Impact & Social Good Startups

Kaizenvest, in partnership with INSEAD, hosts the Education Symposium 2026 in Singapore, a half-day event focused on innovations in skilling, education, and inclusion. Kaizenvest is an investment firm focused on the education sector.

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Kambeo was a platform for building corporate volunteer and donation-matching programs, connecting businesses, nonprofits, and individuals to run social impact initiatives, fundraising, and volunteering. The company announced it is shutting down its service effective March 30th, 2026.

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Kapital Boost is an Islamic peer-to-peer crowdfunding platform that connects global investors with SMEs in Indonesia and Singapore, offering short-term, Shariah-compliant investment opportunities from a minimum of SGD200. It also runs donation campaigns and helps SMEs access temporary working-capital financing across Southeast Asia.

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KarmaLife operates an Earned Wage Access platform in India that provides real-time micro loans and liquidity solutions to gig workers on e-commerce, mobility, logistics, and food-tech platforms. It offers a mobile app and a Deduction at Source (DaS) feature that handles loan repayments, EMIs, insurance premiums, and savings contributions directly from worker payouts.

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KarmaSuite is a software platform for nonprofits to manage restricted funds and post-award grants, automating expense allocation, budgeting, compliance tracking, forecasting, and financial reporting without changing the organization's general ledger. It integrates with common general ledger systems and provides dashboards, spend-down alerts, and impact deliverable tracking.

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Katapult is an Oslo-founded organization comprising impact venture funds, accelerators, and platforms that invest in early-stage companies addressing environmental and systemic challenges, with a focus on ocean impact across transportation, circularity, ocean data, energy, and food and water. It combines capital, infrastructure, tools, and community to support the impact investing ecosystem from founders to funders.

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Keela is a donor management CRM and fundraising platform for nonprofit organizations, offering donor profiles, online donation forms, email marketing, automated stewardship workflows, and reporting with tax-compliant receipting (CRA and IRS). It serves growing nonprofits in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.

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Keenat provides waste collection, recycling, and valorization services focused on cigarette butts, masks, disposable PPE, and chewing gum, along with sorting furniture (ashtrays, collection bins). It serves businesses, local authorities, public services, and healthcare facilities in France, working with social and solidarity economy structures for waste collection.

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Ken Garff for Good is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that runs four education programs — Road to Success, Keys to Success, Ken Garff Esports, and Women Who Succeed — offering K-12 students literacy, technology, and mentoring support plus access to scholarships, internships, and careers. It serves school districts across the state of Utah.

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The Kentucky I-71 Economic Development Alliance (KIEDA) is a regional economic development partnership covering Carroll, Gallatin, Henry, Oldham, Trimble, and Owen counties along Kentucky's I-71 corridor between Louisville and Cincinnati. It works to attract investment, companies, and jobs while promoting infrastructure, workforce, and quality-of-life programs, and serves businesses, site selectors, and developers.

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Kenya Climate Innovation Centre (KENYACIC) provides incubation, acceleration, and advisory support to climate-focused SMEs and entrepreneurs across Africa. The organization focuses on ecosystem restoration, water security, climate action, and risk mitigation while building a community of green businesses.

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Key Travel is a travel management company (TMC) serving mission-driven organisations such as charities, humanitarian groups, faith-based organisations and academic institutions. It offers specialist fares, an online booking tool, 24/7 travel support, duty-of-care risk management and sustainable travel solutions, with operations across the UK, North America, Europe and Africa.

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Khushi Baby operates a public health platform (CHIP) and embedded Health Action Centers that help frontline community health workers collect data, generate insights, and coordinate follow-up care for vulnerable populations at the last mile. It supports government public health systems in tracking patient health and delivering timely services.

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KickStart International is a nonprofit social enterprise that designs and sells affordable human- and solar-powered irrigation pumps for smallholder farmers across Sub-Saharan Africa. Its tools help farming families irrigate crops year-round, build agricultural businesses, and move out of poverty.

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The National Kidney Foundation is a nonprofit organization focused on kidney disease, providing patient education, emotional support, and resources for patients, families, living donors, and transplant recipients. It advocates for kidney health policies and funds research and technology to improve early detection, treatment, and transplant access in the U.S.

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Kidogo operates a network of affordable childcare centres serving low-income communities in East Africa. It focuses on providing quality early childhood care while supporting women and girls.

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KVTC operates a plantation teak forestry and integrated timber processing business in a remote region of Tanzania, growing and sustainably harvesting teak while managing over 20,000 hectares of native forests and wetlands. It produces timber and value-added wood products, supplying sustainably sourced teak from Africa.

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Kilter Rural is an Australian asset manager with over $600 million under management, offering investors funds that invest in water entitlements in the southern Murray–Darling Basin. Its funds generate returns by providing water products to Australian irrigation farmers, and in some cases pursue environmental objectives such as restoring wetlands.

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Kindle Education is a public charter school serving grades 6-12 in Jersey City, NJ, combining personalized instruction with project-based, experiential learning for a diverse student community. It uses an online learning platform to house curriculum and student progress data, supported by full-time tutors alongside teachers.

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Kindred Studios provides private and shared studios, workspaces, and specialist workshop facilities for artists and makers, alongside a community offering mentoring, events, workshops, and exhibition opportunities. It operates as a creative community and workspace collective, with artists contributing time to local outreach and education.

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Kingdom County Productions produces feature films and documentaries, live performing arts events, and experiential learning programs in filmmaking, theater, and writing. Based in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, it runs programs including the Semester Cinema filmmaking intensive, the KCP Presents performance series, and Writers for Recovery.

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KIPP Nashville is a network of free, high-performing public charter schools serving students from kindergarten through twelfth grade in Davidson County, Tennessee. Part of the national KIPP network, it focuses on college and career preparation for students from educationally underserved communities, including a KIPP Forward program supporting high schoolers and alumni.

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KIPP NYC operates a network of 18 free public charter schools across the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, serving students from elementary through high school with academics, character development, and college and career preparation. It also supports alumni and offers teacher training and career opportunities in education.

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