Impact & Social Good Startups

SmartResilience offers a climate risk management platform that combines historical datasets with climate modelling to quantify physical risks (floods, storms, wildfires) across current and future scenarios, rank adaptation measures by ROI, and produce 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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Smartway provides AI-powered software to help retailers manage fresh and perishable products through dynamic pricing, inventory optimization, and waste reduction. The platform serves grocery and retail stores managing short-dated items and near-expiry products.

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Smile America Partners operates a school-based mobile dental program that delivers preventive oral health care, education, and disease management directly in schools across the United States. It serves underserved pediatric populations who face barriers to dental access such as transportation and economic challenges.

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Snapette was a mobile app launched in 2011 that used location-based technology to let shoppers discover and share fashion items—particularly high-end shoes and bags—from nearby stores, connecting online discovery with in-store retail. It served fashion consumers and was later acquired by PriceGrabber.

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Social and Sustainable Capital is an FCA-regulated financial firm based in England that provides capital, operating alongside an associated charitable trust (SASC Trust). The available page content is limited to regulatory and cookie notices, so details of its offerings are not described.

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Social Inclu K.K. operates group homes for people with disabilities in Japan under the country's disability welfare services framework. The company focuses on addressing the housing shortage for people with disabilities and their families.

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Social Suite provides sustainability and ESG software for measuring, benchmarking, and reporting on environmental, social, and governance performance, including double materiality, climate risk, and supplier risk assessments. It helps companies and consultants across industries such as mining, manufacturing, and construction comply with regulations and frameworks like CSRD, ASRS, SEC climate rules, IFRS/ISSB, and B Corp.

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Social Tech Ventures is a UK-based investor providing flexible equity — combining revenue-based and equity funding — to pre-seed and seed impact tech startups. It backs founders using technology to address social and environmental challenges across health and wellbeing, financial resilience, and climate and environment.

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SocialBoost develops technology products for governance and democracy and runs acceleration programs, hackathons, and camps to support startups working on social impact. It serves governments, non-profit organizations, and civil society, working with local and global partners, and is based in Ukraine.

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Social Preneurlab teaches social entrepreneurship and financial literacy to K-12 students and marginalized communities through curriculum and educational programs. The organization aims to develop youth into leaders and agents of social change.

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H2K (에이치투케이) is a social venture that develops an AI-based Korean-language (Hangeul) learning app for children, including slow learners, using big data and artificial intelligence. Its product targets young students facing educational gaps, aiming to teach reading, writing, and speaking at each learner's own pace.

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Sol PBC is a public benefit corporation building open-source, privacy-respecting, local-first tools that let individuals collect and gain insight from their own personal data. Its products include Solstone (a private journal of what a user sees and hears that AI agents can work from), vit (a social capability network for developers and AI agents to discover and share software), and Rookery (an open-source personal data server giving AI agents AT Protocol identities).

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Solar Foods produces Solein, a protein ingredient derived from naturally occurring microbes using air, water, and renewable electricity rather than traditional agriculture. The company serves food manufacturers and the food industry with a sustainable protein alternative to reduce resource consumption and environmental impact.

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SOLS Energy installs residential and commercial solar PV systems and EV chargers across Malaysia, serving homeowners, businesses, and off-grid Orang Asli (Indigenous) communities. The company also runs a solar apprenticeship academy for low-income youth and pairs each customer installation with a pico solar system for an off-grid Indigenous home.

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Sopact provides a platform for impact measurement that collects data at the source, analyzes responses as they arrive, and supports ongoing action, framing measurement as a recurring workflow rather than a one-off annual exercise.

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A nonprofit that installs solar power systems, working with local installers to bring reliable electricity to healthcare, education, water supply, and irrigation projects in areas lacking dependable power. It funds installations through an ongoing crowdfunding campaign called "Sunrays."

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Sound Agriculture develops bio-inspired soil and crop solutions that reduce synthetic fertilizer use and improve nutrient efficiency for growers. The company serves farmers globally, with a focus on climate-friendly agriculture and addressing environmental challenges like water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from fertilizer loss.

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SPARC is a membership coalition of approximately 250 academic and research libraries across North America, Canada, and international institutions that advocates for open access to scholarly research and knowledge. The organization represents libraries' interests in scholarly communication policy and practice.

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Spare provides a contactless payment and school-management platform that lets schools collect and manage fees for canteens, trips, events and extra-curricular activities, with students paying via wristband, phone, card or student ID. It also offers tools for attendance tracking, bus scheduling, parent communication, inventory management, spending limits and allergen controls from a central dashboard.

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Spark+ Africa Fund is a $64 million impact investment fund that provides debt and mezzanine capital to companies offering distributed clean cooking energy solutions—such as LPG, biofuels, electric appliances, and efficient biomass stoves—for the mass market in sub-Saharan Africa. It targets profitable, scalable businesses across cooking-fuel value chains to deliver social and environmental benefits in developing markets.

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Speak_ is an AI-powered resume screening platform that automatically evaluates job applicants against customizable criteria set by recruiters. It integrates with major ATS systems to help hiring teams identify qualified candidates quickly and reduce unconscious bias in the hiring process.

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SpendAble is a financial management and budgeting app for people living with a disability, their families, and NDIS service providers, letting trusted support workers pay on a participant's behalf with spending controls, real-time transaction tracking, and receipt capture. It helps providers stay compliant with NDIS Quality and Safeguards requirements while supporting participants to build financial literacy and independence.

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SPOBY is a Japanese health and environmental platform that promotes physical activity to reduce medical costs and visualize carbon-reduction (decarbonization) effects. Aimed at companies and local governments, it provides a user management system to track members' health, aggregate CO2 reductions, and let local stores offer rewards and surplus food to encourage community engagement.

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Springboard is a Nigerian social enterprise organizing a cooperative of smallholder farmers who grow cocoa, plantain, and edible crickets, and operates factories that process this produce into finished goods including TIWA-branded chocolate, plantain/banana chips, and protein-fortified bread. It serves small-scale farmers in Nigeria through its Disempowered to Empowered (D2E) model, providing agribusiness support and access to markets.

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