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Y Solve is an invention and innovation system that generates social impact and financial return.
Purpose
The Lab is a US public benefit company that has developed an innovation system to create a step-function of doing good: Scale (volume) and scale (efficiency), anchored in driving the highest RoII (Return on Impact Investment). Our system is comprised of Lab activities, Foundry services, and funding innovations.
In the Lab, New Venture Development originates and builds the early stages of our portfolio companies; Portfolio Management ensures our portfolio companies utilize our innovation system to change the underlying economics of their businesses; Innovation Services provides shared and 3rd party services to our portfolio companies; and Y Solve Capital oversees the funding innovation of the lab companies.
Process
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.
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.
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.
Reducing early stage risk. 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. Our innovation runs much deeper than the businesses that we create. 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 182 companies. These are our US based year 8 targets.
182
# of companies
20x
Social Impact
12x
Financial Return
4x
Sector Capacity
(per dollar invested)
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