Impact & Social Good Startups

Because Energy helps companies transition toward a sustainable economy, offering ESG-focused solutions that balance profitability, environmental impact, and people. It operates across Europe, the United States, and Latin America.

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Bee Downtown installs and maintains beehives on corporate campuses across the U.S. southeast and pairs them with employee engagement programming and leadership development for large corporations. Offerings include beekeeping classes, hive tours, honey tastings, and biomimicry-based leadership training.

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Beeem develops mobile apps for sharing photos with added text. Users can write captions directly over their images and combine them into stories.

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In Utah is a government initiative by GOED (Governor's Office of Economic Development) that encourages residents to support local businesses and economies within Utah. It includes programs such as Inspire In Utah, which provides resources for women entrepreneurs and recognizes companies with family-friendly and women-supporting workplace policies.

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Beholder provides AI-powered geological modeling and analysis for mineral and geothermal energy exploration. The company serves mining companies, investors, landowners, and government institutions with subsurface mapping, drill site targeting, and resource assessment tools.

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Be Humanitarian is a non-profit organization that leads volunteer vacations (voluntourism) to Guatemala, combining humanitarian projects with travel experiences. It runs nutrition and education programs for impoverished children, teens, and families, and offers trips for companies, groups, and individuals.

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The Broken Arrow Economic Development Corporation facilitates business growth and community development in Broken Arrow by connecting organizations with resources, attracting businesses, and creating jobs. It operates as a partnership between local business, government, and education sectors focused on economic expansion and downtown revitalization.

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BELIEVE Schools operates a network of tuition-free public high schools in Indianapolis and St. Louis that combine college-preparatory academics with career readiness, serving primarily low-income students with a focus on early college and industry credential pathways.

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Bella Sláinte helps people navigating Australia's regulated care systems prepare the evidence and submissions required for funding plan reviews (such as NDIS-style plan reviews), acting as an advocate to translate a participant's experience into the language the system requires. It serves both participants and support coordinators managing many cases.

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BELONG Partners works with schools, districts, and community organizations to apply trauma-informed, restorative, and social emotional learning practices that improve how adults interact with youth. It offers school and organizational partnerships, professional development workshops, a district model, and a youth-centered learning program to build more equitable learning communities.

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Belstar provides microfinance and lending services to women entrepreneurs and low-income families in India, offering loans through a Self Help Group model for business, consumption, education, and festival expenses.

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BEMPU builds affordable, certified medical-grade devices for monitoring newborns, designed to work without smartphones, reliable electricity, or highly trained operators. Its products target hypothermia, breathing problems, and apnea in newborns, and are used by families in India, deployed by UNICEF across 16 countries, and used by hospital chains in Asia.

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BeMyVega builds AI-based video systems and an accessibility widget to improve the learning experience for students, especially those with visual, hearing, ADHD, dyslexia, or color-blindness needs, across online and in-person settings. Its technology integrates with educational tools such as LMS platforms, digital whiteboards, tablets, and computers.

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Bendito Residuo provides waste management and recycling services for businesses, including environmental education programs, scheduled waste pickups with recycling containers, and a pre-treatment plant where collected waste is re-segregated and classified for proper valorization. It offers on-site operators and account management, plus a reporting platform for tracking recovered waste and certificates, with a focus on circular economy and organic waste revalorization.

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The Benton Economic Partnership is an economic development organization that supports businesses and communities in Benton County through business support, community strengthening, and economic growth initiatives.

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A social marketing agency that promotes African products to European markets by building brand identity, narrative, and positioning around social enterprise principles. The agency provides strategic consulting, creative storytelling, digital transformation, and media campaigns focused on ethical commerce and sustainable development impact.

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beSirius builds AI software to consolidate and streamline evidence collection and management for metals and minerals supply chains, serving mining, trading, refining and manufacturing operations across certification, supplier due diligence, and customer assessment workflows.

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Beta Impacto VC is an impact investment firm that backs scalable startups and projects with measurable social and environmental impact across Latin America. It focuses on agroecology and food security, climate change, and energy transition, with cross-cutting attention to education, social inequality, and gender.

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Better Drinks is an innovation arm within HEINEKEN's HEINEKEN SPIN "Impact Brands" pillar, developing purpose-driven beverages with social and environmental commitments. Its prioritized brands include Mamba Water, Baer Mate, and Cerveja Praya, with distribution and expansion supported by the HEINEKEN Group.

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Better Place Forests is a nonprofit that offers nature-based programs, grief support services, and conservation initiatives to help people cope with loss. It works with a community of partners and supporters to provide access to nature for remembrance and healing.

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Better Taxes Action Fund is a c4 funder table that works alongside the c3 Better Taxes for a Better America table to fund and support the tax reform movement in the United States. It focuses on changing the tax code, which it argues favors a wealthy few and deepens racial and economic disparities.

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Better Nature produces tempeh, a fermented soy-based protein product, for consumers seeking plant-based food alternatives. The company specializes in tempeh products made with minimal ingredients and positioned as sustainable, gluten-free options for home cooking.

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Better Taxes for a Better America is a funder table that raises resources and coordinates advocates, foundations, funders, and policy experts to advance progressive tax reform in the United States. It directs funding to state-based, grassroots, and demographic-specific groups and builds national infrastructure to shape tax policy at the state and federal levels.

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BetterWorld offers crowdfunding software designed specifically for nonprofits and organizations to run fundraising campaigns with built-in features like live progress tracking, donor perks, and social sharing. The platform combines crowdfunding with auctions, donations, and impact giving on a single interface, serving organizations undertaking planned, purposeful work.

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