Based in the United States and The Netherlands, Castor is an international health-tech company founded by CEO Derk Arts, MD, PhD. Castor's EDC, ePRO, eCOA, Digital Enrollment, eConsent, eSource, and eTMF solutions enable researchers to easily capture and integrate data from any source and decentralize their trials.
More than 65,000 researchers across 90 countries are using Castor and the platform has supported more than 4,000 commercial and academic studies. These studies cover a broad range of therapeutic areas including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, rare diseases, infectious diseases, and oncology.
Researchers on the platform generate vast amounts of data from traditional and remote trials, and Castor recently reached milestones of 250,000,000 data points and 2,200,000 enrolled patients. Castor’s goal is to make the world’s research data reusable, enabling AI-driven clinical trials, and ultimately creating a future in which they maximize the impact of data through reuse.
Location: United States, New Jersey, Hoboken
Employees: 201-500
Total raised: $64.4M
Founded date: 2011
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| 19.12.2022 | Techstars | techstars.... |
| - | F-Prime Ca... | fprimecapi... |
| - | WR Hambrec... | wrhambrech... |
| - | Eight Road... | eightroads... |
Funding Rounds 4
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 16.07.2021 | Series B | $45M | F-Prime Ca... |
| 19.08.2020 | Series A | $12M | - |
| 02.07.2018 | - | $6.17M | - |
| 23.05.2017 | - | $1.23M | - |
Mentions in press and media 33
| Date | Title | Description | Source |
| 08.02.2024 | Castor Collaborates with Microsoft to Bring Practical AI to ... | NEW YORK, NY, USA, February 8, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Today, Castor announced its collaboration ... | einpresswi... |
| 02.09.2023 | Startup Showcase: Castor—Revolutionizing Clinical Trials Thr... | Welcome to another edition of EUStartup.news’ Startup Showcase, where we spotlight game-changing sta... | eustartup.... |
| 04.05.2022 | Derk Arts Wants to Fix the Broken Medical Research System | Ten years ago, most medical research was conducted in closed systems, without shared datasets and in... | twosigmave... |
| 13.04.2022 | The Perfect Match: How Partnerships Can Streamline Your Next... | How to find the right patients at scale while giving every patient a sense of individual comfort as ... | prweb.com/... |
| 24.03.2022 | Technology Approaches to Improve Patient Enrollment in Decen... | DCT have the added benefit of reducing site burden, which ultimately leads to better care for all pa... | prweb.com/... |
| 28.12.2021 | Top milestone of Amsterdam 2021: Startups that hit the headl... | Amsterdam as a startup ecosystem packs an increasingly big punch. Over the last decade, the overall ... | siliconcan... |
| 27.10.2021 | DTx Clinical Trials: Interoperability and the Power of Remot... | By carefully architecting the interplay between a sponsor's DTx technology and their eClinical infra... | prweb.com/... |
| 17.09.2021 | Cerner/Livongo Exec Joins Quantum Health, UPMC, Other Execut... | Zane Burke, CEO Quantum Health Quantum Health, the industry leader in healthcare navigation and care... | hitconsult... |
| 30.08.2021 | It’s a Matter of Choice: Hybrid eConsent for On-Site or Remo... | From eRecruitment to pre-screening and consent, we’ll discuss how anticipating and accommodating pat... | prweb.com/... |
| 16.08.2021 | Castor CEO Derk Arts on VatorNews Podcast | Castor conducting 7,000 trials across multiple disease stats, including COVID, mental health Vator ·... | vator.tv/n... |
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