Top Impact Investing Startups in 2026

We are a technology-driven, sustainable asset manager empowering institutions to create passive investment portfolios specific to their values and financial goals. We are powering the future of sustainable investing.

Fig Tech’s mission is to unlock the potential of deep subprime consumers by providing paths to financial stability. Fig uses proprietary data to develop risk models and operations technology to reduce the cost of providing financial services. Our core values as we go about this mission are: Mission Everything, Follow Through, Integrity over Optics, Operational Excellence, Educate and Empower, and Make Things Better. We're the first fintech to be both B Corp certified and a US Treasury recognized Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), which means we serve majority lower income communities in the US.

Arbutus Medical’s purpose is to develop a portfolio of frugal innovations that save costs for hospitals and improve access to orthopaedic surgery for 5 million patients by 2030. The company's flagship product is a novel orthopaedic power tool system (the DrillCover platform) that costs 30x less than competitors. Arbutus launched its DrillCover in late 2016, focused on low-income countries for 2 years, then pivoted and validated fit in veterinary medicine (62% YoY growth), military field medicine (sales to US and Canadian militaries), and US Trauma Centers. Arbutus has enabled 58,000 surgeries to date.

A global platform that empowers sustainability: news, articles, startups, and a sustainability index. OUR STORY We were founded in Rome in 2014. From there, we established our presence online via our sustainability news portal: impakter.com PARTNERS We are partners of many UN organisations, NGOs, think tanks, research centers and Universities. PROFILES: Linkedin: linkedin.com/company/impakter Twitter: twitter.com/Impakterdotcom Facebook: facebook.com/impakterdotcom Instagram: instagram.com/impakter

Upwell Water supplies, treats, and manages water assets globally. We own operating and new build assets, partnering with solution providers to provide supply and treatment as a service to customers in need. Water scarcity, pollution, and aging infrastructure are among the greatest challenges of our time. Upwell Water is on the cutting edge of solutions and capital to enable a sustainable water future.

Stand Together is a philanthropic community. We help America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems. Our partners include nonprofit leaders, educators, Fortune 50 CEOs, NFL legends, civil rights leaders, Grammy-winning musicians, and grassroots activists. We help them transform their results by providing access to capabilities including funding to build capacity, a unique national network to reach scale, and a playbook for applying principles that are proven to help organizations grow and thrive. Together, we are driving solutions on economic opportunity, education, healthcare, bridging partisan divides, and dozens of other pressing issues. Explore how partnering with Stand Together can transform your results. standtogether.org/partner-with-us

Pepcorns allows everyday people to support founders solving the problem or ideas they believe in. It's our belief that this community driven approach will soon emerge as new startup culture, where a significant amount of thriving ideas will get funded by peppy investors turned evangelists who truly want to see them succeed. We aim to fuel the Indian startup space, reducing wealth disparity & boost the economy; together with your help and efforts, we will achieve this. Join Pepcorns, and be part of the change!

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