We are a new model of social impact emerging technology incubator. Our goal is to create, build, and operate 185 public benefit companies across 9 areas of impact. And, through Y Solve Capital, we participate in the funding of our companies from hypothesis through scale.

Invention Process: The goal of our invention and innovation system is to create systems-shift. We drive social impact in our Areas of Impact and financial return through Themes (long term secular key drivers that capture economic, technological, and social changes). Themes go across multiple Areas of Impact.

Themes

Themes are long term secular key drivers that capture economic, technological, and social changes. Our Themes are anchored in recognizing that we are at the very beginning of an “Emerging Technology” super cycle, a period of unprecedented growth and innovation in artificial intelligence, asset tokenization, blockchain, additive manufacturing, and opportunities at the intersection of hardware, software and data.

This phenomenon is driven by several key factors, including the explosive growth of big data, the increasing power and sophistication of machine learning algorithms, and the rapid adoption of AI-based solutions across a wide range of industries. We deeply consider how emerging technologies can be used for positive social impact.

We deeply consider how emerging technologies can be used for positive social impact. Since societal problems are non-static, Themes provide broad guidance in creating forward looking solutions that provide value to impact customers. We regularly consider events and market activity to determine whether our theses are correct.

  • Asset tokenization
  • Cyber security: new protocols 
  • Decarbonization
  • Enterprise of the future
  • Hyper-personalization
  • New economies: Bot-to-bot economy
  • Quantum
  • Small language models > large language models

Areas of Impact

Societal challenges are often deeply intertwined. Accordingly, we create businesses in 9 areas of impact: Education, Finance, Future of Work, Government Innovation, Green and Blue Economy, Healthcare, Inclusive Economies, Infrastructure, and Media.

Systematic Development: Recognizing that most new ventures fail early in their lifetime, we utilize a structured methodology to increase our rate of success. 

The process includes a number of internally developed tools: y-Validation, 5 fits, theory of change/risk scorecard. Innovation is core to everything we do. For example, within y-Validation is the notion of COM (Core Obtainable Market), which is more important than the standard market sizing elements of TAM (Total Addressable Market), SAM (Serviceable Addressable Market), and SOM (Serviceable Obtainable Market).

Rather than build idiosyncratic companies, our portfolio companies are built to work together. We combine the expertise of our Year 1 companies to create our Frameworks as Solutions product, which enables organizations to increase the velocity of value creation.

The Frameworks allow corporates, nonprofits, universities city/agencies, to navigate rapid change and unprecedented uncertainty.

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