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Re:Launch HN: FirstIgnite (YC S21) – Matching scientists with relevant...
on Monday August 16, 2021 @05:36PM (#28203273)
I missed this previously. AcademicLabs has an impressive platform! We're carving our niche and learning every day. The biggest thing for us is helping scientific breakthroughs get to market, faster. Cheers to what is ahead!
Re:Launch HN: FirstIgnite (YC S21) – Matching scientists with relevant...
on Monday August 16, 2021 @05:12PM (#28203052)
It's such an amazing market to support! Playing any role in helping scientific breakthroughs get to market is a noble cause. We share many of the same customers and they don't describe your offering as competitive to ours, in fact, in most cases they subscribe to both! They refer to wellspring as a passive marketing approach while dubbing ours an active marketing approach. The difference being is with FirstIgnite you will get the email addresses of those to reach out to, which isn't something they are getting from Wellspring.
Re:Launch HN: FirstIgnite (YC S21) – Matching scientists with relevant...
on Saturday August 14, 2021 @09:53AM (#28180630)
Not specific for US. Although we currently support mostly US universities and national labs, we can work with any piece of research or technology and match to global companies and contacts.
Re:Launch HN: FirstIgnite (YC S21) – Matching scientists with relevant...
on Friday August 13, 2021 @03:29PM (#28173434)
Very cool. We'd love to connect with more UK universities and researchers as we currently only have US customers.
Re:Launch HN: FirstIgnite (YC S21) – Matching scientists with relevant...
on Friday August 13, 2021 @02:54PM (#28172868)
Wow! Yes, we're applying technology to help make it so everyone can be as effective as Niels!
Re:Launch HN: FirstIgnite (YC S21) – Matching scientists with relevant...
on Friday August 13, 2021 @01:58PM (#28172183)
This is who we market it to! We're actually currently working with ~30 universities and national labs in the US. We work with the commercialization and corporate relations office (and a few deans of colleges as well).
Re:Launch HN: FirstIgnite (YC S21) – Matching scientists with relevant...
on Friday August 13, 2021 @11:55AM (#28170573)
Wow! This is a great response. I'd love to find time for a chat, my email is [email protected]
Re:Launch HN: FirstIgnite (YC S21) – Matching scientists with relevant...
on Friday August 13, 2021 @10:52AM (#28169595)
These are great. We knew about Halo.science but had not heard of these other two. I think it's a great model and these appear to be having good success. We really want to be involved in the transaction of scientific R&D projects, playing a larger role facilitating them, so will have to study these groups more.
Re:Launch HN: FirstIgnite (YC S21) – Matching scientists with relevant...
on Friday August 13, 2021 @10:50AM (#28169573)
Great point. The good news is we're offering our tool for free to PhD students right now as we work to get universities to cover sitewide licenses for faculty and students.
Re:Launch HN: FirstIgnite (YC S21) – Matching scientists with relevant...
on Friday August 13, 2021 @10:48AM (#28169561)
Yes - the majority of our current customers include the tech transfer, corporate relations and VP of Research offices.
Re:Launch HN: FirstIgnite (YC S21) – Matching scientists with relevant...
on Friday August 13, 2021 @10:47AM (#28169540)
Yes! I'm so glad you commented this. We actually ended up focusing on universities due to the pandemic last year and having to stay hyper focused. But, we're in process of preparing to launch our company need --> scientific expertise tool. This is a much larger market and we can't wait to kick things off.