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Castor
Clinical trials platform
- 201-500 employees
- Healthcare
- B2B
- SaaS
- MedTech
- Hudson Square, New York, NY
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Company mission
To solve the world’s healthcare challenges with research data.
Our take
Castor’s cloud-based clinical data management platform allows clinical trials to be carried out faster and in a more decentralised and patient-focused manner. Some of the biggest roadblocks to successful clinical trials are the length of time they can take, a lack of diversity in participants, and a simple shortage of trial subjects. Castor’s tech allows researchers to overcome these obstacles by more easily capturing and integrating data.
Castor, along with other med tech startups like Thread and Florence garnered praise during 2020 as a lot of medical research transitioned to virtual. In a clinical trials market that’s worth over $40 billion worldwide and still growing, the fact that Castor counts the WHO in its customer base is encouraging.
Backed by Eight Roads Ventures and F-Prime Capital, Castor is aiming to use its funding round to continue product development, data gathering, and increase its manpower, with a view to expanding operations beyond the US and into Asia.
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Benefits
- Unlimited annual leave, plus national holidays per location. Minimum of 25 PTO days per year to be taken.
- Access to Calm App
- Quarterly downtime weeks
- Bi-weekly virtual meditation sessions
- Virtual company events
- Sleeping courses
- A ‘wellbeing boost slack channel
- Access to a company coach
- A 24/7 accessible ‘getting things done’ workshop
- An annual €750 credit allowance in Learnerbly
- An annual €750 (or the currency equivalent) to spend on professional development
- Quarterly alignment cycle promoting open feedback through Leapsome
- Access to Appical which supports an amazing remote onboarding journey
- Ensuring you have the best possible remote working setup
- Work remotely or from a Castor office location near you
- A focus on agile and flexible working
- A Mac or Dell laptop
- Personal IT support and setup on your first day
- Access to professional tools including G-Drive, Zoom, Miro, Slack, Confluence, ProductBoard, Figma, Jira, and Asana
- Internal communication and meeting guidelines to support asynchronous communication
Company values
- Achieve anything with a happy and healthy team
- Maximize research impact
- Push boundaries through direct communication and diversity
- Amaze through user-friendly and rewarding experiences
- ACT RESPONSIBLY and protect the data
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2021
$45m
SERIES B
Aug 2020
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $63.8m
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Leadership
Derk Arts
(CEO)Has over fifteen years of experience in medicine, research and technology.