A $5 trillion opportunity

The U.S. GDP is approximately $30 trillion and the annual doing-good sector represents nearly $1 trillion of economic activity. As artificial intelligence, automation, health technology, climate innovation, and other transformative technologies reshape society, the growing demand for sustainable solutions is creating a new category of economic opportunity: Emerging Technologies for Good. 

Over time, we believe Emerging Technologies for Good could represent 10–20% of U.S. GDP, creating a market opportunity of approximately $3 trillion to $6 trillion. 

The Y Solve ecosystem is building the ventures, capital structures, and innovation systems designed to participate in and help create this approximately $5 trillion opportunity. Our efforts will codify and translate the concept of Humanistic Capitalism into tangible value. 

The Y Solve Ecosystem

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 innovative financial solutions to help lower the cost of funding for Y Solve Lab portfolio companies. In addition, Capital brings Thematic Impact Investing with the rigor of institutional portfolio construction and management to impact investors.

Y Solve Foundry, a nonprofit, uses Y Solve Lab portfolio company products and services to deliver innovative solutions to nonprofits, universities, cities, agencies, and other mission-driven institutions.

Our system is our edge.

Societal Challenges

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

System targets

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.