Y Solve Lab is a group of systems thinkers, business builders, and technologists who believe emerging technologies can be used to improve lives, strengthen institutions, and solve complex societal problems. We seek to prove that new ventures can generate above market financial return and address societal challenges, at the same time. In short, emerging technologies can be used for good.

Y Solve Lab is a group of systems thinkers, business builders, and technologists who believe emerging technologies can be used to improve lives, strengthen institutions, and solve complex societal problems. We seek to prove that new ventures can generate above market financial return and address societal challenges, at the same time. In short, emerging technologies can be used for good.

We invent, build, and fund internally generated solutions that solve real world problems in a responsible, secure, and equitable way.

Through our three-part ecosystem, we create, fund, and deliver solutions that scale. Our model combines venture creation, capital innovation, and impact-sector expansion to change how public benefit companies are built, financed, and brought to market.

Y Solve Lab is a public benefit holding company that creates and builds public benefit companies across nine Areas of Impact: Education, Finance, Future of Work, Government Innovation, Green and Blue Economies, Healthcare, Inclusive Economies, Infrastructure, and Media. 

Y Solve Capital, a public benefit company, develops financial solutions to help lower the cost of funding for Y Solve Lab portfolio companies. In addition, Capital brings the rigor of institutional portfolio construction and management to impact investors.

Y Solve Foundry, a 501 (c)(3), enables the use of emerging technologies and Y Solve Lab portfolio solutions to nonprofits, universities, cities, agencies, and other mission-driven institutions.

Our system in action

Our system is our edge.

It is clear that for many, intertwined societal challenges are getting worse. Not only that, they form a Gordion Knot (a metaphor for incredibly complex, intractable problems). Our model does good at scale.

The Y Solve Ecosystem creates value in three ways: financial return, measurable social impact, and increased doing-good sector capacity. We scale social impact and generate financial return which anchor our key metric – ROII (return on impact investment). These are our year 7 targets: multiples are on a per dollar invested basis.