Healthcare · sub-niche
Clinical trial recruitment software.
Patient matching for clinical trials, with AI eligibility screening.
Team-sized buildSteady — 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
We name publicprojects + categories only — never founders we track inside the paid product. The buyer’s edge stays inside the 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.
Common questions about this niche
- Who pays?
- Pharma sponsors and CROs.
- Pricing?
- Per-patient enrolled or per-trial.
- Compliance?
- HIPAA + GCP + IRB workflows.
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