Y Solve Lab is a new model of social-impact emerging-technology incubator designed to scale social impact and financial return simultaneously.

The Lab has developed a portfolio pipeline of 201 internally developed public benefit companies that it intends to build and operate across nine Areas of Impact and eight Themes. Rather than developing companies as independent ventures, the Lab is designed to create a portfolio of complementary companies that can work together as an integrated system to address complex, large-scale challenges.

The Lab’s model differs materially from the traditional entrepreneurial and accelerator models in several important respects:

• Internally Invented Companies. All portfolio companies are conceived and initially developed internally by Y Solve Lab rather than sourced primarily from external entrepreneurs.
• Intellectual Property. The Lab has identified seven potentially patentable innovations arising from its technology, methodologies, and operating models.
• Systems-Based Portfolio. Portfolio companies are designed to work together as an interconnected system, enabling capabilities across multiple companies to be combined to address complex problems that may be difficult for a single company to solve independently.
• Portfolio Development. Rather than focusing on building a single company at a time, the Lab develops a coordinated portfolio of companies whose products, services, technologies, data, and capabilities can reinforce one another.
• Impact and Financial Return. The model is designed to pursue social impact and financial value creation simultaneously, with the portfolio architecture intended to create opportunities for both individual-company and portfolio-level value creation.

This approach positions Y Solve Lab not simply as an incubator of individual companies, but as a system for inventing, building, and scaling interconnected public benefit companies around significant social and economic challenges.

Y Solve Capital is a public benefit company that develops innovative financial solutions designed to lower the cost of capital for Y Solve Lab portfolio companies while providing impact investors with customized portfolios built with the rigor of institutional portfolio construction and management.

Y Solve Capital operates at the intersection of social-impact financial innovation, portfolio-company weighted average cost of capital, and impact-investor portfolio construction and management. Its objective is to develop financing structures that align the capital needs of portfolio companies with the return, risk, time-horizon, and impact objectives of investors.

Y Solve Capital is supported by strategic investors that have committed $350 million over six years and have provided bonds that serve as guarantees for Y Solve Capital's innovative financial structures. These guarantees are designed to enhance the credit characteristics of the structures while enabling capital to be deployed into Y Solve Lab portfolio companies on terms intended to reduce their effective cost of funding.

Y Solve Foundry is a nonprofit organization that delivers the products, services, technologies, and methodologies developed by Y Solve Lab portfolio companies to create innovative solutions to nonprofits, universities, cities, government agencies, and other mission-driven institutions.

The Foundry brings innovative solutions to the doing-good sector to help mission-driven institutions navigate an environment of increasing complexity, constrained resources, and growing demands for measurable outcomes.

The Foundry also serves as an important market-development and commercialization channel for Y Solve Lab. By introducing Lab portfolio company products and services to the doing-good sector, the Foundry helps portfolio companies expand their customer base, demonstrate their solutions in mission-driven environments, and scale sales within a large and underserved market.