69 Best Social Impact Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Social Impact Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 2,519 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $17.2b. The average funding per company in this subset is $249.4m.

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Instagram logo

Instagram

Instagram is a Menlo Park-based photo-sharing social media platform.

3

Funding Rounds

$57.5m

Money raised

Celestia logo

Celestia

Celestia is a stripped-down layer-1 blockchain that focuses solely on ordering transactions and making the data for transactions available. The blockchain does not handle smart contracts or perform computations.

4

Funding Rounds

$166.5m

Money raised

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Tendermint

Tendermint is now Ignite. Tendermint was the core contributor to the Cosmos blockchain network.

1

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

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Numerai

Numerai is a hedge fund with stock market trades determined by crowdsourced artificial intelligence models. The best models receive rewards in the form of a cryptographic token called Numeraire (NMR) on the Ethereum blockchain.

3

Funding Rounds

$17.5m

Money raised

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P2P Validator

P2P Validator is a company with a platform that helps investors compound their cryptocurrency investments by participating in staking.

1

Funding Rounds

$23.0m

Money raised

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CryptoKitties

CryptoKitties is a game built on the Ethereum blockchain in which users can collect and trade virtual kittens.

2

Funding Rounds

$27.0m

Money raised

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Bit2Me

Bit2Me is a cryptocurrency trading platform founded in 2014 by Leif Ferreira.

11

Funding Rounds

$112.6m

Money raised

Celo logo

Celo

Celo is an open platform that offers financial tools to mobile phone users.

5

Funding Rounds

$126.5m

Money raised

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CryptoMarket

CryptoMarket is a blockchain company founded in 2016 by Rafael Meruane.

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Bitcoin Suisse AG

Bitcoin Suisse AG is a Swiss-regulated financial intermediary specializing in crypto-financial services, based in Zug, Switzerland.

1

Funding Rounds

$49.4m

Money raised

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Reddit

Reddit is an online platform for social news. It allows communities to submit links, create content, and discuss any topic of their interest.

6

Funding Rounds

$1.3b

Money raised

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Twitch

Twitch is a livestreaming video platform and community for gamers.

3

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

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Safello

Safello is a company founded in 2013 by Frank Schuil.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.6m

Money raised

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Quai Network

Quai Network is a layer 1 scaling solution for proof-of-work chains utilizing blockchain sharding technologies and novel Proof of Entropy Minima consensus.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

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Layer1

Layer1 is a cryptocurrency investment and infrastructure platform.

3

Funding Rounds

$54.2m

Money raised

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Backd

Backd is a liquidity made reactive founded in 2020 by Xan Myburgh.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.5m

Money raised

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Coinhouse

Coinhouse is the developer of an investment platform for cryptocurrency assets.

4

Funding Rounds

$110.1m

Money raised

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Ondo Finance

Ondo Finance is an open, permissionless, decentralized investment bank

2

Funding Rounds

$24.0m

Money raised

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Mysten Labs

Mysten Labs creates foundational infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of Web3.

2

Funding Rounds

$336.0m

Money raised

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Bitmain

Bitmain is a Beijing-based multinational semiconductor company, founded in 2013, that manufactures products for blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

3

Funding Rounds

$764.7m

Money raised

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ShapeShift

A web and API platform that provides Bitcoin and Altcoin conversion.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

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Clubhouse (social media company)

Clubhouse is a San Francisco-based social app offering a space for casual, drop-in audio conversations with friends and other interesting people.

2

Funding Rounds

$110.0m

Money raised

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Hadean (company)

Hadean is a venture-backed computing technology company that aims to make the nature of computing more accessible.

8

Funding Rounds

$99.0m

Money raised

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Delta Exchange

Delta Exchange is a crypto derivatives exchange offering futures, perpetual swaps, and options on Bitcoin.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

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Cwallet

Cwallet, formerly called CCTip, is a cryptocurrency social wallet with integrated bots.

3

Funding Rounds

$1.6m

Money raised

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ZETA

Zeta Markets is the premier derivatives protocol on Solana.

1

Funding Rounds

$8.5m

Money raised

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Quora

Quora is a question-and-answer website founded in 2010 by Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever.

5

Funding Rounds

$286.0m

Money raised

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MyCointainer

MyCointainer is a staking, masternode, lpos, pos, proof of stake coins solution.

2

Funding Rounds

$12.0m

Money raised

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Ecxx

World's Leading Digital Asset Exchange | Our aim is to bring digital finance to you by delivering trusted and secured digital asset trading services.

1

Funding Rounds

$6.0m

Money raised

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Cake DeFi

Cake is an all-in-one decentralized finance (DeFi) platform.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.4m

Money raised

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Wise

Wise, previously TransferWise, is a company that offers money transfers services founded by Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus.

6

Funding Rounds

$898.4m

Money raised

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SynFutures

SynFutures is a decentralized Derivatives Protocol.

3

Funding Rounds

$15.4m

Money raised

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Ning (website)

Ning is an online platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks.

4

Funding Rounds

$134.0m

Money raised

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LayerZero Network

LayerZero is an omnichain interoperability protocol that unites decentralized applications (dapps) across disparate blockchains

4

Funding Rounds

$263.3m

Money raised

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O3 Labs

O3 Labs is a Japanese startup that offers a range of cryptocurrency services for an undisclosed price.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

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Distil Networks

Distil Networks was an American cybersecurity company founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

3

Funding Rounds

$22.8m

Money raised

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BTC-Alpha

BTC-Alpha is a cryptocurrency exchange platform.

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Strivr

Strivr is a Menlo Park, California-based developer of a virtual reality platform for learning and training employees.

5

Funding Rounds

$86.0m

Money raised

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About.me

About.me is a company that has developed a platform for users to make personal and professional websites.

2

Funding Rounds

$16.7m

Money raised

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Pods

Pods is a decentralized non-custodial options protocol. Users can create options and trade them through an Options AMM on the Ethereum Blockchain.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.6m

Money raised

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Primitive Finance

Primitive - Crypto derivative products built on the Replicating Market Maker protocol, an oracle-free solution to scalable and efficient on-chain derivatives.

1

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

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TradingView

TradingView is a platform which provides instruments for publication and the viewing of trading ideas.

7

Funding Rounds

$638.8m

Money raised

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Currency.com

Regulated crypto exchange. Built the world's first regulated tokenised assets platform. It aims to revolutionise cryptocurrency investment.

1

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

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Vertalo

Vertalo is a digital transfer agent that connects and enables a digital asset ecosystem, offering primary capital formation, on-chain share registry, and access to secondary liquidity.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

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Prosper

Prosper is an online peer-to-peer lending marketplace connecting people who want to borrow money with individuals and institutions who want to lend money.

9

Funding Rounds

$312.9m

Money raised

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Bitso

Bitso is a cryptocurrency exchange for buying and selling Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, TrueUSD, Decentraland, Golem, and Basic Attention Token.

9

Funding Rounds

$378.4m

Money raised

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FluidAI

FluidAI is a technology company that uses artificial intelligence to provide a host of solutions for the digital assets industry. The company is based in the United Arab Emirates.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

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Revolut

Revolut is a London-based Fintech startup and bank offering mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange services.

12

Funding Rounds

$1.7b

Money raised

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BlockFi

BlockFi is a blockchain platform for high-interest crypto accounts and low-cost credit products.

22

Funding Rounds

$1.4b

Money raised

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South Pole (company)

South Pole is a Zurich-based climate solutions company offering sustainable project development services in order to provide carbon offset credits to businesses and organizations.

1

Funding Rounds

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VCC Exchange

Launched on May 19, 2019, VCC Exchange is a centralized exchange that is based in Singapore, operates in Vietnam.VCC features crypto-crypto and VND-crypto trading, which is supported in web, iOS and Android applications. VCC Exchange is backed by Signum Capital and Axiom Associates Capital.

3

Funding Rounds

$5.1b

Money raised

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IRL (company)

IRL was a social media company with the purpose of connecting users in real life, or "IRL," through in-person events.

4

Funding Rounds

$370.0m

Money raised

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Misterb&b

Misterb&b offers a property rental marketplace used to connect travelers and hosts in the LGBTQ+ community.

4

Funding Rounds

$11.2m

Money raised

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Scopely

Scopely - leading mobile game development company.

8

Funding Rounds

$1.2b

Money raised

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Massa

Massa is a decentralized and scaled blockchain.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.7m

Money raised

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STEX

STEX is a cryptocurrency exchange.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

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CoinSwitch

CoinSwitch is a financial technology company specializing in developing solutions for cryptocurrencies.

4

Funding Rounds

$301.5m

Money raised

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Moz

Moz is a company developing and providing inbound marketing analytics software.

4

Funding Rounds

$30.4m

Money raised

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Matrixport

Matrixport is a cryptocurrency financial services platform enabling users to earn, invest, trade, loan and purchase crypto assets.

1

Funding Rounds

$100.0m

Money raised

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Spice AI

Spice AI is a Seattle-based start-up company building a developer-first platform to create artificial intelligence/machine learning-driven applications that harness time series data.

2

Funding Rounds

$14.5m

Money raised

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Heroes of Mavia

Mavia is a multiplayer allotment-based strategy game that allows players to build, develop their army, and own property using in-game resources and the RUBY cryptocurrency.

2

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

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ArDrive

ArDrive is a blockchain-based storage App.

1

Funding Rounds

$17.2m

Money raised

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VALR

VALR is a company founded in 2018 by Farzam Ehsani, theo bohnen and badi sudhakaran.

1

Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

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HackerNoon

HackerNoon is a free online technology blog.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.8m

Money raised

deBridge Finance logo

deBridge Finance

deBridge is a cross-chain interoperability and liquidity transfer protocol that allows decentralized transfer of data and assets between various blockchains.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.5m

Money raised

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Korbit

Korbit is a cryptocurrency exchange that is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea that was founded in 2013 by Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu. Korbit was the worlds first Bitcoin-Korean Won exchange.

3

Funding Rounds

$78.4m

Money raised

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Luno

Luno is a cryptocurrency company founded in 2013 by Marcus Swanepoel.

4

Funding Rounds

$13.7m

Money raised

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OpenInvest

Investing tool and Public Benefit Corporation that emphasizes social responsibility.

6

Funding Rounds

$34.7m

Money raised

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Aztec

Aztec is an open source layer 2 network.

4

Funding Rounds

$217.0m

Money raised