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Function Space raises seed funding from Nexus VP and wants to be GitHub for science

Collaboration and learning network for students and researchers Function Space, has raised seed funding from Nexus Venture Partners. Following this investment, Nexus Ventures Partners Co-founder and MD Sandeep Singhal will join the company's board. The company will use the funding to improve content, develop tools, and expand its contributor and user base that creates content related to the fields of mathematics and science. Function Space co-founder Sumit Maniyar says that the one year old service receives 100,000 unique visitors a month and has 10,000 registered users from 190 countries. New tools: Function Space is working on tools that will let people write equations using a WYSIWYG interface, so that one does not need to learn the document markup language LaTeX that is used as of now. It is also building a diagramming tool so people can make scientific diagrams and even draw circuits from within a browser without downloading a file. Other tools being developed include scientific chart converter and computational terminal. All these tools can also be used within a collaborative editing tool on the lines of GitHub or Google Docs, that is in the works. Function Space is also working on mobile apps for APIs for its platform that should be released in the coming months. This is apart from the personalization options being added so that someone who is new to the field is not intimidated by some of the high-level science. Similarly, these tools will also help experts from being put off by basic scientific queries, which is an issue with Quora. MOOCs or QnA: It is…

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