Top California Social Impact Startups (147)

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...

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,...

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...

Youth Enrichment Brands builds communities where children discover confidence, resilience, and joy. Founded in 2020, Youth Enrichment Brands is the nation’s leading youth activities platform, offering camps, leagues, classes, schools, and other programs. Our companies provide fun, enriching experiences to over a million children each year worldwide.

The University of San Francisco is a private Jesuit university located in San Francisco, California, committed to providing a liberal education rooted in the Jesuit tradition and developing compassionate leaders through rigorous education and impactful research.

The Orangewood Foundation supports young people in Orange County as they prepare for adulthood and independence, offering services like basic needs support, education, life skills training, and transitional housing.

Media Cause is a mission-driven marketing and creative agency that helps nonprofits grow and accelerate their impact by developing powerful creative, scalable growth strategies, and targeted communications.

Amigos de Guadalupe Center for Justice and Empowerment builds a just and equitable East San José by providing housing, mental health, immigration, education, and organizing programs. They aim to meet community needs, drive systems change, and empower residents to lead.

Founded in 2009 by military family members, Blue Star Families is a national nonprofit organization that empowers military families to thrive by connecting them with their civilian neighbors and creating strong communities of support.

Lifehouse is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with developmental disabilities by providing compassionate support, life skills training, community integration, advocacy, referrals, and housing.

Axis Community Health is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing quality, affordable, accessible, and compassionate health care services, including primary medical care, mental health support, and dental services, to promote community well-being.

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

For more than 50 years, Children’s Council has been the heart of child care and early education in San Francisco, advancing the belief that high-quality child care can transform lives and communities. Our more than 150 team members help families navigate their child care and preschool options and secure financial assistance to pay for it. We provide home-based child care businesses with the training and resources to succeed. Through a...

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.

Hospice of San Joaquin is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing comprehensive and compassionate medical care, counseling, and support to terminally ill patients and their families, regardless of their ability to pay.

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.

Omaze is a social impact fundraising platform that is reimagining the charitable giving experience. We empower world-changing nonprofits by giving anyone the chance to win once-in-a-lifetime prizes. By dreaming big, donating, and entering for the chance to win life-changing prizes, the Omaze community has provided over $150 million in grants to support over 400 charities all over the world, and...

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.

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.

FieldKit is an open-source software and hardware platform (environmental sensors, app, and FieldKit.org website) that allows individuals and organizations to collect and share field-based research data and tell stories through interactive visualizations. Designed to be easy to deploy customizable, FieldKit can be adapted to meet the needs of diverse research teams, from biology and ecology to marine and environmental sciences,...