We take a systems approach to humanistic capitalism: we invent, fund, and operate new ventures that deliver above-market returns and drive social impact at scale. Our invention and innovation system is driven by an environment of accelerating change: macro economic cycles that require innovative operating models; technology platform shifts that yield opportunities to create value in new ways; and growing impact needs across multiple areas.

There is an urgency to address systematic problems.

The policies of many current administrations are exacerbating societal challenges and breaking norms with potential harmful consequences.

In many countries, a toxic combination of policies and application of emerging technologies are laying the groundwork to exacerbate societal problems. It is clear that for many, intertwined societal challenges are getting worse. Not only are they getting worse they form a Gordion knot. Not only that, there are few models that do good at scale.

There continues to be a structural underinvestment in Education, Healthcare, and Infrastructure. As a result, the goal of shared prosperity is becoming more unattainable.

A bold new system is required.

Y Solve Ecosystem.

We are a group of systems thinkers, business builders, and technologists with the belief that emerging technologies will have profound implications for society, with the potential to transform industries and improve quality of life. We endeavor to build solutions that solve real world problems in a responsible, secure and equitable way.

Our ecosystem invents, builds, and funds innovative solutions that address large social challenges and generate return for investors.

Invent

Y Solve Lab. Creates and builds 185 public benefit companies in 9 Areas of Impact.

Themes: AI impact on the organization, Cybersecurity: New Protocols, Decarbonization, EU focus, Hyper Personalization, New Economies: Bot to Bot.

Areas of Impact: Education, Finance, Future of Work, Government Innovation, Green and Blue Economies, Healthcare, Inclusive Economies, Infrastructure, and Media.

Benefits

Fund

Y Solve Capital. Lower cost of funding, enable investors to create Impact Portfolios. Broaden access to accelerate the growth of impact investing as an asset class.

Develops innovative financial solutions for Lab portfolio companies. Products will include an early stage fund, a donor advised fund, and lending facility. Increase access to alternative investment returns.

Benefits

Operate

Optivity AI (Lab company): Provides measurement towards social impact goals for the entire portfolio.

Edyson (Lab company): Delivers emerging technology capabilities, tech infrastructure, and IP assets to portfolio companies.

Benefits

Distribute

Y Solve Foundry (501 (c)(3)). Distributes Y Solve Lab portfolio products to non-profits, universities, and cities/agencies. In addition, the organization oversees the Academic Center of Excellence.

Edyson Pioneering, a Y Solve Lab company, delivers the Value Creation Accelerator, a program that helps companies, non-profits, universities, and city/agencies to accelerate improvement of all key areas.

Benefits

Our system is our edge.

How we invent.

Different from traditional accelerators and venture capital firms, Y Solve Lab creates and participates in the funding of its own companies from hypothesis to launch to grow and to scale. We uniquely operate at the intersection of themes as long term secular drivers of commercial value and areas of impact where we address societal challenges.

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.

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.

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.

New Venture Development Process.

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).

Targets.

We have an audacious agenda. We are at the beginning of our journey to create 185 companies. These are our year 7 targets. Our multiples are on a per dollar invested basis.

185

# of companies

20x

Social Impact

12x

Financial Return

Sector Capacity