Waltham, Mass.
Health care
CEO: Robert Weiler, 57
Roughly half of all clinical drug trials still rely on paper recordkeeping. Phase Forward offers software and services to automate the process, reducing the chance of human error and making it easier for researchers to spot potential side effects that emerge during trials. Phase Forward products have already been used by drugmakers and biotech companies in more than 10,000 clinical trials involving 1 million participants.