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Novelcare

Novelcare addresses the primary bottleneck in drug development: recruiting patients into clinical trials. We analyze electronic health records to help doctors find clinical trials for their patients, and to help trial sites find patients for their studies. 72% of doctors want to inform their patients of clinical trials, but only 5% do. We're on a mission to close that gap, ultimately bringing safer, more effective drugs to the patients who need them.

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Novelcare addresses the primary bottleneck in drug development: recruiting patients into clinical trials. We analyze electronic health records to help doctors find clinical trials for their patients, and to help trial sites find patients for their studies. 72% of doctors want to inform their patients of clinical trials, but only 5% do. We're on a mission to close that gap, ultimately bringing safer, more effective drugs to the patients who need them.

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Novelcare is classified as Healthcare from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Healthcare · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

PicnicAI

match 104

PicnicAI deploys AI into the real-world complexity of care delivery and clinical research. PicnicHealth helps patients navigate fragmented care with AI-powered tools backed by a clinical team, giving them a unified view of their health across all their doctors. PicnicResearch makes clinical research faster, cheaper, and more reliable, using AI agents and direct patient relationships to change the economics of drug development so that more treatments reach the patients who need them.

shared extracted concepts: patients, doctors; shared product terms: drug, development, patient, clinical; shared product theme: health and clinical care; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

HealthKey

match 104

HealthKey helps doctors offices generate more revenue by finding eligible patients for their clinical trials. We match at-risk patients with cutting-edge treatments, ultimately getting patients access to potentially life-changing treatments faster. Big Pharma pays a lot of money to clinics for each patient they enroll, but finding patients who qualify is an entirely manual process today. We use AI to prescreen doctors’ existing patients against Clinical Trials’ eligibility criteria, making enrol

shared extracted concepts: patients, clinical trials; shared product terms: doctor, find, patient, clinical; shared product theme: health and clinical care; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Harbor

match 91

Harbor is building an AI-native contract research organization (CRO) for clinical trials. We started with an AI-native system of record for clinical trial data (electronic data capture system), grew the software business to seven trials and ~$187k in contracted software revenue over the next twelve months, then expanded into full-service trial execution and signed our first CRO contract worth $1.93M over three years. Clinical trials consume 45% of all new drug and device development spend. While

shared extracted concepts: clinical trials; shared product terms: clinical, trial, record, electronic; shared product theme: context and memory, health and clinical care; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Pense Health

match 88

Pense Health helps clinical trial sites, sponsors, and CROs improve enrollment and reduce screen failures by using an AI-powered platform that automates record retrieval, pre-screens patients, and provides real-time referral tracking and insights.

shared extracted concept terms: record, clinical, trial; shared product terms: patient, clinical, trial, health; shared product theme: context and memory, health and clinical care

Deep 6 AI

match 84

Deep 6 AI applies artificial intelligence and natural language processing to medical records to find more patients for clinical trials exponentially faster.

shared extracted concepts: patients, clinical trials; shared product terms: record, find, patient, clinical; shared product theme: context and memory, health and clinical care

Cyberdesk

match 81

Cyberdesk is the first self learning computer use agent for developers to automate desktop workflows. For example, one of our customers is building an AI agent for hospital patient intake, and they’re using us to automate an entire team of people manually clicking and typing into a desktop app to book appointments. We launched mid July, and our agent is already operating in production environments, creating appointments in electronic health record apps and processing files in legacy ERPs. We’ve

shared extracted concept terms: electronic, health, record; shared product terms: patient, re, electronic, health; shared product theme: context and memory, health and clinical care; shared affiliation: Y Combinator