Authorea Raises $1.5M to Advance Open, Reproducible, Data-Driven Research | Business Wire

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Summary:

"NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Authorea, the fastest growing science collaboration and publishing platform, today announced that it has closed a $1.5 million financing to deliver valuable new tools and capabilities to scholars and researchers across the world. The financing was led by Lux Capital, a venture firm that invests specifically in counter-conventional science & technology companies, along with the Knight Foundation, a non-profit foundation dedicated to supporting transformational ideas that foster informed and engaged communities. Earlier seed investors ff Venture Capital and New York Angels also participated in the round. “We’re extremely excited to welcome Lux Capital and the Knight Foundation as new investors” Tweet this Authorea.com is the leading collaboration platform to write, share, and discuss research – all in real-time. It was created in 2013 by Dr. Alberto Pepe, a Harvard astrophysicist, and Dr. Nathan Jenkins, a UC Berkeley physicist, who met while working at CERN and were disappointed by the slow, inefficient, and obsolete ways by which research papers are written and disseminated. Authorea is currently used by more than 80,000 scholars across 70 countries, in fields as diverse as physics, astronomy and computer science. The company offers users a collaborative online editing platform tailored for academic and technical writing – a word processor, which makes adding citations and equations and formatting references incredibly simple. Authorea is built on a Github-style model and every document created is a Git repository. This allows users to track changes in documents in a very granular way and to easily integrate data into documents."

Link:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160126005194/en/Authorea-Raises-1.5M-Advance-Open-Reproducible-Data-Driven

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oa.new oa.data oa.grants oa.knight_foundation oa.lux oa.funders oa.business_models

Date tagged:

01/28/2016, 09:37

Date published:

01/28/2016, 04:37