Glassboard

An Abstract

What is Glassboard?

• Collaboration network for research and

development

• Fusion of two core elements:

+ Identification

+ Collaboration

Identification

+ Expertise Network + Search Engine

+ Researchers to discover best collaborator for project

+ Labs to identify experts to solve problems

+ Biotech companies to find most compelling research

to track

+ Principal Investigators to recruit the most relevant

scientists to their lab

IdentifyCollaborators

+ Experts

Figure 2: Detailed Information

Figure 3: The Graph of R+D

Collaboration

• Projects Web App

• Organizes all research into individual projects

• Each Project interactive with all members

• Share:

– Data

– Documents

– Dialogue

• Collaborate in real-time, across labs, institutions, or even countries

CollaborateConduct your

Research

Figures 4a-4d: Creating New Project

Motivation• R+D Spending Growth Accelerating

– U.S.: $369 billion

– World: $1.2 trillion

– Why?

• R+D Accounts for >50% of economic growth

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209

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Global R+D Spending in 2000: $729 billion

North America

Asia

Europe

Other

Global R+D Spending in 2010: $1.2 trillion

United States

Japan

China

India

Europe

Other

Another View

Motivation II: Rise of Interdisciplinary Research

• Pressure of costs, benefits of trade

• Ricardo, anyone?

Problem/Opportunity

• PI’s at Yale and Tri-Institutional network agree:

• Collaboration essential, yet...

• Technology = brake != accelerator for research

• Email + Office = Inefficient for Collaboration

• Capitalizing on International Partnerships

• No high-resolution information to find and make the best

connections

• No easy way to share high resolution information once

partnerships are formed

The Pains of Collaboration I

• Lack of High Resolution Information on R+D

– Papers

– Protocols

– Probability

– Conferences

• A PI’s knowledge of other labs, best talent, and research

constrained by:

– Limited radius of their peer network

– Limited information available from papers and the web

The Pains of Collaboration II

• Communication challenging

– Single field, single lab to interdisciplinary, multi-

institutional projects

• PI’s exchange >100 emails/day

• PI’s eschew currently available project

management utilities since they are not tailored

to their needs

Glassboard: Global Graph of R+D

PI 1Yale

Paper 1

Paper 1I

PI 2MIT

PI 3Harvard

PfizerLicenses From

PI 4 Harvard

Collaborates With

Cites

Paper 1II

Cites

Eli Lilly

PI 5 Sloan-Kettering

Collaborates With

Funds

Funds

Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation

“Unfair Advantages”

• BraneRank

• Proprietary, High Resolution Information

• Coherent Platform

• Refine algorithm with feedback

• Add field-specific features

The Market

• United States

– Over 5 million scientists + engineers (NSF)

– Thousands of universities

– Government institutions

– Corporate R+D (esp. biotechnology)

• OECD

– 4 million active researchers

– NSF estimates ~7 million global researchers in 2013

Business Model• Institutional Subscriptions

• Freemium

• Activation Energy

– Target Yale, Sloan-

Kettering, Harvard-

MIT, Columbia, select biotech

companies

– Initial contracts will lead to

logistic growth

Business Model II

• Institutional Subscriptions

– Projects Web App

• First project = free

• Project management industry standard: $100/usr/year

– Researcher Performance Analytics

• Industry standard: ~$50/usr/year

– Automatically enact network effect within each institution

– Institutional clients drawn by aforementioned trends of

collaborative research; individual labs drawn by pain

points

Team• Evan N. Feinberg

– Founder + CEO

– Applied Physics, YC ‘13

• Kirill Miniaev

– Lead Designer

– Art and Design, YC ’12

• Jazear Brooks

– PM and WebDev

– Computer Science, YC ’13

• Julien Clancy

– Algorithm development + graph theory

– Mathematics, YC ’15

• Mason Liang

– Backend infrastructure

– Mathematics + CS, YC ’15

• Will Grathwohl

– Machine Learning

– Mathematics + CS, MIT ‘14

Game Plan

• Now

– Expand prototype

– Raise ~$100K in private capital + $100K in matching grants

• Summer 2013

– Complete beta product

– Attract Yale, Sloan-Kettering, etc. as incubatory clients

• Fall 2013

– Complete development, obtain institutional contracts

– Raise Round A venture capital

GlassboardWhen one views the world with a lens of convergence, the human mind holds boundless power to solve problems relevant to our world.

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