Impact/100





The Impact/100 is a list of the world’s 100 most promising early-stage impact startups, as curated by Norrsken Foundation and our friends. It exists to give you hope and positive inspiration, and to remind you that even when things look pretty bleak, there are some incredible role models out there, and they deserve our praise and recognition. Scroll down for 100 ways to fix the future.





The list
The 2025 Impact/100 was compiled from over 1400 nominations sourced from 50 nominators, among them some of the world’s top investment funds, academic institutions and NGOs.

The Exploration Company

Building space logistics that everyone can use.

Arbonics

Helps landowners turn forests into carbon income without guesswork.

Proxima Fusion

Turning star power into clean power.

Windfall Bio

Methane pollution turned into farm nutrients.

Wave

Banking redesigned to include every African.

VunaPay

Fair pay for farmers, right away.

Visibuilt

Fungal asphalt that cuts CO₂ and heat.
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Vind AI
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The next generation of wind farms.

Vema

Hydrogen made simple, clean, and abundant.

VEIR

Supercooled cables that solve the energy bottleneck.

Variant Bio

Cures discovered in overlooked genetics

Vaayu

A climate scientist embedded in every checkout.

Trawa

Turns messy energy markets into clean power.

Traceless

Turns conventional plastic into a fully sustainable alternative that leaves no trace.

tozero

Turns dead batteries into Europe’s next critical mineral supply chain.

Teton

Gives nurses AI-powers

Techcoop

Turns Vietnam’s small shops and farmers into financial powerhouses

Syre

Circular polyester, again and again.

Sycai Medical

Detects silent cancers before they can hide from doctors.

Stitch

The API layer that ties Africa’s money systems together.

Sparxell

Color you can compost.
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SeaPattern
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Turning overlooked currents into clean electricity.

Shelly XU Design

Zero-waste fashion with no fabric scraps.

Seabound

The fleet that plunders pollution at sea.

Sabi

Turning Africa’s smallest shops into the biggest force for sustainable growth

Savor

Real fats and oils made from carbon. No animals, plants, or farmland required

Sava Health

THE MOST POWERFUL BIOSENSOR EVER CREATED

Rubi Labs

Turns air pollution into fashion’s future

Rootglobal

Turns climate action and farm data into profitable opportunities.

Robeauté

Swallowable robots travel your body to deliver life-saving precision.

Relyion Energy

Unlocks renewables for industries, grids, and communities everywhere.

Rize

Rice that feeds families and cools the planet.

RedoxBlox

Turns industrial heat into a clean battery.

Queens Carbon

Cement without the carbon hangover

Qida

Turns your home into the best hospital you'll never check into.

Project Eaden

Spins plant-based meat like textile fibers.

PreWave

Uses AI to predicts and expose supply chain risks.

Predium

Provides data-based sustainability insights for real estate portfolio management.

Pionix

Turns EV chargers into open-source intelligence hubs for the grid.

Polaron

Uses AI to accelerate advanced materials development from years down to days.

Fleetzero

Builds electric cargo ships replacing diesel with clean batteries at sea.

Phaidra

Uses AI to make factories self-optimizing and ultra-efficient.

Paebbl

Turns captured CO₂ into building material that's cleaner than concrete.

Oze

Supercharging SME growth in Africa and de-risking every loan.

Oxyle

Destroys forever chemicals in water in minutes, not years.

Osmoses

Separates industrial gases using membranes, not megawatts.

Overstory

Smart grids, safe forests with AI that keeps lights on and flames out

Oriole Networks

Builds ultra-efficient photonic networks, slashing AI’s energy hunger.

Orakl Oncology

Accelerates cancer drug development using patient tumor avatars.

Octavia Carbon

Pulling carbon straight out of Kenya’s skies.

Ocean Ledger

Geospatial intelligence that sees coastal risks coming.

Nostics

Builds AI-powered diagnostic tools using nanotechnology for fast, portable disease detection.

Ocean Ecostructures

Turns ports and piers into thriving marine ecosystems.

nsave

Provides trusted accounts to people from countries in unstable economies.

Nile

Farm to buyer, no middleman, just one click.

Noon Energy

Stores renewable energy like a battery, using carbon and oxygen.

Newcleo

Creates lead-cooled small modular reactors fueled by recycled nuclear waste.

Nala Earth

Helps companies measure, improve, and report their impact on nature and biodiversity.

Nala

Making remittances faster, cheaper, and borderless.

Milvus Advanced

Powers green technologies without any rare metal.

Material Evolution

Makes ultra-low carbon cement from industrial waste.

Lanza Jet

Makes circular jet fuel from waste, cutting aviation emissions

Klim

Paying farmers to heal soil and pull carbon from the sky.

Gridware

Detects grid faults before they spark hazards using smart sensors.

Juna AI

Uses AI Agents for Industrial Process Control

GreyParrot

Uses AI to see, and sort, what humans miss in waste.

Greenjoules

Makes renewable biofuels from agricultural waste with zero fossil fuels involved.

Goterra

Uses maggots and robots to turn food waste into high quality soil.

Goodfire AI

Critical infrastructure to edit and control AI before it controls us.

Gigmile

Gigmile turns Africa’s invisible gig workforce into entrepreneurs through tailored financing.

FarmWorks

Turns Kenya’s food system into a resilient, high-tech ecosystem, where underutilized land, trained farmers, smart farms, and stable markets work together to feed a nation.

Exponent Energy

Delivers 15-minute EV charging.

Faircado

Searches through all of second-hand sources using AI.

evroc

Builds Europe’s first sovereign green cloud powered entirely by renewables.

Epyr

Turning renewable power into high-temperature heat with thermal energy storage

Dioxycle

Turns industrial CO₂ emissions into clean fuels with electricity and science.

Dunia Innovations

Dunia compresses decades of clean-energy material discovery breakthroughs into just years, supercharging discovery with AI and robotics.

Cylib

Recycles EV batteries with nearly zero waste and total resource recovery.

Deepull

Deepull identifies sepsis pathogens directly from blood in just one hour.

Decade

Making the clean energy shift make business sense.

CuspAI

Designs next-gen materials with AI to solve climate at the atomic level.

Climate X

Forecasts how climate change will impact businesses by advanced analytics allowing informed decisions and better solutions.

Cure51

Studies people who beat cancer then turns their biology into cures.

Clippership

Revolutionizes sea freight with zero-emission, wind-powered container ships.

Cradle

Designs proteins with AI making biology faster, cleaner, and smarter.

Charm Industrial

Pumps carbon underground by turning crop waste into liquid bio-oil.

Brineworks

Ultra low-cost Direct Air Capture company.

CarbonRe

Uses AI to slash industrial CO₂ emissions without rebuilding factories.

Biorce

Revolutionizing drug development through the power of AI.

Arsenale Bioyards

Arsenale’s proprietary end-to-end platform makes biomanufacturing via precision fermentation economically viable at industrial scale for the very first time.

Avelios

Brings hospital software into the 21st century creating sustainable AI driven healthcare.

Ataraxis

Transforming Cancer Care with AI Precision Medicine.

Arnergy

Delivers solar power to businesses in Nigeria where the grid fails daily.

Anthro Energy

Makes batteries flexible, safe, and wearable just like the devices they power.

Amini

Maps climate and environmental data across Africa using AI to make informed environmental decisions.

Alcemy

Uses AI to make low-carbon cement as reliable as regular cement.

AgriCarbon

Measures soil carbon at scale to unlock billions in climate finance.

Again Bio

Turning pollution into products. Again turns waste into useful products, without breaking the bank or the planet.

Aerones

Cleans and repairs massive wind turbines using giant robot drones.

Aerleum

Turns toxic industrial emissions into building blocks for brand-new products.
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The final curation was done by Norrsken Foundation and a hand-picked jury.
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