Frustrated by unpredictable and often political funding for science research, a handful of young researchers think they’ve found the answer: crowdfunding.
Jackson Solway Experiment.com Co-founder and CEO Cindy Wu The researchers–who have backgrounds in synthetic biology, rocket science and other disciplines–built much of their startup, Experiment.com, while at the Y Combinator accelerator in 2013.
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