We build what the world’s most complex problems demand. 

M-EH-TTA: The Pali word for “loving-kindness.”

Metta Labs is a systems venture studio. We build companies, nonprofits, and operational ecosystems for the intersectional problems most agencies can’t tackle alone. From reproductive justice to climate change to refugee response, we are solution oriented and believe that through collaboration and moral alignment, anything is possible.

“With Metta for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart.”

WHAT IS METTA LABS

Finding Answers to Intersectional Issues.

We are drawn to complex, intersectional challenges: layered problems where poverty, policy, gender, climate, and care overlap and resist any single solution. We facilitate, staff, build operations, help teams raise capital, and implement scale strategy that creates a lasting impact.

The Metta Labs Model: Creating an Ecosystem of Care

Metta Labs works to create what we’ve dubbed as an Ecosystem of Care. We bring together governments, nonprofits, corporations, and communities to produce real and scalable project that act as operations of change for a better future. We do this by stripping ourselves of limitations and acting as a consulting firm, design agency, and a build agency. By giving ourselves the ability to think, do, and build, we can tackle complex issues from all sides.

Think Tank

Applied Research

Science-based analysis that informs action. Not for publishing, but to design better interventions.

Venture Studio

Capital Strategy

We help social ventures raise capital and design funding models that reward collaboration over competition.

Do Tank

Operational Build

We build projects from the ground up, from teams, products, processes, and business models.

What We Are Not

Design Research Agency

We are not going to act as consultants who only hand off a report. We stay with you for it all, through implementation and beyond.

OUR MISSION

We want to turn ideas into research-based actions, creating coordinated pathways for change.

Taking on today’s interconnected challenges requires collaborative infrastructure, not competitive isolation. Metta Labs was created to unite imaginative & powerfully optimistic systems entrepreneurs through shared moral beliefs, mutual respect, and collective accountability, achieving systemic transformations that positively impact both local and global infrastructure.

PROBLEMS WE’RE DRAWN TO

Taking on the Impossible

Metta Labs works in spaces where a single organization, product, or sector cannot succeed alone. Using local innovations, community outreach, and large-scale thinking, we build within existing local infrastructure and create permanent change. Here are a few examples of sectors that Metta Labs thrives in:

Sectors of Metta Labs

Reproductive Justice

Integrated care models that recognize the full ecosystem of health, economic stability, and general wellbeing of the communities wit

Refugee & Migrant Response

Economic recovery and livelihood systems designed for families navigating displacement & rebuilding as we assist them in creating stability in multiple facets of their lives.

Climate & Environment

Climate solutions that are also economic solutions, designed for the communities most affected, not just the most visible.

Multi-Generational Work

Programs that address the parent and child simultaneously, focusing on the inseparable link between ECD & economic stability.

HOW WE WORK

We’re with you from the ground up.

We start every new project by asking the same questions: Who's already working on this? How can we make what exists more effective? What do we need to invent to fill the gap? We then create a project outline based on four main steps, ensuring that we work backwards from our outcomes, not forward from assumptions.

  • Before building anything, we identify who is already working on a problem and what they've learned. We conduct deep stakeholder mapping, evidence reviews, and human-centred research directly with the communities most affected.

  • We bring together non-profit, public sector, and for-profit stakeholders, then facilitate the hard work of aligning incentives through the development of operational alignment: who does what, how success is measured, how credit is distributed.

  • We build the companies and programs — not just the plans. This means staffing teams, establishing operations, creating business models, and developing the technology and products that make solutions real.

  • Every solution is tested with real communities before it scales. We prototype, collect evidence, iterate, and build the case — scientifically and operationally — for expansion. We then design the capital strategy and partner architecture to take proven models across geographies.

OUR IMPACT

Completed projects with real outcomes.

From large, grand-scheme ideas we create succinct, applied, operational projects with measurable results, built by Metta Labs and the partners we've helped organize.

Dos Generaciones | Columbia

The problem: women in poverty need support raising their children and building economic independence, simultaneously. No single organization was doing both. Metta Labs facilitated the co-creation of a newly integrated model for migrant families in Colombia, making it possible for women in poverty to become connected with the right support networks to help themselves & their families thrive.

  • Connected ECD and livelihood organizations as distinct implementation and innovation partners.

  • Multi-day workshops to align incentives and create operational norms across organizational cultures.

  • Invented a care model that captures both mother's economic stability and child development outcomes in one.

Let’s Work Together.

Whether you're a founder, a funder, or a systems thinker, there's a place for you in the Metta Labs ecosystem: we want to hear from you.