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title: "Clinical trial recruitment software — niche opportunity inside Healthcare"
url: https://signals.gitdealflow.com/niche-down/healthcare/clinical-trial-recruitment-software
description: "Patient matching for clinical trials, with AI eligibility screening."
source: VC Deal Flow Signal
---
# Clinical trial recruitment software

> Patient matching for clinical trials, with AI eligibility screening.

**Sector**: [Healthcare](https://signals.gitdealflow.com/niche-down/healthcare)  
**Build cost**: Team-sized build  
**Deal velocity**: Steady — one deal per month

## Why now

Trial enrollment is the bottleneck of pharma R&D. AI can match patients to protocols 10x faster.

## What the signal looks like

Repos with clinical-criteria parsers, EHR data adapters, and recruitment-funnel libraries.

## Public examples

*Public projects + categories only — we never name founders tracked inside the paid product.*

- Antidote / Deep 6 AI-style platforms
- EHR-integrated recruitment
- Patient portal trial-matching

## What this displaces

A CRO calling patients from a list.

## Our build-vs-invest call

Pharma is the buyer; sales cycles are 12-24 months. Fund only with biotech or pharma-adjacent founders. The moat is the eligibility-criteria library + the EHR integration footprint.

## Frequently asked

### Who pays?

Pharma sponsors and CROs.

### Pricing?

Per-patient enrolled or per-trial.

### Compliance?

HIPAA + GCP + IRB workflows.

## Canonical

https://signals.gitdealflow.com/niche-down/healthcare/clinical-trial-recruitment-software