We are a new model of social impact emerging technology incubator. The Lab has a portfolio pipeline of 201 internally developed public benefit companies that it will build and operate across 9 Areas of Impact and 8 Themes.

The goal is to scale both social impact and financial return simultaneously. In addition, the Lab provides the broader Y Solve Ecosystem with several key advantages: systematic innovation that changes the economics of new venture creation and integrated solutions (Lab companies are built to work together as systems).

Invention Process: The goal of the Y Solve invention and innovation system is to create systems-level change by identifying long-term economic, technological, and social shifts and translating them into scalable public benefit ventures.

The Lab drives both social impact and financial return through its Themes — long-term drivers of change that shape industries, institutions, markets, and society over time.

These Themes extend across multiple Areas of Impact and help guide where Y Solve invents, builds, and scales solutions.

Themes are long-term drivers of economic, technological, and societal change that help identify where future opportunities and challenges are emerging.

The Lab’s Themes are grounded in the belief that society is in the early stages of an emerging technology super cycle driven by advances in:

artificial intelligence
blockchain and digital assets
additive manufacturing
data infrastructure and
opportunities at the intersection of hardware, software, and intelligent systems

This transformation is being driven by:

rapid growth in data
advances in machine learning
increasing computing power and
widespread adoption of AI-driven technologies across industries

The Lab focuses on how these technologies can be applied responsibly to generate measurable social impact while also creating sustainable long-term value.

Because societal challenges continuously evolve, the Lab uses its Themes to guide the development of forward-looking solutions designed to adapt over time. Y Solve Lab continuously evaluates technological, economic, and market developments to refine its investment theses, invention priorities, and long-term strategy.

Innovation is embedded throughout the new venture creation process — from invention and validation to venture development and long-term scaling. The process includes several internally developed frameworks and evaluation methodologies, including: Y-Validation, Five Fit analysis, Theory of Change / Risk Scorecard methodologies, and understanding Core Obtainable Market (COM). These activities, in combination with building our Lab companies to work with one another, create clear, persistent moats.

Our portfolio includes three types of companies. Some are designed to generate free cash flow that can be reinvested into the early stages of other Lab companies. Others are built to be acquired by other Lab companies, creating embedded liquidity opportunities within the portfolio. A third group consists of emerging technology companies that follow a more traditional startup growth and capital-raising path.

Together, these portfolio company types create a more resilient innovation system — one that supports new venture creation, lowers dependence on external capital, improves portfolio company capital efficiency, and increases the ability to scale new ventures.

We use the public benefit corporation legal structure as a strategic foundation for aligning innovation, governance, accountability, and long-term impact. Benefit Corporations and Certified B Corporations are often confused. While the two structures share similarities, they serve different but complementary purposes.

We utilize Benefit Corporation structure as a legal and governance framework, and Certified B Corporation standards as an impact measurement and accountability mechanism. Together, these structures help support: clear corporate purpose, transparent governance, measurable reporting, and long-term accountability aligned with ecosystem-wide goals.

The region is a global leader in deep-tech invention, yet it is constrained by shallow and fragmented capital markets.
Institutional investors are deploying capital faster than new capital is being raised, creating constraints on capital recycling and limiting the resources available to support the next generation of entrepreneurs and emerging companies. In fact, the "invested-to-raised" ratio has soared to a decade-high of 5.2x, meaning that for every euro raised, European firms are deploying more than five euros.
Technological sovereignty depends not only on invention, but also on ownership and scale. While the UK and EU continue to produce world-class innovation, a significant portion of late-stage funding for emerging technology companies originates outside the region, increasing the likelihood that strategic technologies are ultimately controlled elsewhere.
At the same time, policymakers face the challenge of balancing innovation and regulation. As the EU advances new policy and regulatory frameworks for emerging technologies, such as its AI Act, it is creating a fragmented, unpredictable regulatory environment that has the potential to undermine innovation and discourage investment.

Y Solve Lab portfolio companies will participate in the development of next-generation sectors such as artificial intelligence, health technology, climate innovation, and other emerging industries.
Y Solve Capital will help address the capital scale-up gap facing early-stage companies by being a model of innovative impact finance.
Edyson Pioneering is a Year One Lab portfolio company that will deliver Frameworks as Solutions. The product, powered by 30 Lab companies, will help organizations throughout the UK and EU (in addition to the US) accelerate value creation, increase operational efficiency, and mitigate risks.