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Lindus

AI-assisted CRO with integrated trial platform

Overview

Lindus is a contract research organization that uses AI-assisted trial operations to manage clinical trials for biotech and pharmaceutical sponsors. Its Citrus AI-assisted trial operating system links patient identification from roughly 40 million electronic health records to full trial execution across the US and UK, surfacing risks early by unifying recruitment, study operations, and clinical data in real time for sponsors and internal teams. It differentiates itself by offering one accountable partner with milestone-based payments and strong enrollment performance across multiple therapeutic areas. The company's goal is to provide dependable, timely, and budget-conscious trial execution and to support decentralized trial approaches.

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Why Lindus is rated
C-
Rated C on Competitive Edge
Rated C on Growth Potential
Rated D+ on Differentiation

Industries

Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine LearningBiotechnologyHealthcare

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$78.7M

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Founded

2021

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What believers are saying

  • August 2026 Curavit deal monetized legacy CRO assets while clarifying Lindus's new strategy.
  • September 2026 board hire Gillian Cannon adds commercial experience from Merck and Roivant.
  • July 2026 ARIA funding supported safer AI for trial design, strengthening the platform.

What critics are saying

  • August 2026 Curavit bought Lindus CRO assets, shrinking the operating business instantly.
  • The company now bets on in-licensed assets; one failed program threatens survival.
  • Employee sentiment is negative and declining as of August 2026, signaling execution strain.

What makes Lindus unique

  • September 2026 rebranded Lindus Therapeutics combines asset in-licensing with trial execution.
  • Its Citrus platform links 40 million EHRs to recruiting, operations, and data.
  • CDISC partnership standardized AI-generated Biomedical Concepts across foundational and therapeutic-area standards.

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Funding

Total Funding

$78.7M

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Industry Average

Funded Over

4 Rounds

Series B funding is typically for startups that have proven their business model and need more funding to expand rapidly—often by entering new markets or adding more products. Investors are usually venture capital firms that specialize in later-stage investments.
Series B Funding Comparison
Above Average

Industry standards

$35M
$45M
$55M
$65M
$100M

Benefits

Health Insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Flexible Work Hours

Mental Health Support

Enhanced Parental Leave

Professional Development Budget

Cycle to work scheme

Stock Options

Regular team events

A new laptop as your main workstation

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Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

4%

2 year growth

1%
EU-Startups
Oct 7th, 2026
London's Cori Clinical raises €3.56 million to accelerate clinical trials and reduce delays.

London's Cori Clinical raises €3.56 million to accelerate clinical trials and reduce delays. October 7, 2026 Cori Clinical, a London-based startup that acts as the intelligence layer to accelerate clinical trials, has closed a €3.56 million ($4 million) Seed round led by Breega, with participation from Enzo, Heartfelt, Together Ventures, and Bynd. The company plans to use this capital to expand delivery capacity; support team growth, including appointing Chief Clinical Officer Dr. Emma Ogburn, who joins from Lindus Health; and deepen the regulatory and clinical intelligence in Cori's platform. Jorn Jansen Schoonhoven, co-founder and CEO of Cori Clinical, said, "Clinical trials are built through a series of interconnected decisions about how a study should be designed and run. Today, much of the knowledge and precedent behind those decisions is scattered across previous trials, siloed teams, internal systems and separate documents. Cori brings that intelligence together into a living blueprint, so teams can make better-informed decisions before avoidable problems become delays, so the science never waits on the process." Founded in 2025 by Schoonhoven (CEO) and Patricio Fernández (CTO), Cori Clinical creates a living blueprint of a trial from initial idea through execution. Its unified workspace turns a clinical team's collective insight and organisational experience, coupled with trusted external intelligence, into a single, shared source for all clinical and commercial teams. It helps teams identify risks, assess options and connect study design with the practical requirements of running According to the company, clinical trials still rely on fragmented processes and disconnected sources of information, making it difficult for teams to apply relevant precedent and assess the wider implications of early design decisions. It notes that getting those early decisions wrong is costly. In addition to the cost incurred, amended protocols were also associated with longer recruitment and overall study durations. "That is frustrating for everyone involved: CROs trying to run trials effectively and cost-efficiently; sponsors trying to reach 'first participant in' as quickly as possible; and, most importantly, patients waiting for new treatments that depend on a trial starting," the startup mentioned in the press release. Cori Clinical is an AI workspace which claims to bring together the knowledge an organisation has developed through years of clinical trial experience and combines it with external intelligence from clinical-trial registries, regulatory guidance and public sources, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)s, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Cori helps clinical teams turn an initial trial brief into a full protocol, submission package and operational plans, built against current regulatory guidance. The company notes that it helps teams build and maintain a living blueprint for a feasible and executable trial, instead of addressing a single document or workflow, As new guidance is published, the UK startup builds it into the workspace and flags the risks and decisions that matter for a trial's success. This lets teams test proposed designs against their experience and the wider evidence base, identify risks, assess options, and link study-design decisions to budgets, timelines, and operational plans. Based on internal modelling using average trial set-up costs, historical modification rates, and time to 'first participant in', Cori estimates that its approach could reduce average trial set-up costs by at least 33%. Matthieu Vallin, Partner at Breega, which led the funding round, said, "Clinical trial start-up is a critical but often overlooked bottleneck in drug development, with months lost between designing a trial and enrolling the first patient. Cori is bringing the intelligence and connected workflows needed to make that process faster, and we're excited to back Jorn, Patricio and Emma and the team as they bring this powerful capability to more trials". Cori Clinical is already working with 2 of the top 5 enterprise CROs globally. It has customers across the clinical development ecosystem, including Erasmus MC, an academic medical centre and university hospital in Rotterdam, where the Cori platform supported two clinical trials in neurosurgery and neuro-oncology.

GlobeNewswire
Sep 8th, 2026
Dr. Gillian Cannon joins Lindus Therapeutics' board as a non-executive director.

Dr. Gillian Cannon joins Lindus Therapeutics' board as a non-executive director. BOSTON, Sept. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Lindus Therapeutics, a next-generation drug development company advancing a portfolio of in-licensed assets, has announced the appointment of Dr. Gillian Cannon to its board of directors as a non-executive director. "That combination is still rare, and I look forward to helping shape the company's commercial strategy as it builds its portfolio." "Gillian is one of the most accomplished commercial leaders in our industry," "Her experience developing medicines at scale, from Merck to Roivant, will be invaluable as we build a portfolio of in-licensed assets and shape how we bring..." "Lindus Therapeutics is taking a disciplined approach to in-licensing, pairing strong asset selection with the infrastructure to develop programs quickly," Dr. Cannon brings more than 30 years of commercial leadership experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, particularly at Merck and Roivant Sciences. During more than 25 years at Merck, she held senior commercial roles including Global Commercial Head of the neuroscience franchise, where she set global commercial strategy and helped secure external licensing opportunities; Business Unit Head for the specialty products franchise; and Global Vice President for Commercial Operations at Merck BioVentures, its biosimilars business. At Roivant Sciences, she served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Alyvant and then Head of Commercial Innovation, using technology to make the commercialization of medicines more efficient. Dr. Cannon will play a key role in shaping Lindus Therapeutics' strategy as the company builds and develops its portfolio of in-licensed assets. "Gillian is one of the most accomplished commercial leaders in our industry," said Meri Beckwith, Co-Founder and CEO of Lindus Therapeutics. "Her experience developing medicines at scale, from Merck to Roivant, will be invaluable as we build a portfolio of in-licensed assets and shape how we bring them forward. We are delighted to welcome her to the board." "Lindus Therapeutics is taking a disciplined approach to in-licensing, pairing strong asset selection with the infrastructure to develop programs quickly," said Dr. Cannon. "That combination is still rare, and I look forward to helping shape the company's commercial strategy as it builds its portfolio." The appointment comes as Lindus Therapeutics builds on its trial execution capability to develop an internal portfolio of clinical-stage assets, in-licensing programs after early clinical readouts and advancing them through its integrated operating model across the US, UK, and Europe. About Lindus Therapeutics Lindus Therapeutics is a next-generation drug development company. It advances portfolios of in-licensed assets, pairing its own asset identification and selection capability with an integrated clinical trial execution platform. Domain experts work closely with proprietary AI systems, so the company and its partners reach value inflection points faster and more efficiently. Lindus is backed by investors and advisors including Balderton, Creandum, Firstminute Capital, Seedcamp, Peter Thiel, and Bob Langer. Lindus was originally founded as a technology-first clinical research organization and has expanded into asset development, building on its trial delivery capability. The company has delivered over 45 trials, employs a team of over 80 across the US and Europe, and has raised over $80 million to date. Media Contact [email protected]

PR Newswire
Aug 18th, 2026
Curavit acquires Lindus Health CRO assets to expand clinical trial capabilities across US and Europe

Curavit Clinical Research has acquired the CRO assets of Lindus Health, expanding its clinical trial capabilities into Europe. The acquisition follows Lindus Health's shift to focus on developing its own therapeutic pipeline as Lindus Therapeutics. The combined organisation will provide life science sponsors with unified trial delivery across North America and Europe. Curavit specialises in decentralised, hybrid, and traditional clinical trials, offering services to pharma, biotech, medtech, diagnostics, and digital health companies. "Sponsors no longer have to choose between regional niche CROs or large, traditional providers when launching multi-country trials," said Joel Morse, CEO and co-founder of Curavit. The acquisition aims to accelerate site activation, improve patient recruitment, and reduce trial timelines whilst navigating international regulatory requirements.

Lindus Health
Dec 11th, 2025
Lindus Health and Quotient Sciences Partner to Accelerate Drug Development from First-in-Human to Pivotal Trials

Lindus Health and Quotient Sciences partner to accelerate drug development from first-in-human to pivotal trials. BOSTON, Dec. 11, 2025 - Lindus Health, the "anti-CRO" running radically faster, more reliable clinical trials for life science pioneers, and Quotient Sciences, a leading global clinical development and manufacturing accelerator, have announced a strategic partnership to enable innovative biotech and pharma sponsors with enhanced patient recruitment for Phase I-IIa clinical studies and a seamless pathway from first-in-human (FIH) to proof-of-concept (POC) trials. The drug development process has traditionally required companies to engage multiple vendors across pre-clinical and clinical phases, creating inefficiencies, knowledge gaps, and operational delays. Lindus Health and Quotient Sciences partnership directly addresses this industry challenge by combining Quotient's specialized early clinical and drug development capabilities with Lindus' proven patient recruitment expertise and later-stage trial delivery. The outcome is a cohesive development continuum for customers, championed by trusted, experienced partners who are agile and committed to accelerating the delivery of new treatments to patients. Quotient Sciences conducts more than 70 Phase I studies per year across its clinics in the US and UK, specializing in FIH to POC programs and a range of clinical pharmacology studies. The company's unique Translational Pharmaceutics(R) model integrates drug product development with early clinical capabilities, enabling rapid progression from formulation to FIH. Early phase studies increasingly require specific patient populations, including challenging cohorts that extend beyond traditional healthy volunteers. Through this partnership, Lindus provides comprehensive patient recruitment support with an omni-channel approach, access to over 40 million electronic medical records (EMRs), and a widespread site network. Lindus Health has an established track record of delivering 73% faster enrollment across all studies, enabling Quotient Sciences to execute efficient, high-quality Phase I-IIa trials involving patients. Lindus Health brings extensive Phase II trial experience and end-to-end trial delivery capabilities across the US, UK, and Europe, spanning multiple therapeutic areas, including respiratory, neuropsychiatry, cardiometabolic, dermatology, and more. Together, the companies offer a streamlined approach to clinical development, eliminating the need to independently source and vet separate Phase I and later-stage CROs. The result is reduced administrative burden, accelerated timelines, and more focus for sponsors on advancing their science rather than managing vendors. "This partnership underscores our commitment to removing bottlenecks in the clinical development lifecycle," said Michael Young, Co-CEO of Lindus Health. "By collaborating with Quotient Sciences, we are creating a comprehensive development pathway that allows biotech companies to move through a contiguous experience from FIH studies through to pivotal trials. Sponsors get the specialized Phase I expertise they need at the beginning, with recruitment support from the same proven end-to-end CRO partner ready to scale their programs as they progress." "Early-phase programs increasingly demand patient cohorts and rapid iteration, and Quotient is addressing this industry need. By pairing Lindus Health's recruitment engine with our early clinical development expertise and Translational Pharmaceutics(R) platform, sponsors can move seamlessly from first-in-human into later-stage trials with fewer handoffs, clearer decision-making, and materially shorter timelines," said Matt Paterson, Chief Strategy Officer, Quotient Sciences. This collaboration is essential to eliminating traditional barriers in patient recruitment and reducing friction when transitioning between development stages and CRO partners, ultimately accelerating the delivery of breakthrough treatments to patients. About Lindus Health. Lindus Health is the anti-CRO running radically faster, more reliable clinical trials for life science pioneers - bringing ground-breaking treatments to patients more quickly. By aligning incentives through fixed-price, milestone-based contracts, combining a world-class clinical operations team with a unique software platform, and leveraging access to over 40 million Electronic Health Records, Lindus Health delivers trials designed for speed, reliability, and impact. The company removes the biggest bottleneck in healthcare - clinical trials - through end-to-end study execution powered by technology and forward-thinking approaches to clinical operations. Lindus Health works with leading biotech, medical device, diagnostics, and consumer health companies to accelerate the development of innovative therapies and products. Its impact has been recognized with prestigious accolades, including the Fierce Biotech CRO Awards for Outstanding Patient Recruitment and Retention and inclusion in the PM360 Elite 100. To date, Lindus Health has delivered trials across the US, UK, and Europe in conditions ranging from diabetes and asthma to major depressive disorder, hypertension, and chronic fatigue syndrome. The company has raised over $80M from investors including Balderton, Peter Thiel, Creandum, Firstminute Capital, and Seedcamp. About Quotient Sciences. Quotient Sciences is a clinical development and manufacturing accelerator providing integrated programs and tailored services across the entire development pathway. Cutting through silos across a range of drug development capabilities, Lindus Health Limited save precious time and money in getting drugs to patients. Everything Lindus Health Limited do for its customers is driven by an unswerving belief that ideas need to become solutions, and molecules need to become cures, fast, because humanity needs novel therapeutic solutions, fast. Quotient Sciences has been recognised as a multi-year winner of the CRO Leadership Awards in 2021, 2022, and 2024 and of the CDMO Leadership Awards in 2023. For more information, visit quotientsciences.com.

Lindus Health
Nov 13th, 2025
Lindus Health Named Rising Star in the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 50

Lindus Health named Rising Star in the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 50. November 13, 2025 BOSTON, NOV. 13, 2025 - Lindus Health, the "anti-CRO" running radically faster, more reliable clinical trials for life science pioneers, has been awarded the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Rising Star award. The Rising Star award is one of the five categories of the Technology Fast 50 program, which highlights the fastest-growing tech companies. The rising star winners are nominated by Deloitte and their sponsors to honor industry leaders with notable accomplishments and dedication to innovation. Lindus Health was chosen by Deloitte as a recipient of the award in the HealthTech & BioTech sector. Kiren Asad, lead partner for the Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 programme, said, "For nearly three decades, the Fast 50 has highlighted rapidly growing and innovative technology companies across the UK. And 2025 is no different with this year's cohort having grown around 20 times on average over three years, showing that the UK tech scale-up sector is continuing to demonstrate remarkable resilience amidst global economic shifts. This prestigious recognition reflects Lindus' ongoing commitment to developing adaptive, innovative technology that fixes the broken Contract Research Organization (CRO) model through its all-in-one solution. The company drives this change through its AI-enabled approaches across the study lifecycle, and its in-house, proprietary, end-to-end trial delivery platform, Citrus(TM), ultimately accelerating timelines while delivering high-quality clinical trials. "We are honored to be among the leading tech businesses that have won this award and are proud to be recognized for our achievements in accelerating clinical research using technology," said Meri Beckwith, Co-CEO of Lindus Health. About Lindus Health. Lindus Health is the anti-CRO running radically faster, more reliable clinical trials for life science pioneers - bringing ground-breaking treatments to patients more quickly. By aligning incentives through fixed-price, milestone-based contracts, combining a world-class clinical operations team with a unique software platform, and leveraging access to over 40 million Electronic Health Records, Lindus Health delivers trials designed for speed, reliability, and impact. The company removes the biggest bottleneck in healthcare - clinical trials - through end-to-end study execution powered by technology and forward-thinking approaches to clinical operations. Lindus Health works with leading biotech, medical device, diagnostics, and consumer health companies to accelerate the development of innovative therapies and products. Its impact has been recognized with prestigious accolades, including the Fierce Biotech CRO Awards for Outstanding Patient Recruitment and Retention and inclusion in the PM360 Elite 100. To date, Lindus Health has delivered trials across the US, UK, and Europe in conditions ranging from diabetes and asthma to major depressive disorder, hypertension, and chronic fatigue syndrome. The company has raised over $80M from investors including Balderton, Peter Thiel, Creandum, Firstminute Capital, and Seedcamp. About deloitte. In this press release references to "Deloitte" are references to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited ("DTTL") a UK private company limited by guarantee, and its network of member firms, each of which is a legally separate and independent entity. Please see deloitte.com/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of DTTL and its member firms. Deloitte LLP is a subsidiary of Deloitte NSE LLP, which is a member firm of DTTL, and is among the UK's leading professional services firms. The information contained in this press release is correct at the time of going to press. For more information, please visit www.deloitte.co.uk.

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