Aplicación YC de Harbor
Harbor pasó por Y Combinator en el batch Spring 2026 como una empresa de Healthcare. Abajo: qué hace la empresa, quién la fundó y su aplicación a YC, reconstruida pregunta por pregunta en el formulario real de YC.
- Batch YC
- Spring 2026
- Industria
- Healthcare
- Tamaño del equipo
- 2
- Estado
- Active
- Lanzado
- 2026
Fundadores
Albert CaiFounder
Nathan H. LeungFounder
Lo que hace Harbor
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.
Aplicación YC de Harbor, reconstruida
Solicitud de Y Combinator
Harbor, batch Spring 2026. Las preguntas reales del formulario, respondidas con datos públicos.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Harbor
AI-native CRO for clinical trial operations
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.
We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and the company will be based there after YC.
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.
21 respuestas más en la aplicación completa
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Preguntas Frecuentes
¿Es esta la aplicación YC real de Harbor?
No. Y Combinator mantiene privadas las aplicaciones enviadas. Esta es una reconstrucción: las preguntas reales del formulario de YC, respondidas a partir de los datos públicos de Harbor (notas de lanzamiento, antecedentes de fundadores, descripción del producto). Muestra cómo una empresa como Harbor se presentaría a YC, no el texto que enviaron.
¿En qué batch de YC estuvo Harbor?
Harbor formó parte del batch Spring 2026 de Y Combinator.
¿Quién fundó Harbor?
Harbor fue fundado por Albert Cai, Nathan H. Leung.
¿A qué se dedica Harbor?
AI-native CRO for clinical trial operations
¿Cómo leo la aplicación completa reconstruida?
Crea una cuenta gratuita de Round Funded. La versión completa de 26 respuestas de la aplicación de Harbor, y de cada otro batch de YC, está en YC Insights.
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