Late last year, South Park Commons and the Agency Fund partnered to create a new fellowship supporting the founders of non-profits and social ventures. We wanted to kickstart an ecosystem of innovators addressing the decision-making needs of people facing difficult lives. For example, what data-driven insights might help a family…

Long before software VCs ruled Silicon Valley, there was biotech. It was the money, back in the 80s. But today, when it comes to startups, biotech seems 10 to 15 years behind the software community… SPC member Nish Bhat sees this as an opportunity. Earlier this year, he helped launch…

To promote food security and agricultural transformation We at Atlas AI are excited to announce a new partnership with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), an organization that brings transformative growth to smallholder agriculture and agribusinesses across Africa. AGRA operates across 11 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, making…

How will machine learning change the face of government in the developing world? — This post is co-authored by Temina Madon of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and Michael Jarvis of the Transparency and Accountability Initiative (TAI). Advances in machine learning (ML) are rapidly entering into the daily work of developing country governments. From flagging suspicious tax returns and public procurements, to…

Temina Madon is the Executive Director of CEGA and a former science policy advisor for the National Institutes of Health, where she focused on enhancing research capacity in developing countries. As a grad student at Berkeley in the 1990s, I’d occasionally get asked by classmates to help label images for…