About Cassyni
An AI-first platform for the world’s research talks
An AI-first platform for the world’s research talks. We are building a vibrant, connected ecosystem where seminars, symposia and society meetings remain open, discoverable and freely accessible long after the live event.
By pairing video and live experiences with AI-powered enrichment, Cassyni helps researchers, institutions, journals and scholarly societies grow the reach and impact of their programmes while contributing to the world’s most comprehensive research talk library.
The Founding Team
Dr. Andrew Preston
Andrew has worked as an active researcher in physics, first as a PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington, then as postdoctoral fellow at Boston University.Andrew went on to found Publons with a mission to improve the peer review system, which was acquired by Clarivate in 2017 and now serves more than 2 million researchers. His latest endeavor is Cassyni.com, a platform that simplifies the process of scheduling and running academic seminars and then publishes the talks with a DOI.
Dr. Ben Kaube
Ben co-founded Cassyni to help academics discover and disseminate scholarly research through seminars and video. Prior to Cassyni he founded research tools Kopernio (for improving access to research papers) and Newsflo (for helping academics evidence the societal impact of their research) which are now relied on by millions of researchers.Ben holds a PhD in physics from Imperial College London and was named a Forbes “30 Under 30” for Science and Healthcare in 2020.
Cassyni in the news
Cassyni won Gold at the 2025 EPIC Awards, presented by the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP). The EPIC Awards recognize and celebrate remarkable teams and individuals in the publishing, information technology, and communications sectors for their significant contributions to scholarly communication through innovation, creativity, and dedication.
Cassyni was named a finalists in the ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing 2023 which recognises new products which
are both innovative and of significant value to scholarly communication.
Cassyni was included in the Outsell 2023 Emerging 50 list featuring the
best-of-the-best emerging companies in the data, information, and analytics economy for growth and disruption.
Cassyni was listed as a winner in the Future Learning category of the Falling Walls Foundation's 2022 annual Breakthrough of the Year prize.
