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Greenwave

GreenWave has trained and supported over 120 farmers and hatchery technicians throughout New England, California, New York, the Pacific Northwest, and Alaska. GreenWave works with farmers to launch and scale their businesses through services that mix training with innovation. Their high-and-low touch training ranges from an online seed-to-sale Ocean Farming Toolkit and region-specific workshops to hands-on internships and participation in our farmer support network. GreenWave's innovation program works to scale markets in four shovel-ready sectors - food, agriculture, bioplastics and Blue Carbon - as well as disseminate the latest farm, hatchery and blue tech design throughout their farmer network.

  • agricultural tech
  • coastal wetland protection
  • coastal wetland restoration
  • conservation agriculture
  • edtech
  • education
  • nature tech

Freegle

Freegle is an online platform for exchanging stuff. The platform pair speople who have stuff they don't need with people who need stuff they don't have. This promotes reuse and keeps things out of landfills and incinerators. Freegle has over 2.7 million members across the UK.

  • digital platforms
  • marketplaces

Earth Species Project

Earth Species Project is a non-profit research lab and impact organization focused on using artificial intelligence to advance our understanding of animal communication, and ultimately to decode non-human languages. The organization is founded on the belief that understanding non-human languages will transform how we perceive the world and our relationship with the rest of nature. Their work involves developing machine learning models to interpret animal sounds and movements. While "decoding" communications are a long-term objective, the ESP supports other organizations along the way by supplementing animal and ecological research; supporting existing conservation efforts; and contributing to the fields of ethology, bioacoustics, and machine learning by making their research public.

  • animals
  • artificial intelligence
  • bioacoustics
  • conservation
  • ethology

Memri

Memri.io is a company developing a regenerative AI platform designed to empower individuals with data ownership and control over their digital experiences through AI products that are fair, accountable, and designed to prioritize positive impact and sustainability. Memri AI's approach emphasizes explainability, allowing users to understand how the AI arrives at its conclusions. The core components of Memri's platform are open-sourced, allowing developers to inspect, modify, and contribute to the code.The core compo In its first product, which focuses on content organzation designed to help users balance social media and their own mental health and wellbeing, it ensures users have agency over the data used by the AI and the decisions it helps them make. Memri also operates as a self-governed distributed organization where every individual has influence and autonomy in how the company is run and what is built.

  • artificial intelligence
  • data
  • data sovereignty
  • digital platforms
  • social media

Fairbnb

Fairbnb is a short-term rentals marketplace platform that aims to provide an alternative to traditional vacation rental platforms like Airbnb. It focuses on promoting sustainable tourism, social impact, and community development. Fairbnb prioritizes properties that are owned by locals rather than investors, and it allocates a portion of its revenue to support local community projects chosen by residents. The platform aims to address concerns related to overtourism, gentrification, and the negative impacts of short-term rentals on local communities by fostering a more responsible and sustainable approach to travel.

  • community development
  • cooperative
  • hospitality
  • tourism

Lemongraft

LemonGRAFT is a peer-to-peer marketplace that connects homegrown food growers with people who want to buy it and hosts who steward its preparation and pick-up. The platform enables a local supply chain to make it easy for people to buy fresh, local food directly from the people who grow it. The platform helps decentralize the food supply, foster community connections, and increase local food sovereignty providing tools for growers to improve biodiversity and source nutrient-dense produce, seeds, compost, as well as source animal products from local certified producers.

  • digital platforms
  • food sovereignty
  • food tech
  • local

Junglefy

Junglefy is a company specializes in designing, installing, and maintaining living infrastructure, which are green walls, roofs, facades, and other gardens integrated into buildings or structures. They combine scientific research, biological design, and sensing and monitoring technology to create nature-based solutions to enhance the air quality, carbon sequestration, aesthetics, and improve wellbeing of people in and around built environments. Junglefy offers a full service suite, including financing, planning, co-benefits design, customization, installation, analytics and reporting, maintenance and removal of green waste.

  • air quality
  • built environment
  • cities
  • construction
  • enterprise
  • nature-based solutions

OOOOBY

Ooooby is an digital platform that functions as a decentralized network for local and small-scale food producers, empowering independent farmers and artisans to sell directly to consumers through strategically placed packing hubs. This approach bypasses traditional distribution channels, giving producers greater control and a larger share of the profits. Ooooby utilizes technologies to enable local producers to set up their shopfront and streamline the ordering and delivery process, offering convenience to customers of fresh, local, and sustainable food options. Their mission is to rebuild a food system centered around small-scale community-oriented producers using ecologically sound approaches to food production and consumption. Ooooby also partners with local institutes to support market gardening education and learning opportunities.

  • digital infrastructure
  • digital platforms
  • marketplaces
  • reduced food waste
  • sharing economy
  • social media / community

Giveth

Giveth is a community focused on Building the Future of Giving using blockchain technology. Our intention is to support and reward the funding of public goods by creating open, transparent and free access to the revolutionary funding opportunities available within the Ethereum ecosystem.

  • blockchain
  • charity
  • crowdfunding
  • daos
  • digital assets
  • digital ledgers
  • governance platforms
  • philanthropy
  • web3

Flourish

Flourish Science is a well-being and AI startup co-founded by psychologists from Stanford University and a designer and serial entrepreneur previously at Google and C3 AI. Utilizing a B2B2C model, Flourish Science offers a science-based app and organizational programs that helps employees and students develop and implement small habits for happiness and well-being. Flourish's proactive, personalized, and social approach seeks to provide an effective method to improve users' daily mood, social connectedness, and overall life satisfaction.

  • artificial intelligence
  • data
  • digital platforms
  • health tech
  • marketplaces
  • welltech

Notpla

Notpla is a biotech company focused on fully biodegradable packaging solutions derived from seaweed and other plant-based materials. Notpla’s product portfolio includes a range of solutions, from a completely edible seaweed-based capsule for water consumption, as well as alternatives for single-use containers and shipping materials, and plant-based coatings that can replace plastic film and extend the shelf life of perishable items.

  • biodegradation
  • biotech
  • circular economy
  • material science
  • packaging
  • plastics

Houdini clothing

Houdini sportswear caters to adventurers and athletes with a focus on eco-conscious, high-performance clothing. They craft technical apparel that combines durability, functionality, and minimalist design for activities like hiking, climbing, skiing, and trail running. Houdini prioritizes sustainability throughout their production process, using recycled materials whenever possible and employing practices that minimize environmental impact. Beyond performance and eco-friendliness, Houdini is known for innovation in material science and garment design, creating lightweight, weather-protective, and versatile pieces for dedicated outdoor enthusiasts.

  • circular economy
  • clothing
  • digital platforms
  • marketplaces
  • material science
  • textiles