12 Tides
California, United States
September 2020
Food products
Manufacturing
United States
12 Tides is on a mission to reverse climate change, starting with the world's first regenerative organic kelp snack. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, the company was founded in 2019 by a life-long ocean conservationist with a mission to reimagine our relationship with the oceans through tasty seaweed-based snacks. The plant-based, nutrient-dense, organic puffed kelp chips are specially crafted from kelp grown in small-scale regenerative ocean farms in the pristine waters of the North Atlantic. This resource-efficient food production method is proven to positively impact surrounding water quality and marine life while aiding in removing CO2 from our oceans. Kelp is also a zero-input crop, meaning farming it requires no pesticides, no fertilizers, no arable land and no fresh water. 12 Tides is a proud member of 1% for the Planet and currently contributes one percent of all annual sales to SeeTrees, an organization that supports efforts in the reforestation of California kelp forests and other ocean conservation projects. To top it off, 12 Tides packs their snacks in an innovative compostable pouch, ensuring no plastic ends up in our waterways.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 16.2
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Governance 16.2
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Community 64.4
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Environment 30.8
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Customers 2.8
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.