Science publishing company in Europe for sale

• Revenue: < 2M EUR
• Location of the Science publishing company: Europe
• Reason for sale: The owners want to grow the company in Europe, therefore are looking to talk to interested buyers
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The company for sale is a European science publisher and it has developed in house a research publishing platform that is functioning based on blockchain technology. Observations are the main principals for good science, that is why the company is putting the highest importance on publishing strong scientific opinions and discoveries that use observation as primordial key. Scientific people are invited to make their observation, prove that it is solid and ethic and then to send the material on the platform. The manuscript will be reviewed by specialists, tested and evaluated, after which is going to be published online so that the content will be shared for inspiring others. If the data will be correct, it will be published no matter if it is standard data, negative data, orphan data, confirmatory data or contradictory data. The company’s goal is to create an internet of science. Professors and specialists are top personalities, even Nobel laureates. The funders need more financial means and are looking for interested buyers that want to invest in this innovative company.

The company for sale was created by science people that wanted to exchange knowledge and grow the collaboration and scientific results and research. The enterprise they founded is quite a young company, but with much potential and many premises for growing. Aside from scientific collaborators, scientific advisory board and editorial board, the company has more than 20 employees that are specialized in various fields and fulfil tasks for diverse roles such as technology officer, developer and creator in blockchain technology, strategy and operations officer, editors, contract engineer, software and backend engineers, etc. All of this team supports this innovative online publishing platform that is designed to improve the scientific ecosystem.

The main goal of the company is to allow and promote the rapid publication of scientific observations and theories so that the content can be easily replicated. In this way, scientists can share and deliver high quality research, develop the scientific content in a collaborative manner and further scientific progress globally. The cutting edge technology used by the platform enables the rapid transfer of the published materials in online.

The platform is very user friendly and uses the latest blockchain technologies to offer decentralisation and transparency. The platform allows to easy submit, review and track changes during the process of online publishing. Due to the platform’s online editor that permits the collaborative writing of the material, an author can submit his work in no time. After the submission, reviewers will check the observation in terms of technical quality and data. The scientific staff is composed of highly specialized professionals with top titles and awards, professors from the most recognized universities in the world such as Stanford, Harvard, Imperial College London, Cambridge, etc. Institutions manifest high demand for own-brand open access journals, some universities pay annual membership fees of thousands of Euro. The company’s revenue comes from submission fees and other paid services such as triple-blind peer review, editing, copyediting and final author proof, google scholar indexation and archiving, open access, etc.

The company’s main activity is to provide science publishing services and auxiliary services such as editing, reviewing, archiving, etc.

• The company is active in providing science publishing services and solutions
• The company has unique business model and has much potential to grow
• The owners want to grow the company in Europe, therefore are open to listening to interested buyers