Impact & Social Good Startups

EarthViews builds custom 360° virtual maps ("StreetView"-style) of specific locations by collecting and processing imagery and GIS data, integrating with Esri's ArcGIS tools. It serves environmental engineering and conservation clients for uses such as site assessments, infrastructure surveys, restoration efforts, and grant funding applications.

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EME Hive is a dating and livestreaming app focused on the Asian and Asian-American community in North America, offering profile browsing, matching, video chat, and live streaming. It provides a proprietary weekly one-to-one matching system with profile options catered to cultural background, languages, and interests.

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The East Side Area Business Association (ESABA) is a nonprofit business association serving the diverse business community of St. Paul's East Side, connecting local businesses with resources through the East Side Enterprise Center. It hosts programs and networking opportunities to support member businesses' growth and community development.

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Eastcastle Infrastructure builds and operates build-to-suit telecom towers and related infrastructure for mobile network operators, serving markets in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria. The company also acquires and manages existing tower portfolios across African countries.

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Eastern Fostering Services is an independent fostering agency that recruits, trains, and supports foster carers to provide homes for children who cannot live with their birth parents. It serves families and children across Essex, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, and Norfolk in the UK, offering carer training, 24/7 guidance, support groups, and children's groups.

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easyfundraising is a UK cause-fundraising platform that partners with over 8,000 online retailers, which donate a share of what shoppers spend to a chosen charity or good cause at no extra cost. It serves individual shoppers, national charities, and local community causes via its website and app, turning retailer commissions into donations.

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EC Waste provides non-hazardous solid waste management and disposal services to residential, industrial, and commercial customers in Puerto Rico. Operating since 1961, it focuses on EPA-compliant waste handling and sustainable disposal solutions across the island.

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ECA works with small-holder farmers in Mozambique, supplying quality seed and fertilizer through an out-grower program and running maize mills to process their output. It aims to make rural farmers self-sustainable commercial businesses using regenerative farming techniques while operating as a food processor.

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ECBF is a venture capital firm that invests in European bioeconomy companies, providing capital, sector expertise, and network access to help them scale solutions across food, materials, and industrial sectors. It positions itself as a specialist VC focused on regenerative economy business models with both impact and financial returns.

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ECO2 Solutions provides carbon accounting and climate advisory services to help Canadian businesses measure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and pursue carbon compliance and net-zero goals.

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EcoBloc manufactures rodent control units designed to complement integrated pest management programs. The product is used by pest management professionals and hardware retailers to prevent rodent activity at client sites.

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Selev Biogroup provides integrated waste management and circular economy solutions for biosolids across hospitality, retail, food production, and meat processing sectors. The company helps organizations demonstrate environmental responsibility while responsibly managing organic waste streams.

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Ecogest is an Italian company specializing in the maintenance of roadside and highway green areas, serving road and highway infrastructure. It operates internationally with offices in Italy, Romania, Canada, and the USA.

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ecoLABS Africa is a social enterprise that installs computer labs in township and rural African schools using refurbished computers, and offers e-robotics, ICT centres, science labs, and smart classrooms to build digital skills in youth. The company operates across seven African provinces with a focus on educational technology infrastructure for underserved communities.

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Ecolytics provides software tools for businesses to measure, track, and report their environmental and social impact. The platform serves purpose-driven companies seeking to demonstrate sustainability performance and integrate impact data into business operations.

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EcoMatcher provides a technology platform enabling companies to plant and track trees and forests for corporate gifting, employee engagement, and loyalty programs, while supporting nature-based carbon removal projects. The company's TreeTech platform makes individual trees, forests, and their environmental impact transparent and traceable through data capture, blockchain-based management, and web and mobile interfaces.

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Economic Alliance Snohomish County is a regional economic development organization that promotes business growth, jobs, and partnerships in Snohomish County, Washington through leadership, advocacy, and collaboration with local stakeholders.

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The Economic Development Alliance of Skagit County (EDASC) is an economic development organization that provides support, resources, and leadership development programs (including Leadership Skagit) to businesses and community members in Skagit County, Washington. It promotes the region as a business location within the Pacific Northwest's advanced manufacturing and information technology corridor between Seattle and Vancouver.

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Ecosystem Restoration Communities (ERC) is a global network that unites local communities to restore ecosystems through practices such as watershed restoration, reforestation, regenerative agriculture, rewilding, and coral reef and mangrove recovery. It supports community-led restoration projects across regions including Portugal, Guatemala, the Philippines, and Kenya.

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EcoTree lets individuals buy and own trees in European forests that the company acquires and manages sustainably, returning 100% of the timber-sale profits to tree owners when trees are harvested. It positions tree ownership as an impact investment tied to biodiversity projects and carbon capture, with certified forestry inspected by third-party forest experts.

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E³ (E-cubed) is an initiative supporting South Africa's Department of Basic Education to embed entrepreneurship education across the basic education system. It uses an Entrepreneurship Education Teaching-for-Learning approach to equip teachers with tools to develop entrepreneurial mindsets in their classrooms.

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Eden is an impact investment firm that funds companies and individuals focused on social and environmental benefit and a circular, regenerative economy. Its current focus is on projects in South and Southeast Asia addressing waste management and pollution.

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EDESA is a microfinance company that provides microcredit for small businesses in services, commerce, agriculture, and livestock, serving rural communities through a network of credit companies. It focuses on financial inclusion, offering loan applications with responses in under 24 hours and in-person advisory across the country.

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Edesia produces ready-to-use therapeutic and supplementary foods to treat child malnutrition, manufacturing up to 88 million pounds annually in Rhode Island and coordinating shipments to communities in humanitarian crises worldwide. The organization also funds malnutrition research and educates policymakers and donors to scale nutrition programs.

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