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Researcher
Academic research discovery app
- 21-100 employees
- B2C
- B2B
- Enterprise
- Publishing
- Science
- Data Sharing
- Shepherd's Bush, London, UK
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Company mission
To help academics and researchers become the best scientists they can be.
32% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
The academia industry has quietly grown into an unwieldy behemoth of over 2.5m scientific papers published a year. Researcher helps the modern academic stay afloat in this mess with a social-media-esque feed of the research they are most interested in.
Unlike other content curation tools, Researcher has been designed specifically with academics in mind by mirroring the workflow of a typical research scientist including integrations with reference managers.
It is these partnerships and integrations that Researcher is focusing on to fuel its adoption beyond its already healthy base of 2 million users. In particular, Researcher is hoping to on board many more publishers who can use the platform to engage with their niche community of interested researchers directly.
The challenge for the startup will be maintaining a free service for their users while driving a healthy revenue from enterprise customers (the publishers) that many say are struggling themselves to stay afloat.
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Benefits
- Supported learning and development
- Private healthcare
- 25-day holiday allowance per year on top of UK bank holidays
Leadership
Olly Cooper
(CEO)Olly has worked in both Academia and Tech having spent many years in the marketing team of major academic publisher Taylor & Francis before joining Belnheim Chalcot where he led a team building and testing mobile-centric business prototypes.
Ramiz Nathani
(CPO)Worked in academia for a number of years having earned a PhD in Chemistry from UCL before going onto work as a Research Scientist at Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Also worked in Belnheim Chalcot where he scaled technology and business protoypes.