We incubate and invest in scholarly startups.

We believe that the scholarly ecosystem can be transformed through new ideas, technologies, and products — provided that entrepreneurs have access to the necessary funding and support.

We're a small group of entrepreneurs who have built our careers founding and leading some of the most innovative companies across the scholarly communications ecosystem.

Building on our shared experience of investing in and advising other startup founders, we have decided to join forces to help nurture the next generation of startups working to advance scholarly research and communications.

We aim to invest early in the startup journey, ideally as your first check. We help you to validate your idea, get your first customers, and find investors.

If you are working on an idea that touches on research then you are working on something we'd be interested in. Get in touch!

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We are entrepreneurs, not professional investors. Our principles:

• Personally invested
  We invest our own capital, ensuring we are deeply committed to the success of the companies we choose to work with.

• Directly engaged
  We engage directly with founders from the very first conversation, without relying on paid staff to filter opportunities or make decisions on our behalf.

• Hands-on support
  Leveraging our experience as company founders and CEOs, we can provide practical advice to founders on a wide range of topics including company formation, growth strategies, product development, fundraising, strategic partnerships, and acquisitions.

• Personal networks
  Having spent our careers working in the scholarly communications industry, we each have an extensive network across the industry that we can tap into to help founders with talent recruitment, strategic partnerships, customer acquisition, and relationship building with potential investors and acquirers.

• Builders not Bettors
  While many early stage investors see their role as one of placing speculative bets on a large number of startups in the hope of achieving one or two successes that can deliver outsized returns, we prefer to focus on working closely with a small number of founders and help them develop new products and services that create tangible value for researchers, institutions, funders, and publishers

If you're an investor or organisation with an interest in the scholarly ecosystem we'd love to talk to you.

hello@scholarly-angels.com