

Stage: Pre-launch
Number of employees: 1-5
Short URL: vator.co/eCollaborate-Lets-Collaborate
e-Collaborate is a playground for scientists, techies, academics, and even large organizations to collaborate. Semantic web technologies are used to create intelligent ontologies that allow like-minded individuals to find each other quickly and efficiently. Basic collaboration tools and a searchable knowledgebase (with mash-ups connecting publicly available data sources) are available at basic (no cost) and premium (subscriber fee) levels. A collaboration infrastructure (SaaS) is also available for premium (larger) customers to use with outsourced resources and third-party collaborators (including Contract Research Organizations). Finally, the site provides an infrastructure for organizations or individuals to post an intellectual challenge/problem and offer a monetary award for information leading to the answer.
Example use cases:
-Free service gives users access to basic information in the ontology, as well as limited netowrking
-One-time transactions - commission fee paid to Let's Collaborate based on award paid to expert
-Premium service (monthly subscription fee for individuals; site wide subscription for larger organizations; discount pricing for students and academics)
-SaaS - dedicated service and secure login for collaboration interface (competitor to Sharepoint)