Our impact

Welcome to 10x Impact! This is the place to learn about how 10x is using our investment dollars to deliver impact for the American public. Here you’ll find the annual impact reports we’ve released since FY2017. You’ll notice that the first web-friendly impact report is for FY22. We see this change from PDFs to an HTML format as a great metaphor for how we’ve grown as a program.

Whether you’re a policymaker, a member of the press, or even a curious member of the public — we want to demonstrate how our investments do right by you. This is our shot at proving the value of our program and the incredible impact that government innovation can deliver to improve lives. Enjoy!

FY2021

10x FY21 Impact Report

In FY21, we’re covering how 10x projects complement high-level administration priorities, the roundup on our experiment with establishing investment themes, and of course more dark matter – what 10x can teach the government about using emerging technologies to enhance public service in new ways. We showcase our premier artificial intelligence project, Combating Bias in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML).

FY2020

10x FY20 Impact Report

In our FY20 impact report, we delve into our journey from shipping prototypes to shipping live products. We showcase nine of our high-impact projects and explore the concept of 10x dark matter for the first time, which covers the value we seek to produce as a program that isn’t product-shaped.

FY2019

10x FY19 Impact Report

In our FY19 impact report, we reflect on five years since the creation of the fund that supports 10x investments–The Digital Services Fund. We cover the history of the efforts that led to today’s 10x program and our meetings with real venture capital investment firms to see what we can learn from our private sector peers. Projects showcased include the U.S. Data Federation and the Eligibility API’s Initiative.

FY2018

10x FY18 Impact Report

For our FY18 impact report, we dive into some of the challenges we face as a growing program and some successes on our early investments. Highlights include our thoughts on how to ensure that 10x takes a diversity and equity-forward approach to our investment decisions and some common reasons for projects ending and advancing past initial phases. Project snapshots include Bridge to Ongoing Bug Bounty and Improving Compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA).

FY2017

10x FY17 Impact Report

FY17 brings us our first-ever impact report as a burgeoning investment program. Highlights in this report include our early iterations on the funding amounts for each phase, a detailed breakdown of the number of projects we supported and their outcomes, and a snapshot of a few projects, including: Notification Services and Cloud Marketplace.