Impact & Social Good Startups

Light of Day Canada is a charitable foundation that organizes benefit concerts and events to raise money for Parkinson's disease research and patient care. Based in Canada's Niagara region, it supports the Light of Day Foundation, Walker Cancer Clinic, and Hotel Dieu's Parkinson's Rehab Clinic.

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Loku operates a local search and discovery website covering cities in the United States. Users browse listings and recommendations for restaurants, events, businesses, deals and local news, with input from area-specific contributors.

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LOLC is a diversified conglomerate operating across more than 27 countries, with core operations in microfinance and lending (measured by gross loan portfolios and branch networks) alongside businesses in hospitality, agriculture, power generation, and manufacturing including graphite-to-graphene conversion and value-added spices. It serves clients across global emerging markets with a stated focus on financial inclusion and poverty alleviation.

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The Longevity Science Foundation is a nonprofit organization that funds fundamental research on healthy aging, awarding grants to academic institutions for longevity studies. It partners with universities and medical societies to support longevity R&D in medicine and biotech.

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Loresa Health develops low-cost surgical aids for emerging markets, including RAIS, a retractor that enables gasless laparoscopy without CO2 insufflation or general anesthesia. It targets surgeons in low-resource healthcare facilities to expand access to minimally invasive abdominal surgery, and also provides related training and advocacy.

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Slauson & Co. is a venture capital firm focused on economic inclusion, investing in early-stage consumer and enterprise startups. The firm supports founders from underrepresented backgrounds.

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Louis Riel Capital Corporation (LRCC) is an Aboriginal financial institution that provides commercial lending, business plan development support, and personal financing services to Red River Métis citizens in Manitoba. It also administers housing grants and personal loan programs, and was founded through the economic development initiatives of the Manitoba Métis Federation.

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Low Carbon Hub is a social enterprise that develops and manages community-owned renewable energy installations, such as solar parks and rooftop solar on schools and businesses, across Oxfordshire in the UK. It reinvests income from these projects into energy efficiency work, green innovation pilots, and further community energy schemes.

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Lowlander Project is a training center in the Netherlands teaching movement building, organizing, and mobilizing "people power." It offers trainings, knowledge, and a network for individuals, organizations, and movements working to strengthen social and civic movements.

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The Luling Economic Development Corporation promotes business relocation, expansion, and investment in Luling, Texas, offering incentive programs, façade grants, and business development support. It targets companies and entrepreneurs seeking Central Texas location advantages between Austin, San Antonio, and Houston, including retail and mixed-use development along its historic Main Street.

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Luta offers a branded engagement platform that helps organizations involve employees and customers in achieving corporate social responsibility (CSR) and ESG goals, with data-driven tracking of participation and impact. It targets companies seeking to build an ESG culture and report measurable progress to leadership and stakeholders.

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M-Shule provides a learning management platform designed for distributed, low-connectivity communities across East Africa and beyond, enabling organizations to deliver structured educational programs via SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, and web using AI-powered tools for course creation, content adaptation, peer matching, and real-time engagement tracking.

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Mid-America EDC is a membership organization focused on building partnerships and providing thought leadership to advance regional economies across a 13-state Midwestern U.S. region.

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MAEF is a nonprofit organization focused on improving outcomes for young people by building community partnerships, developing public charter schools, and creating pathways to economic mobility.

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Magnify Access provides accessible digital solutions using AI to help organizations meet the needs of people with disabilities and achieve accessibility compliance. The company focuses on the Canadian market, citing statistics about Canadians with disabilities.

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Maideasy is a Malaysian social enterprise offering an app-based marketplace that connects households with vetted, locally employed cleaners for professional home cleaning. Founded in 2015, it focuses on creating fair-wage, dignified jobs for Malaysians and operates as a MySE Validated Platform in Malaysia.

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Make.org provides online tools and collaboration methods to run large-scale public consultations, letting citizens, employees and stakeholders submit and vote on proposals. It works with civic-tech and democratic institutions, including European public debate projects on technology, governance and rights.

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Fable operates an accessibility research platform that connects product teams with trained users with disabilities to test digital experiences and uncover usability barriers across assistive technologies. It supports every stage of product development, from early concepts to post-launch, serving enterprise teams building accessible products.

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Makers is a LATAM-based talent incubator running a free 13-week fellowship that trains young people to become AI-native entrepreneurs or full-stack developers, with tracks covering AI business building and coding. The program culminates in a demo day, connects graduates to startup internships, and helps them launch funded startups.

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Maliasili works to strengthen and support local conservation organizations by amplifying their voices, influence, and access to funding and resources. The organization aims to shift power and resources toward local groups driving conservation success.

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Mamas for Africa is a Belgian nonprofit that supports survivors of sexual violence in Eastern Congo, funding medical care and mental recovery as well as socio-economic reintegration for affected women and girls. It works with partner hospitals, including Dr. Denis Mukwege's Panzi hospital, and relies on donor contributions.

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Mammoth offers a corporate purpose platform that helps enterprises run CSR and sustainability programs, using micro-actions and gamified rewards integrated into Slack and Teams to increase employee participation in donations and volunteering. It provides engagement data and campaign management tools aimed at Fortune 1000 companies' CSR and sustainability teams.

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Mana is an advisory and systems-investing firm focused on the nature economy, providing mission-aligned financing, market intelligence and research, strategic support, and capital mobilization for nature-positive businesses. It concentrates on Land & Agriculture, Oceans & Coastal Zones, and Biodiversity, with research work centered on South East Asia.

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Manos Campesinas is a second-tier cooperative in Guatemala that unites 7 base organizations representing over 1,000 small coffee producers, providing marketing and export services for their coffee. It exports Fair Trade and organic-certified coffee to international markets, primarily the United States, the Netherlands, and Germany.

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