Bayes Impact

Bayes Impact, established in 2014 in San Francisco, CA, operates with a team of 11 members who are dedicated to using data to tackle global challenges. This non-profit organization is part of the Y-Combinator batch S14 and focuses on creating and implementing citizen-led public services to solve societal problems on a large scale. Bayes Impact runs an Accelerator program aimed at transforming citizen-driven innovative ideas into functional public services. They actively participate in public debates promoting the Citizen-Led Public Service vision and collaborate with governments and administrations to foster and accelerate citizen innovations. Bayes Impact has successfully developed several public interest services including Bob, a digital career coach that has assisted over 300,000 job seekers, and Conotify, a privacy-conscious COVID-19 contact tracing tool that has tracked over 3 million contact cases in France. Other notable projects include Jobflix, a career exploration platform; Encompass, an analytics tool for assessing accessibility to social services; and Ursus, a solution for tracking police use-of-force, currently used by over 800 police agencies in California. The organization is supported by several prominent entities such as Ashoka, Google.org, Degroof Petercam Foundation, and La France s’engage.