Top California Social Impact Startups (148)

At January, we bring humanity to consumer finance. Using data intelligence, we create trust and deliver better outcomes for consumers and creditors alike. Our mission is simple: expand access to credit while empowering consumers to achieve lasting stability and control of their financial lives. We began by building the foundation for creditors to engage with and support their borrowers at scale...

Revivn is a fully integrated hardware lifecycle solution, promoting global responsibility while providing IT with enterprise-class service and security. Working with companies like Instacart, Lyft & Teach for America we are changing the way companies view old technology with a new model that focuses on repurposing electronics. In partnering with Revivn, companies make the vital choice to responsibly retire, repurpose,...

We deliver industry-vetted courses and career support centered on the needs of first-generation and low-income students. Our students train with senior engineers, intern at top companies, and rise together to become the tech leaders of tomorrow. Breaking into the tech industry requires a number of factors: industry-relevant knowledge, connections, specific hard and soft skills, an understanding of how to navigate the...

Academia.edu is the world’s leading platform for researchers and scholars to share their work, discover research and connect with fellow academics globally. Our bold vision: to democratize and accelerate the world's research, enhancing the speed of scientific discovery and technological progress for the benefit of everyone. We imagine a world where accessing academic papers is effortless, keeping track of cutting-edge...

At UpMetrics, we believe that storytelling has the potential to become the most impactful tool for social impact organizations - especially when those stories are rooted in data. The platform empowers impact organizations to achieve clarity and focus of their impact across activities by combining quantitative and qualitative data functions designed to collect, understand and communicate impact.

GIFFORDS is an organization dedicated to saving lives from gun violence through advocacy and policy change.

Vidmob is the creative data company. Its AI-based software improves creative and media performance by helping brands and agencies derive their own custom creative best practices, and ensure that those learnings are applied across all flighted media. Vidmob’s approach to using creative data drives brand consistency, reduces creative and media waste, and increases overall business performance across the funnel. As...

Emerge Career is a technology-powered workforce development platform that recruits, trains, and places justice-impacted and low-income individuals into life-changing careers, aiming to break cycles of poverty and incarceration.

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...

Rec is building the operating system for the activity economy. Every day, millions of people look for ways to play, learn, move, compete, and connect in their communities. Yet the technology powering recreation has been largely ignored for decades. Our platform is modernizing the $105B activity industry, powering registrations, facility reservations, instructor marketplaces, payments, permits, and operations for cities and recreation...

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...

Planned Parenthood Great Rivers is a patient-focused health care organization that provides, protects, and supports sexual and reproductive health services, access, and rights. It serves as a leading provider, educator, and protector of reproductive health care in the St. Louis region, Missouri Ozarks, and beyond, offering high-quality, convenient health care for all genders with or without insurance.

At Agile Six. we use modern technology and user-friendly, inclusive design to build better government services for everyone. Agile Six is a people-first, remote-work company that serves shoulder-to-shoulder with federal agencies to find innovative, human-centered solutions. We build better by putting people first. We are animated by our core values of Purpose, Wholeness, Trust, Self-Management and Inclusion. We deliver our solutions...

At XPRIZE, every employee knows they are making a positive impact on the world. XPRIZE conceives, designs, and operates the world’s largest, most inclusive, and most ambitious incentive prize competitions. We inspire and guide innovators to create breakthroughs enabling a future of abundance.

We’re in a global housing crisis — about 1.8 billion people live without adequate housing. And building houses simply isn't addressing the problem. At New Story, we're on a mission to change this story by building an inclusive housing market by bringing market-based solutions to those who need them most. Our strategy focuses on making land accessible for families in Latin...

Plantible Foods is a B2B food technology company with the goal to develop the most functional and applicable plant-based protein in the world using scalable and sustainable aqua-farming and extraction technologies

Last Mile Health partners with governments to build strong community health systems, equipping professional community health workers to provide essential primary healthcare to remote communities and save lives.

Earth is the national leader in soil transformation: it’s a gentle, natural process that transforms a body into soil that families can scatter, plant, or share. Our mission is to give families the easiest way to make arrangements, and to heal our planet in the process.

Measuring the impact of the world's most important messages. Swayable is a consumer insights research technology platform that measures how effectively media content changes opinions. We enable deep insights into the effects of campaign content at any stage in the creative process: from storyboards to final cuts. Our clients are dramatically increasing the impact of the stories they tell on the...

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...