Air Protein secured $32 million in a Series A round of funding to develop and commercialize a protein-based meatlike product created from CO2 molecules, as an alternative to greenhouse-gas-intensive farming and agriculture.

Impossible Foods partnered with food banks and community organizations during the pandemic to donate food to people coping with food insecurity. The company also instituted double-digit price cuts for consumers, restaurants, and distributors to make its products more affordable to all.

Aether Diamonds launched during the pandemic to create carbon-neutral diamonds that actually remove carbon from the air, creating cleaner, less-polluted air in the process and saving land from strip mining. More than $3 million worth of orders in the first five months removed over 9,750 metric tonnes of air pollution and offset more than 600 years of the average American’s carbon footprint.

Watershed has more than tripled the number of companies it works with to cut carbon emissions, including Square, Stripe, Doordash, Shopify, Sweetgreen, Airbnb, Expensify, Everlane, Revolut, Monzo, and Vimeo. The company recently hit 20 million metric tons of CO2 under management -- more than 4x the city of San Francisco.

Apploi transformed its health care hiring platform during the pandemic, allowing facilities to staff up and onboard more nurses more quickly.