Impact Startups
Startups building products that reach people in health, climate, food, education, finance and access. Who founded them, who funds them, and every round as it was reported, with the source.
Zipline
Zipline delivers food, retail and healthcare products directly to customers' homes in minutes across the United States, and enables African governments to provide 24/7 delivery of essential medical supplies to hospitals and health facilities.
Laza Medical
Interventional cardiology teams and the patients they treat in the cath lab, through an AI-powered robotic imaging system that Laza is developing.
Brava Security
Organizations that want to identify cyberattacks their existing security systems might miss.
Clinics On Cloud
The company reaches people at government health centers, hospitals, corporate sites, rural communities and Indian defense sites.
Midstream Health
Hospitals and health systems nationwide, including over 250 hospitals in its customer network.
Birch Hill
Loan originators that need new sources of capital, onchain lenders that need credit they can trust, and accredited investors who buy its private credit offerings.
Vera Health
More than 800,000 clinicians in 190 countries, who use it to find and weigh medical evidence, by the company's count.
Cent
People in Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi NCR who receive Cent's preventive whole-body scans.
BioStack
Clinicians making decisions today, and the researchers and AI developers building medical AI models.
Whop
It reaches entrepreneurs, influencers and small businesses that sell products, memberships, subscriptions and software to consumers.
Firstwork
Frontline workers moving from application to first shift, and the HR and operations teams that hire them.
Genie Health
Consumers in Singapore who manage health reports and wearable data, and healthcare providers across Singapore, through the free Genie app and the Genie SmartCare clinic platform.
Baba
Medicare and Medicaid patients, who get dedicated care teams that include care coordinators and licensed therapists.
Dream Labs
Robot makers and developers, who get direct API access to a robot foundation model.
Even Healthcare
Members who use Even's integrated managed care model, which combines preventive care, outpatient consultations, diagnostics, insurance access, hospital stays and post-discharge recovery.
Sunlight AI
Independent physicians, through a patient-to-payment operating layer for their practices.
Healthleap
It reaches adult hospital inpatients, flagging those who may have undiagnosed conditions such as malnutrition or delirium for hospital care teams.
Noah
Businesses that use Noah's API to convert between fiat currencies and stablecoins, and, through Western Union's Receiver Redirect, people who will send remittances across more than 200 countries and territories.
Higgsfield
Creators, marketers and companies that make video and images with AI.
JPYC
People and businesses in Japan who use yen stablecoins; JPYC says each token is worth 1 yen and can be used to buy goods.
Neko Health
People in Sweden and the UK who book its one-hour, full-body scan, with first U.S. clinics planned.
Taktile
Banks and insurers that automate lending, claims and fraud decisions.
Cadence
Older adults with chronic disease who receive care through partner health systems.
Vori
Independent grocery stores in the United States, which use Vori for checkout, inventory, ordering, pricing and payments.
Life Biosciences
People living with optic neuropathies such as glaucoma, through the Phase 1 trial of its ER-100 therapy, with the company aiming its medicines at diseases of aging.
Loyal
Dog owners and veterinarians, with drugs meant to help dogs live longer, healthier lives.
Nolla Health
Patients with acne and other skin conditions who face long dermatologist waits, reached through an AI app with clinician oversight in 40+ US states.
Superpower
People in the United States who want personalized, preventative and longevity-focused medicine, with twice-yearly lab testing and a personal health plan.
Marathon Fusion
Patients in targeted cancer therapy, through radioisotope supply, and fusion power developers that need tritium and lithium-6 fuel.
Step
Teens and their families in the United States, with a no-fee account and a Visa card.
Aleph Neuro
Aleph Neuro is a research lab working on new interfaces for the brain, according to its website. It works with Butterfly Network's Ultrasound-on-Chip platform for brain imaging. The company says it has captured MRI-level 3D brain images from outside the skull.
Anchorage Digital
It reaches clients worldwide that need digital asset management, including cryptocurrencies.
Augmental
It reaches people with mobility challenges, including students, artists, gamers and professionals.
Augmodo
Retailers and workers in physical jobs, such as those in stores and factories.
Beast Industries
It reaches consumers of its brands, such as Feastables, and teenagers and young adults who use its Step banking app.
Coefficient Bio
Healthcare and life sciences work, per Fierce Biotech's coverage of the deal.
Conception
The company says its work aims to create new possibilities for people who want to have children.
donate.gg
Donors who want to give crypto to charities and nonprofits on Solana.
EthSystems
It reaches banks, asset managers and other regulated institutions that run financial transactions on Ethereum.
Groq
Developers who run AI models on GroqCloud, its developer platform.
Heatbit
Households with an electric tank water heater in the United States and Canada, which Bitwater screws into.
Irregular
AI laboratories that work with Irregular on AI security scenarios.
Kalshi
Individuals who bet on future outcomes, mostly sports, through the platform.
LayerZero
Developers who build applications that run across multiple blockchains.
Midjourney
Users who generate images through its Discord bot or website.
Moonshot AI
Users of its Kimi models on the web, through an API, and through the Kimi Code command-line agent.
Moov
Technical teams and businesses that accept, store and send money.
Neuralink
Patients in human trials, including two people with cervical spinal cord injuries who received implants in Toronto in 2025.
NewLimit
Its first planned clinical trial is for a liver medicine.
Ortet
Healthcare organizations that partner with its platform, such as Ensemble and Penelope Health.
Perplexity
Users of its answer engine, its Comet browser, and its Perplexity Computer agent.
Polymarket
Individuals who trade on future outcomes, mostly sports, using cryptocurrency.
Praxis
Residents and visitors of the planned first phase in Uruguay, near Colonia del Sacramento.
Pump.fun
People who create and trade memecoins on the Solana blockchain.
Shift
Workers paid to film everyday tasks, and the AI and robotics companies that buy the footage.
Tempo
Financial products for global payments, stablecoin accounts and institutional settlement, built on the Tempo blockchain.
Whatnot
Buyers who shop live video auctions and flash sales hosted by individual sellers, small businesses, retailers and global brands.
World
People in 160 countries who verify as unique humans with World ID and use World App.
Know a startup building for people? Tell the newsroom. Every figure here links to the report it came from on the startup's page. Updated Nov 7, 2026.
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