Last deal

$5M

Amount

Venture - Series Unknown

Stage

27.02.2019

Date

3

all rounds

$50.7M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
Comprehend offers cloud applications and consulting services to improve clinical trials.

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Also Known As

Comprehend

founded date

01.01.2010

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Venture - Series Unknown

IPO status

Private

Description

The California-based company, founded in 2010, provides a cloud-based clinical intelligence platform that delivers actionable insights across studies, systems, sites, and vendors. Their suite of applications allows for real-time monitoring and analysis of clinical data from various sources, enabling CRO oversight, centralized monitoring, risk monitoring, data review, and medical monitoring. Comprehend's solutions aim to accelerate and optimize clinical trials, improving their speed and safety.
Contacts
Legal Names

Legal name

Comprehend Systems, Inc.
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M&A Details
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Transaction name

Acquired by

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announced date

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Financials

Funding Rounds
8
3

Number of Funding Rounds

$50.7M

Money Raised

Their latest funding was raised on 27.02.2019. Their latest round Venture - Series Unknown

Date 
Funding Round 
Investors 
Money Raised 
Lead 
27.02.2019
$5M
06.02.2017
3
$15M
Initialized Capital

Initialized Capital

Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm that invests in high-potential software startups at seed stage and earlier.

Sector

Investment Banking and Brokerage Services

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Asset Managers and Custodians

Keywords

Venture Capital, Finance, Financial Services

Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

count Of Investments

395

count Of Exists

57
Co-Investors
Investors
21
4

Number of lead investors

21

Number of investors

Investor 
Lead 
Round 
Partners 
Yes
Series A, Series B
No
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Ulu Ventures

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count Of Exists

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Miriam Rivera

Miriam Rivera

Miriam co-founded Ulu Ventures, where she is the Managing Partner. Ulu is an early stage angel fund focused on IT investments and has made 30 investments in the last three years. She is also the co-founder and co-president of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs.

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Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs
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3
Clint Korver

Clint Korver

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1
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current job

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The HAND Foundation

count Of Investments

44

count Of Exists

21
Aaron Levie

Aaron Levie

Aaron Levie is Chief Executive Officer, Cofounder and Chairman at Box, which he launched in 2005 with CFO and cofounder Dylan Smith. He is the visionary behind the Box product and platform strategy, incorporating the best of secure content collaboration with an intuitive user experience suited to the way people work today. Aaron leads the company in its mission to transform the way people and businesses work so they can achieve their greatest ambitions. He has served on the Board of Directors since April 2005. Aaron attended the University of Southern California from 2003 to 2005 before leaving to found Box.

current job

Box
Box

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People

Founders
2
Jud Gardner
Jud Gardner

Jud Gardner

Prior to Comprehend Clinical, Jud was the Chief Technology Officer of an online industrial electronics distributor, where he designed and delivered software systems involving large datasets with complex, multi-tier interactions. Implementation of these systems spanned end-user data presentation down to micro-controller programming for data acquisition. Prior to that, as a consultant, Jud successfully executed difficult projects within the pharmaceutical industry, including the integration of multiple EDC systems to facilitate reporting. Jud holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

current job

Coordinate
Coordinate

organization founded

1

Jud Gardner

Rick Morrison
Rick Morrison

Rick Morrison

Rick is CEO and Founder at Comprehend Systems, where he is responsible for the overall direction and management of the company. In 2012, Rick was named to the PharmaVOICE 100, which recognizes the 100 most influential people in the life sciences industry. Prior to Comprehend Systems, Rick spent nearly a decade developing clinical analytics tools, including tools used by the FDA and top pharmaceutical companies. Rick holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

current job

Coordinate
Coordinate

count Of Investments

4

count Of Exists

1

Rick Morrison

Employee Profiles
41

Otmane Elkouaihi

Data architect

Vadim Markov

Principal engineer

Nicholas Pham

Nicholas Pham

Marketing Director

Connor Dodds

Account executive

Aamir Jaka

Aamir Jaka

Sr. Director, Sales and Professional Services

Rani Hublou

Rani Hublou

CMO and Head of Product

Lyon Wong

Lyon Wong

Investor

Kevin Kennedy

Kevin Kennedy

Chief Revenue Officer

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