Impact & Social Good Startups

Pacha Soap makes bath and body products, including shower steamers with essential oils like eucalyptus, peppermint, and rose for aromatherapy. The company sells personal care items marketed as made with clean ingredients, nourishing oils, and free of parabens, phthalates, and sulfates.

6 investors

Pay Theory provides payment processing infrastructure that embeds card and ACH transactions into existing software, with tools for merchant onboarding, sub-merchant account management, chargeback handling, and recurring billing. It targets platforms and businesses needing embedded payments, including support for health benefit cards and vertical-specific merchant underwriting.

6 investors

Proof provides sustainability, compliance, and impact management solutions for organizations navigating business-critical challenges around capital access, regulatory exposure, and value creation. The company combines expert judgment with data and automation to deliver defensible sustainability outcomes at scale across multiple jurisdictions.

6 investors

Red Ventures is a company that runs social impact initiatives across its portfolio, including founding the Road to Hire nonprofit and supporting economic and humanitarian efforts in Charlotte, Puerto Rico, and beyond. This page describes the company's corporate social responsibility programs rather than a commercial product.

6 investors

Remoovit offers a pickup service that collects a wide range of household items, including furniture, home decor, electronics, art, clothing, toys, sporting goods, and appliances. It excludes hazardous materials, weapons, hot tubs, pool tables, construction waste, pianos, and trash.

6 investors

Scope Zero offers the Climate Savings Account (CSA), an employer-provided benefit that helps employees lower the upfront cost of home and transportation upgrades to reduce utility bills, fuel costs, and carbon emissions. The platform provides personalized purchase guidance, a marketplace of eligible products, access to rebates and incentives, and savings tracking.

6 investors

Snabbit operates an on-demand home services platform connecting verified and trained female home helpers with urban families across India, with a focus on speed and safety. The platform serves over 15 lakh families across 11 cities with typical service arrival times of around 10 minutes.

6 investors

Sun King designs and sells solar-powered products including home lighting systems and solar inverter systems that power household and business appliances. Its offerings range from basic solar home systems for lighting and phone charging to hybrid solar inverters for homes and businesses.

6 investors

Sweep builds software that helps large companies and financial institutions manage sustainability and non-financial (ESG) data, track carbon across value chains, and comply with climate disclosure regulations. The company serves enterprises and financial institutions globally.

6 investors

Wildfire develops technology and solutions to help firefighters detect, control, and manage fires more effectively. The company applies decades of pyrotechnics and fire control expertise from entertainment to create tools for professional fire suppression and firefighting operations.

6 investors

TrovaTrip organizes ethical tourism experiences that prioritize meaningful connections and cultural respect. The company designs trips that minimize environmental impact and support local communities through conscious travel practices.

6 investors

Varaha produces durable carbon removal by converting waste biomass from cotton farming into biochar, which stores stable carbon in soils and improves soil health. The company works with smallholder farmers and offers decarbonization and sustainability support to organizations.

6 investors

Vee provides software solutions designed to help nonprofit organizations manage operations and expand their mission impact without adding administrative burden.

6 investors

A disaster preparedness supply management service that handles procurement, inventory tracking, expiration monitoring, and storage optimization for corporate clients in Japan. The platform manages emergency stockpiles across multiple locations and provides full lifecycle support from ordering to replacement and disposal.

6 investors

Althea builds a blockchain-based settlement layer (Althea L1) for open-access telecom and infrastructure networks, enabling autonomous machines and community-owned internet service providers to operate. It works with ISPs, nonprofits, and cooperatives to deliver high-speed internet to rural and underserved communities in the US and abroad.

5 investors

Amartha is an Indonesian digital financial services platform that provides working capital financing to women-run rural micro-businesses (MSMEs) and offers impact-oriented investment products to individuals and institutions. It also provides embedded lending and institutional financing partnerships such as loan channeling, joint financing, and supply chain financing across digital ecosystems.

5 investors

Apiday provides ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) reporting and compliance solutions for portfolio companies, helping streamline sustainability reporting obligations and regulatory compliance such as CSRD and ESRS standards.

5 investors

Aqua-Spark is a holding company that invests in innovative solutions across the aquaculture value chain, from feed and hatcheries to disease management and sustainable practices. The company brings together global investors to scale sustainable aquaculture systems that improve environmental and health outcomes while maintaining cost-effectiveness.

5 investors

Aquarry develops technology solutions focused on mine closure and remediation. The company brings together experts in mineral processing, climate technology, and enterprise go-to-market strategy.

5 investors

Arbol is a student financial success platform that helps higher education institutions improve enrollment, retention, and completion by guiding students through financial aid decisions and requirements. The platform addresses financial barriers that cause students to stop out of college by centralizing information and providing clarity on financial obligations.

5 investors

Area 2 Farms operates neighborhood-based organic farms that grow fresh produce within urban ZIP codes, selling weekly harvest baskets directly to local residents. The company uses urban farmland to produce vegetables, herbs, and microgreens year-round with minimal distribution, connecting community farmers directly to nearby consumers.

5 investors

GreenFi (formerly Aspiration's consumer finance brand) offers climate-friendly banking and investing, including checking, savings, and investment accounts whose deposits avoid funding fossil fuels. Planned products include high-yield savings, climate-friendly credit cards, impact investments, and sustainable loans for environmentally conscious consumers.

5 investors

Assaia uses AI to give airports and airlines real-time visibility of aircraft turnaround and apron operations, helping improve on-time performance, free up gates, increase ramp safety, and reduce CO2 emissions. Its customers include airports and airlines such as Seattle-Tacoma Airport, Alaska Airlines, and British Airways.

5 investors

Babylist is an online baby registry and shopping platform that helps families register for baby gear and items.

5 investors