Kourosh Davarpanah, Co-Founder and CEO of Inato: Over $35 Million Raised to Build the Future of Clinical Trials

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Kourosh Davarpanah, Co-Founder and CEO of Inato, a global clinical trial platform that's raised over $35 Million in funding.

Topics Discussed:

• Kourosh’s background coming from a family of doctors, fainting on the sight of blood, and being passionate about math and physics
• Why Kourosh finds Airbnb inspiring 
• How less than 5% of the patient population have access to clinical trials, why this is a problem, and how Inato helps pharma companies coordinate with hospitals to offer the right trials to their patients
• The chicken-and-egg problem of marketplace platforms, and how Kourosh dealt with it
• How to build credibility, and the danger of overfitting when working with only one client

 

Favorite book: 

Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos