Impact & Social Good Startups

Shiperise guides investors and businesses in allocating resources to meaningful and transformative projects, with a focus on responsible innovation and sustainable initiatives. The company works to connect capital with ventures that balance economic growth with environmental and community well-being.

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SHOFCO is a community-based movement in Kenya that mobilizes a network of social groups to deliver health, education, and economic services to underserved communities. It focuses on citizen-led change addressing physical, social, and economic needs of marginalized groups.

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SIBB is the digital industry association for the Berlin-Brandenburg region, operating as a network and startup enabler that connects entrepreneurs, technology companies, and society. It offers workshops, webinars, social events, and expert talks, along with a newsletter and community for its members.

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Sidai provides livestock and animal health products alongside veterinary diagnostic services such as post-mortem exams, milk quality testing, mastitis testing, and parasite identification. It also delivers practical training and ongoing support to farmers, promoting a "farming as a business" approach.

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Sie Ventures is an investment firm that funds early-stage, tech-enabled startups with at least one female co-founder, targeting launched or beta-stage businesses.

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Sienna Gestion is a long-term investment management firm specializing in socially responsible investing (ISR) and sustainable finance, serving institutional and private investors across asset classes including fixed income, equities, and real assets.

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Signal Ohio is a nonprofit network of local newsrooms producing statewide and community journalism covering Ohio government, elections, health, education, and public safety. It serves Ohio residents with original reporting as an alternative to declining commercial local news.

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Silvercrest Foundation is a family philanthropic foundation established in 2010 that funds education, healthcare, and conservation projects, including scholarships for vulnerable children in Asia and South America, medical clinics in Uganda, and land conservation and higher-education awards in Canada. It applies a venture-philanthropy approach that combines grants with investments in projects where funds can be recycled over time.

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SIMA is an impact investment fund manager that creates and manages funds bringing together institutional, impact, and development finance investors to back double-bottom-line businesses in renewable energy, affordable housing, and financial inclusion. It also provides advisory services, builds social businesses, and operates a foundation for catalytic impact-first investments.

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Simpli is an in-kind giving platform that lets large enterprises donate excess and obsolete inventory instead of destroying it, handling categorization, charity matching, logistics, compliance, and impact documentation. It pairs enterprise software with implementation experts and forward-deployed engineers who manage donation execution end to end.

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Simprints is a non-profit technology company that builds open-source biometric identification tools with a privacy-first design, used to verify individuals and confirm the delivery of health and humanitarian services. Its solutions target NGOs and global development programmes operating in offline, rugged, and remote settings, primarily in rural African and Asian contexts.

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Sinba is a Peruvian circular economy company that trains organizations, collects their waste, and transforms it into raw material. It serves businesses, events, schools, universities, and organizations of all sizes across Peru.

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Sindh Community Foundation (SCF) is a non-governmental organization that works across education, livelihood, healthcare, water and sanitation, climate resilience, and humanitarian response in Sindh, Pakistan. The organization focuses on vulnerable communities including women agricultural workers, marginalized farmers, and youth.

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Sindhuja Microcredit is an RBI-registered NBFC-MFI providing microcredit and insurance services to rural and semi-urban customers, with plans to add micro enterprise loans, pension, and other products. It focuses on financial inclusion for financially excluded populations and MSME entrepreneurs in India.

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SIRIS Academic is a consultancy that helps universities, research organisations, philanthropic foundations and governments design, implement and monitor projects in higher education, research and innovation, including strategic planning, data analysis and impact evaluation. It combines academic research expertise with data science, semantic analysis and visualization, participatory processes, and capacity-building programs to inform public policy.

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Sirsak provides post-consumer packaging waste management services for businesses, including pickup, recovery, sorting, and safe disposal, along with waste management infrastructure such as community hubs, smart bins, and drop-off machines. It also helps clients meet waste regulations and runs education campaigns for communities, schools, and consumers, operating in Indonesia.

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SIRUM works to save lives, with a focus on health equity in underserved communities. The organization builds on experience in public-private partnerships and community health initiatives.

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A non-profit organization that promotes inclusive education through accessible tools and resources, research, training and support for educators and entities in STEAM, digital education, and accessibility. They develop accessible programming tools like Scratch Tactile and Diversi:bit to reduce digital divides and create equitable learning experiences.

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SK2 Fund is a private foundation that combines endowment investments, grants, programs, and advocacy in pursuit of a more sustainable and equitable world. It uses an integrated capital approach spanning impact investing and philanthropy.

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Skagerak Capital is an investment firm that backs companies with positive environmental and social impact, focusing on challenges such as climate change and resource scarcity.

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Skin Check Champions is an Australian organisation that provides skin cancer early-detection screening through pop-up clinics and workplace programs, targeting high-risk communities. It has operated since 2010 and runs charity initiatives to promote early detection of skin cancer.

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Small Farm Cities builds planned agricultural communities in Africa, starting in Malawi, that combine drip-irrigated greenhouse and open-field horticulture, poultry, and aquaculture with affordable housing, recreational amenities, and micro-municipal infrastructure. It serves working-class Africans by creating jobs and a pathway to home ownership and income.

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SmartResilience offers a climate risk management platform that combines historical datasets with climate modelling to quantify physical climate risks across scenarios, rank adaptation measures by ROI, and generate audit-ready disclosures for standards such as IFRS S2, TCFD, CSRD, ASRS and UK SRS. It serves risk managers and sustainability professionals at organisations with large property portfolios and complex supply chains.

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