740 millionRoygbivs. Built on vision science. The WHO calls myopia the largest threat to eye health this century. Myopia develops in childhood, while the eye is still growing, and that growth depends on light. As screen time replaces time outdoors, children miss the full spectrum of sunlight, which signals the retina to slow the eye's growth. Without it, the eye grows too long and distant sight blurs, and once set in childhood, the change is for life. The cost reaches well past glasses. Severe myopia raises the lifelong risk of retinal detachment, glaucoma and permanent loss of sight, and poor vision holds children back at school and adults at work, costing the world an estimated $244 billion a year in lost productivity. Roygbivs is a low-cost, passive lens that brings the full spectrum of sunlight to a child's eye wherever they are, to slow and even reverse the onset of myopia and protect sight for life.Site coming soon. hello@betterlab.com
+168 millionClearly. Built on developmental and negotiation science. No country has a larger share of children living with a single parent than the United States. When parents separate, research ties children's anxiety, depression and trouble at school more to the conflict that follows than to the separation itself, and those effects can last into adulthood. For parents, years of fighting cost health, money and time in court. Clearly applies decades of Harvard negotiation research to help co-parents leave the patterns of the marriage behind and work as partners in raising their children. Less conflict between parents, and children who grow up better for it.getclearly.app
+136 millionLifelight. Built on photobiology. Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are the most common harm patients suffer in care, and contaminated hands are the main way they spread. In U.S. hospitals alone, they cause an estimated 687,000 infections and 72,000 deaths a year, and $9.8 billion in added cost. Alcohol gel has long been thought to be the answer. It isn't. Staff use it far less often than they should, it is often applied too briefly or unevenly to work, it is ineffective against some of the most dangerous germs, and every dispenser leaves a trail of alcohol, plastic and carbon. Lifelight is designed to replace it: a narrow band of far-UVC light that cleans hands in seconds, reaches germs gel can't, and needs nothing to refill. Fewer infections, lower costs for hospitals, and hygiene that no longer harms the planet.lifelight.io
+56 millionWe Need This Too. Built on economic and community science. Between 2021 and 2025, the price of home maintenance services rose 24% while average pay rose 18%, and over the past year pay has fallen behind prices again. The tradespeople and crews who do the work feel it too: every drive between jobs is time they aren't paid for. We Need This Too gathers the jobs in a building, on a block, across a neighborhood or an office park into one visit, so the travel collapses. Providers earn more of their day, and customers pay less. Lower bills, steadier work, fewer trucks on the street, and the trust between neighbors that research links to safer, healthier communities.weneedthistoo.com
1.1 billionBetterlab exists to solve problems at a global scale, for people and the planet. We do it by bringing together proven science and emerging technology, and delivering them through design. Science makes a solution work. Design makes it legible and easy to adopt, which is how it reaches the people who need it. We begin with a problem and the people living with it, then bring the right science to bear, whether that is the physics of light or the economics of a neighborhood. What we make may be physical or digital; the medium follows the outcome. And the outcome is the point: healthier people, stronger communities and a world shaped for the better. Each solution is measured by one thing: how many lives it changes.Founded by Todd Bracher