[company_age]3.0[/company_age][employees]11-50 employees[/employees][funding]grant[/funding][description]Convergent Research is a non-profit organization that incubates and launches Focused Research Organizations (FROs). FROs are a new type of scientific institution designed to tackle large-scale, tightly coordinated, non-profit projects that are too big for academic labs and too risky for startups. Convergent Research provides FROs with funding, operational support, and access to a network of experts. Convergent Research is unique in its focus on supporting FROs, which are a relatively new type of organization. Convergent Research is also unique in its commitment to open-sourcing the results of FROs' work, which makes it more accessible to the scientific community.[/description][ps]Convergent Research provides funding, operational support, and access to a network of experts to FROs.[/ps]