Morressier

Morressier develops software for scholarly communications, covering the pre-publication journey from conferences where early-stage findings are first shared through journal submission, peer review and integrity screening. Its platform is offered as a set of connected modules accessible through a single login: Submission Manager for configurable editorial and submission workflows, Library Manager for discoverable multimedia repositories built from event content, Event Manager for hybrid and virtual conferences linked to submission workflows, and Integrity Manager for checks covering fraud, research misconduct and conflicts of interest. Journal Manager is described as the company's flagship product at the time of its acquisition.

The company began by digitizing academic conference posters and presentations, giving organizers tools to manage submissions and obtain analytics on topics, attendee interests and emerging research trends, while researchers uploaded contributions, tracked usage of their work and discovered related projects and collaborators. From roughly 2018 onward it expanded into publishing technology and then into automated research-integrity products, including AI-content and plagiarism detection, which its investors describe as its principal differentiator.

Morressier is headquartered in Berlin with offices in London and Washington, DC. In January 2025 it was acquired by Bangalore-based Molecular Connections, a digital transformation and data science company in scholarly publishing, with the stated plan to continue offering Morressier products to existing and new customers and to use the platform as a "hub" for Molecular Connections' services.

Founding story

Morressier was founded in Berlin in 2014 by co-founders including Sami Benchekroun (CEO) and Justus Weweler, who came together around the belief that technology could transform scholarly communications toward a scientific process that is efficient, trusted and fair. A third co-founder, Rino, was also referenced by the company's Series A investor. The founders bootstrapped the business to profitability before raising their first outside investment in 2017.

Business model

B2B software-as-a-service sold to scholarly publishers, academic societies and professional organizations, licensing platform modules for submissions, peer review, event hosting, content libraries and research-integrity checking.

Recurring platform/SaaS relationships with publishers and societies; the company also markets data and analytics capabilities and possibilities for revenue generation from previously ephemeral conference content to its clients.

Traction

By November 2017 the platform was used by more than 250 academic conferences and associations, including the International Diabetes Federation and the World Psychiatric Association, aggregating material from more than 80,000 researchers and facilitating over one million interactions with scientific content. Later named partners and customers include IOP Publishing, AAAS, Mayo Clinic, ACS, SPIE, ASCE, ASCPT, SAE International and IWA Publishing.

Latest developments

Molecular Connections acquired Morressier in January 2025, with Journal Manager positioned as the core of the combined offering and Molecular Connections stating it expects to strengthen the Morressier team substantially; Molecular Connections' CEO indicated plans for an IPO in roughly three to four years and further acquisitions. In February 2025 Morressier announced that ASCPT had adopted its Integrity Manager for editorial workflow and integrity checks.