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Prolific
Connecting people to facilitate world-changing research.
- 201-500 employees
- B2C
- B2B
- Marketplace
- Market research
- Data Analysis
- Data Sharing
- London, GB
Company mission
We're connecting people around the world to make trustworthy data more accessible and facilitate world-changing research. Prolific is a marketplace that connects researchers (from both Academia and industry) with instant, high quality, global research participants. Now, as a growing team, the bigger vision is to build the most powerful and trusted platform for behavioural research.
Insights
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Prolific is a marketplace for finding survey participants on demand. Customers submit their survey, tell them a bit about their target audience, and they’ll find survey participants accordingly.
Prolific was started when the founders (both doing PhDs at the time) couldn't find participants for their research projects. They weren't satisfied by the quality they got from current products on the market (e.g. Amazon's Mechanical Turk is great for simple data processing tasks, but not good for surveys).
They now have a long roadmap to enable easier market research for institutions and organisations. They're also growing quickly, with over 3,000+ researchers from science and industry using Prolific last year and 45,000 quarterly active participants. A $32 million funding round in 2023 is helping the company bolster this growth.
Benefits
- ⚖️ Work Life Balance: We’re all looking to strike the right work life balance, and as a remote first company you’re able to work flexibly from home or our dog-friendly co-working space in Shoreditch. We also offer 25 days of holiday, plus bank holidays of course, which you can switch with any day of your choosing.
- 🏡 Family Life: We offer generous maternity, paternity and shared parental leave. Need to pick your child up from school? No Problem. Our flexible working gives you the childcare flexibility you need
- 🧘 Wellbeing: We care deeply about our employees well-being, that’s why we offer comprehensive Bupa private health insurance, that disregards medical history. Taxable monthly stipend of £150 in order for you to improve your wellness and remote experience. We want you to have a happy and healthy environment so we offer a £1000 home office budget, along with a MAC laptop when you start, plus a £200 yearly top-up
- 📚 Learn & Grow: Development is important to us, and we want to give all our employees the opportunity to learn. There are many personal growth and career progression opportunities available, as well as mentoring. We also offer a £1000 yearly budget for education, growth and training for you to use at your discretion
- 💙 Culture: We’re a friendly bunch here at Prolific; open, transparent and inclusive. Although we’re a remote first company we still love to hang out with each other! We run collaborative quarterly company-wide meets up and team socials (both virtually and in-person), all paid for. Alongside this we offer a £1000 yearly budget for discretionary meet-ups so you can cover travel, food and accommodation. As a business we’re also committed to carbon offsetting; each month we donate money in your name to plant trees 🌳 and being remote we’re doing our bit to offset travel too
Company values
- 🥇 We put the quality of the research first. Our ultimate goal is to improve the quality of research, data, and decision-making. Everything we do is centred around our mission to facilitate world-changing research. We’re not here to sell participant time: we’re here to improve the way research is done online.
- 🤝 We build trust. We build trust with each other through responsible actions, honest relationships, and feedback. We build a product that facilitates trust with and between our users. Trust in our data powers our reputation and brand. We act with integrity in everything we do and we value the trust our users have in us.
- 🌍 We celebrate our differences. We care deeply about diversity within our team and on our platform. We embrace our differences and are open to being challenged and receiving feedback because a diverse team feeds different opinions and ideas which we use to make better decisions.
- 🔍 We are deeply curious about solving problems. We're solving complex problems no one has solved before. This doesn't mean we don't learn from others, but we always aim to get to a first-principles understanding. We approach challenges with humility, go deep to understand the problem in its details and think systematically when solving them.
- 💪 We are optimistic and find a way. We’re realistic but optimistic about the impact of Prolific and our ability to achieve our vision. We can all influence this outcome by being proactive, taking ownership, making fast decisions, and driving progress. There will be many challenges on the path, but there’s always a way forward.
- ⏩ We experiment and iterate fast. We are execution-focused, move with purpose, and look to build momentum. We know that “fast gets good better than good gets fast” so we aim to make progress and make decisions quickly. We have an experimental mindset, which we apply with rigour to make faster decisions, not as a crutch.
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$32m
SERIES A
Dec 2019
$1.2m
SEED
$33.4m
Total funding
This company has top investors
Founders
Phelim Bradley
(CEO)Has a PhD from Oxford in Genomic Medicine & Statistics
People progressing
Joined as Data Analyst, being promoted to Growth Analyst after 1 year. Now Head of Data.
Jess Mantel
Rose from Head of Finance to VP of Finance and is now CFO.
Diversity & Inclusion at Prolific
Phelim Bradley (CEO & Co-Founder)
- The goal of Prolific is to make research more accessible. Diversity and inclusion are engraved into our company DNA.
- We provide mental health support by providing mental health days, covering costs associated with counselling/therapy, and having a very inclusive, supportive, and open company culture.
- We support BLM. Read more here: https://blog.prolific.co/black-lives-matter/
- Our hiring process and job postings have been designed to reduce biases and encourage a variety of people to apply.
- We know we can do better! We've committed to improve our workforce representation.
