Top Performing B Corps

It’s no argument that COVID-19 has made an impact on the environment. While the lockdown and quarantine has led to China recording up to a 50% reduction in carbon and nitrogen oxide emissions. Meanwhile, on the downside, waste from one-use plastics and disposable face masks have exploded. 

But long before the pandemic, a specific set of companies were already making sure they left a light mark on the environment. Certified B Corporations are businesses that must meet verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose. B Corps are identified as companies that accelerate a global culture shift to redefine success in business and build a more inclusive and sustainable economy. Here we introduce some top-performing B Corps in a surprising variety of industries. 
 

Source: Certified B Corporation

EdTech with Exceptional Growth
Guild Education helps more of America’s workforce get educated. By creating a partnership between companies and nonprofit universities and helping them together build curriculums suitable for businesses while filing college enrollments and benefiting employees, they have hit a triple win jackpot. This women-led company based out of Denver, Colorado has helped bridge the education gap while working with Fortune 1000 companies. 

Environmental-friendly Shopping
While the spur of e-commerce has also meant more packaging and increased carbon footprint in comparison to shopping local, household goods e-commerce company Grove Collaborative has taken extra steps to reduce packaging including selling refillable household essentials. This San Francisco-born company has bagged over 2 million subscribers who are eager to reduce their own plastic consumption. 

Ethical Banking
Los Angeles-born Aspiration is a fintech company that offers an alternative banking service as a financial firm and pitches itself as a company for consumers who are fed up with the traditional banking industry. With its transparent low to zero-fee accounts, it aims to guide its customers to make purchases from ethical companies, offering everything from carbon offsetting to investment portfolios focused on sustainable businesses. It raised its Round C funding in May this year of $135MM.

Easily Searchable Social Care
Aunt Bertha is a privately-held online search and referral platform for individuals looking to connect to social care services from Medicare to food stamps to housing. Born out of Austin, Texas in 2010, its system is committed to helping people find the help they need with verified networks of care providers. 

Marketing for Good
Portland, Oregon-born marketing company Brink Communications focuses on clients that do good for the environment and align with their three principles: Urban Innovation, Healthy Communities, and Social Justice. Founded in 2012, the company strongly believes that some of the world’s pressing challenges are, at their core, communication challenges.

Fashionable Doctors & Nurses
FIGS has taken the medical field by the storm with its apparel for doctors and nurses. While traditional scrubs were notorious for being uncomfortable and unfashionable, female-founded FIGS changed the landscape with their fashion and comfort-focused threads. Through an easy to access e-commerce platform that has made medical apparel readily available, the LA-born company saw its revenue double last year.