with the highest measurable impact per dollar.

1 investor

Donate Equity offers a software platform and expert support that lets nonprofits, foundations, and donors handle early-stage equity gifts before a business sale. It serves nonprofit entrepreneur support organizations, foundations, and donors such as startup founders and early employees looking for tax-advantaged giving.

1 investor

Donio is a Czech crowdfunding platform where people raise money for charitable causes as well as commercial projects and creative ideas, funded through public donations. Past campaigns have supported individuals, animal shelters, book publishing, and museums.

1 investor

DonorAtlas is an AI-powered prospect research and wealth screening platform for nonprofit fundraising teams, generating cited donor profiles that detail a prospect's wealth, giving history, interests, and relationships. It lets teams upload and segment donor lists, discover new prospects via natural language search, surface warm introduction paths, and integrate with systems of record such as Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT.

1 investor

Doorcas Africa is a digital platform for livestock owners and veterinarians to report animal diseases, track vaccination schedules, and receive real-time health alerts. It supports veterinary interventions and disease control in the livestock sector, with operations governed under Nigerian law.

1 investor

Dopple matches family spending on essentials such as childcare, diapers, and formula using grant funding. The platform connects eligible families directly to grants and facilitates purchases with participating vendors and providers.

1 investor

Dot is a technology-led banking platform offering savings, deposits, transfers, productive credit, payments, and financial access for underserved individuals and SMEs across African markets. It combines digital banking with physical distribution such as agent networks, field operations, and embedded financial services.

1 investor

Dragons Elite Athletics runs a Youth Athletics and Leadership Program for underserved, high-potential children, providing scholarships, professional coaching, and structured training paired with a leadership curriculum. It operates in partnership with the For A Bright Future Foundation.

1 investor

Project Drawdown is an independent nonprofit organization that provides guidance on science-based climate solutions, connecting people to strategies for addressing climate change. It curates and analyzes climate solutions across areas such as nature-based carbon removal, forest and wetland protection, and transportation.

1 investor

Drever Capital Management is an impact-focused real estate investment firm that acquires, renovates, and repositions senior and workforce multifamily housing across the U.S. using in-house construction and management teams. It aims to deliver financial returns alongside community benefits for investors and residents.

1 investor

Drinkwell builds HIX-Nano, a hybrid ion exchange nanotechnology that removes arsenic, fluoride, and other groundwater contaminants at the molecular level, with regenerable, reusable media positioned as more cost-effective than reverse osmosis. It provides water treatment media alongside operations, monitoring, and utility integration services for governments and communities, with coverage referencing water access in Bangladesh.

1 investor

DRIVE, together with its Regional Investors Council, developed a 2025 vision and roadmap intended to guide regional economic prosperity and development.

1 investor

Driven is a nonprofit management platform built on a single shared database that combines donor, member, and volunteer management with event registration, membership tracking, and email marketing. It targets nonprofit organizations and includes full-service implementation, customization, and unlimited support.

1 investor

DSST Public Schools operates a network of public middle and high schools in Denver and Aurora, Colorado, focused on character development and college-preparatory academics. It serves urban students with the goal of reducing educational inequity and preparing them for college and postsecondary programs.

1 investor

DVNE is a German industry association that unites companies in the carbon dioxide removal (CDR) sector, representing them collectively toward politics, business, and society. It provides a platform for exchange, develops joint positions, and conducts studies for the negative-emissions industry.

1 investor

Earn & Learn operates a platform connecting students with real-world work-based learning experiences through partnerships with schools, employers, and workforce development organizations. The platform serves K-12, community colleges, and employers seeking to build talent pipelines while helping educators meet career-connected learning goals.

1 investor

EarthAcre operates a platform for nature finance that helps conservation project developers onboard community landowners, distribute direct benefit payments with financial transparency, and monitor biodiversity outcomes using ground-truth and remote sensing measurements. It serves project developers, nature funders, and community landowners in nature-based conservation and carbon/biodiversity credit markets.

1 investor

Earthbound is a program by Bluebox that connects Chilean sustainability-focused startups to global corporate networks and venture capital funds, helping them increase sales, access financing, and grow their teams. It focuses on ventures addressing water management, climate change adaptation, circular economy, and food security across corporate value chains.

1 investor

Earthly runs a marketplace and subscription platform that lets businesses invest in nature-based projects delivering carbon removal, biodiversity restoration and community benefits through carbon and biodiversity credits, tree planting and project origination. It provides independent project assessments across 168 data points and impact dashboards to help companies build and report on climate strategies aligned with CSRD and TNFD.

1 investor