Company story

Scribbr B.V. is a Dutch private limited liability company; the B.V. stands for Besloten Vennootschap, which represents Dutch and Belgian companies with limited liability. According to Kamer van Koophandel (Netherlands Chamber of Commerce), Scribbr B.V. can be identified as an active business through its KvK-nummer: 67863019; the KvK-nummer issued by the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce proves organizations like Scribbr B.V. are registered in the national business register known as Handelsregister. 

Trademark registration

According to Open Corporates, an online database of companies from the world, Scribbr B.V. trademarked “SCRIBBR” with the World Intellectual Property Organization on April 9, 2018, for ten years. Scribbr B.V. registered “SCRIBBR” with the United States Patent and Trademark Office on July 30, 2019.

Company ownership and leadership

Koen Driessen, Richard van Laark, and Bas Swaen founded Scribbr

Scribbr was founded by Koen Driessen, Richard van Laark, and Bas Swaen in September 2012. According to its Crunchbase profile, Scribbr was founded on September 1, 2012. The Scribbr.com about page states Scribbr started with the team of the three founders and one editor.

The three founders continue to be involved with Scribbr. As of January 2020, the three founders of Scribbr B.V. continue to be actively engaged in the company. Koen Driessen, Richard van Laark, and Bas Swaen are listed among the Scribbr team profiles on the Scribbr.com about page. 

Koen Driessen serves as the CEO of Scribbr and his responsibilities include marketing and development.

Bas Swaen also serves as the CEO of Scribbr and his responsibilities include operations, finance, legal, and business development.

Richard van Laark continues to serve Scribbr as the proof of concept engineer.

Websites owned and services offered by Scribbr B.V.

Scribbr.com is the official website of Scribbr B.V.

Scribbr B.V. owns and operates Scribbr.com as well as multiple service sublocales (country-specific versions of Scribbr.com). Scribbr B.V. supports various languages through the following domains:

• Scribbr.co.uk in UK English
• Scribbr.de in German
• Scribbr.es in Spanish
• Scribbr.fr in French
• Scribbr.nl in Dutch
• Scribbr.no in Norwegian
• Scribbr.se in Swedish

Services provided by Scribbr B.V. Scribbr provides academic proofreading and editing services in the form of proofreading and editing, clarity checks, layout checks, reference checks, plagiarism checks, and structure checks. The Scribbr Plagiarism Checker supports 20 languages, including:

• Arabic
• Bosnian
• Croatian
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Greek
• Italian
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Serbian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Turkish

Scribbr.com is one of the most popular editing service websites. Ahrefs, an SEO tool used to analyze websites, features a list of the top 1 million websites in its database, which is updated in real-time. In January 2020, Scribbr.com was in the top 20 percentile of the one million highest ranking sites in the Ahrefs database. According to a January 2020 snapshot from Ahrefs, Scribbr.com had an Ahrefs Rank (AR) of 196,029 in the database of over 100 million websites.