Our Approach
NextLadder is catalyzing a new sector of highly personalized tools that help families overcome barriers to economic success.
We deploy both philanthropic and venture capital to build a robust, self-sustaining market for Navigation Technology.
Areas of Investment
Direct Solutions for People
Backing the most ambitious, transformative entrepreneurs who are scaling transformative NavTech tools – whether that looks like hypergrowth startups or high-impact nonprofits. With our flexible capital and long-term mandate, we deploy venture capital, philanthropic grants, and other investment instruments to support whatever models can be most scalable and impactful for the lives of low-income Americans.
Market Building
Growing the ecosystem of impact-focused developers, entrepreneurs, and investors that can sustain the NavTech market long-term. Partnering with community-based organizations, employers, governments, and other stakeholders that rely on and deploy NavTech tools.
Product Quality, Safety & Trust
Establishing the foundational elements — evaluation tools, standard building blocks, and safeguards — that ensure NavTech tools are high quality, safe, and trusted by the families who depend on them.
What We Invest In
Support When It Matters Most
Breakthrough research from Mobility Experiences (opens in a new tab) has helped us to identify the fork-in-the-road moments that matter most in families’ and individuals’ economic security and success.
Only 0%
of children born in the US will grow up to earn more than their parents do
Source: Opportunity Insights
Areas of opportunity
Informed by that research, we currently invest in NavTech tools across eight focus areas.
Thirty-seven percent of American adults can’t cover a $400 emergency — and people rarely arrive at a financial crisis carrying just one problem. NextLadder is investing in solutions that help provide people greater financial security and autonomy, including AI-supported financial navigation to manage and resolve debt, build savings, and avoid predatory services that can further set individuals back.
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