Curvenote
YC W21Calgary, CA · Founded 2019 · 3 employees · 1 known investors
Curvenote builds an open-core platform for sharing and publishing scientific research with dynamic, interactive content rather than static PDFs, enabling researchers to preserve code, data, and reproducibility in their published work. The platform serves academic and research institutions globally and contributes to open-source science communities.
Also known as iooxa
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W21)
Curvenote was founded in 2019 by Rowan Cockett and Steve Purves.
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Rowan Cockettin𝕏FounderRowan Cockett founded and exited a web-based 3D visualization startup while completing a PhD in computational geophysics, and subsequently led the cloud team at Seequent (which exited for $1.05B in 2021).
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Steve Purvesin𝕏Founder, CTOSteve Purves has over 20 years of software engineering experience focused on scientific and technical applications, with expertise in computer vision, data science, and machine learning. He has led product development and R&D teams in the oil and gas sector, founded a consulting firm in 2013, and has worked across energy, healthcare, finance, and manufacturing sectors.
Investors · 1
The YC application· Winter 2021 batch
What they told YC
- Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.
- A platform for building, remixing, sharing, and exploring science.
- What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.
- The founders are building an online platform (formerly iooxa) for writing, sharing, and reusing scientific content, linking document and presentation components back to their computational sources so they stay interactive. Content is organized into small blocks such as figures, equations, paragraphs, and code that carry versioning, licensing, and attribution, and can be composed into linear documents or rearranged. It integrates with Jupyter Notebooks to track experimental work and import interactive outputs into reports, documents, and presentations.
Summarized from the founders' answers on their Y Combinator profile.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Curvenote do?
- Curvenote builds an open-core platform for sharing and publishing scientific research with dynamic, interactive content rather than static PDFs, enabling researchers to preserve code, data, and reproducibility in their published work. The platform serves academic and research institutions globally and contributes to open-source science communities.
- Who founded Curvenote?
- Curvenote was founded by Rowan Cockett, Steve Purves in 2019.
- Who are Curvenote's investors?
- Curvenote's investors include Y Combinator.
- Where is Curvenote headquartered?
- Curvenote is headquartered in Calgary, CA.