Altmetric Company Profile

Altmetric was founded by Euan Adie in 2011 and grew out of the burgeoning altmetrics movement. Euan had previously worked onPostgenomic.com, an open source scientific blog aggregator founded in 2006.

Interested in taking the ideas from Postgenomic forward we entered an altmetrics app into Elsevier's Apps for Science competition and ended upwinning. The prize money helped us to grow from an evenings & weekends project into a full-fledged product: the first standalone version of theAltmetric Explorer was released in February 2012.

In July 2012 we took on additional investment from Digital Science.

Our users now include some of the world's leading journals, funders and institutions.

We remain a relatively small company and take pride in our strong focus on engineering and domain knowledge.