Impact & Social Good Startups

Verdant Orchards, a subsidiary of Verdant Frontiers, establishes and acquires high-value perennial orchards in Africa, producing export crops such as citrus and avocados for global markets. It operates farms in Mozambique, Zambia, and South Africa with a focus on returns for investors alongside community development and environmental sustainability.

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Vermont Adaptive is a nonprofit organization that runs adaptive sports and recreation programs, including cycling, paddling, and other outdoor activities, for people with disabilities across Vermont. It also recruits and trains volunteers to support participants during these programs.

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VEIC is a nonprofit that designs clean energy solutions to help energy leaders across the U.S. meet clean energy goals, with the aim of growing local economies, improving public health, and strengthening communities. It operates in the clean energy and climate impact sector.

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Vertical Harvest operates vertical greenhouses that grow leafy greens and fresh produce year-round while providing customized employment for people with disabilities through its Grow Well program. Founded around an inclusive social-enterprise model, it runs farms in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Westbrook, Maine and supplies local communities and chefs in the United States.

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Vertmance develops projects in Nigeria's natural resource sector, focusing on livestock and grain/pasture (feedstock) farming while also working across infrastructure, mining, petroleum, and power. It provides project development and funding services for government, agencies, and private clients, partnering with development finance institutions such as AFC and AfDB.

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Vertus Energy develops waste-to-energy technologies for anaerobic digestion plants, including BRIO, a unit that increases waste processing capacity and biogas energy potential, and BODA, a carbon sequestration and conversion technology that upgrades biogas to bio-methane or converts captured CO₂ and H₂ into Renewable Natural Gas. It targets the renewable energy and biogas production industry.

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VIDA is a software platform for planning, prioritising, and monitoring infrastructure and programme investments. It serves investors, donors, and governments operating in emerging economies.

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Video Games Without Borders (VGWB) is a volunteer-run non-profit organization that uses video games, augmented reality apps and learning courses for social impact and education. It develops and supports projects intended to maximize the positive contribution of video games to society, including education initiatives in regions such as Africa.

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Global Alzheimer's Platform (GAP) operates GAP-Net, a network of over 100 clinical research sites across North America and Europe, to speed up clinical trials for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease treatments. It provides services such as GAP Participant Services (GPS Liaisons) and an Inclusive Research Initiative (Community Connectors) aimed at promoting diversity and lowering the cost and duration of neurodegenerative disease trials.

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Villoid is an online retailer selling fashion and apparel brands such as Yuzefi, Rotate, Anine Bing, and Jeanerica to consumers. The site operates as a fashion e-commerce shop with promotional discount offers.

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Vimenti is a nonprofit program focused on lifting families out of poverty, providing services such as family assessments, referrals, mental health support, and community relief efforts including meal delivery and disaster response. It works directly with families and community leaders, as reflected in its response to hurricane Fiona.

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Vindhya is a business process outsourcing and consulting provider that manages enterprise functions such as sales, servicing, collections, back-office processing, and data operations, combining a skilled workforce with AI-assisted tools. It offers AI products for customer interaction analysis, voice-of-customer insights, customer segmentation, and outbound calling optimization, serving sectors including banking, and employs an inclusive workforce from underserved communities.

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Violet provides free, personalised support for Australian families navigating end-of-life care, combining human connection and technology to offer practical guidance, emotional support, and tools for important conversations. The platform serves anyone in Australia preparing for or experiencing the final stage of life.

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Virtuous offers CRM+, a fundraising and marketing platform for nonprofit organizations that consolidates donor data—giving, engagement, volunteerism, relationships, and wealth—into a single 360° view. The platform includes integrated email, SMS, online giving, event management, automated donor journeys, AI-assisted email drafting, and reporting to help fundraising teams build donor relationships at scale.

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Visible Hands is a venture capital firm that provides early-stage capital and tailored support—such as branding, sales coaching, and other resources—to founders from underrepresented backgrounds, diagnosing each founder's specific needs rather than offering a standard program.

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Visionary Group builds, funds, and scales businesses across multiple sectors in the Caribbean, including modular sustainable housing, agriculture and food systems, logistics, and fintech. It combines capital, technology, and operational execution to grow companies in the region, such as its majority-owned modular home builder DuraVilla Homes.

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Visit.org provides employee engagement experiences that connect corporations and individuals with nonprofit organizations and social impact projects worldwide. The platform matches corporate clients with vetted nonprofit partners to create meaningful, interactive volunteering and engagement opportunities.

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Visualfy develops acoustic accessibility technology for people with hearing loss and organizations seeking to improve accessibility standards.

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Utah Children is an advocacy organization that uses research, media campaigns, and advocacy to raise the needs of children in policy debates. It works with policymakers and communities in Utah to identify and address problems facing children and families.

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Volition is an accessible app and cloud platform for supported decision-making, letting disabled people (Decision Makers) capture their preferences and care needs through voice, text, images, video, and documents and share them with a Circle of Support. It also offers service providers a secure data dashboard (Volition Vault) and API integration (Volition Vector) to access client preference data and insights.

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Volunteero is a volunteer management platform for charities and nonprofits, combining recruitment, onboarding, scheduling, messaging, e-learning, rewards, and reporting in one system. It serves organisations across the UK, Europe, and the US.

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VOMO is a cloud-based volunteer management platform that connects individuals with local volunteer opportunities and helps nonprofits recruit, coordinate, and retain volunteers. It serves both volunteers seeking community involvement and nonprofit organizations managing volunteer programs.

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More To Living is a nonprofit organization focused on combating human trafficking and supporting survivors through victim services, safe housing, prevention education, and advocacy. The organization partners with federal and state law enforcement and operates physical hubs in Florida.

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Veteran Services USA (VSUSA) is a non-profit that provides housing, education and training, and health services to U.S. military veterans and seniors, including transitional sponsorship, career placement, mental health counseling, and adult day healthcare. It repurposes distressed hospitals and hotels into permanent housing and social service centers for veterans and seniors across the United States.

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