Andrew Preston

Co-founder at Cassyni. Formerly co-founder at Publons (acquired by Clarivate Analytics).

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2024
Operator-angel🌍 United Kingdom
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Founding Investor
Sep 2024
We believe that the scholarly ecosystem can be transformed through new ideas, technologies, and products — provided that entrepreneurs have access to the necessary funding and support. We are a small group of entrepreneurs who have built our careers founding and leading some of the most innovative companies across the scholarly communications ecosystem.
Board Member
Jan 2020
ORCID’s mission is to enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their contributions, and their affiliations by providing a unique, persistent identifier for individuals to use as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. We do this by providing three important things: 1. The ORCID iD: a unique, persistent identifier free of charge to researchers 2. An ORCID record connected to the ORCID iD, and 3. A set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), as well as the services and support of communities of practice that enable interoperability between an ORCID record and member organizations so researchers can choose to allow connection of their iD with their affiliations and contributions ORCID is a global, not-for-profit organization sustained by fees from our member organizations. We are community-built and governed by a Board of Directors representative of our membership with wide stakeholder representation. ORCID is supported by a dedicated and knowledgeable professional staff.
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2024
Founding Investor
Sep 2024
We believe that the scholarly ecosystem can be transformed through new ideas, technologies, and products — provided that entrepreneurs have access to the necessary funding and support. We are a small group of entrepreneurs who have built our careers founding and leading some of the most innovative companies across the scholarly communications ecosystem.
Co-Founder
Mar 2024
2021
Co-Founder
Jan 2021
Science starts with a seminar. Organise, run, and publish research seminars.
2020
Board Member
Jan 2020
ORCID’s mission is to enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their contributions, and their affiliations by providing a unique, persistent identifier for individuals to use as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. We do this by providing three important things: 1. The ORCID iD: a unique, persistent identifier free of charge to researchers 2. An ORCID record connected to the ORCID iD, and 3. A set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), as well as the services and support of communities of practice that enable interoperability between an ORCID record and member organizations so researchers can choose to allow connection of their iD with their affiliations and contributions ORCID is a global, not-for-profit organization sustained by fees from our member organizations. We are community-built and governed by a Board of Directors representative of our membership with wide stakeholder representation. ORCID is supported by a dedicated and knowledgeable professional staff.
2017
Managing Director, Publons
Jun 2017
Clarivate is a leading global provider of transformative intelligence. We offer enriched data, insights & analytics, workflow solutions and expert services in the areas of Academia & Government, Intellectual Property and Life Sciences & Healthcare. For more information, please visit clarivate.com.
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