Blue Ridge Labs
In an increasingly digital world, tech-based solutions are key tools to address real-world problems, like poverty. Blue Ridge Labs is Robin Hood’s poverty-fighting innovation lab, focused on supporting, incubating, and scaling community-driven tech solutions that address the problems of people experiencing poverty.
Our Impact
135
Founders supported
33
Companies incubated
$97
M
Raised to support tech-based solutions to poverty
Our Strategy
Blue Ridge Labs supports tech-driven solutions to poverty by providing funding, access, and community through our three cohort-based programs:
- Catalyst: Catalyst is a 5-month accelerator program that provides founders the capital, connections, and proximity to communities in poverty to make real change.
- Design Insights Groups: Our DIG groups connects founders with tech teams developing new innovative solutions to improve their communities.
- Fellowship: Our 18-week intensive fellowship program brings together technologists, experts, and community members to create technology that improves the lives of New Yorkers experiencing poverty.
