Impact & Social Good Startups

HEVA provides investment, advisory, and knowledge services to businesses and entrepreneurs in Africa's creative industries, offering financing and capacity-building to help creative enterprises access capital and grow. It operates across African and Indian Ocean countries, focusing on the continent's creative economy.

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Super was a community fundraising platform that let creators and individuals group charitable organizations into a "Super Fund" and invite their followers to give monthly or one-time donations, with curated charity vetting, tax reporting, and optional creator tips. The platform, which partnered with Our Change Foundation to process US tax-deductible donations, has shut down.

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Highlands Rewilding manages owned and leased land in the Scottish Highlands to restore nature, increase carbon sequestration and biodiversity, and generate profit, using natural-capital data collection to underpin investable carbon and biodiversity credit schemes. It operates as a mass-ownership company and offers land management services to landowners seeking profitable nature restoration.

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HIJAU assists industries and businesses with green transitions through renewable energy solutions and efficient cooling systems.

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Pinkcollar Employment Agency is a hiring platform that connects employers in Malaysia with domestic workers from the Philippines and Indonesia, emphasizing ethical recruitment and worker protections. The company operates on a zero-placement-fee model for workers to eliminate recruitment debt and ensure safe, dignified employment.

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Hitch is a mobility service operating in New Zealand, though detailed information about its specific operations is not available from this page.

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HitecVision is a venture capital and private equity firm that partners with entrepreneurs to build leading mid-market companies in the European energy sector, focusing on energy developers, producers, infrastructure owners, and specialized service providers. The firm invests between EUR 150-500 million per company and actively participates in establishing new ventures or scaling established companies with transformation potential.

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Hive Founders runs an 8-week Investment Readiness Accelerator for pre-seed and seed stage female founders, providing pitch deck coaching, 1:1 mentoring, expert sessions and a Demo Day to prepare them to raise from angels and VCs. The program serves women-led startups and includes ongoing fundraising support until a round closes.

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Hiveonline is a digital financial platform providing banking and payment services to unbanked and underbanked populations, particularly in rural and developing communities. The company combines fintech infrastructure with financial inclusion, serving smallholder farmers and rural entrepreneurs in markets like Mozambique and beyond.

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Helen Keller International is a non-profit organization that advances health and nutrition for children and families in vulnerable communities around the world, addressing the impacts of rising costs, climate crises, and conflict.

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A nonprofit that raises funds nationwide to support families of children battling pediatric brain cancer, mobilizing local communities to help cover the financial burdens these families face.

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Homium is a shared appreciation lender and fund manager that originates and services no-interest, no-monthly-payment second mortgages covering 10-35% of a home's purchase price, in which homeowners share equity with a community fund. It runs a lending and securitization platform for pooled shared appreciation loans used by non-profit funds and community organizations to make homeownership affordable for first-time buyers.

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Honeyguide is a conservation organization working in Tanzania that partners with communities and wildlife management areas to address human-wildlife conflict and protect natural resources. The organization operates anti-poaching programs, community conservation initiatives, and K9 units across ecosystems including Kilimanjaro-Amboseli and Ngorongoro.

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Hope Enterprise Corporation is a community development financial institution serving under-resourced communities in the Deep South (Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee) by providing financial tools and services to improve economic mobility and wealth-building.

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Hort Innovation supports Australia's horticulture sector through research, marketing, and trade initiatives that drive innovation and develop new markets. The organization works with growers, industry partners, and stakeholders to address sector priorities and grow demand for local horticultural products.

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Hot Bread Kitchen is a nonprofit that provides free culinary job skills training, small business support, and employer connections for people facing barriers to careers in the food industry. It serves aspiring food workers and food entrepreneurs — including bakers, cooks, caterers, and packaged-goods owners — across New York City.

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Hotel con Corazón is a social enterprise that operates hotels in Central American tourist regions and uses the proceeds to fund education for local children. It opened its first hotel in Granada, Nicaragua in 2006 and a second in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2018.

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Higg Index provides sustainability measurement tools for the apparel, footwear, and home textile industry, covering facilities, materials, products, and brand/retailer operations across environmental, social, and governance impact areas. The tools serve brands, retailers, and manufacturers to measure and improve yearly sustainability performance in categories such as water, energy, chemical management, and employee safety.

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HTI Labs builds and scales technology infrastructure for anti-trafficking efforts, using data analysis to identify patterns and generate law enforcement leads aimed at disrupting human trafficking. It serves anti-trafficking organizations and law enforcement.

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Huakiwi finances and develops kiwifruit orchards on Māori Freehold Land, covering the full cost and risk of establishing and operating the orchards while paying landowners lease income. It trains whānau to eventually run and own the orchards, with the aim of transferring full ownership to the land trust over roughly 15-17 years, operating in New Zealand.

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Hubbub provides online fundraising platforms and support services for schools, universities, and other institutions, helping them run Giving Days and crowdfunding campaigns to raise donations from alumni, parents, staff, and their communities. Its case studies focus on UK educational institutions.

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HubCity is an initiative by the association L'Africaine d'Architecture, running since 2012 in Lomé, that develops an alternative "neovernacular" smart city model based on democratizing technology and building Digital Commons. It focuses on social innovation and inclusive, redistributive approaches to urban technology in Togo.

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Hub Vitacura provides tools, training, and business services to support entrepreneurs and local commerce in the Vitacura district, and helps incubate innovation projects by offering community spaces to test prototypes. It runs programs to promote local shops and open innovation challenges in Vitacura, Chile.

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Huckleberry Youth Programs is a nonprofit organization in the San Francisco Bay Area that provides crisis intervention, counseling, health services, and educational support for runaway, homeless, at-risk, and commercially sexually exploited youth. The organization operates residential facilities, health clinics, substance abuse treatment, and college pipeline programs across San Francisco and Marin County.

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