Top New York Social Impact Startups (112)

At Inato, we’re on a mission to accelerate the pace of medical innovation by bringing clinical research to each and every patient, regardless of who they are and where they live. Our platform, made to connect community-based research centers to trials across the globe, aims to create greater visibility, access, and engagement across a more diverse population of doctors and...

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...

Camber is a health tech startup transforming healthcare payments by reducing administrative burdens on clinics and families. Our proprietary models leverage data-driven insights to streamline claims processing, ensuring providers get paid faster and more accurately (averaging 94% first pass), fueling growth to 100,000 patients across 40 states over the past two years. We have managed $2 billion in claims, allowing...

Ethic partners with advisors and institutions to deliver personalized, values-aligned, and tax-smart investing. Our technology powers sophisticated investment solutions through a simple and engaging client experience. Headquartered in New York City, our growing team brings a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. We’re a financial technology company building the investment management platform of the future.

We help everyday Americans build a brighter financial future. With a business model that is aligned with our customers, we create transparent, fair, and simple financial products that put money back in the hands of our members, help them spend wisely, and avoid unfair fees. We don’t just reduce stress — we promote sustainable financial health. Our team comes from diverse...

Sailor Health is on a mission to solve the mental health crisis among older adults. In the United States, older adults have the highest suicide rates of any age group yet receive the least mental health care. By 2030, over 65 million seniors will make up nearly a quarter of the U.S. population, creating one of the largest and most...

Marble Health is building the operating system for youth mental health. A platform that connects schools, therapists, health plans, and families - who all have incentives to provide truly effective care to kids struggling with their mental health. Our mission is simple but ambitious: make it dramatically easier for young people to get the mental health care they need, and...

Here at Chapter, we aim to help seniors not only navigate the complexities of Medicare, but also to transform the way seniors transition into and experience retirement. This is not easy, and no one else has succeeded at this endeavor. For us to achieve this mission, we have to have a deeply shared understanding of who we are and who...

Never before has higher education experienced so much change. How institutions recruit and retain a diverse student population is critical to get right. That's where Unibuddy comes in. Unibuddy is the leading peer-to-peer platform that connects prospective students with current students and staff. We work with 500+ higher ed institutions in 35 countries, on our way to empowering 10 million...

charity: water is a non-profit bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. Since 2006, we've funded 35,000 water projects in 27 developing countries. When complete, these projects will provide clean, safe drinking water for more than 9.5 million people.

Vessel's vision is to provide every person with the space to thrive. We are going to achieve this by remaking the way we design buildings, setting elevated standards for functionality, dependability, accessibility and impact.

ColorComm, Inc. is the nation’s leading women’s platform addressing diversity and inclusion across the communications, marketing, advertising and media industries. ColorComm Network is a national professional membership organization with chapters located in New York, Washington, DC, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, Miami and London. ColorComm Network produces over 100 local programs a year.

OrangeYouGlad Brooklyn's freshest creative agency. We work with local businesses, tech startups, fortune 500 companies and mission driven non-profits to provide visual solutions to their communications needs. Our work focuses on branding and digital communications.

We design innovative solutions to tough problems in economic mobility, education, consumer finance, and US health and healthcare. Our approach is based on a deep understanding of human behavior and why people make the decisions they do. We work closely with our partners from leading government, foundations, NGOs and companies.

Up&Up is building a new way to live where renters build wealth like owners. Instead of having a large portion of their cash stuck in a security deposit and making their landlords rich by paying off their mortgage, our renters build their wealth as the real estate market appreciates and as their rental home generates income. Renters have control over the...

Downtown Brooklyn Partnership (DBP) is a not-for-profit local development corporation that serves as the primary champion for Downtown Brooklyn as a world-class business, cultural, educational, residential, and retail destination.

All Tech Is Human is a non-profit that is committed to tackling thorny tech & society issues and co-creating a tech future aligned with the public interest. We are currently housed out of a co-working space in Manhattan.

At New Visions for Public Schools, we work to make great public schools common in New York City. We believe that all of New York City’s students deserve public schools that make successful futures possible, especially Black, Latinx, and low-income students who have historically had inequitable access to a great public education. Since 1989, New Visions has been a driving...

As Nelson Mandela said, “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does.” At LeagueApps, we agree. Mission-driven at our core, every member of our team is committed to a world where all kids and communities can benefit from youth sports. We...

Free Agency is on a mission to empower people to reach the highest levels of their career potential. We work with talent to break the information and process asymmetries holding them back from doing more, making more, and being more. We’ve raised over $15M from world-class investors like Maveron, Resolute Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman’s Thirty Five...