For researchers
Find your next partner and funding. And be found for your work.
Our platform matches your research to industry partners, federal funding calls, and collaborators from what you've published, patented, and been awarded. Researchers start on the Free plan, and that plan stays free.
Free plan · No credit card required
Your network is smaller than your research
Most industry partnerships still begin with a conference conversation or a colleague's introduction. That works until the next step sits outside your network: a membrane group that needs an electrochemist for a proposal due in six weeks, or a catalysis lab whose industrial contact just reorganized and stopped answering email.
Our platform reads your research record instead of your address book. Yours, so the right people find you. And 546,000+ others, so you can find them.
Use cases
Five things researchers can do here
Find a research partner from an abstract
Paste an abstract or a problem statement into Partner search. You get ranked researchers with a match score and the reason behind it (research, patents, or bio), and the shortlist is saved to your account so you can come back to it. Open a profile for the score breakdown and, under Why? See the AI analysis, insights on the potential collaboration fit.
Read the walkthrough →Get funding opportunities matched to your research
The Funding tab ranks open Grants.gov calls against your profile under Matched to you. Free shows your top 3; Pro shows the top 20. Browse all lists every open call by agency, status, closing date, and minimum award on any plan, and peers' profiles show what they've been awarded.
Read the walkthrough →Be found for your work
Import your publications from your ORCID iD or OpenAlex author record, your patents from USPTO, and any paper by DOI. Open a paper on your profile to see which patents cite it. Your public profile is findable in web search by name, role, and institution, and signed-in members see your whole research record rather than a department page nobody has updated.
Read the walkthrough →Staff a funded project
Post a project with the expertise it needs, the timeline, and one of 42 agreement types, and it goes live. The platform recommends researchers whose work matches, other members can express interest, and you invite by email, set roles, and see what facilities a partner can offer.
Read the walkthrough →Run your collaboration in one place
Milestones with assignees and due dates, files with a per-file audience, a threaded discussion with @mentions, an activity log, and meetings that send a calendar invite to everyone. The record of your partnership lives with the partnership instead of in six inboxes.
Read the walkthrough →Start on Free. Pro is there when the work grows.
Free is a permanent plan with no card required. It includes unlimited searches across researchers, literature, patents, organizations, and funding; 4 suggested researchers on your dashboard, refreshed weekly; 10 AI match analyses per month; your top 3 funding matches; 2 active projects with 3 people each, including you; and 10 new people messaged a month.
Pro is $29 a month, less on quarterly or annual billing. It adds unlimited AI match analysis, 12 suggestions instead of 4, the top 20 funding matches, 10 active projects with unlimited members and private or organization-only visibility, 200 new conversations a month, and expertise keyword suggestions mined from your own papers and patents.
Built on primary research
“Catalyzing Strategic Partnerships: Digital Transformation of University–Industry Collaborations for Synchronized Innovation”
Flowers & Roadman (2024). R&D Management Conference, Stockholm.
Profiles are built from the public research record: OpenAlex, USPTO, ROR, Grants.gov, and funder award databases.
Questions researchers ask first
- Do I need an account for someone to find me?
- No. The corpus already holds a profile for 546,000+ active researchers, built from the public record, and Partner search ranks all of them. Sign up, open Profile → Imports, and link the researcher record that is yours. Claiming lets you add a bio, expertise keywords, facilities, and collaboration preferences, and it turns on your own match suggestions and funding matches once your profile is complete.
- What does the matching read?
- On your side, the profile you write: institution, role, bio, and expertise keywords. On the other side, everyone else's publications, patents, and bio. Suggestions turn on when your profile has an institution, a primary role, at least three expertise keywords, and a bio of 120 characters or more. Every researcher match shows its score breakdown on every plan; the written AI collaboration analysis is limited on Free at 10 per month.
- Is funding matching only for US federal grants?
- Yes, for now. Matched opportunities come from Grants.gov. Award histories on researcher profiles are international and come from their publication record, so you can still see who has been funded, and by whom, in your area anywhere in the world.
Put your research record to work
Claim your profile, run your first Partner search, and read your top funding matches in an afternoon.
Free plan · No credit card required