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Now official: Bill Gates + Tenaya Capital invested in ResearchGate

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Thomas Ohr

ResearchGate, the professional network for scientists, today officially announced a new investment ($35 million) from Bill Gates and Tenaya Capital with participation from Dragoneer Investment Group, Thrive Capital, and the company’s existing investors. Backed by this growth investment, ResearchGate, which is … Continue reading →

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Science network ResearchGate acquires Scholarz.net

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Thomas Ohr

ResearchGate, the professional network for scientists, today announced its acquisition of scholarz.net, a reference management, knowledge management and academic network based in Würzburg (Germany). Scholarz.net was founded in 2008 (as well as ResearchGate) as a spin-off of the interdisciplinary research … Continue reading →

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ResearchGate: Founders Fund invests in science-network

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Thomas Ohr

ResearchGate, a leading professional network for scientists and researchers, yesterday announced the completion of its Series B financing round. The first time we mentioned ResearchGate was in January 2011, when the young company (which has often been described as Facebook for … Continue reading →

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Science-Network ResearchGATE is moving to Berlin

Posted on January 10, 2011 by admin

ResearchGATE, the world’s largest social network for scientists, is going to move its headquarters from Boston to Berlin. A well-known U.S. investor (Matt Cohler) advised the young company to prefer the German capital as an alternative to Silicon Valley. One third of the ResearchGATE-members … Continue reading →

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