Impact & Social Good Startups

The Lending for African Farming Company (LAFCo) is a Mauritius-based investment company that provides loans and working-capital financing to agricultural SMEs across Sub-Saharan Africa that work directly with smallholder farmers. It is an impact-oriented initiative aimed at supporting the African agriculture sector.

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Lafiya delivers app-enabled family planning counselling and modern contraceptives to underserved communities through community health workers ("Lafiya Sisters") who reach women at home. It works with state governments in Nigeria on service delivery, demand forecasting, and supply planning for family planning services.

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L'Africaine d'architecture is an activist non-profit association (loi 1901) that promotes and documents an alternative approach to architecture, urbanism and design in relation to Africa through pilot projects, prospective research, thematic study sessions and consulting for institutional partners. It also provides advisory services to project developers targeting the African continent and aims to build a cultural resource base within a dedicated institute.

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Lambert House is a drop-in center and community organization offering programs, support groups, activities, and mentorship for LGBTQ+ youth ages 10-22. It is a nonprofit serving young people in the Seattle area.

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Latent Space develops AI applications tailored to the specific challenges and industries of emerging economies. The company focuses on labor-intensive sectors where AI can augment rather than replace workers, driving economic development in these markets.

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Latifundium advises clients on direct investments in forestry and agricultural land, handling strategy, purchase, and long-term management of these assets. It positions these tangible-asset investments as combining financial returns with ecological impact for wealth preservation.

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Learning Matters is an education technology company that builds AI-powered, voice-enabled English language learning tools, with its flagship product Tara acting as a virtual voice teacher for students and teachers. It also provides teacher pedagogy training and life-skills programmes, serving schools, governments, NGOs, and corporate partners, with a focus on rural and semi-urban communities in India.

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LearnLaunch is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit education innovation hub that connects and supports edtech solution creators and adopters, offering learning opportunities, startup support services, and a strategic learning network for K-12 school districts. It also runs a fund and accelerator for edtech startups.

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Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma provides free legal information, court forms, and resources to Oklahoma residents on topics including family law, taxes, housing, and disaster relief. It is a nonprofit legal aid organization serving Oklahomans seeking access to the state's justice system.

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Lendahand operates a crowdfunding platform where retail investors can lend from €10 to fund small businesses and smallholder farmers in emerging markets, earning up to 9% annual interest with repayments every six months. It focuses on impact investing that provides financing to entrepreneurs who lack access to bank capital.

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Level 20 is a nonprofit industry body focused on increasing the representation of senior women in private equity, particularly in investment roles. It offers free individual membership funded by GP and LP sponsors, with initiatives supporting women's careers across 13 international chapters in 20 countries.

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LiftUp Enterprises is a for-profit, MBE-certified social enterprise that builds and grows businesses managed with dignity, creating jobs with benefits and wraparound support services for employees. It aims to advance the economic stability and mobility of low-income communities through its portfolio companies.

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Lightning Reach operates a platform that helps individuals in financial hardship access unclaimed benefits, grants, and support in the UK, while enabling support organizations to deliver assistance more efficiently. The company connects people to multiple forms of financial support through a centralized portal designed to reduce complexity and increase accessibility.

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Lightship Capital is a venture firm that invests in entrepreneurs and funds pursuing both financial returns and impact, focusing on developing talent and emerging ecosystems. Its portfolio includes consumer and health-focused startups such as FreshFry, Haute Hijab, Allergy Amulet, and Proov.

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Linkhola is a Japanese climate and sustainability tech company that builds platforms and science-based tools to help individuals, households, and businesses contribute to carbon neutrality and SDG goals. Founded in 2020, it combines sustainability consulting expertise with IT to develop products supporting carbon-neutral society and regional revitalization in Japan.

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ListenField develops digital farming technology that helps smallholder farmers improve productivity and reduce environmental impact through data-driven solutions. The company focuses on supporting farmers in developing countries with tools and technical support to transition from analog to digital farming practices and adopt regenerative agriculture.

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Literal Humans is a growth marketing agency offering creative and go-to-market strategy services, with a focus on tech-for-good startups, nonprofits, and B2B SaaS companies. It works through a team of creative and GTM professionals alongside specialist consultants and operates on a four-day workweek, hybrid/remote model.

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Little Worker helps individuals invest in rental real estate by sourcing renovation-ready properties, including off-market ones, and matching each investor with projects fitting their criteria via a matching algorithm. The service covers the full investment process from property selection to renovation for buy-to-let investors in France.

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LiveBoard is an all-in-one management platform for tutoring businesses, offering session scheduling, payroll and billing, branded virtual classrooms with whiteboarding and video calls, and tutor, student, and parent management. It serves independent tutors as well as regional, national, and global tutoring companies and learning centers.

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Lively Minds partners with governments to integrate parent-focused early childhood development (ECD) content and approaches into existing public systems, including pre-primary settings and government-run parenting courses and radio programming. Working with governments since 2016, it designs practical parenting content that helps parents embed playful learning and nurturing care into daily life at population scale.

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Live Your Dream is a nonprofit that supports single-mother families through scholarships, back-to-school supplies, holiday support, care boxes, family activities, mentorship, and community events. It serves single mothers pursuing education and welcomes donors and volunteers.

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LivFul develops and distributes safe medicines and health solutions aimed at diseases affecting the global south, including neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The company focuses on health access and clinical validation for developing countries and emerging markets.

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The Common Market is a nonprofit wholesale food distributor that connects local farmers and producers with institutions such as schools, hospitals, and universities. Based in Chicago, its Great Lakes operation supplies regionally grown sustainable farm foods to wholesale and retail customers.

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Local Local acquires and operates regional small businesses in Japan through third-party business succession, taking over aging or successor-less companies, and runs ventures such as a sake retail hall, a shochu bottling brand, a CBD lemon liqueur, and an entrepreneur-training business plan contest. It focuses on preserving and passing regional industries, culture, and history to the next generation.

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