Some of the world's most important problems aren't getting their fair share of the world's most ambitious people.
Impact × capitalism.
We believe capitalism, channeled by exceptional founders, is one of the most powerful ways to scale a solution. The challenge isn't a shortage of important problems, it's getting more exceptional entrepreneurial talent pointed at them instead of somewhere safer. +EV gives you grants and connects you to the right people: VCs, scientists, researchers, public policy people, and elite mentors who are there to help when you want it. We are not a VC and we don't invest in people. We exist to unblock them.
1 + 1 has to equal 2. The most scalable solutions to humanity's biggest problems will also create enormous companies. Too many companies focused purely on impact get run into the ground because the economics never made sense. Passion is great, but scaling and building a lasting business is what actually creates the impact. Most of what we back will be commercial for this reason, but a research effort or media brand that reaches millions can clear the same bar.
The future of our economy is in industrial sectors that scale perfectly.
For a while, the smartest people defaulted to quant funds, prestigious consulting, or safe "impact" fellowships that let you feel good without actually building anything. That's shifting fast. The best builders increasingly want to be as close as possible to the industrial explosion happening in AI, energy, manufacturing, and biology: the industries where the curve doesn't flatten out.
We're not chasing "sustainable." We're chasing a clean industrial explosion: energy, food, materials, and infrastructure rebuilt from first principles, fast enough and cheap enough that the old way stops making sense on the economics alone, not just the ethics. Protein is a good example: raising and slaughtering animals at scale, with all the contamination and disease risk that comes with it, starts to look less like agriculture and more like a biotech manufacturing problem, one that can be solved cleanly, in a bioreactor, without the risk.
What actually passes our test?
Take cellular agriculture: growing meat, leather, or collagen directly from cells, without raising or slaughtering an animal. At small scale, that sounds like a nicer way to make a familiar product. At full scale, it's something else entirely.
A mature cultivated-meat industry could simultaneously cut animal suffering at a scale very few interventions ever reach, free up the majority of the world's agricultural land currently tied up in livestock and feed crops, reduce methane and other livestock-driven emissions, lower the risk of the next zoonotic pandemic or antimicrobial-resistant superbug, make the protein supply more resilient to drought and disease, and ease the pressure of overfishing on the oceans. The underlying cell-culture and bioreactor technology could also spill over into regenerative medicine and biomanufacturing more broadly.
Very few technologies sit at the intersection of that many enormous problems at once, animal welfare, climate, land use, biodiversity, food security, pandemic risk, and ocean health, all through a single underlying platform. That's the kind of problem worth dedicating years of your life to: a mission or a fight worth taking on, not just a product worth shipping.
Founders are quants. Companies are bets.
So what does +EV mean? It's the model we apply to every fellow: model the probability distribution of outcomes, size the bet, and back the people, not just the idea. Most attempts don't work. The ones that do are worth backing seriously. If a very hard, very important problem has even a 2.5% chance of getting solved, it's still worth trying, and still worth funding.
You're not building this alone.
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