Curvenote Blog · Oct 2025
Announced the SCMS platform and positioned connected publishing as the next step beyond static PDFs, with emphasis on reusable components and workflow continuity.
Communication and publishing tools for scientists
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Curvenote is a Calgary-based, remote-first scientific content management company that helps researchers, societies, and publishers turn notebooks, data, and manuscripts into interactive, web-native scientific content and connected publishing workflows.
Primary product
Scientific Content Management System (SCMS) / Curvenote Reader
Founded
2019
Headquarters
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Team size
1-10
Work style
Remote
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Scientific content management systems / scientific publishing software
Offices
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Business model
Open-core SaaS
Annual subscription
One-time implementation/project fees
Enterprise support/services
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$1.1M
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & CTO
Product Lead
Lead Software Developer
Lead UX Researcher
Work & culture
Public materials emphasize being bold and empathetic, open and accessible, and empowering and collaborative. The company also describes itself as researcher-led, open-core, and contributor-friendly.
Work style
Remote
Product & market
Pricing
Subscription-based enterprise software with annual fees; Reader also uses a one-time project fee plus annual subscription.
Differentiators
- —Open-core platform with open-source authoring/component formats
- —Turns static PDFs into interactive, web-native reading experiences
- —Modular, reusable research components with provenance and context
- —Integrations with MyST Markdown, Jupyter, GitHub, Crossref, and ORCID
- —Enterprise features for security, scale, and support
- —Designed for connected publishing without changing existing workflows
Technology
MyST Markdown
Jupyter
GitHub integrations
GitHub Actions
ProseMirror
React
Remix
Typst
Google Cloud Platform
Vercel
Segment
Amplitude
Google Analytics
Crossref
ORCID
Customers
Microscopy Society of America (Elemental Microscopy)
SciPy proceedings / NumFOCUS
openRxiv / bioRxiv preprints
Physiome Project
Scholar Nexus
Academic societies and journals
Research teams and lab groups
Universities and institutions
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Competitors
Hex
Deepnote
Author-it Software
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$0-5M
Estimated monthly visits
5K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Latest news
Curvenote Blog · Jul 2025
Curvenote announced a CAD$1.4M seed round, citing Y Combinator and a network of angel investors; the company said proceeds would support infrastructure, community partnerships, and open standards.
Nature · Aug 2024
Nature profiled Curvenote and Elemental Microscopy as an example of interactive, code- and data-centric scientific publishing.
Curvenote Blog · Apr 2024
Reported Curvenote's sponsorship and hosting of the SciPy proceedings, including GitHub-based submission workflows and web-first interactive articles.
Curvenote Blog
Describes the openRxiv partnership and Curvenote Reader rollout across hundreds of thousands of bioRxiv preprint versions, without disrupting repository workflows.
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