Are you searching for a role that aligns your personal values with your day-to-day work?
From Fintech to Healthcare to Femtech and beyond, these 20 startups are making a difference in their communities and the world.
And they’re hiring!
Learn more below about the problems they’re solving, the impact they’re creating, and the mission-driven culture they're building.
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Kairos
What do they do?: Kairos’ mission is to enable radical and diverse participation in web3. They’re in web3 to build well-designed tools that are easy for people to use. To start, they’ve created a platform for creators to generate artwork, create NFTs, and sell them with a custom branded storefront, without writing a line of code.
Highlight from their Elpha page: “Today we are a team of 4, 3 women and 1 man. We are Vietnamese-American, Lebanese-Australian, Turkish, and Taiwanese-Australia, and our CEO, Katie, identifies as LGBTQ. At the core of Kairos is inclusion. It is through this lens we assess features and make decisions across many aspects of our business, internally and externally.”
Industry: 🤝 Community / Social Network , 🙋♀️ Consumer Software and Services , 🛒 E-commerce + D2C
Team Size: 1-10
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Canopy
What do they do?: Canopy’s mission is to enable organizations to launch personalized, transparent, and safer credit and lending products and to support those products with world-class servicing in a secure and compliant way.
Highlight from their Elpha page: “Canopy was founded as a remote-first company and its fully remote team is spread out across the United States and Europe. We trust our team members and give them autonomy, encouraging a work/life integration. In general, the team is offline on the weekend –– it’s understood that we work hard during the week, and value time outside of work as well.”
Industry: 🖇 B2B Software and Services , 👩💻 Developer Tools , 💸FinTech
Team Size: 11-50
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Ethena
What do they do?: Ethena provides compliance training for modern teams. They break larger topics - like Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - into smaller and more digestible training delivered throughout the year so it stays top of mind.
Highlight from their Elpha page: “Ethena is women-founded and women-led. Our CEO Roxanne Petreaus and our CTO Anne Solmssen lead our executive team which remains majority women (6 of 9).”
Industry: 🖇 B2B Software and Services , 📚 EdTech , 👏 Social Impact
Team Size: 11-50
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Nova Credit
What do they do?: Nova Credit helps newcomers to the U.S. apply for financial services using their international credit history from countries. Through their approach, they unlock new futures for immigrants and new customers for the institutions that serve them.
Highlight from their Elpha page: “All employees have access to key performance indicators via Slack channels and shared dashboards. Board decks are shared - as our readouts from Board meetings. And our People team shares a range of data often considered “too sensitive” to share broadly: diversity statistics, monthly engagement survey results, and attrition information.”
Industry: 💸 FinTech
Team Size: 51 - 200
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Green Room
What do they do?: Green Room is building the tools that let touring entertainers be their OWN business manager starting with modern payments, streamlined tax compliance, and proof of income.
Highlight from their Elpha page: “Today we are a remote team of 3 and 100% of leadership roles are held by women. We plan to hire over 300 people this year, distributed across the U.S.”
Industry: 🖇 B2B Software and Services , 💸 FinTech
Team Size: 1-10
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ModernLoop
What do they do?: Their mission is to help companies deliver the best candidate experience by automating and streamlining recruiting operations.
Highlight from their Elpha page: 50% of the leadership roles at ModernLoop are held by women, including CEO and co-founder Lydia Han .
Industry: 🖇 B2B Software and Services
Team Size: 11-50
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Brave Care
What do they do?: Brave Care’s mission is to help every child reach their full potential. We strive to do this through impactful pediatric care that’s fueled by empathy, research-driven, grounded in trust, and made more personal with the support of modern technology.
Highlight from their Elpha page: 76% of leadership roles at Brave Care are held by women. Our goal at Brave Care is to ensure the success of every team member. That means we support each other, set clear expectations, and communicate clearly.
Industry: 🏥 HealthTech
Team Size: 51-200
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Otter
What do they do?: Otter is on a mission to create a world of care and opportunity by connecting parents who need childcare with stay-at-home parents who can care for their kids. Their goal is for every child to have access to safe, high-quality childcare and for every stay-at-home parent to be economically empowered.
Highlight from their Elpha page: “In July 2021, we announced that we’ve helped more than 3,500 stay-at-home parents provide care and earn more than $20 million dollars collectively.” + 100% of their leadership roles are held by women.
Industry: 🙋♀️ Consumer Software and Services , 💪 FemTech
Team Size: 11-50
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Sequin
What do they do?: Sequin is on a mission to get women the credit we deserve beginning with a debit card that builds credit, with rewards where women spend, and community-based education.
Highlight from their Elpha page: “As a mission-driven, early-stage startup, we work hard and care for one another deeply. Mental health days are encouraged and stepping away because it’s that time of the month is perfectly reasonable. One of our co-founders’ is a new parent, and we understand personal obligations as a team.”
Industry: 💪 FemTech , 💸 FinTech
Team Size: 1-10
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Juniper
What do they do?: Juniper's mission is to expand access and affordability to behavioral health services for all. They build software to help patients get access to behavioral health services they need — starting with autism.
Highlight from their Elpha page: “Behavioral health has to be something we live and breathe — all six members of the Juniper founding team see therapists every week, and we want to support you in doing so as well (we have a specific benefit to help pay out-of-pocket costs).”
Industry: 🖇 B2B Software and Services , 🏥 HealthTech , 👏 Social Impact
Team Size: 1-10
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Color
What do they do?: Color believes that everyone deserves the chance to live the healthiest life that science and medicine can offer. Through public and private partnerships including governments, employers, and health systems, Color’s infrastructure and software enable large populations to receive essential healthcare services directly where they live or work.
Highlight from their Elpha page: “Since March 2020, Color has mobilized to address the pandemic by leveraging its platform to scale COVID-19 testing programs around the country. Color’s platform is used by more than 100 major employers, universities, and public health institutions.”
Industry: 🏥 HealthTech
Team Size: 501-1,000
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SoWork
What do they do?: SoWork’s mission is to move the world of work from the Earth 🌎 to the Cloud ☁️. They’re doing this by building SoWork - where great teams work, socialize, and create community.
Highlight from their Elpha page: “Our interview process is designed to be a two-way evaluation, where the candidate should be able to determine if SoWork is a good fit for them just as much as we are determining if they are a good fit for us.”
Industry: 🖇 B2B Software and Services , 🤝 Community / Social Network , 🙋♀️ Consumer Software and Services
Team Size: 11-50
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Grow Therapy
What do they do?: Grow Therapy’s mission is to transform mental healthcare accessibility by helping therapists launch tech-driven, in-network practices.
Highlight from their Elpha page: “As a mental health company, we bring Grow’s mission to our internal team by promoting holistic wellness. Employees select one day each week to start a couple hours later. The program is designed to support mental health and wellness on an ongoing basis!”
Industry: 🏥 HealthTech , 👏 Social Impact , ⚙️ Software Infrastructure
Team Size: 11-50
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Gem
What do they do?: Gem is on a mission to build the operating system for a modern recruiting industry — one that’s candidate-focused, data-driven, and diversity-conscious.
Highlight from their Elpha page: “We operate with transparency by default - so everyone can make the best decisions. Employees feel more brought along in the growth of the company with transparency all around, including visibility into our funding rounds, customer calls and board decks.”
Industry: 🖇 B2B Software and Services
Team Size: 51-200
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Adyn
What do they do?: Adyn is a femtech company on a mission to make scientific discovery more inclusive so everyone can live their healthiest life. Their first product helps individuals identify the best birth control for their unique biology.
Highlight from their Elpha page: “We are as demanding in our quest to serve the underserved as we are exact in our science. Our work closes existing research gaps created by decades of unequal access to medical research and healthcare due to gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, LGBTQ+ identity, and geography.”
Industry: 💪 FemTech , 🏥 HealthTech , 🧪 Life Sciences / Biology
Team Size: 1-10
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HealthSherpa
What do they do?: HealthSherpa helps people find and enroll in ACA health coverage by building the nation's most comprehensive health insurance marketplace.
Highlight from their Elpha page: “We’ve doubled in each of the past three years and are now the largest ACA enrollment platform after healthcare.gov, having helped over 5 million people enroll in health coverage. Your contribution will positively impact hundreds of thousands of people, helping them to navigate the complex and confusing health insurance industry and to access health care when they need it.”
Industry: 🏥 HealthTech
Team Size: 51-200
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Shelf Engine
What do they do?: Shelf Engine’s mission is to reduce food waste through automation. They harness the power of AI to provide real-time, intelligent forecasting for food retailers like grocery stores, restaurants, and cafes across the United States.
Highlight from their Elpha page: “We’re able to drastically reduce the amount of shrink (food waste) which in turn drives profit for retailers, lowers costs for consumers, and reduces the negative ecological and 👏Social Impacts of waste.”
Industry: 🖇 B2B Software and Services , 🍉 Food / Beverage , 🌎 GreenTech / Environmental
Team Size: 51-200
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Sparrow
What do they do?: Sparrow’s mission is to ensure no one needs to choose between a job they love and the people they love. Sparrow is building software that takes care of the most painful parts of leave management, ensures an exceptional employee experience, and assists with compliance for all types of leave nationwide.
Highlight from their Elpha page: “We are always thinking about how we can better support employees and their teams as they take the time they need away from work, and we care deeply about the environment we have created for our own employees. In 2021, we were voted Elpha’s #1 Startup Workplace for Women by members of this community.”
Industry: 🤖 AI / Automation / Machine Learning , 🖇 B2B Software and Services , 👏 Social Impact
Team Size: 51-200
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Nearside
What do they do?: Nearside’s mission is to help small businesses start and grow. They are building financial products that empower business owners and enable them to focus on their products and on growing their businesses.
Highlight from their Elpha page: “Delivering financial services and honest credit to small businesses is not dependent on how many hours we work, or how hard we try. It is dependent on whether we succeed at helping small business owners succeed. Effort alone is not enough—thoughtful planning, discussion, empathy, and execution are required to deliver products that our customers find useful.”
Industry: 🖇 B2B Software and Services , 💸 FinTech
Team Size: 51-200
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Wefunder
What do they do?: Wefunder is a Public Benefit Corporation working on spreading the rewards of capitalism more fairly - by funding more deserving and underrepresented founders, backed by their friends and community who believe in what they are doing, and by empowering everyday people to be investors in private companies.
Highlight from their Elpha page: “We hire people who can be themselves at Wefunder. The culture is honest, a little bit weird, hardworking, and fun. We truly look out for one another and build relationships that extend past working hours.”
Industry: 🤝 Community / Social Network , 💸 FinTech , 👏 Social Impact
Team Size: 51-200
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👀There are over 70 companies hiring on Elpha. Share your job preferences to be matched with openings at companies that align with your personal interests.
