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ResearchGate

Edtech · Rüdersdorf bei Berlin, Germany · Founded 2008

Social network for scientists offering tools and applications for researchers to interact and collaborate MoreLess

ResearchGate operates as a comprehensive platform designed for the scientific community, enabling researchers to share their work, collaborate with peers, and gain visibility. The platform serves a diverse range of clients including scientists, academic institutions, and research organizations. Operating in the global scientific research market, ResearchGate facilitates the dissemination and discovery of scientific knowledge by providing access to over 135 million publication pages. The business model is primarily based on offering free membership to researchers while generating revenue through marketing solutions and recruitment services. Companies and institutions can advertise their brands and job openings to a targeted audience of scientists, thereby growing their impact within the scientific community. ResearchGate also provides tools for researchers to measure the impact of their work through detailed statistics on readership and citations.

Keywords: scientific collaboration, research sharing, academic networking, publication access, researcher recruitment, scientific community, impact measurement, marketing solutions, global research, peer collaboration.

Valuation $100–500M
Revenue $10–50M
Headcount 100–500
Total funding $50–100M
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Talent graph

ResearchGate's talent

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Team profiled 65 named & role-tagged
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Key operators 3 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
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Investors

18 investors on ResearchGate's cap table

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Series A 8 investors entered at this stage
Benchmark
Simon Levene
Accel
Rolf Dienst
Michael Birch
Christian Vollmann
Founders Fund
David Sacks
Series B+ 10 investors entered at this stage

Global footprint

Where ResearchGate has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
37 countries with
team presence
🇩🇪 Germany37.6%
🇮🇳 India11.9%
🇵🇰 Pakistan5.8%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom5.8%
🇺🇸 United States5.3%
Top 5 of 37 shown

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about ResearchGate

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about ResearchGate on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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