Impact Tags & SDGs

End poverty in all its forms everywhere. Startups tagged here tackle extreme poverty, financial exclusion, and economic vulnerability — expanding access to financial services, safety nets, and economic participation for underserved populations worldwide.

End hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture. Covers agritech, alternative proteins, precision farming, and food supply chain solutions — anything making food production more efficient, resilient, and accessible.

Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages. The broadest SDG on Dealroom — covering the entire healthtech, digital health, and mental wellness spectrum. One of the most common impact tags, encompassing everything from telehealth to genomics to elderly care platforms.

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Edtech, workforce development, corporate training, and upskilling platforms all fall here — from K-12 to professional reskilling for the future of work.

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Covers femtech, platforms addressing bias in hiring or lending, reproductive health, and tools that measure or reduce gender-based discrimination. Often overlaps with SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities).

Reduce inequality within and among countries. Covers companies addressing systemic disadvantage — from racial discrimination in financial services to tools supporting refugee integration, accessible employment platforms, and safe migration infrastructure.

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Water tech companies — including wastewater treatment, desalination, leak detection, and smart water management — are tagged here. Access to clean water remains one of the most critical global challenges.

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all. One of the most common SDG tags on Dealroom — includes solar, wind, tidal, hydrogen, energy storage, smart grids, and energy efficiency technology. The clean energy transition is one of the most active areas of VC investment globally.

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. The circular economy lives here — from food waste reduction and sustainable packaging to resale platforms, repair services, and sustainable fashion. Companies that help people and businesses consume less and waste less.

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. The single most common impact tag on Dealroom — reflecting the extraordinary growth of the climate tech sector. Covers carbon capture, carbon markets, climate risk analytics, sustainable supply chains, and any company whose core mission is fighting climate change.

Conserve and sustainably use oceans, seas, and marine resources. Aquaculture tech, ocean plastic solutions, sustainable seafood alternatives, and marine monitoring startups all fall here. A growing area as ocean health becomes increasingly critical to global food security and climate stability.

Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt biodiversity loss. Covers forestry tech, biodiversity monitoring, wildfire detection, rewilding platforms, and land restoration companies.

Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all. Covers platforms tackling pay inequality, worker empowerment, fair trade supply chains, and tools that help underrepresented groups access economic opportunity.

Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation, and foster innovation. The broadest "innovation" SDG — applied to companies making industrial processes more sustainable, expanding universal access to technology, and building the infrastructure for a more connected, efficient economy.

Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. Smart city tech, urban mobility, affordable housing platforms, air quality monitoring, and urban waste reduction startups all fall here. As more people live in cities, the urban tech category continues to grow rapidly.

Promote peaceful and inclusive societies, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions. GovTech, legal tech, digital democracy platforms, anti-corruption tools, and transparency infrastructure are key areas here.

Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalise the global partnership for sustainable development. Companies tagged here typically facilitate cross-sector collaboration, impact investment infrastructure, or development finance tools — enabling others to achieve SDGs at scale.