Top San Francisco Bay Area, CA Social Impact Companies (61)
Headway is building a new mental healthcare system that everyone can access. We make it easy for people to find quality in-network mental health care by removing historic barriers faced by mental health providers, payers, and patients. 1 in 4 people in the US have a treatable mental health condition, but the vast majority do not get the care they need. The primary reason is cost: the majority of therapists do not accept insurance, meaning paying for therapy is prohibitively expensive for prospective patients. This is where we got our start – Headway has built the first software-enabled network of therapists who accept health insurance, making it easy for therapists to grow their practices, and possible for patients to find quality care they can afford. Headway was founded in 2019. Since then, we’ve grown into a diverse, national network of over 34,000 mental healthcare providers across all 50 states who run their practice on our software. We’re a Series D company with over $325m in funding from a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), Accel, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Spark Capital, Thrive Capital, Forerunner Ventures and Health Care Service Corporation. We believe a team's strength is in its people, and we cannot achieve this mission without a team that reflects the diversity of this problem - across race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, national origin, religion, family status, disability, military status, and experience. Headway employees work remotely across the US, with the option to work from our NYC HQ or SF location. Headway is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Headway will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [email protected].
Academia.edu is the world’s leading platform for researchers and scholars to share their work, discover research and connect with fellow academics globally. Our bold vision: to democratize and accelerate the world's research, enhancing the speed of scientific discovery and technological progress for the benefit of everyone. We imagine a world where accessing academic papers is effortless, keeping track of cutting-edge research is seamless and collaborating with researchers is easier than ever before. Our platform empowers hundreds of millions of scholars worldwide to push the boundaries of human understanding. We believe in the power of knowledge to change lives and the world, and our commitment to this mission drives everything we do. Academia has attracted $39 million in investment from leading VC firms including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital, and Tencent. Our work has garnered favorable attention from trade and mainstream media including UK Times, Fortune, Wired, EdTech, Venture Beat, San Francisco Business Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Scientific American, and Forbes. Academia is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Join us as we continue to redefine what's possible in the world of research. Discover careers that challenge, inspire and propel you toward a future where your ideas can truly change the world. At Academia.edu, we're not just shaping the future of research—we're shaping the future of possibilities.
At Udemy, we’re on a mission to transform lives through learning. Through our intelligent skills platform and a global community of instructors, we’ve helped over 70 million learners and 16,000 organizations achieve their goals. Come join us in ensuring everyone, everywhere has access to the skills they need to unlock their potential and create possibilities for themselves and others.
January is a Series B fintech company that works with borrowers who fall behind their loans to achieve financial stability while helping creditors modernize their collections process. Traditional debt collection is rife with harassment and fraud. January is driving systemic change in this predatory industry by providing borrowers with the best options for their situation and helping creditors make data-driven decisions. We empower borrowers to dispute, negotiate, and resolve their debt without stress or embarrassment while providing transparency and compliance to our creditor clients.
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Upstart is a leading AI lending marketplace partnering with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit. By leveraging Upstart's AI marketplace, Upstart-powered banks and credit unions can have higher approval rates and lower loss rates across races, ages, and genders, while simultaneously delivering the exceptional digital-first lending experience their customers demand. More than two-thirds of Upstart loans are approved instantly and are fully automated. Most Upstarters join us because they connect with our mission of enabling access to effortless credit based on true risk. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Upstart, we'd love to hear from you!
GoodRx is America’s healthcare marketplace. Each month, millions of people visit goodrx.com to find reliable health information and discounts for their healthcare — and we’ve helped people save $35 billion since 2011. We provide prescription discounts that are accepted at more than 70,000 pharmacies in the U.S., as well as telehealth services including doctor visits and lab tests. Our goal is to help Americans find convenient and affordable healthcare. We offer solutions for consumers, employers, health plans, and anyone else who shares our desire to provide affordable prescriptions to all Americans. We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company and industry. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of the best and brightest from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has a seat at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunities to excel. Come join and help us create the future of healthcare.
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We’re a team of inspired data scientists, financial services industry experts and customer experience fanatics building technology to serve people in a way that recognizes their unique needs and preferences as human beings and endeavoring toward ensuring nobody gets locked out of the financial system.
Course Hero, a Learneo business, is an online learning platform with over 60 million course-specific study resources contributed by our community of students and educators, and produced by our team of educational content specialists in collaboration with subject experts. You’ll find practice problems, study guides, videos, class notes, and step-by-step explanations for every subject you’re studying—from economics to literature, biology to history, accounting to psychology, and everything in between. Through Course Hero, you can quickly find what you need to learn deeply. We work closely with educators to help support student learning and complement what’s happening in the classroom. We want to see more students walking up to the podium on graduation day, proud of what they’ve accomplished, and ready to build great lives for themselves. We aim to help them get there.
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Carrot Fertility is the leading global fertility care platform, serving people of every age, race, income, sex, sexual orientation, gender, marital status, and geography. Trusted by hundreds of multinational employers, health plans, and health systems, Carrot's comprehensive clinical program delivers industry-leading cost savings for employers and award-winning experiences for millions of people worldwide. Whether there is a need for care through fertility preservation, male-factor infertility, pre-pregnancy, IVF, pregnancy and postpartum, adoption, gestational surrogacy, or menopause, Carrot supports members and their families through many of the most memorable and meaningful moments of their lives.
Human Interest exists to close the retirement savings gap in America. We empower all businesses, no matter their size, to safeguard the financial futures of their employees. We’ve raised $500M and are backed by leading investors, including Blackrock, TPG (The Rise Fund), SoftBank, Glynn Capital, NewView Capital, USVP, Wing, Uncork, and others.
We’re on a mission to eliminate waste for good, starting with the food that ends up in landfills. Did you know that more than half of the food in landfills comes from home kitchens (ReFED)? And food in landfills turns into methane – which is 80x more potent than CO2 over a 20-year period (IPCC). At Mill, we’re working to turn kitchen scraps into food for chickens. This keeps food in our food system and out of landfills.
Transformations of the Human (ToftH) was founded in 2021, by Tobias Rees and Kim Newman, as a California non-profit educational organization (501c3). It is designed to introduce a new practice to the world, one that does not yet exist and has only recently become possible: the practice of doing philosophy. ToftH is composed of the ToftH School (“the School”) and ToftH Research Corporation (“TRC”), a for-profit subsidiary. The ToftH Research Corporation (TRC) is an AI product insight company. We combine our unique proprietary method for identifying the new –– doing philosophy –– and a novel approach to UXR to provide insights for tech companies on how to build powerful AI products. TRC was established in support of two goals: (i) to build a company on the basis of ToftH-style work that can generate revenue and fund ToftH School; (ii) to prove that by building products in terms of their philosophical newness, one can produce new value and markets. The main work streams of TRC include consulting with external clients, and internal research and product development. Our work combines philosophy, art and technology in order to build PArT projects, products, practitioners and companies for the new.
Station A is a software company with a mission to automate clean energy development to enable a carbon-neutral future. Our platform provides clean energy buyers and providers the insight they need to take any building to zero carbon emissions. Our marketplace facilitates the origination, design, and execution of clean energy projects.
CareLuLu is the easiest way for parents to find great child care and preschool programs. On CareLuLu, parents can connect with 200,000 licensed daycares for free (from small home-based daycares to large child care centers and preschools). The online marketplace features a criteria-based search, and detailed information on child care providers such as cost, hours, photos, and verified reviews. It's everything parents need to easily find the perfect daycare! CareLuLu also helps thousands of child care providers grow their business through digital marketing. Founded in 2013, CareLuLu’s mission is to ensure that every child has access to safe, affordable, high-quality child care and early education. Created by parents for parents.
Kiva (www.kiva.org) is a mission driven technology non-profit. We run a global marketplace platform for crowd-funded micro-loans to serve the financially excluded in sectors such as education, water, clean energy, and refugee resettlement. Kiva combines the culture and approach of an internet start-up with a mission to alleviate poverty. We aim to drive social impact and enable opportunity while providing a borrower-to-lender connection: “Loans that change lives." In just 12 years, Kiva has raised over $1 billion in loan capital for more than 2 million borrowers in 84 countries. Kiva’s lenders fund over $1 million in loans every 3 days. Headquartered in San Francisco, Kiva's team has 100+ employees and 450+ volunteers worldwide.
Consciously provides insights for conscious consumers. Our browser extension alerts you to brand ethics & practices while you shop. We're on a mission to empower consumers with information so they can make better, more informed, conscious shopping choices.
Hatch is an early-stage startup based in New York and Sydney (Australia). Our mission is for all people to find meaning in work. Finding jobs is hard, and hiring the right person equally challenging. There’s been limited innovation in this space for a long time. Hatch is building a new way for people and teams to come together around genuine fit. We want to level the playing field so that anyone can discover work they’re a great match for, and they’ll feel alive in. Our starting focus is the early stages of someone’s career when finding the right starting point can be difficult. Hatch is a for-profit, for-purpose business. We aim to be a global marketplace shaping the future of work, helping people pursue meaning in work for decades to come. We've had 40k+ candidates and 100+ employers involved in our successful Australian beta, including Afterpay, Canva, Airbnb, Spotify, TikTok and Intercom. We're now bringing our product to the States which is where you come in!
We want to radically improve how we humans communicate with each other. Our first step at Ava is to empower 466M deaf and hard-of-hearing people to live in a fully accessible world. Every day, millions of people are excluded from conversations because they cannot hear what others say well. Our CEO Thibault grew up in a Deaf family & witnessed firsthand how the world was not accessible for them. Together with our CTO Skinner — deaf since age 2 — Thibault co-founded Ava to make live captioning of conversations as easy as turning on captions on TV. Our small but fast-growing team has reinvented AI-based speech recognition technology to be in service of people who need it the most. We dream of a 24/7 accessible world, without any communication barrier. In this pursuit, we're seeing how critical communication skills are, yet very far from ideal, to unleash our collective potential. This is for us the ultimate barrier we need to lift. Our belief is that well-designed technology can help everyone communicate and connect better — much more effectively & authentically — so humanity can achieve the greatest things together.
OpenResearch is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit research lab funding and conducting research at the intersection of tech and public policy. Our flagship project is a 3000 person trial of basic income in the United States, and our work aims to consider how technological advances affect social outcomes, to think and advise broadly about how to minimize the negative effects, and to promote equitable distribution of benefits across all individuals and communities.
Goodly makes it easy for companies to offer student loan debt repayment as an employee benefit. Companies that offer this simple to use platform cut down the time that their employees would otherwise be in debt by an average of 8 years. This benefit can be used as a powerful tool for recruiting and retention while fostering diversity, inclusion and
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