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Biorce

biorce.com

Biorce builds explainable AI software helping pharma, biotech, and CROs design and execute clinical trials faster.

HQBarcelona, Not applicable, Spain
Employees51-200
Funding$62.05M
Valuation$1.8B
Revenue$14.08M
20 active roles
Profile 1mo agoJobs checked 18h ago
Healthcare AIAI ApplicationB2B SaaSSeries A$50M-$200M

About

Biorce builds Aika, an end-to-end AI clinical-trial intelligence platform for pharmaceutical companies, CROs, and biotech companies. Its differentiation is clinical-native, explainable, traceable AI with human oversight across trial simulation, protocol design, feasibility, execution, contracts, budgeting, and regulatory documentation.

Market

Biorce competes in enterprise life-sciences software, specifically AI-enabled clinical-trial design, feasibility, and operations. It positions Aika as an end-to-end clinical-development operating system spanning simulation, protocol, feasibility, and execution, rather than as a single-purpose analytics tool. Its stated differentiation is the combination of domain-specific and explainable AI, predictive intelligence, automation, and human oversight, with outputs extending from protocols to budgets, contracts, and regulatory documentation.

Target Customers

Biorce targets pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, and contract research organizations (CROs), particularly clinical-development, clinical-operations, study-operator, and regulatory teams. Its enterprise orientation is suited to organizations seeking to accelerate and standardize trial design and execution rather than to individual researchers or patients.

At a Glance

Problem

Clinical-trial development is slow, costly, and operationally error-prone. Biorce’s investor materials say roughly 70% of trials are delayed before they begin and nearly 60% undergo costly amendments; each amendment can add months and $250,000–$450,000 in direct costs. The pain is both financial—especially for sponsors running large trial portfolios—and human, because delays postpone access to potentially life-saving treatments. The clearest “killer” use case is preventing avoidable problems at the design stage, particularly by improving protocols, site selection, and feasibility before a study starts.

Product / Service

Biorce sells Aika, an end-to-end AI intelligence platform for clinical-trial simulation, protocol design, feasibility, and execution. It combines purpose-built AI agents with human clinical oversight, connects to customers’ tools and data, and produces explainable, traceable outputs rather than black-box recommendations. Its workflow can generate study-design simulations, regulator-ready protocols, site-selection and feasibility reports, regulatory documentation, and study cost projections; Biorce says Aika can produce a regulator-ready protocol in 90 seconds with 86% accuracy.

The delivery model appears to be enterprise B2B software and services for clinical teams, with onboarding, integrations, support, and demonstrations handled directly by Biorce. The intended benefit is faster, more defensible trial planning and execution with better control over timelines, budgets, compliance, and operational risk. Biorce also reports company-researched performance of 60% lower costs, 70% faster clinical-development workflows, and 50% fewer protocol amendments.

Market

Biorce competes in AI-enabled clinical-trial technology, positioned as both a clinical-trial platform and an operating system for pharma companies, contract research organizations, and biotech companies. The broader market includes clinical-operations software, CRO services, and emerging AI platforms that automate protocol development, recruitment, site feasibility, and trial execution. The research reviewed does not identify a named direct competitor to Biorce, so no specific rival can be stated confidently; its practical competition is likely the combination of incumbent trial-management tools, CRO workflows, and other AI-native clinical-trial platforms.

Biorce is not pre-revenue based on the available evidence. It raised a $52.5 million Series A in February 2026 from institutional and angel investors, and a report says the company finished 2025 approximately 200% above its revenue target. It had also raised a further $8.5 million before or alongside the Series A, while investors described the clinical-trials market as potentially worth about $150 billion. These financing and revenue indicators suggest meaningful commercial traction, although the sources do not disclose customer count, annual recurring revenue, or detailed contract economics.

Founders & Leadership

Pedro CoelhoFounder
Founder and CEO
Clara BernardesFounder
Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer
José FariaFounder
Co-founder
Diogo PisoeiroFounder
Co-founder
Dennis VelasquezChief Commercial Officer

Funding History

2024-11
Seed€3.5M

YZR Capital, Mustard Seed Maze

2025-07
Seed extension€5M

Norrsken VC

2026-02
Series A$52.5M

DST Global Partners

Recent News

2026-07-23product
Biorce Takes Aika 2.0 to BIO 2026

Biorce announced that it would bring Aika 2.0 to BIO International Convention 2026 in San Diego through private live-demo rides rather than a traditional booth. The product is presented as an AI-powered end-to-end operating system for clinical development.

2026-06-16
Biorce: Accelerating Clinical Trials For Life-Saving Treatments

The Europe Times profiled Biorce's AI platform Aika and its mission to make clinical trials faster and more efficient. The article highlighted the company's $52.5 million Series A, Austin expansion, and 4YFN recognition.

2026-06-11product
The Demo That Ditched the Booth

Biorce described its unconventional ASCO 2026 launch campaign, using car rides in Chicago as mobile demonstrations of Aika 2.0. The platform was showcased as a connected, traceable operating system spanning clinical-development workflows.

2026-06-03
Real-Time Clinical Trials: Is Your Infrastructure Ready?

Biorce examined the FDA's real-time clinical-trials initiative and argued that organizations need infrastructure connecting existing systems so safety and operational information reaches decision-makers without manual workarounds.

2026-05-29product
Biorce Launches Aika 2.0 at ASCO 2026

Biorce announced the launch of Aika 2.0 at the ASCO Annual Meeting 2026, using private Chicago rides from May 29 through June 1 instead of a conventional booth. The platform is designed to generate protocols, simulations, feasibility analyses, budgets, contracts, and regulatory documentation within minutes.

2026-05-28
From Amendments to Optimization: How AI is Transforming Clinical Trial Design

An Xtalks webinar featuring Biorce CEO Pedro Coelho examined how AI can identify enrollment risks, improve protocol design, reduce avoidable amendments, and support defensible regulatory decisions. Biorce presented Aika as a platform analyzing roughly one million clinical trials.

2026-05-15
Biorce to Host Leading Experts at “The End.” Boston 2026

Biorce announced a May 22 Boston event bringing together approximately 150 leaders from pharma, biotech, CROs, investment, regulatory, and research organizations to discuss AI and clinical-trial development. The event was also scheduled to unveil Aika v2.0.

2026-03-25
Meet Biorce: The Health Tech Startup Transforming Clinical Trials and Winner of the 4YFN26 Awards

4YFN interviewed Biorce after the company won the Health Tech category at the 4YFN Awards. Biorce discussed its clinical-trial mission, ongoing product development, and expansion plans including an Austin office and a Boston conference.

2026-03-17
AI HealthTech Pioneer Biorce Opens Offices in Austin

Biorce announced a second U.S. office in Austin, Texas, to expand its R&D team and build an AI healthtech hub. The company said it was hiring AI engineers and other staff, and the announcement also noted its 4YFN26 award.

2026-02-02funding
Biorce secures $52.5m in Series A to expand AI clinical trial tech

Biorce raised $52.5 million in Series A funding to expand its U.S. presence, scale its Aika clinical-trial platform, and support global rollout. Reported investors included TZR Capital, Endeavour Catalyst, Norrsken VC, Mustard Seed Maze, and prominent angel investors.

Active Roles

20
Barcelona, Spain/Sales/39d ago
Barcelona, Spain/Engineering/41d ago
Austin, TX, USA/Operations/42d ago
Barcelona, Spain/Engineering/48d ago
Austin, TX, USA/Product/48d ago
(listed on company board)/Other/50d ago
Barcelona, Spain/Engineering/50d ago
Barcelona, Spain/Design/50d ago
Austin, TX, USA/Legal/50d ago
Austin, TX or Barcelona, Spain/Other/51d ago
Austin, TX, USA/Engineering/53d ago
Austin, TX, USA/HR & Recruiting/53d ago
United States · Remote/Sales/54d ago
Barcelona, Spain/Engineering/54d ago
Barcelona, Spain/Marketing/56d ago
Austin, TX, USA/Other/57d ago
Austin, TX, USA/Data & Analytics/58d ago
Austin, TX, USA/Product/58d ago
Barcelona, Spain/Other/58d ago
Austin, TX, USA/Sales/58d ago

Business Model

Biorce appears to operate as a demo-led B2B enterprise software business, selling access to Aika to pharmaceutical companies, CROs, and biotech companies. Public materials emphasize booking a demo but do not disclose standardized pricing or the exact licensing structure.

Products

Aika end-to-end clinical-trial AI platformClinical-trial simulation and protocol designFeasibility and trial-execution intelligenceAutomated CTA redlining and fallback-language generationGeneration of feasibility assessments, budgets, contracts, and regulatory documentation

Tech Stack

Domain-specific explainable AIPredictive intelligenceClinical-trial data corpus of 560,000+ real trialsWorkflow automation with human oversightEnterprise SaaS / clinical-trial software

Competitors

Medable
Biovotion
Cliniv
Medidata
IQVIA
QuantHealth
Unlearn.AI

Key Investors

DST Global, Norrsken VC, YZR Capital, MSM, Plug and Play Tech Center