C1 Consulting

What C1 Consulting does

C1 Consulting is a privately held, for-profit analytics-driven consulting firm serving the life sciences industry. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Summit, New Jersey (United States), the firm operates with 11-50 employees and is co-led by founders Rob Sederman and Elizabeth Rountree, who both serve as managing directors. The company's publicly stated positioning is "Analytics Driven Consulting For the Life sciences Industry," indicating a niche, vertically focused practice that applies analytical methods to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and related life sciences clients rather than operating as a horizontal generalist consultancy.

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Name

C1 Consulting

Legal name

CRA International, Inc.

Website

https://c1consulting.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

1965

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

C1 Consulting is a privately held analytics-driven consulting firm serving the life sciences industry. Founded in 2004 and based in Summit, New Jersey, the firm employs 11-50 people and is co-led by founders Rob Sederman and Elizabeth Rountree as managing directors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Life Sciences Analytics Consulting

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Other Management Consulting Services (541618)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Strategy & Corporate Development Consulting (BPAHACAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Financial Management & Performance Improvement Consulting (BPAHACAF)

Keywords

• Life sciences consulting
• Analytics consulting
• Biopharma advisory
• Data analytics services
• Pharmaceutical consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Summit

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Consulting Services: Professional consulting services providing economic analysis and expert advice for complex regulatory, litigation, and strategic matters. Revenue generated through client engagements for antitrust, competition, litigation support, and industry-specific advisory services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

C1 Consulting is a privately held analytics-driven consulting firm serving the life sciences industry. The firm delivers consulting services that apply data analytics to support clients in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and related life sciences sectors. Operating with a small team of 11–50 professionals, C1 Consulting engages clients on analytical and strategic projects tailored to the life sciences market.

Product overview

C1 Consulting (CRA - Charles River Associates) is an economic consulting firm providing advisory services across multiple practice areas including European Competition, Energy, Financial Litigation & Regulation, and Investigations & Compliance. The company operates as a professional services firm rather than a software product company. Services are delivered through expert consultants who provide analysis and testimony in legal, regulatory, and business matters. No discrete software products, platforms, or modules were identified in the provided source material.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Analytics-Driven Life Sciences Consulting

Quantifiable outcome

• Judge cited CRA expert Dr. Josh Sherman's testimony in antitrust trial ruling

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• ABA - American Bar AssociationminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 13 July 2026CRA is a proud sponsor of the ABA 2026 Global White Collar Crime Institute conference in Singapore, where participants hear from presenters examining cutting edge issues in international white collar crime.

Scale indicators2 records

Direct peers

• ZS Associates: ZS Associates is one of the largest global consulting firms dedicated to life sciences and pharma, with deep analytics and commercial data capabilities. It is a direct competitor to C1 Consulting for analytics-driven engagements in the same pharmaceutical/biotech client base.
• Putnam Associates: Putnam Associates is a boutique strategy consulting firm exclusively serving life-sciences clients on commercial and analytics engagements. Comparable to C1 in size, life-sciences focus, and boutique analytics delivery model.
• Trinity Partners: Trinity Partners is a life-sciences-focused strategy consulting firm offering commercial analytics and strategic advisory to biopharma. Closely comparable to C1 in client segment, scope of work, and boutique positioning.
• L.E.K. Consulting: L.E.K. Consulting operates a sizable Healthcare & Life Sciences practice serving pharma, biotech, and medtech with strategy and analytics. It is a direct competitor in commercial analytics engagements with comparable mid-sized delivery teams.
• Simon-Kucher & Partners: Simon-Kucher is a global consulting firm with a major Healthcare & Life Sciences practice focused on commercial strategy, pricing, and analytics. It competes head-to-head with C1 for pharma commercial analytics mandates.
• Health Advances: Health Advances is a boutique strategy consulting firm dedicated to healthcare and life sciences. Closely comparable to C1 in size, vertical focus, and analytics-adjacent commercial advisory offering.
• Defined Health: Defined Health is a boutique strategic advisory firm focused exclusively on biopharma, biotech, and life-sciences clients. Comparable to C1 in scale and narrow life-sciences specialization, though with a heavier therapeutic-development emphasis.

Broad incumbents

• IQVIA: IQVIA is the dominant broad incumbent in life-sciences data, analytics, and consulting. It serves overlapping pharma/biotech analytics needs but at much greater scale and with technology-platform leverage, often competing with boutique firms for large commercial analytics mandates.
• Charles River Associates: Charles River Associates (CRAI) is a publicly traded economic and financial consulting firm with practice areas that overlap C1's analytics consulting for life-sciences clients (including life-sciences economics and litigation support). It is a broader incumbent rather than a direct life-sciences specialist.
• McKinsey & Company (Life Sciences Practice): McKinsey's Pharma & Medical Products practice serves many of the same global biopharma buyers as C1 on commercial analytics and strategy. While not a specialist, it competes for analytics-influenced engagements and sets pricing benchmarks for the segment.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/c1consult
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/1084997

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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