Driven Data

01 / WHAT IT BUILT

What the company did

DrivenData runs data-science and machine-learning competitions for social good. Incubated at the Harvard Innovation Lab and founded in 2014 by Isaac Slavitt and colleagues, it taps a global community of solvers to tackle problems such as predicting disease outbreaks, monitoring wildlife, and improving climate models, awarding prize money for winning algorithms. It has worked with more than 80 mission-driven organizations and federal agencies including NASA across 150+ projects, and maintains the open-source Cookiecutter Data Science project.

03 / EVENT HISTORY

Events in the structured record

1. 2014
   Founded

   DrivenData was founded, incubated out of the Harvard Innovation Lab, to run data-science competitions for social impact.

2. 2025
   Still active

   DrivenData joined the U.S. Department of Energy's Genesis Mission to advance AI for science and the public good, and continued running competitions on drivendata.org.