Top Palo Alto, CA Social Impact Startups (10)

Avive Solutions, Inc. is a growth stage Automated External Defibrillator (AED) company with a connected response system that is rapidly gaining market share. We are a mission driven team that is quite literally saving lives. Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is a leading cause of death in the United States, and we are on a mission to change that! We are...

Social networks have the power to bring people together, but they have often proven to do the opposite. In a world of social platforms that filter and curate our lives, social media has made us antisocial. That’s why we created Airtime. It’s a new kind of social space. No matter what you’re into—lofi hip hop, airbrush makeup, or improv comedy—drop in...

Course Hero is an online learning platform with over 60 million course-specific study resources contributed by our community of students and educators, and produced by our team of educational content specialists in collaboration with subject experts. You’ll find practice problems, study guides, videos, class notes, and step-by-step explanations for every subject you’re studying—from economics to literature, biology to history, accounting to...

Fundraising and Selling for PTAs and School Groups

We’re on a mission to eliminate waste for good, starting with the food that ends up in landfills. Did you know that more than half of the food in landfills comes from home kitchens (ReFED)? And food in landfills turns into methane – which is 80x more potent than CO2 over a 20-year period (IPCC). At Mill, we’re working to...

We believe that performance management shouldn’t be about a form. We believe that forms merely capture narrative and do nothing to embed high performance in organization’s culture. By helping organizations make performance coaching conversations a part of everyday working life focused on future performance and not just judging the past, we hope to help managers, employees and organizations tap the potential...

Nucleos produces e-learning solutions for learners involved in justice and corrections.

We help startups and small businesses extend their runways by connecting them with government stimulus programs, tax credits, and hiring incentives. Whew, that’s a mouthful. In simpler terms, we help founders find cash they didn’t know they were owed. Navigating government tax credits and incentives is no easy task. Founders and business owners rarely have the bandwidth, time, or resources to...

SIRUM uses technology to connect, prioritize and simplify various sources of medicine. We help safety-net clinics access this medicine for their patients. SIRUM is an innovative nonprofit organization committed to reducing barriers to health for underserved populations. Incubated at Stanford University, SIRUM draws from the academic and technology expertise of faculty and alumni to strengthen its impact and efficiency. SIRUM has become...

Tech Matters is a nonprofit strategic technology organization, founded by Jim Fruchterman, serial social entrepreneur. We create and launch new tech for good platforms in partnership with entire fields in the nonprofit and social good sector. Our two largest projects are the Aselo crisis response platform and the Terraso integrated landscape management platform. We also are in constant connection with...