SciVee was founded in 2007 by two well known researchers, Phil Bourne of UC San Diego and Leo Chalupa of UC Davis,
as a science community site to promote researchers' work and collaboration. After initial success, we have
expanded our mission to provide rich media solutions to the scientific, technical and medical market.
Our innovations in scientific and scholarly communications enhance knowledge discovery and collaboration.
The text-only world of scholarly publishing no longer suffices in the age of Internet video and social media.
In science, as in life, a picture is indeed worth a thousand words. SciVee makes science visible.
Our service offering is based on 5 elements:
- Browser-based synchronization technology (patent-pending), where your video and a document is synchronized directly on the SciVee site.
- Software as a Service, so the customer does not need to invest in new software or worry about IT administration.
- A DIY (do it yourself) model, such that authors can create and upload videos quickly, easily and cheaply with minimal help from editors, publishers or SciVee.
- SciVee products are easily integrated into current production workflows of publishers and other content providers.
- A public website that is open for users to access and researchers to upload videos of interest, and a distribution option for publishers and other content providers.
Above all, we provide significant value to our users and customers in order to sustain long-term success:
Our vision is that rich media will soon become an integral part of scientific publishing, as it has in all other content and media domains, and SciVee will play a leading role in making that vision a reality.
Our Team
A professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UC San Diego, Senior Advisor to the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Editor in Chief of PLoS Computational Biology and the Associate Director of the Protein Data Bank (PDB). Bourne has 30 years of experience in scientific publishing and creating Web resources with large communities. The PDB supports over 170,000 individual scientists per month. Bourne has previously incorporated three companies.
A distinguished professor of Ophthalmology and Neurobiology at UC Davis. Chalupa has 40 years of experience in scientific publishing and experience with successful STTR grants in the biotechnology sector. Chalupa has previous incorporated one company. Bourne and Chalupa have 20 years of experience working together.
Friedmann has 30 years of entrepreneurial and start-up experience in software, telecom, datacom, storage and semiconductors. He has started companies, sold companies and raised more than $35 million in angel and venture funding. Most recently, he was CEO of Syntricity, Inc. a venture-backed SAAS company supplying manufacturing improvement analytic software to customers in the semiconductor industry. Prior to that, Friedmann was the founding CEO of Prisa Networks, a software company focused on managing storage area networks. Before Prisa, Friedmann held various marketing and general management positions at semiconductor company AMCC. Friedmann received his MBA from Harvard and undergraduate degree in Physics from UCLA.
Mr. Liu is a seasoned CEO, business development and marketing executive who has developed, managed and turned around varied businesses in the software, Internet and communication industries. Over the past 20 years, he has held a variety of senior management positions with successful venture-capital backed startups. His work contributed significantly to five IPOs and acquisitions with combined value of $1.3 billion. Mr. Liu earned his M.A. International Relations from The Fletcher School of Tufts University and B.A. Economics with Honors from the University of Chicago.
Computational biologist with eight years of experience in biological database development and data analysis. Lynn assists with scientific direction and customer service.
Willy Suwanto has specialized knowledge of the interaction between all aspects of networked video upload blogging websites and has several years programming experience developing video blogging database systems that include the integration of flash video interfaces, archival video database search engines, and video upload blog interfaces using CMS.
With extensive knowledge of Flash development, Alex focuses on creating interactive experiences, integrating flash, journal submissions, and other visual aids for the seamless viewing of SciVee pubcasts. Alex implements all aspects of flash across the site, and designs the look and feel of SciVee.
