European Success Story
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ResearchGate claims three million members and says 60% of scientists worldwide use the site, built as a social network to share negative results and raw datasets so failed experiments aren’t lost. It runs from Berlin with ~120 staff (70% non‑German), lists 30 million publications and millions of datasets, and raised rounds from Benchmark, Founders Fund and a $35M Bill Gates investment. A concrete win: a Nigerian–Italian collaboration found a novel pathogenic yeast via the platform. Roadmap is an API and ontology/graph to mash and analyze silos.
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