San Francisco Startups List

Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in San Francisco.

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Quality GPTs - Custom designed GPTs for businesses

QualityGPTs

GPTs, personalized for you.
Agency providing easy to use AI tools to small businesses.

Bayes Impact - ventures for good nonprofits non profit

Bayes Impact

Data Science for Social Impact
Bayes Impact is a nonprofit that deploys data science teams to work with civic and nonprofit organizations on solving social impact challenges. We're leveraging the power of the one of the biggest revolutions in Silicon Valley - the data revolution - to positively ...

The Spring - ventures for good social commerce restaurants crowdfunding

The Spring

Dine out, do good
The Spring makes your everyday spending meaningful. To join The Spring you enter your credit or debit card number. Then you spend money at participating restaurants. 3% of what you spend automatically goes to fund local community projects. Plus you get 3% cash ...

Feeding Forward - food and beverages ventures for good startups sustainability

Feeding Forward

'Uber' for food recovery.
Feeding Forward recovers excess food from businesses (caterers, restaurants, grocers, companies, etc.) and redistributes it to feed those in need, instantly. Our online and mobile platforms streamline food recovery and distribution, eliminating both hunger and ...

GiveMeTap - consumer goods location based services ventures for good water

GiveMeTap

The TOMS shoes of water bottles
With every GiveMeTap bottle purchased you get free water refills from a network of cafes and restaurants in your city, and we provide one person in Africa with access to clean drinking water. Use our iPhone application or look out for our windows stickers to find ...

root - ventures for good agriculture internet of things hardware + software

root

Web and sensor platform for optimized crop management decisions. Team worked at Cisco
rooT is a platform of low-cost sensors that combines crop soil moisture data with real-time weather data to create a predictive irrigation solution that is use to fully automate a grower's irrigation system. rooT allows growers to maximize crop yields, save ...

Greenstart - mobile marketplaces ventures for good impact investing

Greenstart

Seed investments in digital innovations that improve the world.
Seed investments in digital innovations that improve the world. www.greenstart.com

Mpact - SaaS analytics business intelligence ventures for good

Mpact

The first ever platform for tracking real-time, connected, charitable behavior
Mpact's vision is to bring big-data to the non-profit sector, the last sector to adopt data as its core. We empower those making an impact on society's major issues: education, climate change, poverty, food, etc. Mpact's platform is designed for social enterprises ...

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NowBoarding ✈️

Invite-only mailing list.
We search the best weekend and long-haul flight deals so you can book before everyone else.

Open Data Registry - B2B big data ventures for good application platforms

Open Data Registry

Linking the Web of Goods
Open Data Registry (ODR) is building a Web of Goods to make transparent the ecological, social and health impacts of 80% of products on Earth by 2020.

Experiment - marketplaces ventures for good crowdfunding Science

Experiment

Make Science Go Faster
Experiment is a crowdfunding platform for scientific research. Research funding today is broken. How we fund scientific research will be vastly different in 20 years, and the future direction is towards an open and democratic platform for funding science. Researchers ...

Spill - mobile social media ventures for good private social networking

Spill

A social 'Dear Abby' for sharing life advice.
A modern Dear Abby, where Millennials "spill" about life (confidentially) and share advice with one another. A TechStars '11 company & 2012 winner of the Global Social Venture Competition, Spill marries the intrigue of private personal issues with the human ...

BRICKSTR - mobile digital media social media ventures for good

BRICKSTR

A social platform that connects consumers to businesses cause based marketing efforts.
DREAM. ACT. RESTORE. Brickstr brings together companies, social causes and consumers to solve social problems. Brickstr is a seamless way for consumers to substantially impact causes by choosing where they do business. - Companies improve their marketing efforts. - ...

HandUp - ventures for good social fundraising mobile payments crowdfunding

HandUp

Technology to fight urban poverty in America
HandUp is a direct donation system for homeless people and others in need in your neighborhood. With HandUp, you can donate to a specific person via their web profile or SMS, learn about their story and needs, and hear updates on their progress. Fulfillment partners ...

Invitation codes

The referral community
Invitation App is a social network where people post their referral codes and collect rewards on autopilot.

Hypothes.is - digital media internet infrastructure ventures for good social media platforms

Hypothes.is

The Internet, peer-reviewed.
We want to dramatically increase the quality of information in the world, via the feedback loop of crowd-sourced peer review. Hypothes.is will allow community-moderated collaborative annotation of any document. It's based on a new draft standard for annotations, ...

WorkLife - SaaS enterprise software ventures for good mobile enterprise

WorkLife

Making meetings suck less
WorkLife is a web & mobile app that makes it easy for teams to have productive, engaging meetings. - https://www.worklife.com

Pixc - e-commerce B2B marketplaces ventures for good

Pixc

On demand product image editing for eCommerce stores (500 Startups Batch 13)
Pixc provides on demand product image editing. We help eCommerce stores and individuals selling online increase their sales with better product images. We remove the background and touch up the photo within 24 hours. A great product on a contrasting background ...

Coursebook - mobile education ventures for good edutainment

Coursebook

Pandora for learning. We make it easy to discover, track and share learning resources.
The Coursebook aggregates great learning resources and makes it easy for lifelong-learners to find the best videos, podcasts, and other resources to learn on the web and on the go. Users can easily connect with others to build their learning network and set-up ...

Transcense - mobile health care information technology ventures for good deep information technology

Transcense

Empowering the hearing-impaired in group conversations.
Group conversations are a daily struggle for 400 million people suffering from disabling hearing loss, which excludes them from a lot of professional and social interactions. Transcense is the easiest way to understand them. Like a Siri for group conversations, ...

GoodLabs - e-commerce payments ventures for good crowdfunding

GoodLabs

Point of Sale & eCommerce Donations
GoodLabs is a SaaS platform that empowers micro-donations in all points of sale, both in-store and online. We're live on Clover (in-store/ owned by First Data) and on Shopify (e-commerce). We're partnered with a growing number of leading non-profits including ...

Revivn - ventures for good electronics recycling collaborative consumption

Revivn

Old Hardware New Purpose
Less than 20% of electronic waste is currently recycled. Revivn is a certified B-Corp that helps companies repurpose their unused hardware, a $12 billion dollar market that has remained stagnant and fragmented for decades. With Revivn companies can now easily and ...

SunnyKarma - ventures for good

SunnyKarma

Charity auctions & raffles of unique experiences for a good cause

Mojalink - mobile ventures for good social media platforms professional networking

Mojalink

We connect business, government and nonprofits around causes. Angel.co for philanthropy.
Mojalink is a global network of businesses, governments and nonprofits looking to increase their philanthropic impact. Businesses can discover, connect and partner with nonprofits and government working on causes that align with corporate values or strategy. ...

CivicSponsor - ventures for good governments crowdfunding

CivicSponsor

Kickstarter for government-run projects: fund new bike lanes, get a deduction
We're a for-profit social business that helps you make a tangible difference in your community: make earmarked, tax-deductible contributions directly to public projects, like bike lanes or new school facilities. If the project isn't fully funded, you don't pay; ...

Lift Labs - health care medical devices ventures for good

Lift Labs

Active Stabilization for Parkinson's and Essential Tremor Patients
Lift Labs has developed a new class of assistive devices for the elderly and individuals with motion disorders. Our first product is an active tremor cancellation technology that will assist individuals affected by motion disorders such as Essential Tremor and ...

Louder - advertising mobile advertising ventures for good social media platforms

Louder

Amplify links beyond your network.
The Louder platform surfaces important conversations that deserve more attention, and gives users a way to drive those conversations to places they've never been. Every week, the top voted link in each #channel is amplified as a promoted tweet to over 10,000 ...

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