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Founders Paul Föckler, Victor Henning, Jan Reichelt
Website www.mendeley.co.uk
Why it made our list
Mendeley is being pitched as a “Last.fm for research”. The team is clearly onto something as the company has the backing of early seed investor and former chairman of Last.fm, Stefan Glaenzer. While studying for their PhDs, Victor and Jan found accessing and managing research papers a real handful. They decided they could develop software to help manage and share them, and with the help of Paul produced Mendeley. The management software also features a network to discover papers and like-minded researchers. According to the founders, if it continues to grow at its current rate, the company will become the largest online research repository in 2010.
How do our winners measure up? Regional split - London 60%, South East 15%, North West 8%, Midlands 5%, South West 4%, Scotland 3%, Wales 2%, East 2%, North East 1%. The North West is pulling its weight this year in position 3 as it didn't feature in the Top 5 regions in 2008.