An editing assignment threw up an idea that led to the founding of Cactus Communications Pvt. Ltd in 2002 by brothers Anurag and Abhishek Goel.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was in Japan on an exchange programme. I wanted to come back to India and start a company on waste management. A professor in the university asked me to edit his research paper. That is when we felt there might be a larger opportunity here for providing communication services in English,” says Abhishek Goel.<\/p>\n
With modest investment from their savings, the brothers started the company and for the first three to four years, focused exclusively on the Japanese market. Over the last 15 years, it has grown significantly and currently has a workforce of over 700 employees and offices in Japan, South Korea, India, China, the UK and the US.<\/p>\n
Today CACTUS is a fully integrated, global scientific communications company providing scientific and medical communications services to researchers, authors, scholarly journals, publishers, academic societies, and pharmaceutical and medical device companies. The firm\u2019s annual growth has been about 35% over the last few years and it clocked revenue of over Rs250 crore in fiscal 2017.
\nCACTUS has two main verticals; one is a retail segment under the brand Editage, which is a scientific research editing business.<\/p>\n
The other is a business-to-business (B2B) segment that caters to the communication needs of global pharmaceutical and medical devices companies.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor Editage, our typical customer is a non-native researcher who wants to get published in a western journal. We help him with different levels of editing and translation, journal selection and other publication support services. Our large markets are Japan, Korea, China and the US,” Goel said.
\nEditage collaborates with journals, publishers, universities, and societies to provide editorial services to their authors, and to assist these institutions with customized pre-production support, including pre-peer review screening, language polishing, transcription, translation, and advisory services.<\/p>\n
Editage has more than 2,000 professional editors. This expertise enables clients to overcome language, market, cost, and resource barriers, allowing them to achieve their communication goals. To date, Editage has served over 200,000 authors and has edited more than 750,000 papers.<\/p>\n