Bayes Impact YC Application

Summer 2014Active

Bayes Impact went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2014 batch as a Unspecified company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2014
Industry: Unspecified
Team size: 11
Status: Active
Launched: 2014

Founders

Paul DuanFounder/President

What Bayes Impact does

Bayes Impact's mission is to change the world through algorithms. We solve pressing public interest problems by building technology solutions that leverage data to improve outcomes on a large scale. More information at

Bayes Impact's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Bayes Impact, Summer 2014 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Bayes Impact

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Tech nonprofit building the future of public services.

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build software that uses data and algorithms to tackle public interest problems. Our projects include tools that improve access to social services or optimize public health programs. We focus on creating technology that scales in government and nonprofit contexts to improve outcomes for large groups of people.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco brings us close to a tech ecosystem and public agencies, which helps us build and scale public service tech solutions effectively.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Bayes Impact YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Bayes Impact's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Bayes Impact would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.