Harbor YC-Bewerbung

Spring 2026Active

Harbor durchlief Y Combinator im Spring 2026-Batch als ein Healthcare-Unternehmen. Unten: Was das Unternehmen tut, wer es gegründet hat und seine Bewerbung bei YC, Frage für Frage im echten YC-Formular rekonstruiert.

YC-Batch: Spring 2026
Branche: Healthcare
Teamgröße: 2
Status: Active
Gestartet: 2026

Gründer

Albert CaiFounder
Nathan H. LeungFounder

Was Harbor tut

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 some of that goes to software, sites, and patients, the largest line items are services: project management, monitoring, data management, site coordination, source verification, query resolution, record reconciliation, and analysis. Today, drug and device companies outsource clinical operations to legacy CROs and their massive teams, which is why the CRO market is $82B annually. Harbor delivers the regulated services companies buy from legacy CROs, but built around our AI-native system of record from day one. Our software already automates the core data workflows: study build, data capture, query generation, monitoring, signing, and database lock. Because we own the system of record, we can expand into the surrounding service workflows: site contracting and billing, subject engagement and retention, statistics, reporting, and more. We built Harbor because we lived through the problem. Albert spent four years in clinical trials and regulatory strategy at a medical device startup, taking an unproven wearable from first-in-human trials to FDA authorization. Nate brings the technical depth, having built scalable software at Google and Ramp and served as employee #1 at a previous YC startup.

Harbors YC-Bewerbung, rekonstruiert

Y Combinator Bewerbung

Harbor, Spring 2026 Batch. Die echten Fragen des Antrags, beantwortet aus öffentlichen Daten.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Harbor

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-native CRO for clinical trial operations

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We are building an AI-native contract research organization product that starts with an AI-native system of record for clinical trial data. Our product automates the core data workflows like study build, data capture, query generation, monitoring, and database lock, replacing legacy CRO software and enabling us to deliver full clinical trial execution services.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and the company will be based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and has a strong healthcare and AI startup ecosystem. Being here puts us close to early customers and partners in clinical trials.

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Häufig gestellte Fragen

Ist das die echte YC-Bewerbung von Harbor?

Nein. Y Combinator hält eingereichte Bewerbungen privat. Dies ist eine Rekonstruktion: die echten Fragen des YC-Formulars, beantwortet aus den öffentlichen Daten von Harbor (Veröffentlichungsnotizen, Gründerhintergründe, Produktbeschreibung). Sie zeigt, wie sich ein Unternehmen wie Harbor bei YC präsentieren würde, nicht den Text, den sie eingereicht haben.

In welchem YC-Batch war Harbor?

Harbor war Teil des Y Combinator Spring 2026-Batches.

Wer hat Harbor gegründet?

Harbor wurde von Albert Cai, Nathan H. Leung gegründet.

Was macht Harbor?

AI-native CRO for clinical trial operations

Wie lese ich die vollständige, rekonstruierte Bewerbung?

Erstelle ein kostenloses Round Funded Konto. Die vollständige 26-Antwort-Version der Bewerbung von Harbor, und jede andere YC-Kohorte, findest du in YC Insights.