This article showcases our top picks for the best United States based Social Impact companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Social Impact industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top United States Social Impact Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
DroneSeed
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DroneSeed is paid per acre to plant tree seed vessels after a wildfire — using heavy-lift Drone Swarms
Goodr
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Goodr is a sustainable surplus food management platform that leverages technology to reduce food waste and combat hunger.
HYP3R
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We are HYP3R. Our innovations help top marketers acquire high-value travelers directly and at scale.
Galaxy Digital
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Galaxy Digital is a web-based social solutions company offering services for non-profits, healthcare organizations, and small businesses.
Grow Therapy
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Grow Therapy is transforming mental healthcare accessibility by helping therapists launch tech-driven, in-network practices.
MedHaul
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MedHaul is a Certified B Corporation that enables safe, reliable and efficient transportation for patients with special and unique needs.
Boll & Branch
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Boll & Branch offers consumers with luxury bedding and goods.
Daylight
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Daylight is the first and only digital banking platform in the USA built for LGBT+ people, by LGBT+ people.
Aira
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Aira provides tech-enabled services for the 300 million visually impaired people around the globe.
BeeHero
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BeeHero is a developer of beehive technology platform intended to maximize crop yields through pollination.
zSpace
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zSpace offers a system that enables its users to integrate their normal lives with a desktop-based virtual reality system.
Aella
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Aella helps africans get credit, invest, get health insurance, and make payments.
Topl
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Topl is an ESG technology company that is building a blockchain ecosystem to prove a business’ ethical and sustainable business practices.
StudyFree
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StudyFree is the Subscription-based platform that connects students with international opportunities worldwide
Fundraise Up
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Fundraise Up is an online AI-powered donor-centric widget fundraising platform.
Aspiration
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Aspiration offers retail banking and investing services that enable customers to spend and save their money in ways that protect the planet.
TCARE
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TCARE is an evidence-based, CMS-approved and federally-accredited family caregiver support platform.
ShoppingGives
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ShoppingGives encourages consumers to make an impact through its change commerce technology.
Verb
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The leadership development platform that prepares managers to adapt to the challenges of a rapidly changing workplace.
LiquiGlide
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LiquiGlide is a viable technology that allows viscous liquids to slide effortlessly.
Innovare
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Innovare is the edtech and data strategy app helping education leaders visualize, analyze, and use data to positively impact the community.
Nutriati
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Nutriati is a food technology company focused on the research, development and commercialization of innovative plant-based food ingredients.
Giving Assistant
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Giving Assistant transforms the collective power of consumer shopping into a new sustainable source of giving.
Visit.org
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Visit.org is a SaaS platform for employee-driven corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Argonne National Laboratory
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Argonne National Laboratory conducts researches in basic science, energy resources, and environmental management.
Undercover Colors
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Undercover Colors is a consumer company that introduces date rape drug detection in drinks.
DrizzleX
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DrizzleX is a pioneering water management company that provides data driven solutions for residential buildings that lack individual meters
YvesBlue
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YvesBlue distills the sustainability narrative across your entire portfolio.
RiseKit
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RiseKit connects un(der)employed job candidates to careers, training, and resources while providing analytics for employers and grantmakers.
Inclusivv
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Inclusivv is an engagement platform that brings people together for conversations that matter.
Fonbnk
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Fonbnk is a new distributed finance company enabling a frictionless, financial onramp for frontier and emerging markets.
Inspired
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Inspired is a new way for brands to grow by working together with consumers, causes, & each other — for the greater good.
KOYA Innovations
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KOYA is a hyper-personal communication platform for loved ones, SMBs and brands.
Nucleos
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Nucleos produces e-learning solutions for learners involved in justice and corrections.
OpenAxis
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Easily visualize, share, and collaborate with data to tell stories
Ezassi Inc.
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Ezassi is an open innovation management software that provides a range of integrated solutions.
Happiest Community
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World’s ‘Happiest Community’™ for people to be Happy in all areas of life! See you at our get-togethers & online network!
co:census
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co:census is a cloud-based enterprise solution for gathering, analyzing, and gaining deep insights from qualitative data.
My Home Pathway
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Mortgage Customer Acquisition and Risk Profile Improvement
UncommonGood
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A comprehensive productivity and social SaaS platform for nonprofits of every size.
ROAM
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ROAM is a global community for the next generation adventurer.
Seva Exchange Corporation
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We organize communities, equip them with the right tools and resources; and measure their impact and success.
POINT
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POINT is one app for you to find charity opportunities in your city.
Deed
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Deed provides a social impact platform to connect people with causes and businesses with social impact.
Be-novative
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Be-novative is a SaaS that makes innovation processes efficient, fun & engaging. Be-novative fully unleashes collective creativity.
Beemmunity
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Beemmunity applies microparticle technology to detoxify pesticides in pollinators.
CSRware
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Cloud analytics for Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG), Environmental Sustainability Management & Responsible Supply Chain Insights
Invitation Homes
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Invitation Homes specializes in acquiring single family homes in situations such as foreclosure or short sale, rehabilitating, leasing.
GiftAMeal
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GiftAMeal is a charitable marketing program for restaurants.
TwentyTables
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USCCF Best Corporate Steward ‘20; SXSW 2019 Winner Best Bootstrap: TwentyTables creates custom SAAS micro-markets connecting communities.
Swoovy
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Swoovy is a volunteering platform fueling social connections.
Stashrun
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Transforming how brands engage with social causes.
Auxilia
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Auxilia develops a cloud-based donor management software for nonprofit organizations.
Hubbster
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Hubbster provides easy access to outdoor games and exercise gear in shared spaces, whether public or private.
Other Mind, Inc.
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The first proactive AI assistant that sits at the epicentre of AI and daily life
Wearwell
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a unique subscription service making it easier to find clothing that fits your style and the impact you want to make in the world.
Blaze Global
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SaaS platform that simplifies, activates and measure social and emotional development among students, teachers and parents.
Capital Engine
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Capital Engine® Powering Online Capital Markets
Chisos
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Chisos writes checks of $15K-50K to invest in idea- and early stage startup businesses
Motivote
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Motivote is an impact-as-a-service platform that helps Companies, Colleges & Causes mobilize their networks for social good.
iDialogue
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IDialogue connects children from radically different backgrounds for cross-cultural communication and collaborative projects.
LawGives
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LawGives connects clients with lawyers based on their preferences and needs, and offers them with free information and free consultations.
HaveNeed (Have Need, Inc.)
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HaveNeed is the first consumer multiparty barter platform for goods and services with patented technology enabling people to barter at scale
impct
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Turning brands and their consumers into impact investors
Edith Labs
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Edith Labs focuses on helping students build long-term relationships with mentors through income share agreements.
We Buy Black
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We Buy Black is an online marketplace for Black owned product based businesses.
Benevolently
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Benevolently are on a mission to create more Empathy and Kindness in the world.
Smart Beverage
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CPG, Consumer products, Consumer health & fitness, Logistics, IoT, Impact, Food and beverage
dfusion
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dfusion, a team of scientists and innovators, develops technology to promote evidence-based, health-related behavioral changes.
Ad Fontes Media
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Ad Fontes Media is a Public Benefit Corporation that rates the news. It was founded by Vanessa Otero, creator of the Media Bias Chart®.
Joyful Pets
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All-in-one pet adoption, pet care and pet parenting platform.
Eat Offbeat
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Eat Offbeat serves authentic meals from around the world conceived and prepared by refugees who now call NYC home.
CultureHQ
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Our enterprise SaaS platform helps organizations manage their internal events/programs and measure their impact and ROI.
Radish App
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Radish is an app that makes it easier to organize, engage, celebrate and make a difference in team-based cultures at work and in life.
WeSolv
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WeSolv is a technical solution that engages diverse candidates in real business.
Grow Progress
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Grow Progress helps social change advocates to persuade more people with behavioral science.
Carousel
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Carousel is like Duolingo for Social-Emotional Learning (SEL).
Conserve With Us
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We help brands grow by taking a stand on the causes that matter to their customers.
Leap Fund
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Leap Fund is creating solutions that lift people over the benefits cliff, towards self-sufficiency and financial independence.
SameSide
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SameSide is an online platform connecting the millions of events and gatherings that happen every day to a cause.
Sustainable Energy & Agriculture Technology
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SEAT was founded by Ashoke Bose, a former IBM Senior Manager, in 2014. Driven by his passion for renewables and agriculture.
Socent Studios
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Creating to edutain, inspire, and mobilize toward durable social impact.
Finsophy PBC
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Financial innovation and technology for transparent & mission-aligned capital
CareShield Health
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CareShield is a cloud platform for patient outcome management that offers a fully unified suite of health outcome management applications.
CyberGrants
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CyberGrants is a provider of SaaS solutions that gives a trusted way to maximize the impact of Corporate Social Responsibility efforts.
LQD WiFi
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LQD is WiF develops smart cities and ubiquitous WiFi, providing cities with new outdoor hubs of social technology.
Millennium Pharmaceuticals
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Millennium Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company that supplies biopharmaceutical products.
Fishing Partnership Support Services
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Fishing Partnership Support Services is a non-profit organization that supports the health and well-being of commercial fishing families.
Blub Blub
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Speech Blubs is the #1 speech therapy app out there and #5 kids app in the US
CryptoTrust
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CryptoTrust builds innovative products and provides a comprehensive suite of information security services.
Dimagi
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Dimagi is an award-winning technology company, developing scalable ICT solutions for low-resource settings.
Societal Innovation
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Creating, designing & developing innovations and inventions serving both societal and commercial market opportunities.
Islamic Finder
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Islamic Finder offers prayer times, qibla, quran, tasbeeh, islamic places, islamic information and athan application for muslim communities.
United Community Center
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The United Community Center is a comprehensive social service agency serving the families of Milwaukee’s south side.
Kind Traveler
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Kind Traveler is the 1st Give + Get hotel booking platform that empowers travelers to positively impact the communities they visit.
Komeeda
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Komeeda is a direct to consumer platform for restaurants and chefs to manage their digital experience and online sales.
Freespace
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The [freespace] brings people together to create, teach, learn, and share the things which they are truly passionate about.