We accelerate and invest in startups
From hand-holding to co-founding startups together to creating accelerator programmes - we accelerated and invested in startups of various stages to support their growth.
For every startup we worked with, we helped to integrate positive impact into the business model so that with every sale - the startup scales their impact on people and planet as well.
Key Milestones
Case study: ALPA Kids
Country: Estonia
ALPA Kids was created to provide children aged 3–8 with a safe, engaging, and culturally relevant digital learning experience. The platform combines educational games with local languages, nature, and culture to strengthen early literacy, numeracy, logic, and digital skills while promoting healthy screen-time habits. Designed together with teachers and educational experts, ALPA adapts learning to each child's progress through personalised recommendations and learning analytics. Today, the platform is used by families, schools, and educational institutions across multiple countries, making high-quality early childhood education more accessible through technology.
People
ALPA Kids helps children develop essential language, math, problem-solving, and digital skills through personalised, age-appropriate learning.
Planet
ALPA Kids promotes purposeful screen time and encourages sustainable learning through digital resources and nature-based educational content.
Profit
ALPA Kids operates a scalable EdTech platform, growing through subscriptions and partnerships with schools and families across multiple markets.
Kelly Lilles
"Participating in the Katalista Ventures Impact Valley accelerator was an important milestone in ALPA Kids’ growth journey, helping us strengthen our marketing, international expansion strategy, and investor pitch. Since the programme, ALPA Kids has grown a lot in both reach and revenue, achieving 166% MRR growth, expanding into new markets, and strengthening its position as a scalable, impact-driven EdTech company providing quality early learning in children’s native languages. The mentorship and feedback from the programme helped us communicate our business potential and social impact more clearly, which supported our conversations with partners and investors. A particularly meaningful long-term outcome has been the network: we gained many friends, and several mentors and jury members later became ALPA Kids investors, including Douglas Wong as an angel investor and Zsolt Pethe with FASE, through the European Social Innovation and Impact Fund’s €225K participation in ALPA Kids’ €1M+ seed round."
Case study: Earthbanc
Country: Sweden
Earthbanc is the world’s first data-driven carbon and investment platform tackling climate change. It leverages machine learning and satellite remote sensing to continuously audit and rate landscape carbon, carbon offsets and the green finance products that support carbon removal. During Rockit Impact Accelerator, Earthbanc worked together with Swedbank Lithuania in a pilot project to enable businesses to track their carbon footprint. The initial aim was to take business customers account data and use it to calculate carbon reduction. Earthbanc delivered not only the footprint report, but also personalized insights on carbon reduction, market averages and cost-saving tips for Swedbank's business customers. The pilot project helped Swedbank understand the emerging carbon market and green finance, while Earthbanc received valuable feedback in perfecting their product. As a result of their strong commitment towards Triple Top Line, Katalista Ventures participated in the startup's pre-seed funding round of $1.5M.
People
46.5% women employed
6654 community benefitted
Planet
16.35M tCO2e - emissions reductions over the lifetime of
8 carbon projects
Provided habitat for 14,151 species
Profit
1519 jobs created in
7 countries
Tom Duncan, CEO
“We really enjoyed the Rockit Impact Accelerator program that we went through with Swedbank, that was just an amazing experience and it was a big part of the journey to get us where we are today. So, we are very thankful for that opportunity and are big fans of the impact accelerator program.”
