What is SocialTech and SustainableTech?

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We just passed over 3.5k members and listeners in our posi2ive club recently on Clubhouse (a sidecar to our podcast) on Venture Scale Positive Impacts. And decided to start two new clubs aligned also with the SDGs, following research on the VC Impact startup market landscape in the US, I did in 2020.

For those wanting to join: Social Tech and Sustainable Tech

The purpose of this article, is to document and highlight what some of the underlying impact verticals are within VC Impact [*Social and Sustainable Tech], and to help educate both myself and our listeners / readers on this emerging investment space. It’s also an effort to outline what these verticals are (a continuous work-in-progress), and which categories of vice we obviously exclude— e.g., gambling, crypto, alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, pornography, weapons.

Social Tech verticals:

Ai | AR / VR | AccessibilityTech | Advocacy | Affordable Housing | AgeTech. | AgriForestry | Alternative Medicine | Angel Investing | AuthenTech | Behavioral Science | BehaviorTech | BIPOC | BlockChains | Cognitive Diversity | CoHousing and Rentals | CollaborativeTech | Community | ConnecTech | Conscious Consumer | Consumer Social | CivicTech | Creators| Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) | Data Privacy | DigitalHealth | Digital Rights Management (DRM)| Digital Transformation | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) | Economic Empowerment| EdTech | ElderTech | Entrepreneurship | Emotional Health | EmpathyTech | Environmental, Social, Governence (ESG) | EthicalTech | Family | FemTech | Fertility | FinTech | FitnessTech | Future of Work | Gender Equality |Gardening | GroceryTech | Happiness | Health and Wellness | HealthTech | HigherEd | Homelessness | Housing | HRtech | HumaneTech | Human Rights | HyperLocaliazation | Influencers | Integrative Medicine | Kids Learning | Language Learning | LatinX | LegalTech | LGTBQ+ | Lifestyle, Entertainment, News, and Sports (LENS) | LongevityTech | Measured Self | MediaTech | Meditation | Mental Health | Outdoors | Peer-to-Peer Networking | People | Personal | PrivacyTech | PodcastTech | Psychology | Public Health | Quantified Self | Recruiting | Remote Work | Self Help | Social: Consumer / CPG / DTC / Enterprise / Good / Innovation / Impact / Media / Responsibility / Selling / Science | Serious Games | Sustainability | Travel | UN SDGs | VC Impact | Venture Philanthropy | Virtual Experience | Women’s Health | Young Adults

Sustainable Tech verticals:

Ai | BatteryTech | BioDiversity | BioTech | BatteryTech | BlueTech | Carbon Capture | Carbon Credits | CircularTech | ClimateTech | DER | CleanTech | Collaborative. | Consumption | Conscious Consumer | CSR | Decarbonization | DeepTech | Earth Science | Ecosystem Services | EnviroTech | Environmental Finance | Environmental Policy | Ethical Fashion | Energy Efficiency | ExtraLegal Risks | Metrics | EVs | FoodTech | FrontierTech | Green Building | Green Cleaning | Green Hydrogen | Hard Tech | HealthTech | Infrastructure | Investing | Logistics | Offsets | Micro Grids | MicroMobility | Nuclear | OceanTech | Offsets | Organics | Public Health | Recycling | Regenerative Agriculture | Renewable Energy | Renewable Fuels | Smart Grids | Smart Cities | SpaceTech | Supply Chains | Sustainable: Consumption Agriculture / CPG / DTC / eCommerce / Hardware | Sustainability | TechEthics | Transportation | Used Goods | UN SDGs | UpCycling | Venture Philanthropy | VC Impact | Venture Philanthropy | Vertical Farming | Waste Management | Water Tech | Watersheds | Wetland Mitigation Banking

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Thanks for taking the time to explore these verticals, and please send us a request to connect to the above clubs on CH.

Social Tech and Sustainable Tech