Mapping the world's scientific capacity
A routing layer for academic research and R&D: the largest graph of global scientific capacity, connecting companies and researchers with the instruments and labs that can run their experiments.
The problem
The cost of producing hypotheses is dropping fast. Testing them still happens on a real instrument with a real person somewhere — and finding that person or instrument mostly means emails, PDFs and knowing someone who knows someone. Labs want to be used more; researchers and companies want in. Nothing routes one to the other.
What Abstract does
Abstract is building that routing layer: a map of scientific capacity that people can search and talk to.
- 23,543 instruments from 639 institutions in 56 countries mapped to date.
- 155 lab operators in 7 countries on the platform.
- Labs can drop Abstract's widget onto their own site. Instead of six months of back-and-forth emails, a project brief takes about two minutes: describe the project, see what the lab can do, and it lands in the right inbox in seconds.
How it grew
- Beta: opened to an initial group of 50 researchers, positioned as a bridge for communication between researchers across disciplines.
- Sweden: mapped 1,500+ research instruments into Scandinavia's largest interactive research-infrastructure network.
- Global: 23,543 instruments, 639 institutions, 56 countries.
Why it matters
Vinnova has found that the socio-economic returns from research often take 10–20 years. Abstract shortens that lag by getting ideas onto experimental instruments — and to results — years earlier.
Recognition
- Uppsala's regional winner of the SKAPA Talent Award, Sweden's largest innovation prize, founded in memory of Alfred Nobel — presented by Uppsala's mayor Stefan Attefall and Almi Uppsala CEO Bengt-Åke Ljudén.
- Nominated for Idea of the Year (Årets Unga Idé 2026) by the Swedish Federation of Business Owners.
- Finalist in Framtidens Entreprenör, hosted by DNB Carnegie with Svenska Dagbladet.
- Presented to SciLifeLab at their Facility Forum 2026.
- Backed by Uppsala University Invest, UU Innovation and UIC.
Marshall's role
Co-founder and Chief AI Officer, based in Uppsala — building the research agents and AI systems behind the platform.
