What Yoxi does

Yoxi is a privately held social innovation organization founded around 2009 by Sharon Chang, operating from yoxi.tv. The firm is explicitly positioned as an inquiry-driven exploration and investment entity rather than a technology product company; its 'core technology' field is listed as 'not applicable.' Yoxi's work is organized around eight thematic inquiry areas — Citizen Artist, Regenerative Consumerism, Complex Conservation, Restorative Justice, Applied Entertainment, Youth Equity, Community Properties, and Cultivated Organizations — and is delivered through curated programs and storytelling rather than software or services. Headcount is reported at 1-10 employees, there are no disclosed subsidiaries, parent companies, investors, or funding rounds, and ownership structure is not publicly documented.

Documented program activity spans roughly four phases. From 2010 to 2012, Yoxi produced a series of Social Innovation Competitions addressing Fast Food, Fast Fashion, and Digital Addiction, with results archived as video content. In 2014 it hosted 'The Next Big Brand,' convening ten social entrepreneurs with a vision of becoming household names by 2024. Between 2017 and 2020 the firm conducted a 'Sensemaking' reflective period, publishing on Medium. From June 2020 to July 2022 it ran a 'Future of Investing' initiative exploring alternative investing approaches, distributed via Substack.

The business model is not disclosed: there is no pricing, no productized offering, no customers or select-clients list, no distribution channels, and no disclosed revenue. Marketing and dissemination are conducted through a small set of owned channels (yoxi.tv, yoxi.medium.com, yoxi.substack.com) and archived video on YouTube and Vimeo. Yoxi presents itself as a media-savvy organization that translates inquiry findings into narratives supporting 'people and ecosystems,' with no technology product surface, app, API, or integration footprint documented.

Name

Yoxi

Legal name

Yoxi

Website

https://yoxi.tv

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Yoxi is a privately held social innovation organization founded around 2009 by Sharon Chang that designs inquiry-driven experiments and targeted investments across eight thematic areas — from regenerative consumerism to restorative justice — serving social innovators, entrepreneurs, and changemakers through curated programs and storytelling.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Impact Investment

NAICS

Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (71)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Arts, Culture & Creative Placemaking Enterprises (BPAGALAO)

akta.pro secondary industries

Circular Economy & Sustainable Products (Reuse, Repair, Upcycling) (BPAGALAF), Sustainable/Thematic Investing (Climate, Clean Tech, Water, Biodiversity) (FSAAALAB)

Keywords

• Social innovation investing
• Impact investment
• Social enterprise support
• Inquiry research
• Community storytelling

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Yoxi designs and funds experiments that spark social and cultural transformation across eight thematic inquiry areas (Citizen Artist, Regenerative Consumerism, Complex Conservation, Restorative Justice, Applied Entertainment, Youth Equity, Community Properties, and Cultivated Organizations). It gathers diverse thinkers and entrepreneurs, makes right-sized and timely investments in social innovation projects, and translates its learnings into stories that connect people and ecosystems.

Product overview

Yoxi is a social innovation investment organization that operates programs and competitions focused on eight inquiry areas: Citizen Artist, Regenerative Consumerism, Complex Conservation, Restorative Justice, Applied Entertainment, Youth Equity, Community Properties, and Cultivated Organizations. The organization does not offer a technology product or software platform. Its offerings consist of social innovation competitions (Social Innovation Competitions 2010-2012, The Next Big Brand 2014/2024), research and synthesis work (Sensemaking 2017-2020), and investment community gatherings (Future of Investing 2020-2022). Yoxi functions as a media-savvy organization that translates learnings into stories to support communities and ecosystems, rather than as a product or technology company.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Social Innovation Competitions
• The Next Big Brand 2014/2024
• Sensemaking
• Future of Investing

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• IDEO: IDEO applies human-centered, design-led inquiry to complex social and environmental challenges. Yoxi's contextual-tools, experimentation-based approach to social innovation mirrors IDEO's design thinking methodology, though IDEO operates at vastly greater scale.
• FSG: FSG is a social impact consulting firm advising foundations, companies, and nonprofits on strategy and evaluation. It compares to Yoxi in its inquiry-driven, cross-sector orientation and in framing complex social challenges as systems problems.
• Bridgespan Group: Bridgespan consults for nonprofits, philanthropies, and social sector leaders on strategy and organizational effectiveness. Its systems-oriented, mission-driven consulting practice is methodologically adjacent to Yoxi's social innovation inquiry.
• Echoing Green: Echoing Green identifies and seeds early-stage social entrepreneurs through fellowships and leadership programming. It is the closest analogue to Yoxi's 'Social Innovation Competitions' and 'Next Big Brand' cohort-based approach, operating at a similarly curated, mission-driven scale.
• Purpose: Purpose is a creative agency and campaigns builder focused on social and environmental impact. Yoxi's media-savvy storytelling, multi-thematic inquiry, and cultural-transformation framing align closely with Purpose's approach to translating impact ideas into public narrative.

Broad incumbents

• New Profit: New Profit is a venture philanthropy firm that backs social entrepreneurs and impact-oriented funds. Its investment-first, portfolio approach to social innovation parallels Yoxi's framing as an impact investor at much greater scale.
• RSF Social Finance: RSF Social Finance is a financial services organization focused on social enterprise and impact investing. It overlaps with Yoxi's 'Future of Investing' initiative in exploring radically different approaches to deploying capital toward social outcomes.
• Ashoka: Ashoka is the world's largest network of leading social entrepreneurs, with global fellowship programming. It is a scaled, incumbent version of what Yoxi attempts in its social entrepreneur curation work, with materially deeper capital and reach.
• Skoll Foundation: Skoll Foundation invests in and connects social entrepreneurs worldwide and produces the Skoll World Forum. Its 'Future of Investing'-adjacent capital deployment and storytelling around impact investing make it a scaled peer to Yoxi's inquiry work.
• Acumen: Acumen is a global impact investor backing entrepreneurs tackling poverty. It is the incumbent analogue to Yoxi's stated role as an 'inquiry and investment organization' focused on social innovation, operating with significantly larger capital and a longer portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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