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This article showcases our top picks for the best New York 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 New York Social Impact Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Grow Therapy
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Grow Therapy is transforming mental healthcare accessibility by helping therapists launch tech-driven, in-network practices.
Fundraise Up
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Fundraise Up is an online AI-powered donor-centric widget fundraising platform.
Visit.org
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Visit.org is a SaaS platform for employee-driven corporate social responsibility (CSR).
YvesBlue
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YvesBlue distills the sustainability narrative across your entire portfolio.
OpenAxis
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Easily visualize, share, and collaborate with data to tell stories
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
Deed
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Deed provides a social impact platform to connect people with causes and businesses with social impact.
Hubbster
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Hubbster provides easy access to outdoor games and exercise gear in shared spaces, whether public or private.
Capital Engine
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Capital Engine® Powering Online Capital Markets
Motivote
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Motivote is an impact-as-a-service platform that helps Companies, Colleges & Causes mobilize their networks for social good.
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.
Leap Fund
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Leap Fund is creating solutions that lift people over the benefits cliff, towards self-sufficiency and financial independence.
LQD WiFi
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LQD is WiF develops smart cities and ubiquitous WiFi, providing cities with new outdoor hubs of social technology.
Komeeda
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Komeeda is a direct to consumer platform for restaurants and chefs to manage their digital experience and online sales.
MPOWERD
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Transforming lives with thoughtfully designed, clean technology which provide moments of wonder.
Encriptame Inc, a C Type company.
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Encriptame, security made easy.
Humanified
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Humanified is the social impact network. The app that #makeschangehappen is coming 2021.
Audtra
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Make your worth sharing your undervalued mind on the first, social audio-transcription platform (patent-pending).
ITAC
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ITAC helps NYC manufacturing & tech companies grow profitably through innovation.
BRAVE UP!
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Software to prevent, predict and detect bullying and cyberbullying.
Harlem Children’s Zone
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HCZ is a non-profit organization that aims to end child poverty through innovative education programs.
Wellspring Philanthropic Fund
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Wellspring Philanthropic Fund provides realization of human rights, social justice, economic justice and charitable investments.
Vera Institute of Justice
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Vera Institute of Justice is an independent nonprofit national research and policy organization.
Kiri
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Kiri is a screenless smart toy that helps children of all abilities learn language, STEM, and an expanding library of subjects.
Perfumarie, Inc
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Perfumarie is a data and consumer experience platform for the fragrance, flavor, and creative industry.
DonorUP
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DonorUP is the first giving platform to focus on individual donors and help them refine their imprint on the world.
Mood of Living
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Mood of Living is a digital media platform for socially and environmentally conscious lifestyles.
ADAPT Community Network
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ADAPT Community Network is a non-profit organization that provides support and services to people with disabilities and their families.
Emma L. Bowen Community Service Center
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Emma L. Bowen Community Service Center provides wellness, mental and behavioral care, addiction support and emergency food distribution.
JumpScale
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JumpScale is an impact investment advisory firm that works with investors to improve the financial well-being of their portfolios.
Crush Media
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Crush Media is a public relations consultancy that specializes in humanizing brands through social content.
AFS-USA
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AFS-USA is a nonprofit organization that provides education, programs, safety and security services to students, parents and educators.
Significance Labs
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Blue Ridge Labs offers fellowships, grants, and workshops that help social innovators build technology-based products and services.
The Osborne Association
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The Osborne Association is a nonprofit that offers support, employment opportunities, advocacy & wellness programs for criminals & families.
Housing and Services
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Housing and Services is a nonprofit organization that provides mental illness, physical disabilities, affordable housing & social services.
Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition
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Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition incubates, develops, and collaborates on blockchain products and solutions.
Serious USA
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Serious USA is a publishing company, develops interactive CD and DVD cards for entertainment brands.
Campaign for Black Male Achievement
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Campaign for Black Male Achievement engages in leadership development, social impact & support initiatives for Black community members.
Altman Foundation
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Altman Foundation is a nonprofit organization that provides programs, impact investing and grants for individuals, families and communities.
Russell Sage Foundation
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Russell Sage Foundation provides major projects in low-income housing, urban planning, social work, and labor reform.
Repeat Roses
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Repeat Roses extracts, rehabilitates, and provides floral arrangements to people in the community.
Change The Ref
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Change The Ref provides tools for kids to make changes on critical issues that affect the nation.
International Center for Transitional Justice
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International Center for Transitional Justice is a non-profit organization that fights against human rights violations and gender justice.
Social Innovation Summit
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Social Innovation Summit provides a forum for discussing the strategies and business innovations that effecting social transformation.
Applied Curiosity Research
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Applied Curiosity Research researches on learning, health, and social impacts.
David Rockefeller Fund
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David Rockefeller Fund supports social impact art, criminal justice reform, climate solutions, and initiatives.
Goalflow
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Goalflow is an online collaborative platform that allows its users to exchange information, advance transparency, and support communication.
Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation is a non-profit organization that specializes in social justice grantmaking, and impact investing services.
East Hampton of Chamber
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East Hampton of Chamber is a nonprofit organization that engages in promoting economic development to help communities and the environment.
PPNYC
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PPNYC is building a world where all communities have full access to high-quality sexual & reproductive health services.
Cycle Media
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Cycle Media operates as a media holding company that provides digital marketing services.
The Idea Logical Company
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The Idea Logical Company is a company that specializes in the development of digital ideas and innovation.
Leave It Better
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Leave It Better renders solutions for ecological agriculture, producing and marketing food, building gardens and cleaning up neglected land.
