Curvenote (YC W21) — Communication and publishing tools for scientists
At Curvenote we are building the communication and publishing tools for scientists and engineers. In the future, every scientific report will feature interactive graphs with live data that will make it significantly easier to share and reproduce the work.
Curvenote is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2021 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Communication and publishing tools for scientists. The founders listed are Rowan Cockett (Founder), Steve Purves (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, March 2, 2021).
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At Curvenote we are building the communication and publishing tools for scientists and engineers. In the future, every scientific report will feature interactive graphs with live data that will make it significantly easier to share and reproduce the work.
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Rowan Cockett
Founder
I started and sold my previous web-based 3d visualization startup while I was finishing my PhD in computational geophysics. I then ran the cloud team at Seequent ($1.05B exit, 2021).
I am interested in the intersection of education, industry, and research, and am on a mission to make powerful scientific data, visualization and communication tools accessible through the web. Curvenote is part of my mission to reimagine collective knowledge creation for modern science.
Steve Purves
Founder
An engineer with 20+ years industry experience building software for scientists and engineers. Deep technical expertise in computer vision, data science and machine learning. Led product development and R&D teams and managed multi-year R&D projects with Oil & Gas majors. In 2013, he founded a consultancy and leading distributed technical teams in both startups and enterprise in energy, healthcare, finance and electronic manufacturing. Founding member of an open geoscience society.
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