He sold an ad-analytics company to Oracle, then spent weeks in a hospital waiting room and decided the waiting room itself was the bug worth fixing.
Fabric is named after what it tries to do. Healthcare runs on dozens of disconnected point solutions - one tool for intake, another for triage, a third for scheduling, a fourth for the virtual visit. Aniq Rahman's company stitches those threads into a single cloth: an AI-driven care enablement platform that moves a patient from "I feel unwell" to "I've been treated" without the usual relay race of forms, phone trees and waiting rooms.
The pitch he keeps returning to is borrowed from consumer tech. He wants care to feel like Spotify or Uber - on-demand, omnichannel, and indifferent to whether you are at home or in a clinic. Conversational AI handles the triage and navigation. Clinical logic, validated by a roster of chief medical officers, decides what happens next. The provider gets a head start instead of a blank screen.
It is working at a pace that is hard to fake. Fabric went from zero to more than 70 health systems in roughly a year, crossed eight figures in annual recurring revenue, and ran north of 900,000 triage, navigation and self-scheduling sessions in a single year. By Fabric's own accounting, the automation gave back the equivalent of 34 years of provider work time in 2024 alone. Around five million patients have been treated through the telemedicine platform.
Rahman did not build all of that from scratch, and he is candid about it. He bought a lot of it. In 18 months he acquired the virtual-care company Zipnosis, the conversational-AI assistant GYANT, the telehealth provider MeMD, TeamHealth's virtual care service line, and Walmart's virtual care business. Each acquisition was a thread; the platform is the weave.
"There is a lot of complexity, chaos and dysfunction in the healthcare system. I think some of that can be addressed with technology."
In 2018 Rahman's father had a heart attack. The system saved him. What stuck with the son was the gap between the people and the plumbing - skilled clinicians and nurses doing heroic work, surrounded by technology that seemed a generation behind the rest of the world.
He had spent his career around software that updated itself constantly. The hospital felt frozen. That contrast became the thesis. Not "healthcare is broken" - the staff plainly were not broken - but that the connective tissue around them had never been modernized. So he set out to build the tissue.
Rahman has been careful never to position Fabric as a replacement for the people in scrubs. The on-demand, virtual-first experience he describes is meant to clear the runway so clinicians spend less time on intake and admin and more on the part only humans do.
"I just spent a lot of time in the hospital seeing the heroes that saved his life... and at the same time, I observed the inherent chaos and dysfunction of a system where technology has not really been brought to the forefront."
The Series A reads like a who's-who of operators who like founders with exits behind them.
We went from really zero to 70 health systems over the last year, and we scaled from zero to past eight figures in annual recurring revenue.
We're creating that on-demand experience for patients to get care through a more omnichannel lens. We want to give great care virtually so people don't have to leave their homes.
Our goal was to create a truly end-to-end experience that allows our partners to replace fragmented point solutions, streamline patient and provider experiences, and improve clinical outcomes.
There is a lot of complexity, chaos and dysfunction in the healthcare system. I think some of that can be addressed with technology.
He reportedly became a multimillionaire by 30 after a string of startup exits.
His first big-name stop was Behance, before Adobe came calling.
SoundCloud bought his company Instinctiv early in his career.
Beyond Fabric he angel-invests, with early checks into Coinbase and Clover Health.
A fan of winter ice skating and the holiday market at Bryant Park.
His one-line aspiration for Fabric: care for everyone, everywhere.