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 Lab provides the Y Solve Ecosystem with several key benefits: systematic innovation (structured business creation methodology changes the economics of new venture creation) and scaled solutions (Lab companies are built to work together as systems to solve complex problems).

How We Invent.

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, 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).

We use public benefit corporation structure as strategy.

Benefit corporations and Certified B Corporations are often confused. They share much in common and are complementary but have a few important differences. We use the two structures in a complementary fashion: Benefit Corp as a legal entity and B Corp as a reporting and impact compliance mechanism. Other complementary benefits: clear corporate purpose; transparent governance; robust reporting; and comprehensive accountability aligned with ecosystem goals.