Startup Portrait: Microryza (YC W13) — Discovering, funding and experiencing new scientific discoveries

by Y Combinator9/17/2013

If Microryza succeeds, how will the world be different?

Science will play a bigger role in people’s lives. Right now science is really closed off to people outside of academia. You’re going to see scientists sharing research more openly, and see people who aren’t in academia pursuing research projects. The science stack is going to look dramatically different in the next year. Now you can get funding through crowdfunding, you can outsource your projects through websites like Science Exchange, you can buy materials cheaply online. Scientists care more and more about open access publishing. However, lots of scientists don’t know about these tools, but as they do, how research ideas come to fruition is going to change dramatically.

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