About Project Lever

About company

Project Lever makes it easy for students to start research projects by aggregating university resources and providing searchable databases of courses, past student projects, faculty profiles, grants, and library guides. Using natural language processing algorithm, it matches students to the relevant resources for projects. It connects students to resources through a keyword search that can articulate research interests, a matching algorithm that ranks the best resources for a research idea, and an interactive text visualizations that enables students to brainstorm more effectively. The company sells subscriptions to universities. Using data scraping algorithms, the company implements solutions in weeks, not months, or years. Project Lever was founded by Svetlana Dotsenko in 2012 and the company is based in Boston, Massachusetts.