What Clinerion does

Clinerion is a private, for-profit health data technology company founded in 2008 and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. According to company-sourced positioning, its purpose is enabling faster patient access to medicines and improved health outcomes through the application of real world data to clinical-trial operations. The company's functional offering sits within the Site Management Organization (SMO) value chain, providing patient recruitment, site management, and decentralized clinical-trial support to trial sponsors.

The underlying technology leverages real world data—patient-level information drawn from participating healthcare systems—to support patient identification and trial enrollment. Clinerion targets a single horizontal segment of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies that require patient-recruitment expertise, addressing pain points around high operational trial costs, regulatory compliance, and difficulty finding eligible patients. The SMO market in which Clinerion competes is projected to grow from USD 12.4 billion to USD 31.6 billion by 2035 at a 9.8% CAGR, signaling long-duration tailwinds across the sector, with expansion highlighted in Asia-Pacific and LATAM regions.

Clinerion employs between 11 and 50 people. Its leadership team comprises CEO Barış Erdoğan, two CTO-level executives (Andreas Walter and Dominik Aronsky, the latter listed as Chief Technology Officer and Board Member), a Director of Marketing and Communications (Le Vin Chin), a Finance and Operations Director (Frank Madörin), and a Site and Patient Network Director (Randy Ramin-Wright). No information on revenue, funding history, pricing model, ownership structure, named customers, formal partnerships, or specific AI/ML capabilities was available in the source material provided, which materially limits visibility into unit economics, defensibility, and growth velocity.

Name

Clinerion

Website

https://clinerion.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Clinerion is a Basel-based health data technology company providing real world data solutions to pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients for patient recruitment, site management, and decentralized clinical trial operations within the Site Management Organization (SMO) market.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Clinical Trial Real-World Data Platform

NAICS

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (541)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Patient Recruitment, Site Feasibility & Trial Enablement CROs (HLAGAAAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Clinical CROs (Phase I–IV) (HLAGAAAA)

Keywords

• Clinical trial data
• Patient recruitment
• Real-world data
• Site management
• Healthcare analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

Basel

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Clinerion provides a real-world data platform and related services that accelerate patient access to medicines and improve clinical trial operations. The offering combines real-world healthcare data, site management, patient recruitment, and decentralized clinical trial capabilities to help pharmaceutical and biotechnology sponsors identify suitable patients faster and run trials more efficiently.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Clinerion Real-World Data Platform Real-world data platform that enables faster patient access to medicines and supports clinical trial operations for pharmaceutical and biotechnology sponsors.
• Patient Recruitment Services Services that use Clinerion's real-world data to identify and match patients to clinical trials, helping pharmaceutical and biotechnology sponsors overcome patient recruitment difficulties.
• Site Management Services Site management services supporting clinical trial operations for pharmaceutical and biotechnology sponsors, operating within the global Site Management Organization market.
• Decentralized Clinical Trial Services Decentralized clinical trial capabilities that allow sponsors to extend trials beyond traditional site settings, leveraging Clinerion's data and site network infrastructure.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Medpace: Mid-to-full-service CRO with embedded technology and a reputation for capital-efficient execution. Overlaps on clinical trial execution and patient recruitment for biotech and pharma sponsors.
• TriNetX: Real-world data network for clinical research that supplies sponsors with cohort analytics and patient-recruitment signals. Closely comparable to Clinerion's RWD + patient-recruitment positioning, and the appearance of TriNetX material in the company data suggests an explicit affiliation or partnership overlap.
• Clario (formerly ERT/BIOMED): Clinical trial technology vendor offering eCOA, imaging, and decentralized trial solutions that depend on real-world and clinical data. Comparable as a mid-size, technology-led clinical-trial enablement specialist that competes for the same best-of-breed budget Clinerion targets.
• Medidata Solutions: Clinical trial technology platform (Rave, Acorn AI) used by sponsors to design trials and analyze data. Comparable as a technology layer for clinical operations and data-driven patient identification.
• WCG (WIRB-Copernicus Group): Clinical trial enablement platform covering IRB review, site activation, and trial technology. Directly overlaps Clinerion on clinical-trial operations and patient-/site-recruitment services for sponsors.
• Worldwide Clinical Trials: Mid-size CRO focused on complex therapeutic-area trials, including patient recruitment services. Comparable scale and target customers to Clinerion, especially in biotech and rare-disease segments.

Broad incumbents

• Veeva Systems: Cloud software provider for life sciences including Veeva Vault Clinical and patient-recruitment-adjacent solutions. Comparable as a technology enablement player for clinical operations, though with a much broader portfolio.
• IQVIA: Largest clinical CRO with a substantial real-world data arm (IQVIA E360) serving similar pharma/biotech customers. Overlaps Clinerion's full footprint but as a much broader portfolio player.
• Parexel: Established global CRO with patient-recruitment services (NowPatient) and RWD-adjacent offerings. Similar end customers, broader service portfolio.
• ICON plc: Large global CRO formed via the PRA Health Sciences merger, offering clinical research services and decentralized trial capabilities. Competes for the same pharma/biotech customer segment at a far larger scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Clinerion

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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