Bowhead Health

What Bowhead Health does

Bowhead Health is a Canada-based precision medicine company building an AI platform for oncology clinical decision support. Its core product, Bowhead Navigator, uses knowledge graphs, natural language processing, and recommendation engines to match cancer patients with clinical trials and produce guideline-concordant treatment recommendations; in a breast cancer pilot with India-based surgical oncologists, the system achieved 90% guideline concordance and a sub-2-minute average response time, drawing on 4M+ de-identified patient profiles. The underlying Bowhead Core infrastructure adds two non-standard layers — a human-in-the-loop review by oncologists, radiologists, and researchers, and a Lab-In-The-Loop loop in which AI predictions are validated in Bowhead Research Labs (a CL2-certified wet lab in Ottawa) with results fed back to refine models. A federated learning architecture is designed to allow institutional data to remain on-premise while contributing to collective model improvement.

Beyond software, Bowhead operates a preclinical therapeutics pipeline spanning HER2 and CD20 CAR-T cell therapies, an AAV-delivered GLP-1 gene therapy for CNS disorders, and EBV-targeted therapeutics for EBV-related cancers and autoimmune conditions. The company also maintains a separate Wellness Data Marketplace, a blockchain-based beta where users contribute wellness data in exchange for $AHT tokens; this marketplace is explicitly labeled as research-only and not a medical device. The company is headquartered in Kanata, Ontario with a U.S. office in Santa Monica, California.

The business model rests on three revenue streams: subscription/enterprise licensing of the Navigator platform to cancer centers and healthcare institutions, licensing and partnership economics for the therapeutics pipeline with pharmaceutical companies, and token-based data monetization through the Wellness Data Marketplace. The product remains in beta, pricing is not publicly disclosed, and the company is pursuing enterprise direct sales supplemented by accelerator-validated channels, with a global commercial rollout planned for 2026. Bowhead is privately held, venture-backed in founder-led ownership, with no disclosed revenue and no institutional funding rounds on record beyond a non-dilutive DayOne accelerator cohort in August 2024.

Name

Bowhead Health

Legal name

Bowhead Health Inc.

Website

https://bowheadhealth.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Bowhead Health is a Canada-based AI precision medicine company that builds clinical decision support and trial matching software for oncology providers, supported by a CL2-certified wet lab that validates AI predictions in a closed loop. It serves cancer centers and pharmaceutical partners through subscription licensing, with a preclinical CAR-T and gene therapy pipeline.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Clinical Decision Support Software

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Site & Investigator Platforms (Site Payments, Feasibility, Activation) (HLACAOAJ)

Keywords

• Clinical trial matching
• Precision medicine software
• AI clinical decision support
• Oncology AI platform
• Federated learning healthcare

Headquarters

HQ city

Toronto

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Clinical Trial Matching Platform (Navigator): AI-powered clinical decision support system licensing to cancer centers and healthcare institutions for matching patients with clinical trials.
2. Drug Discovery & Therapeutics: Preclinical pipeline development including CAR-T therapies, gene therapy, and targeted therapeutics for oncology and neurodegenerative disorders. Revenue through licensing, partnerships, oroutonomy with pharmaceutical companies.
3. Wellness Data Marketplace: Blockchain-based marketplace where users provide wellness data samples in exchange for $AHT tokens. Users can request data deletion. Revenue model involves data monetization with privacy-preserving architecture.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Bowhead Health develops and sells Bowhead Navigator, an AI-powered clinical decision support platform that matches oncology patients to relevant clinical trials and checks treatment plans against clinical guidelines. The platform runs on Bowhead Core, an AI infrastructure that combines knowledge graphs, LLMs, federated learning, NLP, and Human-In-The-Loop expert review with Lab-In-The-Loop wet-lab validation at Bowhead Research Labs. A secondary beta offering is the Wellness Data Marketplace, a blockchain-based exchange where individuals provide wellness data samples for $AHT tokens.

Product overview

Bowhead Health is a precision medicine startup offering an AI-powered clinical decision support platform for oncology. The core product is Bowhead Navigator, a clinical trial matching platform that replaces manual screening with AI-driven instant patient-to-trial matching and guideline concordance checking, built on the Bowhead Core AI infrastructure. The platform features human-in-the-loop validation (researchers, oncologists, radiologists review AI outputs) and lab-in-the-loop testing (AI predictions validated in real labs). The company also operates a separate Wellness Data Marketplace (blockchain-based data exchange, beta/research only) and maintains a preclinical therapeutics pipeline including CAR-T cell therapies (HER2, CD20), gene therapy (AAV-GLP1 CNS), and EBV-targeted therapeutics for oncology and autoimmune disorders.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Bowhead Navigator: Decision Support System for Guideline Concordance and Clinical Trial Matching for Cancer.
• Bowhead Core
• Bowhead Therapeutics Pipeline
• BHPN (Bowhead Health Patient Navigator)

Products and services

• Bowhead Navigator Clinical decision support system for oncology that uses transparent, auditable AI reasoning to instantly match patients with relevant cancer clinical trials and check treatment plans against clinical guidelines. Designed for cancer centers, hospitals, and oncology departments seeking to accelerate trial enrollment and standardize guideline-concordant care.
• Bowhead Core AI platform infrastructure that unifies public and private data into actionable intelligence using knowledge graphs, large language models, NLP, and federated learning. Features Human-In-The-Loop expert review and Lab-In-The-Loop wet-lab validation that feeds experimental results back into model refinement. Powers downstream applications including guideline concordance, clinical trial matching, and drug discovery.
• Wellness Data Marketplace Blockchain-based online marketplace where individual users provide wellness data samples (including selfie video for identity proof, surveys, and related inputs) in exchange for $AHT tokens. Users can request deletion of their data and participate via Metamask wallets and smart contracts. Currently in beta and not a medical device.

Quantifiable outcome

• 90% guideline concordance with breast cancer treatment recommendations in pilot study
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability9 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Mayo Clinic Platform AcceleratecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2025Selected for Mayo Clinic Platform Accelerate program - a prestigious healthcare AI accelerator validating Bowhead's technology through Mayo Clinic's ecosystem of cancer centers and clinical expertise.
• DayOneminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Participated in DayOne 2024 healthcare accelerator cohort focused on early-stage health technology companies.
• European Institute of Technology (EIT) HealthminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Selected for EIT Health Innovation Cohort 2021, providing access to European healthcare network and resources for scaling across Europe.
• Plug and PlayminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Selected for Plug and Play accelerator program in 2018, providing access to mentorship, corporate partners, and investment opportunities in the healthtech ecosystem.
• McGill UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership with McGill University for research collaboration and access to academic expertise in medicine and AI.
• University of OttawaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership with University of Ottawa for research collaboration, particularly in immunology and vaccine development where Dr. Diaz-Mitoma has academic ties.
• Eli LillyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerWon Atopic Dermatitis Global Challenge in 2020, indicating prior collaboration or research engagement with Eli Lilly in dermatology/immunology research.
• RocheminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRecognized as 'New Comer Supplier of the Year' by Roche in 2022, indicating supplier/vendor relationship for health technology solutions.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Flatiron Health: Oncology-specific EHR data and real-world evidence platform owned by Roche. Comparable in oncology data structuring and pharma/biotech enterprise customers, though operates at much larger scale.
• TriNetX: Federated global health research network for clinical trial feasibility and real-world evidence. Comparable in federated network architecture and pharma enterprise customers, broader portfolio across therapeutic areas.
• ConcertAI: AI SaaS for oncology clinical decision support and real-world evidence across providers and pharma. Comparable in oncology AI software + pharma enterprise channel, broader portfolio.
• Tempus Labs: Large-scale AI precision medicine platform spanning molecular profiling, clinical decision support, and trial matching in oncology. Broader portfolio and deeper commercial footprint than Bowhead, but overlapping customer base (oncology centers) and capability set.

Direct peers

• Massive Bio: AI-enabled oncology clinical trial matching and enrollment service. Comparable enterprise sales motion to cancer centers and pharma; smaller-scale direct competitor to Navigator.
• Mendel: AI platform that structures unstructured clinical data for clinical trial matching and real-world evidence. Closely comparable to Bowhead on knowledge-graph-based clinical NLP and enterprise pharma/health-system positioning.
• Trial Library: AI clinical trial matching focused on oncology patient-trial fit. Direct competitor to Navigator in oncology trial matching with similar enterprise sales motion to cancer centers.
• Deep 6 AI: AI clinical trial matching platform using patient records (EHR, pathology, imaging) to match patients to trials. Most directly comparable to Bowhead Navigator given the shared clinical-trial-matching category, AI-driven workflow, and cancer-center enterprise sales motion.

Emerging players

• Owkin: Federated learning AI platform for healthcare and life sciences with strong pharma partnerships. Comparable in federated learning architecture, though Owkin is more mature and focused on biopharma R&D rather than patient-trial matching.
• Inspirata: Oncology-focused AI software for pathology, imaging, and trial matching. Comparable in oncology AI clinical decision support and cancer-center enterprise sales, though Inspirata's strength is pathology/imaging.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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