Turning bold ideas into impact
Blue Ridge Labs
Blue Ridge Labs is Robin Hood's venture studio for scaling innovations to solve the most pressing social challenges.
Blue Ridge Labs is Robin Hood's venture studio for scaling innovations to solve the most pressing social challenges.
With every new venture we back, the collective intelligence of our portfolio sharpens. This network drives real, lasting change.
2019
2024
Enlightapp makes understanding each student and their community fast, easy and fun!
2019
2022
Gather is the creating a more connected world where fewer are left behind by helping community based organizations more effectively connect their members with life-changing resources, people, and events
2016
Free Arrest Support Hotline: connect with a free lawyer right away in NYC
2020
2014
2023
Welcoming refugees & immigrants, and enriching CT’s community since 1982.
2015
JustFix.nyc is a tool for renters to organize and take action in getting repairs made in their apartment
2021
We empower patients of color with the knowledge and trust to pursue clinical trials that can save or extend their lives.
2025
Every year, nearly half of all government rent assistance checks go unused because the system connecting families to landlords is too slow, too manual, and too frustrating for everyone involved. Keyway Homes is a housing technology platform that fixes this by bringing tenants, landlords, and local housing offices onto one system. The platform automates the paperwork, inspections, and payment tracking that cause landlords to walk away, while giving families real-time visibility into where they stand in the process. In under 12 months, Keyway has placed 96 families into stable housing, reduced the average time from search to signed lease from 55 days to 14, and onboarded 42 landlords, 80% of whom had never accepted government rent assistance before. Keyway is free for families. Landlords and housing agencies pay for a platform that makes participation simple enough to be worth their time. Founded by Gabriel Leavell, a former Section 8 recipient turned real estate investor, and Keyaria Rhodes, a tenant rights advocate with over a decade in housing policy, Keyway is building the infrastructure to ensure every family handed a rent check actually gets a home.