Our Start-up of the Week is DoctoralNet, which aims to improve the graduate/postgraduate experience through research and technology. “We’re improving master’s and doctoral work for universities, their professors and the students who attend,” explained Emily Alana James, co-founder and CEO of DoctoralNet. ‘The aim is to provide enough support that no master’s or doctoral student ever drops out because they became so frustrated they quit’ – EMILY ALANA JAMES DoctoralNet is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of portals and apps to universities to aid postgraduate success, retention and completion. “Each university generally supports between 1,000 and 10,000 students in this area.