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Digital Science is a technology company formed in 2010 with its headquarters based in London, United Kingdom.

History
Digital Science was founed in 2010. It was initially the technical division of Nature Publishing Group/Macmillan and is now is operated as an independent company by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

The original Managing Director was Timo Hannay who was succeeded by Daniel Hook in 2015.

The company focuses on strategic investments into startup companies that support the research lifecycle. Early in Digital Science's development it appeared to focus on software that was relevant to publishers before emerging as a contributer to institutional systems. More recently the company has invested in Internet of Things TetraScience and Cloud services Transcriptic.

Digital Science is one of the organizers of Science Foo Camp along with Nature, Google and O'Reilly.

Since 2013, Digital Science has released a number of collaborative reports using data generated from their portfolio companies. During the Brexit campaign in the UK in 2016 Digital Science's report "Examining Implications of Brexit for the UK Research Base" gained significant attention in the media and established the £1bn annual deficit figure quoted in global media during and following the campaign. The company worked with HEFCE and Kings College London in 2015, following the inclusion of Research Impact in the Research Excellence Framework (REF), to analyse the results and provide access to the case studies to the public.

Digital Science is active in the open data movement and launched a Global Research Identifier Database Global Research Identifier Database: (GRID) for identifying research institutions around the world. Through the Digital Science Catalyst Grant the company has supported a number of early-stage ideas such as Nutonian, TetraScience and Penelope as well as community schemes including Ada Lovelace Day.