This document provides recommendations for digital innovations that can help pharmaceutical companies address business priorities related to risk and compliance management and research and development enhancement. It outlines two main business priorities, breaks them down into sub-segments, and then recommends potential solutions in the form of software and startups. The solutions are categorized by their level of maturity from emerging to scaling to mature. The document aims to help decision makers in the pharmaceutical industry navigate the changing technology landscape and make more informed choices.
6. 04
B.
Research &
Development
Drug Safety
Monitoring
Clinical Trial and
Drug Regulation
Compliance
Management Software
Integrated GRC
A.
Risk &
Compliance
DWL Consulting
Wayne, New Jersey
Dwlconsult.com
Provider of expert safety consulting
specializing in Quality Management
Pharmacovigilance and Drug Safety for
pharmaceutical companies and Contract
Research Organizations.
Numerate
1501 Mariposa Street, San Francisco
Numerate.com
AI based molecule drug discovery. Developed
ToxTool system: a computational assessment
tool determining potential compound toxicity,
and guiding the laboratory characterization of
new chemical threat agents.
PrimeVigilance
26-28 Frederick Sanger Road, Surrey
primevigilance.com
Provides comprehensive pharmacovigilance
services and medical information support for
pharmaceutical and biotech companies.
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1.
SUB-SEGMENTS OF
BUSINESS PRIORITY
2.
SOLUTIONS TO
CONSIDER
3.
STARTUPS TO
EVALUATE
Risk Management
Risk &
Compliance
Management
7. 05
B.
Research &
Development
Clinical Trial and
Drug Regulation
Compliance
Management Software
Integrated GRC
A.
Risk &
Compliance
Complion
Euclid Avenue, Suite 2150, Cleveland
complion.com
Software solutions for clinical trial regulations
that can be used by both organizations and
trial sites.
TrialScope
185 Hudson Street, Suite 2900, Jersey
trialscope.com
Cloud based clinical trial transparency
and integrated compliance management
solutions.
NextDocs
26-28 Frederick Sanger Road, Surrey
nextdocs.com
Cloud based compliance document
management software for LifeSciences firms
enabling businesses in regulated industries
to achieve compliance with FDA, EMA and
other agencies.
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1.
SUB-SEGMENTS OF
BUSINESS PRIORITY
2.
SOLUTIONS TO
CONSIDER
3.
STARTUPS TO
EVALUATE
Risk Management
LifeSciences
GRC / Pharmaceuticals
Regulation Software
Risk &
Compliance
Management
8. 06
B.
Research &
Development
Clinical Trial and
Drug Regulation
Compliance
Management Software
Integrated GRC
A.
Risk &
Compliance
1.
SUB-SEGMENTS OF
BUSINESS PRIORITY
2.
SOLUTIONS TO
CONSIDER
3.
STARTUPS TO
EVALUATE
Risk Management
LifeSciences
GRC / Pharmaceuticals
Regulation Software
iGRC
7000 N. Mopac Expressway, Austin
http://intelligent-grc.com
Web-based integrated GRC solution to
manage risk and ensure compliance for
LifeSciences vertical.
LogicGate
214 West Ohio Street, Chicago
logicgate.com
Workflow automation software for enterpris-
es to automate the business processes,
mitigate risks, reduce costs and ensure
compliance.
Rsam
One Harmon Plaza, Secaucus
rsam.com
Integrated GRC solution to automate
governance, risk and compliance procedures
in an organization to create a central risk
depository to gain insights into business risks.
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Risk &
Compliance
Management
9. 07
B.
Research &
Development
Clinical Trial and
Drug Regulation
Compliance
Management Software
Integrated GRC
A.
Risk &
Compliance
1.
SUB-SEGMENTS OF
BUSINESS PRIORITY
2.
SOLUTIONS TO
CONSIDER
3.
STARTUPS TO
EVALUATE
Risk Management
IT security &
Risk Management
SecurityScorecard
214 West 29th Street. FLR 5, New York
securityscorecard.com
Provides threat intelligence and risk
awareness by automated real-time risk
monitoring to safeguard data privacy and
health provider infrastructure.
UpGuard
650 Castro Street, Mountain View
upguard.com
Provides hosted/on-premise software
solution to enhance visibility into the server
configuration, network devices and cloud
apps within the enterprise premises.
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Risk &
Compliance
Management
10. 08
B.
Research &
Development
Gene Editing /
Gene Therapy
New Product
Development
Faster Drug Design
Improve Clinical
Trial Cycles
A.
Risk &
Compliance
Homology
45 Wiggins Ave, Bedford, MA
homologymedicines.com
Develops gene therapies for rare genetic
diseases through a proprietary technology
based on gene editing.
Peptone
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
peptone.io
Helps predict protein features and
characteristics that help researchers
reduce complexity in protein design, detect
production and characterisation issues, and
discover novel drug designs.
Recursion
630 S. Komas Drive, Salt Lake City, UT
recursionpharma.com
Drug discovery platform involving millions of
rapid, automated experiments and analysis
to discover new therapeutics for rare genetic
diseases.
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1.
SUB-SEGMENTS OF
BUSINESS PRIORITY
2.
SOLUTIONS TO
CONSIDER
3.
STARTUPS TO
EVALUATE
AI for Drug Discovery
and Diagnosis
Research &
Development
Enhancement
11. 09
B.
Research &
Development
Gene Editing /
Gene Therapy
New Product
Development
Faster Drug Design
Improve Clinical
Trial Cycles
A.
Risk &
Compliance
OWKIN
New York
owkin.com
Machine learning based solutions for drug
discovery and precision medicine.
Freenome
259 East Grand Avenue, South San
Francisco
freenome.com
Deep learning platform for detecting
circulating cancer-related markers in patient
blood samples.
BenevolentAI
40 Churchway, London
benevolent.ai
Developer of core deep learning based AI
which is used to used to process medical
data to aid in the process of drug discovery
and development.
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SUB-SEGMENTS OF
BUSINESS PRIORITY
2.
SOLUTIONS TO
CONSIDER
3.
STARTUPS TO
EVALUATE
AI for Drug Discovery
and Diagnosis
Research &
Development
Enhancement
12. 10
B.
Research &
Development
New Product
Development
Faster Drug Design
Improve Clinical
Trial Cycles
A.
Risk &
Compliance
Nference
101 Main Street, 15th floor, Cambridge
nference.ai
Helps researchers identify competitive white
space, eliminate blind spots in research, and
discover disease similarities by phenotype for
clinical trial design using AI.
ThoughtSpot
1 Palo Alto Square, Bldg 1, Palo Alto
thoughtspot.com
AI based natural language search on billions
of rows of data from any source for speed
analysis of clinical trial results and historical
genomics data.
BioSymetrics
New York
biosymetrics.com
Uses AI to process raw phenotypic,
imaging, drug, and genomic data that allows
researchers to integrate rapid analytics and
machine learning capabilities into existing
business processes.
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SUB-SEGMENTS OF
BUSINESS PRIORITY
2.
SOLUTIONS TO
CONSIDER
3.
STARTUPS TO
EVALUATE
Aggregate &
Synthesize Information
Research &
Development
Enhancement
13. 11
B.
Research &
Development
New Product
Development
Faster Drug Design
Improve Clinical
Trial Cycles
A.
Risk &
Compliance
Bionano Genomics
9640 Towne Centre Drive, San Diego
bionanogenomics.com
Developed a platform for imaging single
molecules of DNA at megabase lengths which
can be used to detect structural variations
and mutations in the sample DNA with a high
level of precision.
DNAnexus
703 Market Street, San Francisco
dnanexus.com
Offers cloud-based genome informatics
and data management tools for enterprises
and organizations that are engaged in
the development and delivery of genomic
medicine.
WuXi NextCODE
55 Cambridge Pkwy, Cambridge
wuxinextcode.com
Global platform for sequence analysis
of genomic data with data architecture
optimized specifically for massive genomic
data.
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SUB-SEGMENTS OF
BUSINESS PRIORITY
2.
SOLUTIONS TO
CONSIDER
3.
STARTUPS TO
EVALUATE
Genome Informatics /
Sequencing Data Analysis
Clinical Trial Data
Collection and Management
Clinical Decision
Support
Robotic automation /
Remote Cloud Labs
Research &
Development
Enhancement
14. 12
B.
Research &
Development
New Product
Development
Faster Drug Design
Improve Clinical
Trial Cycles
A.
Risk &
Compliance
1.
SUB-SEGMENTS OF
BUSINESS PRIORITY
2.
SOLUTIONS TO
CONSIDER
3.
STARTUPS TO
EVALUATE
Genome Informatics /
Sequencing Data Analysis
Clinical Trial Data
Collection and Management
Clinical Decision
Support
Robotic automation /
Remote Cloud Labs
Exco-intouch
1818 Market St, Philadelphia
excointouch.com
Provides digital patient engagement and data
capture solutions for clinical research and
healthcare providers.
Kayentis
228 North Market Street – Frederick
kayentis.com
Its web platform enables real-time monitoring
and management of clinical trial data.
MC10
10 Maguire Road, Building 3, Lexington
mc10inc.com
Bio-Sensor manufacturers to help collect
data during clinical trials through near-field
communication of BioStamps.
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Research &
Development
Enhancement
15. 13
B.
Research &
Development
New Product
Development
Faster Drug Design
Improve Clinical
Trial Cycles
A.
Risk &
Compliance
1.
SUB-SEGMENTS OF
BUSINESS PRIORITY
2.
SOLUTIONS TO
CONSIDER
3.
STARTUPS TO
EVALUATE
Genome Informatics /
Sequencing Data Analysis
Clinical Trial Data
Collection and Management
Clinical Decision
Support
Robotic automation /
Remote Cloud Labs
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Cota
1 State Street Plaza, New York
cotahealthcare.com
Data and technology platform for value-based
precision medicine allows physicians to
analyze and visualizes data to gain insights
into real-world practice patterns, outcomes,
costs, and quality across patients.
InsightRX
San Francisco, CA
insight-rx.com
Its software platform provides an informed
patient-specific dose by leveraging machine
learning, patient demographics, physiological
characteristics, pharmacogenomic data, drug
concentrations and biomarkers.
EMERGING
Emedgene
Yigal Alon St 86, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
emedgene.com
Knowledge management platform to
support genetic tests' decision to support
the full workflow of diagnosing patients
and generates clinical insights for unknown
genetic variants.
Research &
Development
Enhancement
16. 14
B.
Research &
Development
New Product
Development
Faster Drug Design
Improve Clinical
Trial Cycles
A.
Risk &
Compliance
1.
SUB-SEGMENTS OF
BUSINESS PRIORITY
2.
SOLUTIONS TO
CONSIDER
3.
STARTUPS TO
EVALUATE
Genome Informatics /
Sequencing Data Analysis
Clinical Trial Data
Collection and Management
Clinical Decision
Support
Robotic automation /
Remote Cloud Labs
ECL
844 Dubuque Av, South San Francisco
emeraldcloudlab.com
Web-based lifesciences lab that scientists
can remotely access via the Internet where
automated robotics conduct experiments
based on use specifications.
Transcriptic
3565 Haven Ave., Suite 3, Menlo Park
transcriptic.com
Develops cloud-based remote robotic bio-lab
executing experiments with the help of their
proprietary automated system.
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Research &
Development
Enhancement
17. 15
B.
Research &
Development
Genome Sequencing
Data management
Clinical Research
Intelligence Sourcing
Streamline research
knowledge management
in labs
A.
Risk &
Compliance
1.
SUB-SEGMENTS OF
BUSINESS PRIORITY
2.
SOLUTIONS TO
CONSIDER
3.
STARTUPS TO
EVALUATE
Patient Recruitment
& Engagement
Genome Informatics /
Sequencing Data Analysis
Seven Bridges
1 Main St, 5th Floor, Cambridge
sevenbridges.com
Cloud based platform to store and analyze
genomic data aimed at researchers, labs, core
facilities, and pharmaceutical companies to
manage large amounts of NGS data.
Repositive
104 Hills Road, Cambridge
repositive.io
Web platform to facilitate data sharing for
genomics research in cancer and other rare
diseases.
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Research &
Development
Enhancement
18. 16
B.
Research &
Development
Genome Sequencing
Data management
Clinical Research
Intelligence Sourcing
Streamline research
knowledge management
in labs
A.
Risk &
Compliance
1.
SUB-SEGMENTS OF
BUSINESS PRIORITY
2.
SOLUTIONS TO
CONSIDER
3.
STARTUPS TO
EVALUATE
Patient Recruitment
& Engagement
Health Gorilla
800 W 34th St Ste 250, Austin
healthgorilla.com
Provides a marketplace for clinicians to order
diagnostic tests and to get real-time access to
results.
ZAGENO
1st courtyard left, Berlin, Germany
zageno.com
Marketplace and life science research
community to search and buy biotech
research kits.
Scientist
125 N. Acacia Ave., Solana Beach
scientist.com
The company operates an online network
of commercial suppliers and CROs to help
life sciences companies in outsourcing
biomedical research services and supplies.
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LifeScience
Research Marketplace
Research &
Development
Enhancement
19. 17
B.
Research &
Development
Genome Sequencing
Data management
Clinical Research
Intelligence Sourcing
Streamline research
knowledge management
in labs
A.
Risk &
Compliance
1.
SUB-SEGMENTS OF
BUSINESS PRIORITY
2.
SOLUTIONS TO
CONSIDER
3.
STARTUPS TO
EVALUATE
Patient Recruitment
& Engagement
Clinical Trial Data
Collection and Management
Labguru
625 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge
labguru.com
Web based lab management software that
streamlines research logistics and knowledge
management for life science labs.
Elemental
831 Mitten Rd # 205, Burlingame
elementalmachines.io
Offers lab management solutions for
maintaining experimental reproduciblity in
life science research labs.
Quartzy
550 Hamilton Ave Ste 150, Palo Alto
quartzy.com
Web based lab management platform for
LifeSciences community.
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Research &
Development
Enhancement
20. 18
B.
Research &
Development
Genome Sequencing
Data management
Clinical Research
Intelligence Sourcing
Streamline research
knowledge management
in labs
A.
Risk &
Compliance
1.
SUB-SEGMENTS OF
BUSINESS PRIORITY
2.
SOLUTIONS TO
CONSIDER
3.
STARTUPS TO
EVALUATE
Patient Recruitment
& Engagement
Clinical Trial Enrollment Platform
/ Molecular Profiling Platform
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Syapse
303 2nd St., Suite 650, San Francisco
syapse.com
Molecular profiling platform for diagnosing
and treating patients.
Antidote
39 Earlham Street, London
antidote.me
Meta-search engine for clinical trials that
helps patients to explore, understand and
access clinical trials.
EMERGING
Deep 6 AI
77 N Mentor Ave, Suite 200, Pasadena
deep6.ai
Uses AI technologies to understand the
unstructured data from medical records to
find more patients for clinical trials easily.
Research &
Development
Enhancement