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We think about portfolio creation differently: we are thematic business builders inventing companies that work together to create unique solutions.

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We have developed a pipeline of 162 companies that we will build over the 6 years. The activities of the Lab complemented by Y Solve Foundry, which distributes portfolio company products and services to municipalities, non-profits, and universities, and Y Solve Capital, which develops innovating funding products. 

Carbon Y

Area of Impact: Green Economy
Year 1: Batch 1 (Y1.B1)

Carbon Y creates a new digital asset class.
It tokenizes voluntary carbon credits to address the fragmented bilateral agreement driven market; trades those credits, and increases participation in the green economy.

Carbon Y is comprised of Carbon Y Markets and Carbon Y Services. Carbon Y Markets tokenizes and creates a trading market for voluntary carbon credits. Carbon Y Services provides comprehensive analysis of financial portfolios to help individuals, investment advisors, and others understand the risks that the portfolio has to climate change.

Cyyber

Area of Impact: Future of Work
Year 1: Batch 1 (Y1.B1)

Cyyber allows for small and medium sized businesses to benefit from the latest application of AI technologies in cyber security.

As cyber-attacks become more sophisticated with technological advancements, it is difficult to ensure cybersecurity using traditional methods and measures. AI has improved cybersecurity capabilities by anticipating potential vulnerabilities and future attacks through predictive analytics by identifying and preventing threats before they can harm the network or system. The use of automated threat-hunting algorithms has reduced human interventions and human errors by identifying threats with greater efficiency and effectiveness within a network. 

Cyyber combines machine learning and neural networks with data analysis and automation. Cyyber provides threat detection, threat response, predicative analytics, and phishing attack identification.

Cyyber provides large company cyber security services to the small and medium sized market. The company provides particular offerings to the Education and Healthcare providers for whom the risk of data breach is extremely problematic for their business. 

Grayl

Area of Impact: Education
Year 1: Batch 2 (Y1.B2)

Provides certification in sales, in collaboration with higher education.
Only 15 universities in the US have a sales major yet 25% of all jobs are in sales. Grayl focuses on students, people getting back into the workforce, and solves one of the biggest issues of startups:  a lack of sales expertise.

Grayl offerings include: 1. general core program with practicum;  2. industry specific program; and 3. complement an organization’s  sales process and provide sales training. and act as sales training for the company.

Optivity AI

Area of Impact: Future of Work
Year 1: Batch 1 (Y1.B1)

Optivity AI is a Coherence MeasurementSM and Impact Science platform.

Coherence MeasurementSM provides frameworks at the intersection of targets, KPIs, and metrics with operational causal loops. Impact Science delivers value to social impact organizations (nonprofits, NGO’s, public benefit companies, and social entrepreneurs) at the intersection of machine learning, social impact measurement, and predictive scoring.

Possibyl

Area of Impact: Future of Work
Year 1: Batch (Y1.B1)

Possibyl helps organizations and employees navigate rapidly changing environments.

The company delivers Pulse Teams,  Adaptive Strategy, Responsive Implementation, and Possibyl Institute for Human Capital 3.0.

Pulse teams expand the capacity of traditional internal working groups by creating fast-moving, cross-functional squads to tackle urgent challenges and activate adaptive strategy. Adaptive Strategy creates organizational agility. Responsive Implementation increases productivity. Possibyl Institute for Human Capital 3.0 delivers program online, on premises, and at local hubs.

Skyll

Area of Impact: Future of Work
Year 1: Batch 2 (Y1.B2)

Skyll creates a new industry of on-demand productivity suite support.
The company allows organizations to be more efficient and creates a viable pathway for minimum wage workers to make more money and at the same time develop needed skillsets.

Sygma

Area of Impact: Finance
Year 1: Batch 1 (Y1.B1)

Sygma, through its y-Sygma product, allows NIL (name, image, and likeliness) student athletes to generate guaranteed return on a social impact investment pool.
In addition y-Sigma combines  an endowment-like model with structured finance for NIL collectives, independent organizations that fundraise money for universities and give it to attending college athletes in the form of NIL agreement payouts. 

Theya AI

Area of Impact: Government Innovation
Year 1: Batch 2 (Y1.B2)

Theya AI helps all organizations optimize at the intersection of budget envelopes, provided services, and human capital capacity.  

When thinking about optimization of services for a given budget envelope, most organizations use / implement the following: automation reduces manual tasks and streamlines workflows and enhances overall productivity; cloud technologies are scalable, flexible solutions that lower IT infrastructure costs while improving operational agility; and advanced analytics derive more meaningful insights informing better, faster decision-making.

What is missing is the efficacy of the services delivered and how team capabilities impact optimization. Theya AI helps organizations complement “doing more with less” with “doing better with less”. 

y-Catalyst

Area of Impact: Education
Year 1: Batch 2 (Y1.B2)

y-Catalyst enables universities to address budgetary shortfalls by generating greater income from their tech transfer departments.
y-Catalyst provides consulting services (tech transfer diagnostics and smart accelerator services which facilitate new venture building), tech transfer software and process stack, and a marketplace.  The company connects to industry to provide efficient access to networked capital, strategic participants, and innovation buyers. 

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