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
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
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 jury
The final curation was done by Norrsken Foundation and a hand-picked jury.
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