10 Best Open Access Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Open Access Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 10 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $347.8m. The average funding per company in this subset is $34.8m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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BenchSci logo

BenchSci

BenchSci is a biotechnology company with a machine learning platform for researching biological compounds. It was founded in 2015 and is located in Toronto, Canada.

6

Funding Rounds

$83.3m

Money raised

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Yewno

Yewno is a company that has built AI technology for research and idea generation.

3

Funding Rounds

$30.5m

Money raised

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Mendel.ai

Mendel.ai is a life science company offering an artificial intelligence platform to aid clinical experts improve their clinical cancer research.

7

Funding Rounds

$65.4m

Money raised

Meta (academic company) logo

Meta (academic company)

Artificial intelligence company specializing in big data analysis of scientific and technical literature.

2

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

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Sparrho

An artificial Intelligence company with a platform that acts as a search engine and holds summaries of scientific research papers. It is located in London, England and was founded in 2013.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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Academia.edu

Academia.edu is a social networking website founded in 2008.

5

Funding Rounds

$33.8m

Money raised

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Mendeley

Mendeley is a free reference manager and an academic social network to manage research, showcase work, and connect and collaborate with other researchers.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

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MyScienceWork

In addition to allowing you to share your research with others, MyScienceWork provides access to over 60 million articles, 25 million of which are open access.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.4m

Money raised

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Jobcase

Jobcase is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company founded in 2009.

3

Funding Rounds

$118.5m

Money raised

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PeerJ

PeerJ is an open-access scientific journal founded in 2012 by Jason Hoyt.

1

Funding Rounds

$950.0k

Money raised