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MVO Nederland MVO Nederland

Infinitely entrepreneurial. MVO Nederland sends the transition to a sustainable economy with the largest entrepreneurial movement in Europe. That transition requires a change in the current system. The business community is able to respond quickly and well on changing circumstances like no other. And so we believe that together with them we achieve the fastest and the best results. MVO Nederland wants at least twenty percent of the Dutch economy to deal with the sustainable economy in 2025, which is based on more than just financial values ​​and runs within the boundaries of nature and society. Grote Bedrijven Netwerk, Corporate …

Type: Media

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Mama Cash Mama Cash

Mama Cash supports visionary women, girls, trans & intersex people who are fighting for their rights around the world. Founded in Amsterdam in 1983, Mama Cash is the oldest international women’s fund and one of just a few funds dedicated exclusively to advancing women’s, girls’ and trans and intersex people’s human rights globally. We give grants to over 130 forward-thinking initiatives led by women, girls and trans people around the world annually, supporting them not only financially, but also by sharing knowledge and networking opportunities. Mama Cash supports the development of regional women’s funds around the world. We also encourage …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: edtech

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Makerversity Makerversity

Co-making. Co-working & making workshops for startup maker businesses. Makerversity builds and supports communities of the most exciting maker businesses. Our mission is to support and grow a diverse selection of the most exciting maker start-ups. From designers to hackers, engineers to wearable technologists, makers to inventors, we provide space, people and support to develop your creative practice. Located in central London and Amsterdam. International Coworking Community, Provide fabrication and prototyping facilties, Inspiring the next generation, Provide permanent workspace, event and studio spaces, Bring making back to the city, and Provide business support, events and cultural programs

Type: SMB Activities: proptech

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60 Decibels 60 Decibels

Global impact measurement company - we make it easy to listen to the people who matter the most 60 Decibels is the world’s leading customer insights company for social impact. We bring speed and scale to social measurement, making it easy to listen directly to the people who matter most. Impact Management, Impact Measurement, Customer Insights, Market Research, Data Collection, Performance Data, and Social Impact

Type: Startup Activities: martech Technologies: Data Analytics

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Swedish Algae Factory Swedish Algae Factory

Advanced Materials from Algae for Personal care, solar efficiency enhancement, lithium-ion battery anodes, cont. release We produce uniquely functional materials that are good for the planet. Our mission is to be the world-leading producer of advanced materials from algae and a driving force towards a circular and bio-based industry. We are the first company in the world to cultivate and sell diatom algae shells. We call the material Algica®. Algica® is a porous silica with unique light altering, absorptive and binding properties that are unmatched by synthetic materials. Algica® is today used as a top-performing and certified organic personal care …

Type: Startup Activities: biotech cleantech deeptech energytech greentech manufacturing Technologies: Bio sourced materials New Materials Solar Technologies

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Studio Roosegaarde Studio Roosegaarde

Social design lab for Landscapes of the Future. Dreaming & doing in Rotterdam, NL. We are pioneers for the liveability of future landscapes. Clean air, clean water, clean energy, and now clean space are our new values. As social design lab, Dutch artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde and his team of designers and engineers connect people and technology in artworks that improve daily life in urban environments and spark imagination. Internationally acclaimed works include WATERLICHT (a virtual flood showing the power of water), SMOG FREE PROJECT (the world's first largest outdoor air purifier which turns smog into jewellery), SMART HIGHWAY …

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech greentech Technologies: Decarbonization

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LeydenJar LeydenJar

The future is full of energy LeydenJar Technologies develops a 100% Silicon anode that boosts the energy density of Li-ion batteries for application in consumer electronics, automotive and specialty applications. Lithium Ion Batteries, Nanotechnology, Silicon anodes, and PECVD

Type: Startup Activities: nanotech deeptech Technologies: Batteries

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Dopper Dopper

We're on a mission to end packaged water by getting people to drink tap water. Dopper exists to solve something, not sell something. We exist to solve the problems caused by packaged water, and the pollution it creates in our world's waters. We are here to end packaged water. We do this by getting people to drink from the tap, stopping companies from selling single-use water bottles, and lobbying governments to ban them. Because in order to change everything, we need everyone. Our solutions range from reusable water bottles and accessible water taps to community actions and governmental lobbying. Raising …

Type: Startup Activities: civictech Technologies: Decarbonization

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Homie Homie

Providing household appliances as a service through a sustainable Pay-Per-Use model. We are Homie Pay-Per-Use, a young innovative business that operates at the forefront of the circular economy since 2016. We offer household appliances as a service. Homie aims to significantly reduce the environmental impact of household appliances, by moving from “ownership” to “pay-per-use”. Our impact does not end but rather starts with the delivery of a sustainable appliance. Via Pay-Per-Use, we exert significant impact in the user phase by stimulating energy-efficient consumption (i.e. cold and ECO-programs cost less than hot non-energy-efficient programs) Home appliances, Pay Per Use, Internet of …

Type: Startup Activities: civictech consumer goods Technologies: Decarbonization

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Kromkommer Kromkommer

Krom is het nieuwe recht. Kromkommer is a social enterprise that aims to contribute to the reduction of food waste. About 10% of vegetables is wasted simply because they don't look good enough or because there is too much of it. Our goal is to get these veggies back on our plates. We tell the story of this beloved produce with creative campaigns and our own line of wonky vegetable soups & wonky fruit and vegetable toys. For more information, please check www.kromkommer.com or visit our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/kromkommer and join our Krommunity on Twitter @krommunity

Type: Startup Activities: foodtech

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Seepje Seepje

Seepje washes the future clean with natural detergent, washing -up liquid and hand soap 🌱🧼 #wasjewereldschoner Seepje makes natural laundry and polishes. The ingredients are carefully chosen on the basis of origin and health for people and the environment. Seepje is good and good. It does what it has to do and contributes to a better climate. Melvin and Jasper - both with a passion for washing - Seepje started their stufi in 2013. Seepje now has more than 25 laundry and cleaning products that can be purchased at more than 5800 stores in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. And …

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech greentech Technologies: Bio sourced materials

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True Price True Price

With all the stuff you buy you leave traces behind. Your morning coffee, daily T-shirt, or evening lipstick. Often, natural and social costs are involved. For example, social costs include extremely low wages or unsafe work environment for workers and examples of natural costs are air pollution or water waste. This damage has a price for people and nature, which isn't included in the prices you pay at the store. At True Price, we are working on our mission of making it possible for you to see and voluntarily pay the true price of your own products. True Price also …

Type: Startup Activities: civictech greentech it services cleantech Technologies: Decarbonization

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Metabolic Metabolic

Using systems thinking to tackle global sustainability challenges and accelerate the transition to a circular economy. Metabolic is a consulting and venture-building company that uses systems thinking to tackle major sustainability challenges. Our overarching mission is to transition the global economy to a fundamentally sustainable - and circular - state. Headquartered in Amsterdam, we have an international and interdisciplinary team. We provide strategies and tools, crunch data, create new technologies, build pilots and scale up innovations. We empower people through education and communication and our Foundation helps us reach underserved communities. Our approach develops in response to emerging challenges and …

Type: Startup Activities: civictech greentech cleantech Technologies: Decarbonization Data Analytics

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Peerby Peerby

Peerby is het platform waar je je spullen kunt (uit)lenen en (ver)huren aan je buren Met Peerby kun je de dingen die je nodig hebt lenen en huren van mensen uit je buurt.Waarom veel geld uitgeven aan dingen die je maar af en toe nodig hebt? Peerby.com is 's werelds eerste peer-to-peer-deelplatform dat actief aanbod creëert door rond te vragen via Facebook, pushberichten en e-mail. // Peerby enables you to borrow and rent the things you need from people in your neighborhood. Why spend hundreds of dollars on things you only need once or once in a while? Imagine an …

Type: Startup Activities: consumer services Technologies: SaaS

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De Groene Afslag De Groene Afslag

The circular hub of 't Gooi with Restaurant, Anders-Dan-Ander meeting rooms, events and the change school. The green exit is a circular hub, with all-is-other meeting rooms, delicious hospitality, events and the home of the change school. We want to seduce people, get them comfortably out of their comfort zone and let them experience that change can be fun, tasty and nice. And feasible! Because in our lives (at home and at work) we have to do a few things differently if we want to keep it a bit pleasant on Deez ’Aertloot. At the green exit we show that …

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech greentech Technologies: Decarbonization

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GambleAware GambleAware

GambleAware commissions national prevention and treatment services to keep people safe from gambling harms in GB GambleAware is an independent, grant-making charity commissioning prevention and treatment services across England, Scotland and Wales to keep people safe from gambling harms. Guided by a public health model, we commission integrated prevention services on a national scale and in partnership with expert organisations and agencies, including the NHS, across three areas of activity: • Commissioning the National Gambling Treatment Service • Public health campaigns including Bet Regret as well as providing practical support to local services • Commissioning research & evaluation to improve …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: healthtech

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InspiraFarms Cooling InspiraFarms Cooling

Cold chain solutions & technology for perishables in agricultural supply chains InspiraFarms provides agribusinesses, exporters, 3PL and food distributors in Africa with cold chain solutions and finance for cooling and handling their fresh produce, significantly cutting energy costs, reducing food losses and ready to meet the major international food safety certifications, and allowing real time remote performance monitoring. Engineering, construction and servicing of modular and high-efficiency dry steel infrastructures, high-efficiency industrial refrigeration machinery and equipment integrated through an IoT platform. agribusiness, food processing, post-harvest handling, technology, asset finance, and food losses

Type: Startup Activities: agritech industry 4.0 Technologies: IoT

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SteamaCo SteamaCo

Advanced IoT technology for energy utilities in emerging markets SteamaCo offers an advanced IoT smart metering platform that’s revolutionising the energy industry in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. In the distribution grid sector, we help utilities detect theft, resolve it fast and meet regulatory losses targets. In the off-grid sector, our smart meters and remote online management help utilities deliver clean, reliable and low-cost energy. And for all utilities, we help you cut operational costs and boost revenue. Proudly co-creating with pioneers of industry to make positive changes to the world, SteamaCo is bringing better energy management to ever more …

Type: Startup Activities: industry 4.0 smart city Technologies: Sensors IoT SaaS

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SELCO Foundation SELCO Foundation

Bringing impact through sustainable energy innovations and enterprises Sustainable energy practitioners have long noticed energy access affects rural and urban populations’ livelihood, generation capacity, education attendance, health outcomes and overall quality of life. In response, SELCO India (for profit, social enterprise) created SELCO Foundation on 5th October, 2010 as a public charitable trust, with the mission to: 1. Systematically identify diverse needs of underserved communities, understand and define the role of sustainability and energy in these communities. 2. Create and support innovative and sustainable solutions that positively impact well-being, education and livelihoods and work towards the alleviation of poverty. 3. …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Startup Activities: cleantech edtech greentech agritech Technologies: Solar Technologies

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Impact Europe Impact Europe

The investing for impact network Impact Europe is the investing for impact network. We gather capital providers (impact funds, foundations, corporate social investors, banks, public funders) to increase prosperity and social progress for all, fix inequalities and injustices and preserve the planet. Together, we rally people, capital and knowledge to accelerate, scale and safeguard impact. Photos: Getty Images René Magritte work © Succession René Magritte – Sabam Belgium 2022 Impact Investing, ESG, sustainable finance, impact finance, IMM, impact management, impact entrepreneurship , corporate social investors, social entrepreneurship , purpose, finance, investing, social economy, and corporate impact

Tags: H2020 Type: Incubators & VCs

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HomeBiogas HomeBiogas

Making Waste Matter We believe that every element in life serves a purpose. Where people see waste, we see a resource. Every item can be reused, repurposed, and reinserted into the value chain to produce something meaningful. It is with this mindset that we aspire to transform the world of waste with sustainable solutions that meets every lifestyle. Our products are built upon a deep understanding of nature and the circular economy. In harmony with the natural processes of the earth, we use smart technology to strengthen the chemical process of anaerobic digestion and turn natural and organic waste into …

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech energytech greentech Technologies: Decarbonization

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Stathmos-Balance the Climate Stathmos-Balance the Climate

Stathmos New direct air capture technology to balance the climate Stathmos represents the next generation of direct air capture (DAC). We combine novel sorbent and innovative process in our modular Statbox to remove permanently carbon dioxyde and balance the climat. Direct Air Capture and Carbon dioxyde removal

Type: Startup Activities: greentech cleantech Technologies: Decarbonization

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Enviu Enviu

We build world changing companies. Hi! We are Enviu. When we founded Enviu in 2004, our belief was the same as it is today: An inclusive economy that serves people and planet. An economy enriching the lives of all people, providing access to basic needs. An economy sustainably utilizing the valuable and limited resources our planet endows. To instigate this economy we build ventures that address social and environmental issues, and drive market development. With high impact in the domains of agrifood, zero waste, mobility and textiles. Entrepreneurial, innovative, sustainability, creativity, sharing knowledge and expertise, young people, network, crowdfunding, impact, …

Tags: H2020 Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: civictech greentech cleantech

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DSM DSM

inactive - follow dsm-firmenich DSM is since May 9 2023 part of dsm-firmenich. Please follow us here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dsm-firmenich sustainability, health, sustainable living, animal health, food ingredients, vitamins, animal nutrition, early life nutrition, fragrances, pharmaceuticals, biomedical, aquaculture, medical nutrition, baking ingredients, flavors, ingredients, research, and natural ingredients

Type: Media

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The Great Bubble Barrier® The Great Bubble Barrier®

Cleaning rivers from plastic pollution with bubbles The Great Bubble Barrier: A proven concept to reduce river plastics and an elegant bubbly solution to a worldwide problem. Too much of the waste that our society produces ends up in the water, where it damages marine and human life. Sea turtles and fish get caught up in plastic, ships are obstructed in their paths, and microplastics form a health hazard for the smallest to the largest organisms. Plastic soup is recognised as a international problem more and more, by both the general public, municipalities, government and the European Union. We believe …

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech greentech water management Technologies: IoT

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Orbisk | Zero Food Waste Orbisk | Zero Food Waste

Orbisk helps professional kitchens to get a grip on their food waste with its fully automated food waste monitor. Orbisk is a start-up on a mission to make the world food system more sustainable. We do this by using progressive and innovative technology. One of today's biggest challenges is food waste. Worldwide about one-third of all food produced is wasted. Looking at The Netherlands, for the hospitality industry alone, this adds up to 150 million kilos per year! Our integral solution provides hospitality organizations with a complete insight into their food waste. And by doing so help them cut their …

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech foodtech greentech Technologies: A.I.

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Bboxx Bboxx

A data-driven super platform, transforming lives & unlocking potential by connecting consumers to innovative products Bboxx is a data-driven super platform, transforming lives and unlocking potential by connecting consumers and deploying innovative products across Africa. Bboxx is championing the economic empowerment of Africa, accelerating the transition to the digital economy and creating new markets. We have built Bboxx Pulse®, a fully integrated operating system, and combined it with an extensive on-the-ground network to connect customers with clean energy, clean cooking, smartphones, e-mobility and selected financial products – many for the first time. We are connecting both underserved rural communities and …

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech energytech greentech Technologies: Solar Technologies

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De Balie De Balie

De Balie produceert programma’s over kunst, cultuur en politiek. De Balie is a political, cultural, theatre- and debate centre with a grand café-restaurant situated at the heart of Amsterdam at the Leidseplein. According to The Economist: "De Balie, a cosily chic cultural venue on Amsterdam’s Leidseplein, is the epicentre of Dutch liberal intellectual life." De Balie specialises in a number of territories: art, society, politics, media and cinema, and regularly organises thought-provoking programs. These programs consistently bear the mark of a sharp and deeply analytical character; De Balie leaves no questions of social relevance unasked. Through talkshows, lively discussions, elaborate …

Type: Media

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Cordaid Cordaid

Op de wereld om elkaar te helpen Cordaid is an internationally operating value-based emergency relief and development organisation, working in and on fragility. We stand with those who are hit hardest by poverty and conflict. We support them in their struggle to move beyond survival and to fully participate in equitable and resilient societies. development cooperation, project administration, poverty alleviation, and small scale entrepreneurship

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: it services

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Groningen Seaports Groningen Seaports

NEDERLAND. WATERSTOFLAND. Partner MissieH2. #waterstofland Business Space | Offshore Wind Eemshaven | Dataport Groningen | Chemport Europe | Circular Economy Delfzijl | Groningen Innovation Port Groningen Seaports is the port authority and commercial operator of the port of Delfzijl, Eemshaven and the adjoining industrial sites. The company provides the complete package of port services to its industrial and SME clients, from logistics services to the issue and maintenance of the sites in both port regions. Groningen Seaports manages an area totalling approximately 2600 hectares. Groningen Seaports also comprises two inland ports: Farmsumerhaven and Oosterhornhaven. The location, the range of various …

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech greentech Technologies: Hydrogen

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Seedstars Seedstars

Impacting people's lives in emerging & frontier markets through technology and entrepreneurship. Seedstars is a global organisation with a mission to impact people's lives in emerging & frontier markets through technology and entrepreneurship. If you are interested in joining an exciting mission and work in a flexible environment where you are supported to do your best, then check out our careers page: seedstars.com/careers/ Startup, Technology, Entrepreneur, Emerging Market, innovation, Social impact, Africa, Asia, Latin America, CEE, MENA, Social Innovation, Venture Capital, and Investment

Type: Incubators & VCs Startup Activities: civictech entrepreneurship

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Amsterdam Economic Board Amsterdam Economic Board

The network of organisations working on innovation for the Metropolis of Tomorrow We work together with companies, academia, government and social organisations on the smart, green and healthy Metropolis of Tomorrow.

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: transporttech

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Albert Heijn Albert Heijn

That is the tasty thing about Albert Heijn. At Albert Heijn we believe that eating and drinking plays an essential role in the major challenges in society. It makes an important contribution to a healthy lifestyle, it connects people and contributes to a better climate and therefore a sustainable society. Our mission is: "Making better food together together. For everyone. " Every day is full of choices and with all the possibilities of today, choosing is not always easy. In addition, Albert Heijn understands that food is different for everyone, but in the end we all want the same thing: …

Type: Large company Activities: foodtech

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Opes-Lcef Opes-Lcef

Providing capital where it is most needed, least available, and has the most potential to effect change. Opes-Lcef provides patient capital to early-stage companies whose products and services improve the lives of low-income people and create positive social and environmental impact. We were one of the first Italian vehicles to support social enterprises in the developing and emerging economies, and recently in Italy. We also support our companies with mentorship, strategic guidance, governance, temporary management, and search for additional capital needed to scale into long-term solutions. We support the social impact ecosystem by organizing training initiatives, “boot-camps”, for social entrepreneurs, …

Type: Incubators & VCs

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Starters.eco Starters.eco

The ecosystem for impact makers. Change starts here. At Starters we are the starting point for the leaders of tomorrow. Whether it is a career switch, scaling up your social enterprise or raising an urgent problem; Change requires a new kind of leadership. Leadership that our world - right now - needs. From tools and inspiration to training and programs. Together we work on the world of tomorrow and starters is the place where impact becomes tangible. Discover our offer for young people, for professionals and our (local) networks via our website: https://starters.eco. Social entrepreneurship, training, bottom-up, urban development, leadership, …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: civictech edtech

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Brouwerij de Prael Brouwerij de Prael

Brouwerij de Prael is a food & beverages company based out of Oudezijds Voorburgwal 28, AMSTERDAM, Netherlands.

Type: SMB Activities: foodtech

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Cotierra Cotierra

Making Latin American smallholder farmers our climate heroes! Cotierra (previously Terra Preta) removes carbon and improves farmers margins by enabling decentralized biochar production in the Global South at scale. We provide net-zero committed companies with credible climate action in the form of transparent and permanent carbon removal credits with social and environmental co-benefits for rural communities in the Global South. We partner with coffee/cacao traders and cooperatives to improve the margins of their farmers through reduced fertilizer usage and increased crop yield while lowering the footprint of the produced cacao/coffee. We do this by enabling the decentralized production of biochar, …

Type: Startup Activities: healthtech Technologies: SaaS

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The EnAccess Foundation The EnAccess Foundation

Open Source in Energy Access EnAccess supports the development and maintenance of Open Source products for the Energy Access sector in different ways, all depending on the scope of the idea. We collaborate and co-create Open Source Innovations that benefit the energy access sector. We offer technical assistance for Open Source Software, Hardware, and other sorts of toolkits that can be used by the Energy Access sector. EnAccess offers project certification. This means we can review and ensure the quality of a project and its documentation, host it in our Open Source library, and help create a community around it. …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: cleantech energytech greentech

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Gardeners | Certified B-CorpTM Gardeners | Certified B-CorpTM

With strategy, campaigns and PR we make a positive impact on the world B Corp Certified Where good things grow We let all the positive grow with newsworthy advertising. You can contact us for strategy (brand and marketing), campaigns, activations (marketing PR, consumer and experiential marketing activations), and PR (Creative Mailings, Creative PR, Branded Content and Influencer Marketing). All our services have been broadened over the years, but our earned media way of thinking is still in the heart of everything we do. Our pay-off is where good things grow. By good things we mean everything that adds something good …

Type: Startup Activities: martech

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The ENERGY ACTION Project The ENERGY ACTION Project

Reporting that seeks to empower. The Energy Action Project (EnAct) is a multimedia project dedicated to raising awareness of the reality that almost half of the world's population currently lives in a state of 'energy poverty'​. Where access to modern energy is lacking or limited, people are unable to sustain basic well-being or to fully participate in social and economic development. ~2.7 billion people have no access to modern energy (Africa and Asia) ~600 million are constrained by unreliable supply (emerging economies) ~100 million cannot afford today’s energy prices (Europe and North America) Combining web documentaries, interactive content and expert …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: cleantech energytech greentech

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The Dutch Weed Burger The Dutch Weed Burger

Profoundly Plant Based We are the rebels that believe in radical change. The ones that turn the tide for the animals, the planet and ourselves, guided by the gospel of the sea, the source of all life. From protein-rich beans to the magical wonder of the ocean greens. Always enjoying this profound deliciousness. We are nourished by the best foods that the plant-based kingdom has to offer.

Type: Startup Activities: foodtech Technologies: Bio sourced materials

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Yespers Yespers

Towards a food chain that serves both people and the planet! With amazing products and special ingredients towards an inclusive and sustainable food valuechain. #impactwithfood #foodwithimpact Social Enterprise, Food, retail, innovation, sdgs, social impact, foodwithimpact, impactwithfood, and foodwaste

Type: Startup Activities: foodtech Technologies: Decarbonization

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Oscar Circulair Oscar Circulair

Oscar Circular is on a mission to make cities waste -free! Oscar makes cities waste -free! The aim of Oscar is to reduce the residual waste flow, to bundle high -quality raw material flows for reuse and to increase the liveability of an area by limiting (polluting) transport movements. With a small and sustainable vehicle, Oscar personally picks up the waste and raw materials from all participants seven days a week. We work with people with a distance to the labor market, among other things. Waste and raw materials are transported to a hub in the area. Value flows and …

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech greentech Technologies: New Materials

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Dharmalife Dharmalife

We manufacture the product line #Collagenfamily, first family with high concentrations of hydrolyzed collagen + A powerful biotechnological development that we call Qüid® Potentialize your youth and vitality through its 3 innovative Glamming ® lines, Healthing ® and Slimming ®

Type: Startup Activities: healthtech manufacturing cosmetics

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Impact Hub Kigali Impact Hub Kigali

We empower entrepreneurs and innovators to create social impact! We are passionate about bringing people together to solve their social challenges together. Since 2015, we bring together a community of impact-driven members, host a creative space, and run programs to support innovators and entrepreneurs. Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Coworking space, Design Thinking, Startups, Community building, Event design/facilitation, and Program design

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: entrepreneurship

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Fairphone Fairphone

We’re on a mission to change technology for the better. Fairphone is a social enterprise that is building a movement for fairer electronics. By making sustainable tech, we’re opening up the supply chain and creating new relationships between people and their products. We’re making a positive impact across the value chain in mining, design, manufacturing and life cycle, while expanding the market for products that put ethical values first. Together with our community, we’re changing the way products are made. Fair business, Design, Research, Mining, Smartphones, Repair, Recycling, Research, Crowd Funding, and Social Enterprise

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech greentech manufacturing civictech Technologies: Decarbonization

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The Chairmen at Work The Chairmen at Work

The Chairmen at Work Offers High-Quality Vitality Services, by Our Enthusiastic, Skilled and Visaally Impaired Staff. The Chairmen at Work is a social enterprise that specializes in services in the field of vitality. What makes The Chairmen at Work unique and special is that all masseurs and coaches have a visual impairment. Due to the loss of a sense, our people are very empathetic and have more focus on the people they massage and/or coach. They make a contribution to vitality in the workplace with the result: energetic employees, less absenteeism and a lot of positive attention for employees. By …

Type: Startup Activities: healthtech

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Rechtstreex Rechtstreex

Since 2013 we have been building a short food chain: fresh products directly from farmers and makers from the region. Fresh, seasonal groceries do directly with farmers and makers from your own region. This will be possible with RechtStreex. You order online or take a subscription and enjoy the best thing the region has to offer. This way you know again where your food comes from and you support farmers who work on an attractive landscape in your region. Everyone in this local food chain gets a face and is just as involved with good food as you are. This …

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech foodtech greentech Technologies: Decarbonization

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Intellecap Advisory Services Private Limited Intellecap Advisory Services Private Limited

Intellecap Advisory Services Private Limited is an investment banking company based out of ROAD NO 12 BANJARA HILLS, HYDERABAD, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Type: Incubators & VCs

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Black Bear Carbon Black Bear Carbon

We bring the Circular Economy to tires! How often do you change the tyres on your car? Do you know where they end up at the end of their lives? Black Bear brings them into the circular economy! We are the world's first producer of Cradle to Cradle CertifiedTM carbon black. We choose to change the industry with breakthrough technology and with passionate people. Carbon black is usually produced by burning fossil fuels and therefore emitting large amounts of CO2. We produce carbon black by extracting it from waste tires and converting the remains of the tires into oil and …

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech greentech manufacturing Technologies: Decarbonization

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Ojay Greene Ojay Greene

A brand inspired by the radical generosity of women everywhere 👩 Ojay Greene is a brand built around women who we love and we are, whether you are a farmer in rural Kenya or a single mom working a 9-to-5 job anywhere in the world. In a world where unpaid labor often goes unseen and undervalued, we intend for our products to speak to the unseen work of caring for others in our life. We hope that Ojay Greene feels like an embrace of gratitude to anyone, anywhere. Community Development, Market Linkage, Smallholder Farmer Mobilization, ICT Innovation, Sustainable Agriculture, and …

Type: Startup Activities: agritech foodtech Technologies: Decarbonization

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rotterzwam rotterzwam

Sinds 2013 helpen wij organisaties hun koffiedik te redden van de vuilverbranding. Mogen wij ook jullie koffie redden? Rotterzwam believes in a society that closes cycles, uses raw materials to the maximum of their potential and consumes more green proteins than animal proteins. We do this by working together locally, regionally and internationally to stimulate and facilitate the production of mushrooms on local residual flows. The result is a wide range of products and services around mushroom production, awareness and lovely snacks based on green proteins. Eetbare paddenstoelenkwekerij, Oesterzwammen op koffiedik, Stadslandbouw, Inspirerende spreker, Opleiding: Mushroom Master Program, and Rondleidingen

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech greentech

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Gham Power Gham Power

Solar for Business and Community Gham Power is a Solar company based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Established in 2010, we have carried out over 4,000 projects with a cumulative installed capacity of over 5.8 MW. We are the first company to venture into the rural energy sector and the first to introduce pay-as-you-go services in the energy market. 7 out of the 28 million people in Nepal live without access to electricity, mostly in rural, subsistence farming communities. They use kerosene, firewood, and diesel for energy, paying costs as high as $5/kWh. Clean and affordable energy can significantly help increase local …

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech greentech Technologies: Solar Technologies

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SPARK SPARK

Bright days ahead We are Spark, and we're here to power tomorrow. We connect millions of people in emerging markets to solar power. We promise the highest level of customer satisfaction, and we deliver on that promise. Our modular systems are carefree and help you grow in life and work, no matter where you live, our grid allows even the smallest community to become energy resilient. User integrated design, Innovative Smart-Grid based Energy Networks, Combining research and direct implementation, System design, Leveraging existing local networks, solar, electrification, paygo, linking supply and demand, micro grid, solar home system, village level entrepreneurs, …

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech greentech Technologies: Sensors Solar Technologies

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Chocolatemakers BV Chocolatemakers BV

Bean-to-bar chocolate factory in Amsterdam. Organic and hand made chocolate production. Planet-Loving Deliciousness 🌴🍫Chocolate for Chocolate lovers.

Type: Startup Activities: foodtech Technologies: Bio sourced materials

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Frontier Markets Frontier Markets

India's leading social commerce platform: Trusted by rural customers, tech-enabled, powered by women Frontier Markets is India’s premier rural social commerce platform, offering an essential last mile connection to rural households, working with and for women. Working hand in hand offer our customers life-improving solutions — ranging from access to financial services, clean energy, agricultural solutions, and health & homecare products. Having delivered over 50 million solutions to rural doorsteps within 48 hours to their doorsteps and having reached 700k+, we believe we have cracked the code for serving rural markets. The key to our success? Investing in rural women …

Type: Startup Activities: martech Technologies: Data Analytics

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KiesZon KiesZon

KieNzon designs, finances and realizes large -scale solar trees. After delivery, Kieszon also takes care of the maintenance and operation of the project. From the first introductory meeting to the annual maintenance, electoral sun ensures a flawless process aimed at realizing an optimally performing solar power project. Our process is designed with its own advisors, own engineers, own engineers and their own method. That is vertical integration according to Kieszon, all in -house and in -house. As a full service Solar Company, we ensure that partners do not have to worry. One professional party for the entire process. This way, …

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech energytech greentech Technologies: Decarbonization Solar Technologies

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Nuvo Energy Africa Nuvo Energy Africa

A Renewable energy solutions company delivering viable PV solutions to clients on the African continent. A renewable energy solutions company delivering viable energy solutions to clients on across the African continent. We are proudly African. 🇦🇴🇬🇭🇱🇸🇳🇦🇳🇬🇸🇱🇺🇬🇿🇦🇸🇷🇸🇿🇹🇿 Green Solutions, Sustainibility, Solar Power, Photo Voltiac, Design, Supply & Install, Solar, Green Energy, Project Management, Design, EPC, EPCM, and Green

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech energytech greentech Technologies: Decarbonization Solar Technologies

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Steward Redqueen Steward Redqueen

The consultancy firm that wants to make business work for society The consultancy firm that wants to make business work for society We believe that great companies know that their success in the market depends on the positive impact they have on society. Our clients want to understand and increase their impact. Our business is helping them do that. We are a specialised consultancy that works across the globe advising organisations on impact and sustainability. Read more in our Culture Manifesto: https://demo.app.getsumm.co/manifesto/culturesrq Strategy, Consulting, Development Finance, ESG, ESG Management, Impact Measurement, Evaluation, Impact investing, Socio Economic Impact Assessment, and Integrated …

Type: Startup Activities: consulting constructiontech

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MUD Jeans MUD Jeans

Frontrunners In Circular Denim. MUD Jeans is a Dutch sustainable denim brand and the first circular denim brand in the world, known for its innovative ‘Lease A Jeans’ model. As a leader in circular innovation, MUD Jeans scores in the top 5 of B Corps. MUD Jeans has also won various awards and recognitions such as Koning Willem 1-Plaquette for Sustainable Entrepreneurship (2022), ABN Amro Sustainable Retailer of the Year (2020), Sustainable Leaders Award (2015), Peta Vegan Award (2015). Recycle, Fair Trade, MUD Jeans, Circular Design, Denim, Innovation, B Corp, Carbon Neutral, and Fashion

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech fashtech greentech Technologies: New Materials

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Roetz-Bikes Roetz-Bikes

Sustainable, social and circular bicycle company. All our bikes are proudly handmade at Roetz Fair Factory. Roetz is een sociale onderneming, winnaar van de circular award 2022, die zich als doel heeft gesteld om bij te dragen aan een inclusieve en circulaire samenleving. Roetz maakt fietsen op basis van hergebruikte onderdelen van weesfietsen en creëert daarmee werk en een opleidingstraject binnen een industrie die zit te springen om mensen. In augustus 2016 heeft Roetz een sociale fietsfabriek geopend aan het Gedempt Hamerkanaal in Amsterdam Noord. Roetz heeft zowel een groene als een sociale missie. Fietsen krijgen een tweede leven, mensen …

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech Technologies: Decarbonization

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AirZyme AirZyme

Reversing global warming using nature’s own regulators. Reversing global warming using nature’s own regulators.

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech greentech Technologies: Decarbonization

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Rootical Rootical

Regenerative start-up studio for food system entrepreneurs Rootical Start-up Studio enables social entrepreneurs in Uganda to build and own their regenerative agri-food businesses. We aim to regenerate not only agriculture but also finance and entrepreneurship. Our work is based on 3 pillars: 🌱 Regenerative agriculture and agroecology as the best paradigms for our future food systems. 🤝 Purpose-driven entrepreneurship to drive both impact and profitability of inclusive business models that address key food system challenges. 💸 Steward ownership to change the way our food companies of tomorrow are financed, managed and owned, moving away from extractive capital to true impact …

Type: Incubators & VCs

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Social Enterprise NL Social Enterprise NL

Driver of the growing movement of social entrepreneurs. Social Enterprise NL is a driver of the growing movement of social entrepreneurs working on the economy in which profit is created for everyone. Social Enterprises are companies with primarily a social goal, an innovative scalable approach and a sustainable revenue model. Social entrepreneurs are precursors in creating a healthy economy in which social and economic values ​​go hand in hand. Want to know more? Look at www.social-enterprise.nl Social Enterprise, Social Entrepreneurship, Impact, Accelerators, Growth Program, Lobby, Support, Support, Workshops, Social Enterprises, Buy Social, Purchasing, and Social Enterprise NL

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: civictech

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Social Club Den Haag Social Club Den Haag

Entrepreneurship with a sustainable and social impact is the Future for a healthy and vital city. Social Club helps social entrepreneurs to increase the social impact of their social business. Our goal is to stimulate social entrepreneurship in the The Hague region. Through various events we bring our members into contact with each other and we support them in every phase of their business operations: from tailor -made advice on specific issues to coaching and guidance in the successful marketing of a social business plan. Social Club The Hague is the regional platform for social entrepreneurs in the The Hague …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: civictech

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Capital House Capital House

Creating space for meaningful connections with capital Capital House Agency supports purpose-driven founders & organisations by creating meaningful connections with Capital. Founded in 2015, we started with the mission to open up the investor landscape for startup founders by introducing the annual Amsterdam Capital Week event. Since then 100+ events took place in Amsterdam and the Netherlands, with over 10,000 attendees. From unique experiences like startups sailing with investors to a deserted island to cycling around the city to meet investors. ​In 2019, Amsterdam Capital House was introduced to further support founders and create a closely connected ecosystem where capital …

Type: Event

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MYCOTEX by NEFFA MYCOTEX by NEFFA

MYCOTEX® by NEFFA is the first next-gen biomaterial suitable for the NEFFA | New Fashion Factory. Multi-award winning MYCOTEX by NEFFA is the first next-gen biomaterial suitable for the NEFFA | New Fashion Factory, the ground breaking automated manufacturing method allowing for custom products made from biomaterials. Biomass is robotically applied around affordable, configurable and recyclable 3D moulds. This innovative supply chain is giving brands unlimited design freedom, is circular and based on automation. This patented process gives customers (B2B) unprecedented design freedom to create silhouettes and textures that were never possible with traditional manufacturing processes. It is circular and …

Type: SMB Activities: fashtech Technologies: 3D Printing Bio sourced materials

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Land van Ons Land van Ons

A citizens' initiative: buy agricultural land together for restoring our biodiversity. You are already participating for € 30 per year. Land van us is a cooperative of and for all citizens in the Netherlands. The cooperative has 2 objectives: The first is to realize a new ecological main structure in the Netherlands of our cultural land. A network of 300,000 hectares of agricultural land, which is operated in a sustainable way and will again become an important area in the Netherlands for our biodiversity. This concerns 15% of the current agricultural area in the Netherlands. The second objective is to …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: greentech cleantech

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Aqua-Spark Aqua-Spark

The world's largest investment fund dedicated to sustainable aquaculture. Aqua-Spark is the world’s largest investment fund dedicated to sustainable aquaculture. Through our investments across the global aquaculture value chain, we enable the innovative and sustainable farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, molluscs, and algae (including seaweed) in ponds, lakes, rivers, the ocean, and in land-based tanks. Aqua-Spark is building a portfolio of 50-60 mature companies that work synergistically to transform the aquaculture industry into one that is healthy, sustainable and affordable, while simultaneously providing competitive returns to our global community of 350+ investors. Investments in Sustainable Aquaculture, Sustainability, …

Type: Incubators & VCs

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Open Capital Open Capital

Advancing African economies and building future generations of business leaders. Open Capital is a management consulting and financial advisory firm that drives growth, enables investment, and builds markets across Africa. We help businesses, investors, development partners, and the public sector identify opportunities and deliver unique, impactful solutions. Our mission is to advance African economies and build future generations of business leaders. Since 2010, we have completed 1600+ engagements across 30+ countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and raised USD 1.5 billion for our clients. Our locally based team of over 170 full-time staff brings experience from the world’s top consultancies, private equity …

Type: Incubators & VCs

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SELCO India SELCO India

Delivering Last Mile Sustainable Energy Solutions that Improve Quality of Life of the Poor. Established in 1995, SELCO was co-founded by Dr Harish Hande. SELCO is a social enterprise working primarily in the area of decentralised renewable energy solutions in the rural geographies of India. SELCO views energy access as an underlying precondition to catalyse progress related to healthcare, quality education, sustainable livelihoods, financial inclusion and holistic development of underserved communities. The success of any development project largely depends on the ecosystem and strategic partnerships built during execution. SELCO has always believed that CSR funds should be used to foster …

Type: SMB Activities: cleantech energytech greentech Technologies: Decarbonization Solar Technologies

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Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food

How can we put our money to work in regenerative agriculture and food? #RenegAg #Investing #soil #landscape How can we put our money to work in regenerative agriculture? Since 2016, we talk to the pioneers in the regenerative food and agriculture space to learn more on how to put our money to work to regenerate soil, people, local communities and ecosystems while making an appropriate and fair return. Why our focus on soil and regeneration? Because so many of the pressing issues we face today have their roots in how we treat our land and our sea, grow our food …

Type: Media

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Getro 🤝 Getro 🤝

Getro makes it easy to connect people and companies in your network with a branded job board and private talent network. Getro is on a mission to help people reveal the hidden potential inside their networks and do the work they love. We build branded job boards and talent networks for venture capital funds, startup accelerators, professional communities, and governments across the world. Customers use our platform to save time when making high-value, warm introductions between companies and professionals in their networks. Recruiting, Social Good, Hiring, Job Search, Job Discovery, Social Enterprise, Technology, AI, VC, Software Development, and Introductions

Type: Startup Activities: hrtech Technologies: A.I.

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Impact Amplifier Impact Amplifier

Investing into and accelerating social enterprises in Africa Our mission is to address Africa’s socio-economic and environmental challenges, innovative entrepreneurs and business models must emerge. Impact Amplifier drives this vision by: assisting impact investors to source and invest into compelling opportunities; providing investment readiness and advisory services to businesses, which combine financial success with positive social and environmental change; and delivering supplier development and sustainability advisory services to corporations and public institutions. Services include: PORTFOLIO BUILDING FOR IMPACT INVESTORS Our core services are designed to assist impact investors build quality business portfolios, which can thrive commercially whilst making a meaningful …

Type: Incubators & VCs

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The Indigo Trust The Indigo Trust

Flexible grant-making, commissioning research and building partnerships to address systemic injustices. The Indigo Trust supports early stage organisations through flexible grant-making, commissioning research and building partnerships, to address systemic injustices. Our focus areas are Access to Justice, Racial Justice, Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse, Visual Impairment and Better Grant-making. Submission of proposals is currently by invitation only. We are committed to transparency and accountability and publish information on our grants in our annual reports and to 360Giving. The Indigo Trust is a UK-based grant making foundation that is part of The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts (SFCT). SFCT is the operating …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: legaltech

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iSpace Foundation iSpace Foundation

Meet | Create | Network iSpace creates startup communities to help spur entrepreneurs to build new businesses and provide them with educational resources, working space and access to community of like - minded entrepreneurs. Show more Show less Coworking, Training Center, Events, Social Impact Project, Community, Podcast, Photography, and Videography

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: proptech

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Pioneers Post Pioneers Post

The Social Enterprise Magazine Pioneers Post is the social enterprise magazine, delivering the news and setting the agenda for the new wave of social entrepreneurs, responsible business leaders and impact investors across the globe. We provide the news, knowledge and insight to help you do good business, better – and we are committed to using storytelling to create positive social impact. We publish online content, from written features, videos and podcasts, to a weekly newsletter with a round-up of the most important updates in the impact economy. Pioneers Post is itself a social enterprise with a legal structure that safeguard …

Type: Media

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KOMPAS VC KOMPAS VC

We are a specialist early-stage venture capital firm investing in start-ups that solve core industrial challenges. KOMPAS VC is a specialist early-stage venture capital firm with offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, and Tel Aviv. We back innovative and scalable technology solutions that reduce emissions, increase productivity, and strengthen business resilience in the built environment an the manufacturing industry. Fund I (€135m) targets late Seed and Series A hardware and technology companies in Europe, Israel and the US. We solve key innovation challenges by partnering closely with industry leaders to identify, validate and scale cutting-edge technology solutions. For more information, please …

Type: Incubators & VCs

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Zonhub Zonhub

Best financing solution for solar energy - from €30.000 onwards We are a financing platform for solar-energy projects. ZonnepanelenDelen helps with the realisation of projects by taking care of financing, contracting, administration and management. Financing solution made for solar energy. 100% score! solar energy, community solar, renewable energy, sustainable finance, solar financing, financiering zonnepanelen, financiele burgerparticipatie, financiering zonnedak, and financiering zonnepark

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech energytech greentech Technologies: Solar Technologies

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The Guardian The Guardian

Independent journalists since 1821. Follow us here for news you can trust Guardian News & Media (GNM) publishes theguardian.com, one of the world’s leading English-language newspaper websites. It also has a presence in the US and Australia as Guardian US and Guardian Australia. Traffic from outside of the UK now represents around two-thirds of the Guardian’s total digital audience. In the UK, GNM publishes the Guardian newspaper six days a week, first published in 1821. The Guardian is renowned for its agenda-setting journalism including, most recently the Cambridge Analytica, Paradise and Panama Papers investigations as well as the Pulitzer Prize …

Type: Media

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Ioniqa Ioniqa

Making plastics sustainable Ioniqa is a clean-tech spinoff from the Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands), specialized in creating value out of plastic waste by using its proprietary circular technology. With a cost- effective process, Ioniqa is able to close the loop for plastics, starting with PET plastics. This multiple award-winning innovation transforms all types and colors of PET waste into valuable resources for ‘virgin-quality’ new PET. Upcycling processes for other types of plastics are being researched and expected to be launched in the near future. Magnetic Smart Materials, Ionic Liquid, Magneto Rheological Fluids, Ferrofluids, Ferro Fluids, Magneto Rheological Elastomer, …

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech greentech Technologies: New Materials

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i-did i-did

Acoustic interior products and promotional gifts made from recycled felt We believe in a social and circular society. A society where everyone contributes and no one is excluded. That is why we guide people who have been on welfare payments for a very long time to work by making acoustic products. We also discovered that discarded clothing produces a new raw material. A design felt, in which the character of the original clothing can be seen. We combine our recycled felt with acoustic felt from recycled jeans and hardboard made from cellulose waist to produce beautiful and functional acoustic design …

Type: Startup Activities: fashtech Technologies: New Materials

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Circle Economy Circle Economy

Making the future circular We are a global impact organisation with an international team of passionate experts based in Amsterdam. We empower industries, cities and nations with practical and scalable solutions to put the circular economy into action. Our vision is an economic system that ensures the planet and all people can thrive. Our goal is to double global circularity by 2032. circular economy, industrial ecology, business models, innovation, climate change, sustainability, research, knowledge, design thinking, sharing economy, blue economy, and consulting

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: civictech cleantech greentech

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IGNITE Award IGNITE Award

The growth program for starting social entrepreneurs The IGNITE Award challenges starting social entrepreneurs every year to take the next step towards further professionalization. The IGNITE Award offers an intensive training and coaching program, business workshops and a cash prize. Participate Do you have a good social idea and are you at the start of your social enterprise? Or have you been active as a social entrepreneur for less than two years and do you already have an innovative business plan? Do you ensure real social change with your company? Are you able to do this in a financially sustainable …

Type: Event NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: civictech

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Transitiecoalitie Voedsel Transitiecoalitie Voedsel

Faster to a healthy, sustainable and honest agricultural and food system. Are you participating? We are working on a change in the current food system that increasingly gets stuck ecologically, socially and economically. The situation is urgent and only playing the game greener is not the solution. We strive for a transition. According to new rules that ensure a food system in which sustainability, circularity, health, transparency and Truecost/TruePrice are central. Food, Sustainability, Health, Transparency, Truecost/TrueRice, Transition Coalition Food, Sustainable Agriculture, Area-oriented Approach, Healthy soil, Protein transition, and Food transition

Type: Startup Activities: foodtech Technologies: Decarbonization

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Caring Farmers Caring Farmers

On the way to nature -inclusive cycle agriculture. Join the Caring Community. Caring Farmers is for all farmers who want to do nature -inclusive cycle agriculture. For farmers who already do it, or who just take the first steps in that direction. We strive for agriculture that operates on such a small possible scale, within the boundaries of nature and with respect for animals and people. As Caring Farmers we do not await policy, but we just work together for a better world: for humans and animals. As farmers alone we can change the food system, we work together with …

Type: Startup Activities: agritech

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Nic&ampamp;Mic - The Art of Upcycling Nic&Mic - The Art of Upcycling

Clean up the world, make it beautiful! Nic&Mic represents the Kenyan Ocean Sole and the South African Ashanti Design. Both companies produce qualitative and unique products from seemingly worthless materials, thus ensuring continuity of quality guaranteed and reliable employment in these countries. In addition to the consumer market, Nic&Mic also serves the business to business market in the fight against plastic soup with life-sized ‘Masterpieces' and business giveaways from Ocean Sole, as part of CSR programs. Organizations then become Sole Mate. If you are interested, please contact us. → Ocean Sole The colorful Ocean Sole sculptures are not only great …

Type: Startup Activities: fashtech Technologies: Bio sourced materials

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The Rockefeller Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation

Our mission is to promote the well-being of humanity throughout the 🌍 by #MakingOpportunityUniversal and Sustainable Promoting the well-being of humanity since 1913. Since our founding, The Rockefeller Foundation has brought people together around the globe to try to solve the world’s most challenging problems and promote the well-being of humanity. Today, in a world capable of so much, it is unacceptable that there are still so many with so little. That’s why The Rockefeller Foundation fights to secure the fundamentals of human well-being—health, food, energy, jobs—so they’re within reach for everyone, everywhere in the world. Our approach is grounded …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: cleantech govtech greentech healthtech Technologies: Decarbonization

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Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute

Cradle to Cradle Certified® is the global standard for products that are safe, circular and responsibly made. The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute is dedicated to powering the circular economy through products that have a positive impact on people and planet. Through the Cradle to Cradle Certified® Products Program, the Institute sets the global standard for products that are safe, circular and responsibly made. Cradle to Cradle Certified is used by future-focused designers, brands, retailers and manufacturers across the value chain to innovate and optimise materials and products according to the world’s most advanced science-based measures for material health, …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: fashtech constructiontech greentech cleantech civictech

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One to Watch One to Watch

Supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs One to Watch is an investment management company based in Nepal since the last five years. We work with small and medium sized companies focusing on basic needs - food, infrastructure and health-care, companies that create impact as well as profits. Our operations have three phases. Firstly, we source potential companies through our accelerator programs including our signature impact accelerator. In this program we accelerate ten companies each year and make them investment ready with the objective of bringing FDI into these companies. We provide mentorship from international and local mentors who support in …

Type: SMB Activities: fintech Technologies: Decarbonization

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Enablemi Enablemi

Clear Innovation Nearers Develop and Finance Projects that contribute to the SDGs 🌍 Every day new ideas and innovative concepts arise that make the world a little better. Together with the customer we develop these projects, in which we demonstrate the added value of these ideas. At the same time we reduce the step to the market. Innovation projects We put the project on the scaffolding and draw parties on board. We use Design Thinking our Enable C method for this. By making a connection with the market and creating cross-overs, we give these ideas and concepts a push. The …

Type: Startup Activities: consulting Technologies: Decarbonization

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Ashden Ashden

Accelerating the most exciting climate innovators. Ashden's mission is to accelerate transformative climate solutions and build a more just world. Our awards, events, networks and analysis support outstanding climate innovation. We boost the pioneers delivering a zero carbon future – and creating new jobs, better health, and stronger communities along the way. Our work switches on clean energy for rural villages and refugee camps. It tackles fuel poverty, by making homes warm and energy-efficient. It powers green jobs, and zero-carbon schools. It defends and restores nature. And it supports local climate action, so everyone can shape – and benefit from …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: cleantech greentech

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Smarthealth Smarthealth

Your knowledge platform about the world of care innovations and smart solutions to improve your health. Hello. We are SmartHealth. Your online guide in the world of care innovations and smart health solutions. With more than 8 years of expertise, we are the leading digital health platform in the Netherlands. For everyone who wants to follow the latest developments - from consumer, supplier, healthcare professional or policy maker. We will keep you informed of the latest trends and developments.💡🏥 #smarthealth #zorginnovations #Gezondheid Health and News

Type: Media

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GOGLA GOGLA

GOGLA: the voice of the off-grid solar energy industry. GOGLA is the global association for the off-grid solar energy industry. Established in 2012, GOGLA now represents over 200 members as a neutral, independent, not-for-profit industry association. Its mission is to help its members build sustainable markets, delivering quality, affordable products and services to as many households, businesses and communities as possible across the developing world. The products and solutions that GOGLA members sell transform lives. They improve health and education, create jobs and income opportunities and help consumers save money. To find out more, go to www.gogla.org. Off-Grid Solar, Renewable …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: cleantech energytech greentech Technologies: Solar Technologies

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Solarkiosk Solutions GmbH Solarkiosk Solutions GmbH

Solarkiosk Solutions GmbH (SKS) is a German solar engineering and technology company SOLARKIOSK is the last mile distribution hub and renewable energy-connectivity gateway to untapped markets at the Base-of-the-Pyramid (BoP). SOLARKIOSK intertwines an award winning design technology with an inclusive, scalable business model to enable and empower BoP communities worldwide through the provision of renewable energy services, products and solutions, thus creating both triple bottom line impact and profitable business centers. SOLARKIOSK designs, manufactures, implements and operates a modular, expendable kit-of-parts, solar powered business hub, which can be deployed in the most remote areas. The solution comes with all appliances …

Type: Startup Activities: cleantech energytech greentech manufacturing Technologies: Solar Technologies

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Fish Tales Fish Tales

Happy Fishermen, Healthy Oceans. Enjoy! Delicious fish products from world's most beautiful fisheries | Great tips for cooking fish and recipes | We love fish, care about the ocean, inspire you. sustainability, seafood, fun, tuna, and fish

Type: Startup Activities: foodtech

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Centraal Beheer Centraal Beheer

We are here for you when you need us. #evenapeldoornbellen At Centraal Beheer, we help you with insurance, financial solutions and useful services. For you, your family and your company. With our solutions that are good and feel good, we offer security and much ease. From car insurance to solar panels, from absenteeism insurance to a mortgage. We are here for you when you need us. We will listen and contribute ideas. There is a solution for everything. So app, chat or email us. Or just give us a call: “Even Apeldoorn bellen”. Zakelijke verzekeringen, Particuliere verzekeringen, Pensioenen, Levensverzekeringen, Diensten, …

Type: Large company Activities: fintech insurtech

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Vitens Vitens

Water for now and later. Vitens is the largest drinking water company in the Netherlands. We supply top-quality drinking water to 5.9 million people and companies in the provinces of Flevoland, Friesland, Gelderland, Utrecht and Overijssel and municipalities in Drenthe and North Holland. With approximately 1,600 employees, 100 production companies and a pipeline network of 49,500 kilometres, 347 million m3 of water is supplied annually. The annual turnover from water amounts to approximately 333 million euros. The shares of Vitens are 100% owned by local and regional governments. water company

Type: Public Activities: cleantech greentech

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Smart Power India Smart Power India

Established in 2015 by The Rockefeller Foundation, Smart Power India (SPI) is the key agency implementing the Smart Power Initiative in India. SPI extends power to those without sufficient energy access, with the goal of ending energy poverty and transforming the livelihoods of the underserved. SPI accomplishes its goals through impact-driven rural electrification coupled with capacity-building programs. SPI’s vision is to spur economic development in villages through access to reliable electricity. Through decentralized renewable energy(DRE) mini-grids, Smart Power India has provided electricity to 473 villages in India across the states of U.P. Bihar and Jharkhand, impacting over 3,51,652 people and …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: cleantech energytech greentech

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Village Capital Village Capital

We’re reinventing the system to back the entrepreneurs of the future. Village Capital is reinventing the system to back the entrepreneurs of the future. Known for its groundbreaking approaches to supporting founders who are building solutions to emergent social, economic, and environmental challenges, VilCap unlocks critical social and financial capital for early-stage companies to maximize business and impact growth. Since 2009, Village Capital has supported over 1,400 startups that have raised over $5 billion in investment capital. It has made more than 150 investments through its various affiliated funds, including Vilcap Investments, which has invested in 110 peer-selected companies. Over …

Type: Incubators & VCs

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