ScraperWiki loves data science
We help organisations collect, analyse, visualise and manage data. For operations, research, marketing—whatever you need.
We take this insight and make get data from PDFs.
Our team
Aidan McGuire Chief Executive Officer
Aidan founded ScraperWiki with Dr Julian Todd and raised Seed and series A funding. He worked for Mizhuo Bank … More »
Francis Irving Head of Product and Research
A technology leader, Francis created the original TortoiseCVS, which has improved version control… More »
Dr Steven Maude Data Scientist
Trained in chemistry and nanotechnology, Steve is an experienced biomedical materials researcher. … More »
Tristan BaconProduct Marketing Coordinator
Tristan began his marketing career at university, building websites for small businesses and teaching… More »
Aine McGuire Head of Business Development
Aine began her career selling HP computers and software to large enterprise customers in the finance, … More »
Dr Peter Waller Technical Lead
Previously a particle physicist at CERN, Peter is interested in big data and the power of technology… More »
Uwe Dauernheim Technical Architect
Coming to ScraperWiki from Spotify, Uwe knows how to build scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.… More »
Our board
Jane Silber Chair of the Board
CEO of Canonical. World-class business person bringing global experience with Ubuntu… More »
Dr Julian Todd Director
10 years of computational geometry for machine tool software at NC Graphics, followed by 4… More »
Company History
Back in 2003, ScraperWiki’s founders were the first people in the world to write computer programs to download Government information and make it more accessible to citizens. They created websites like TheyWorkForYou, which inspired the Sunlight Foundation.
ScraperWiki was founded in 2009 by Julian Todd and Aidan McGuire. We received initial funding from British TV station Channel 4. After fostering an active community of open data coders and data journalists, ScraperWiki won the Knight News Challenge in 2011.
In 2012 ScraperWiki closed a million dollar round of investment led by EV, to improve our platform for coders and build out our business offering.
Thanks
As well as our awesome team, above, we’d also like to thank; Richard Pope, product manager for the first version of ScraperWiki; Zarino Zappia, Chris Blower, Ross Jones, Tom Mortimer-Jones, Anna Powell-Smith, Mike Richardson and Sym Roe, who helped build it; Nicola Hughes, Judith Townend, Zach Beauvai, Ed Cawthorne and Paul Furley; Tom Steinberg and Jamie Arnold, for mentoring; and Francis Davey, for legal advice.
Our logo is a ‘wheel tractor-scraper’ (like a huge cheese slice for moving soil) and it was designed by James Weiner.
The ScraperWiki website is Open Source and licensed under the Affero GPL. Check us out on Github.