Candidature YC de Harbor

Spring 2026Active

Harbor a été sélectionné par Y Combinator dans le cadre du batch Spring 2026 en tant qu'entreprise Healthcare. Ci-dessous : ce que fait l'entreprise, qui l'a fondée, et sa candidature à YC, reconstruite question par question dans le vrai formulaire YC.

Batch YC: Spring 2026
Secteur d'activité: Healthcare
Taille de l'équipe: 2
Statut: Active
Lancé: 2026

Fondateurs

Albert CaiFounder
Nathan H. LeungFounder

Ce que fait 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.

Candidature YC de Harbor, reconstruite

Candidature Y Combinator

Harbor, promotion Spring 2026. Les vraies questions de candidature, répondues à partir de données publiques.

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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Questions fréquemment posées

Est-ce la vraie candidature YC de Harbor ?

Non. Y Combinator garde les candidatures soumises privées. Ceci est une reconstruction : les vraies questions du formulaire YC, répondues à partir des données publiques de Harbor (notes de lancement, parcours des fondateurs, description du produit). Cela montre comment une entreprise comme Harbor se présenterait à YC, pas le texte qu'ils ont soumis.

À quel batch YC Harbor appartenait-il ?

Harbor faisait partie du batch Spring 2026 de Y Combinator.

Qui a fondé Harbor ?

Harbor a été fondé par Albert Cai, Nathan H. Leung.

Que fait Harbor ?

AI-native CRO for clinical trial operations

Comment lire la candidature complète reconstruite ?

Créez un compte Round Funded gratuit. La version complète de la candidature de Harbor en 26 réponses, et de chaque autre promotion YC, se trouve dans YC Insights.