Communication and publishing tools for scientists
At Curvenote we are building the communication and publishing tools for scientists and engineers. In the future, every scientific report will feature interactive graphs with live data that will make it significantly easier to share and reproduce the work.
Curvenote
Founded:2019
Team Size:3
Location:Calgary, Canada
Active Founders
Rowan Cockett, Founder
I started and sold my previous web-based 3d visualization startup while I was finishing my PhD in computational geophysics. I then ran the cloud team at Seequent ($1.05B exit, 2021).
I am interested in the intersection of education, industry, and research, and am on a mission to make powerful scientific data, visualization and communication tools accessible through the web. Curvenote is part of my mission to reimagine collective knowledge creation for modern science.
Steve Purves, Founder
An engineer with 20+ years industry experience building software for scientists and engineers. Deep technical expertise in computer vision, data science and machine learning. Led product development and R&D teams and managed multi-year R&D projects with Oil & Gas majors. In 2013, he founded a consultancy and leading distributed technical teams in both startups and enterprise in energy, healthcare, finance and electronic manufacturing. Founding member of an open geoscience society.
Selected answers from Curvenote's original YC application for the W21 Batch
Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.
Platform to build, remix, share & explore science
What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.
We are creating an online platform for writing, sharing and re-using scientific content. iooxa is connecting the building blocks that make up documents and presentations to their computational origins, so that they can remain linked and interactive -- enabling interrogation, adaptation, organization and extension of ideas.
Our approach is to create small, meaningful “blocks” of content (e.g. figures, equations, paragraphs, code) that track versioning, licensing and attribution. These blocks can be composed into traditional, linear documents or pulled apart and rearranged. We enable collaboration across a spectrum of computational abilities, through integrations with Jupyter Notebooks to track experimental progress and “import” interactive outputs into reports, documents, and presentations.
