The Impactful is a curated community and platform helping purpose-driven individuals and organizations thrive in the Anthropocene. We connect creative freelancers with aligned work, support businesses leading systems change with talent and skills development, and design programs that center sustainability, storytelling, and impact.

We are building large-scale robots and vision systems with computer vision to sort all waste in extremely high purity. You can read more about our mission, a detailed description of the current situation, and our plan for how Easysort works on our website: https://easysort.org/. You are right for the team if you are passionate about good, stable software and seeing it being deployed in real life. Our main focus is keeping the team small. Easysort is a profitable, although still a startup. We expect everyone to be on-site all the time when working with Easysort.

Based in Aarhus, Denmark, we are a Venture Lab for hard things, worth doing. Contrary to what many may think, the technological progress has stagnated for nearly four decades. Enabling and fundamental innovations such as the practical use of electricity, the telecommunications infrastructure, automatic computing, automotive transportation, heavier than air flight, genomics, and many other examples, all arose prior to the 1970s. What we have witnessed as progress within a generation is largely the application of these technologies in increasingly refined solutions. The latest wave of “softwaretization”, have increased operational efficiencies in multiple industries but also offset culturally and personal demand for tangible products and interactions, by web and app-based experiences. Our core thesis revolves around overcoming challenges in commercialization of scientific breakthroughs by providing the facility between scientists and entrepreneurs. We extend the conventional 10-year venture capital horizon, allowing for the maturation of technologies and customer demand. We focus specifically the hard sciences: physics, chemistry and their derived engineering disciplines. The markets and industries we work with are: - Military and Defense - Energy systems - Sustainable Resource Extraction - Access to space and ocean - Autonomous systems - AI for physical applications - Meta-materials and composites. We have great hopes for the future, and dare to bring it about. Come join us!

CPH Village is a Copenhagen based real estate start-up on a mission to create the best place to live for people and the planet through simple, communal living Our long-range vision is to export a new way of living to cities worldwide, and our goal for the next three years is to build and operate homes for 2.500 students. Our offices are located in our Villages on Refshaleøen and Vesterbro, and we work in the same kind of space as our residents live in. We are a young and action-oriented team in an exciting expansion phase as we are planning to quadruple our operations during the next year.

Humanitrack is creating volunteering driven science and tech knowledge hubs tackling global challenges and empowering the global STEM community. We are tracking impactful technologies in our hubs while aligning, guiding, and inspiring the students and researchers driving them via our volunteering platform. This is to accelerate tech solutions to global challenges and lead humanity to a healthy, sustainable future. Volunteering via our platform or in our organization: -Constantly brings information to the surface in our open-source knowledge hubs -Creates roadmaps of tech solutions to identify knowledge and innovation gaps -Gives feedback and guidance to students and researchers in our community Check out how we are also empowering corporate employees via digital volunteering: https://youtu.be/npJE5tyoXxg

At Nextfood, we are reshaping the plant-based food supply chain from farm to fork with large scale indoor farms combined with mini-farms in restaurants, catering, retail etc. Our computer controlled decentralised farm network grows deliciously fresh, locally produced, pesticide-free greens year-round to the benefit of flavour, health and climate. 1 m2 Nextfood farm corresponds to 200 m2 outdoor farm land and saves 98% water, more than 75% fertiliser and electrifies energy consumption. In turn addressing one of humanity’s greatest challenges: A sustainable high quality food supply for a rapidly growing urbanised population.

EIT Climate-KIC (Knowledge and Innovation Community) is Europe’s foremost climate innovation initiative. We understand that keeping global temperature rise below 1.5˚C demands unprecedented change. It requires new social dynamics, ways of doing business, capital flows, policymaking, economic models, and new ways of living. That is why our mission is to leverage the power of systems innovation to transform whole places, industries, and value chains by 2030, working across sectors to develop and scale ambitious, mission-led programmes. Established in 2010 and headquartered in Amsterdam, we orchestrate a community of more than 200 organisations including large corporations and SMEs, municipal and regional governments, universities, and research institutes, as well as non-governmental organisations and uncommon actors. Historically, we have been funded by our founder and core funder, the European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT), but we are currently transitioning to a multi-funder model. EIT Climate-KIC colleagues are based in one of our local offices across Europe or work remotely from home based in one of the countries where we have a branch. We meet at our local offices to exchange and connect and use online collaboration tools work with each other and with our Community. On occasion, we meet in-person as teams, and once per year as an organisation.

We are helping buildings and organizations to increase their air quality while saving energy . We develop plug and play actuators, air quality sensor technologies and software solutions. We provide 360° Energy Management Solution with using own hardware solutions and sensor technologies, measure real time data and combining with thermodynamic analysis by our software platform.

We are a growing SaaS scale-up 📣 CO2HERO is the world-leading app for taking climate action and a recognized industry standard among Fortune 500 companies. 🌍 We empower companies to drive employee engagement in sustainability. We offer companies to integrate sustainability into their organisational culture by engaging their workforces in a fun and interactive way. 🚀 Enable your workforce to become eco-champions by building a more sustainable future with our Employee Lifestyle Challenges. Our solution combines science and gamification to inspire positive behaviour change, making sustainability a fun and rewarding experience for all. 💚 Our social sustainability platform measures employee carbon emissions and climate actions in real-time, empowering companies to make informed decisions. Why? To achieve Scope 3 workforce goals in your organisation, a change in behaviour is necessary. Raise awareness among your employees and encourage them to integrate sustainability into their daily habits. 🌳 Let’s unite for a better world and cut down today.

Green Earth provides innovative sustainable solutions with our 100% compostable/biodegradable products. Our products are the best substitutes to everyday single use products made up of plastic, thermocol and paper. Green Earth products can be best alternative as they are made by considering the principles of circular economy and ‘state-of-the-art’ technology. We work in close co-operation with  environmental safety experts and researchers  who are pioneers in manufacturing Eco-friendly products

At Ubiqisense we created an occupancy & footfall solution, which collects data on the way people use and interact with spaces. We help create a better work environment and a better workplace experience, by helping companies adapt spaces to people’s real needs. Our solution provides valuable insights and by integrating it with other smart energy-saving solutions, it contributes to making buildings more sustainable entities. Join our team at Blox in downtown Copenhagen - an architectural landmark made to inspire.

At CLIMAID we handle sensor data and user feedback from your indoor climate and turn them into profit, health and well-being for you with AI-based indoor climate logic. It is our ambition to understand, what a good indoor climate is to you, better than anybody else, compare and combine this with factual advice and deliver personalized recommendations! In short, we turn your indoor climate into a valuable asset! At CLIMAID we think holistically and user-oriented. Indoor climate is as subjective as it is volatile. It is key to our success to understand, how to meet individual perceptions and expectations and nudge the user towards better well-being. We are passionate what we do and pro-active in our ambition to be experts in our field and first-movers in offering our users intuitive solutions, that add value for both occupants and building owners. As a team and as individuals we are open towards collaboration and new ideas, and we design our solutions to be accessible - in the technical interfaces we design as well as in the ease of use of our products. And we strive to be trustworthy and authentic in our approach to customers, partners and to each other.

Batteri & Lader makes home energy simple for Danish homeowners. We sell and install solar panels, home batteries and EV chargers with one fixed price and our own installers. We then run the whole house with our own app. The problem: many Danes want green energy at home, but get stuck. What fits my house? What does it really cost? Who handles the installation, the paperwork and the grid company? Once the system is installed, most of it runs dumb. The battery empties into the car, the car charges at the most expensive hour, and the household buys power it could have stored itself. Our solution: we advise honestly from the house's own data (BBR, the roof and actual consumption). We install with our own team, and our autopilot runs battery, solar, EV charging and heat pump on the hourly electricity price. The customer uses more of their own power and pays less for what they buy. Later, the home can also earn money by helping the power grid balance. Why us: we combine the installer and the software in one company, cloud-based with no extra box in the house. We want to be the place Danes go when they want green energy at home, with one partner and one app for the whole house.

MOOW is an innovation house with a mission to decarbonize the built environment through fully sustainable and design-oriented building materials made from locally sourced willow. MOOW’s holistic understanding of sustainability includes natural carbon capture, biodiversity, circularity, and human health. Our long-term ambition is to redefine how buildings are constructed and experienced.

In the European Union alone, more than 1.5 million paint buckets are discarded daily, constituting a disposal of 340 tons of single-use plastic that is incinerated each day. Starting from early 2023 (2025 in Denmark and Slovenia), manufacturers are obligated to cover the disposal costs of their packaging based on sustainability criteria. In Denmark, this translates to an estimated 15% fee on paint buckets. Furthermore, the conventional round shape of packaging has proven suboptimal for logistics and transportation. Beyond its environmental impact, the traditional paint bucket poses challenges for professional painters. These challenges encompass ergonomic issues during handling, such as the strain of lifting two buckets simultaneously, which exceeds recommended weight limits according to the Working Environment Authority. Painters also find themselves in awkward positions when pouring paint into a roller bucket for wall application. The demanding physical nature of the painting profession in Denmark results in accelerated fatigue and early retirement for painters. Additionally, issues like lid leakage due to dried paint and the use of fragile, porous plastic contribute to unexpected spills, particularly during abrupt vehicle stops. Our innovative solution involves a cardboard box housing two patent-pending plastic bags, each containing 5 liters of paint. This packaging not only enhances the workflow for professional painters but also reduces costs and lowers carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions by approximately 65% per unit. The box's design facilitates easy and ergonomic transportation, allowing for a 45% increase in units per pallet. The box is opened, and one of the bags is inserted into a standard roller bucket used by painters. The bag effortlessly opens and seamlessly fits into the roller bucket, wrapping around the edges, and enabling the painter to begin work promptly. This functionality is made possible through an innovative patented design and specific plastic welding techniques.