Tusk · May 2026
A recent vendor case study describes MetricWire as a clinical research data-collection platform used by universities and pharma sponsors, and details automated API testing added to protect research data integrity.
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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
MetricWire is a Kitchener-based research services and digital health data-collection platform that helps academic, healthcare, and life-science teams run real-world evidence studies with mobile diary, EMA/ESM, eConsent, sensor, and intervention workflows.
Primary product
MetricWire / Catalyst cloud platform for mobile and web-based research studies (EMA, mobile diary, eConsent, passive sensors, real-time participant engagement)
Founded
2013
Headquarters
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Team size
1-10
Industry
Research Services
Sub-industry
Digital health research platform / life sciences software
Offices
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
United States
Business model
SaaS
Institutional site licenses
Enterprise study licenses
Professional services / implementation support
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Founder and CEO
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Tom Oliverio
Chief Operating Officer
Investors
Work & culture
Public materials emphasize privacy, compliance, and close support for research teams. The company presents itself as research-centric and mission-driven, with dedicated engineering/account support for institutional deployments and a strong focus on at-risk and underserved study populations.
Product & market
Pricing
Institutional site licensing and custom study licensing; public pages emphasize reduced-cost academic site licences and negotiated pricing rather than published self-serve pricing.
Differentiators
- —Real-time digital interventions and in-the-moment observation/reporting
- —Integrated eConsent, mobile diary, EMA/ESM, and analysis toolsets
- —Passive sensors, geo-location, and multimedia capture
- —Mobile and web support, including connected and offline environments
- —Protocol workflows for compliance management and participant safety
- —Dedicated engineering resources for protocol design
- —Strong security/compliance posture (FDA 21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA, GDPR)
- —Focus on clinical, academic, and digital health research
- —Customizable study workflows without requiring participants to install complex tooling
Technology
Flutter
Dart
AMP
Spring
Google Cloud Platform
AES-256 encryption
TLS 1.2+
MFA
role-based access control
Customers
Academic institutions
Healthcare organizations
Life science organizations
Researchers
Universities
Clinical research teams
Penn State Survey Research Center
U.S. National Cancer Institute
Competitors
Medidata
Aetion
Holmusk
Verantos
TriNetX
Medrio
Trials.ai
HeartcoR
TrialKit
Hawthorne Effect
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M
Estimated monthly visits
5.1K
Latest news
Onix (LinkedIn) · Feb 2025
A follow-on LinkedIn post reiterates the AI scheduling launch, the >90% accuracy claim, and Brian Stewart’s quote about the roadmap and Google’s AI offerings.
Onix Networking · Nov 2024
Onix describes building an AI-powered scheduling agent for MetricWire using Google Cloud Vertex AI, Gemini, BigQuery, Looker, and Cloud Functions, with under-one-second latency and improved scheduling accuracy.
U.S. National Cancer Institute · Jun 2024
NCI described a sole-source study-license purchase from MetricWire for remote pain outcome measures and research dashboards, showing continued government research use of the platform.
Penn State University · Mar 2024
Penn State’s Survey Research Center added an enterprise MetricWire license to expand EMA, Daily Diary, and digital intervention research, with reduced-cost access and support options for investigators.
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