Develo.

A pediatrician finishes a clinic day and, for once, does not take the charting home.

That small, unglamorous outcome is the entire pitch. Develo makes software for independent pediatric practices - the kind of clinics that vaccinate the neighborhood, weigh the newborns, and field the 9 p.m. text about a fever. For decades those practices ran on tools designed for adult medicine and patched together with fax machines and good intentions.

Develo bundled the whole thing - scheduling, charting, billing, payments, and the steady stream of messages between a practice and the families it serves - into one AI-native platform. Today it serves hundreds of pediatric providers across more than 25 states, and in May 2026 it raised a $14 million Series A to keep going.

Pediatric care touches a third of Americans. The software acted like nobody was watching.

Pediatrics in the US runs to more than 450 million visits a year. Yet the typical independent practice was stitching together a patchwork of disconnected systems: one tool for charts, another for billing, a third for reminders, a fax line for labs. Each handoff was a place for revenue to leak and time to disappear.

The result was a quiet kind of attrition - pediatricians burning evenings on documentation, front desks chasing payments, and practices closing or selling because the math stopped working. The founders' read was blunt: the dissatisfaction was not a people problem. It was a tooling problem.

Translation: the burnout everyone blamed on "the system" was, in fact, the literal systems.

A Stanford-trained pediatrician and a career EMR engineer walked into the same problem.

Aaron Sin, MD had seen the gap from several angles - a pediatrician who studied biomedical engineering at Yale, earned his MD at Stanford, ran healthcare engagements at McKinsey, and launched value-based care products at Innovaccer. Han Ke, his co-founder and CTO, had spent a decade in healthcare technology, including building EMR interfaces as a lead engineer at Wellsheet.

Their bet, placed in 2022, was that pediatrics needed its own purpose-built operating system - not an adult EMR with a pediatric mode bolted on. That meant building it FHIR-native from the start and embedding AI where the paperwork lived, rather than where it demoed well. It is, conveniently, the kind of bet two dads might make about the software meant to care for kids.

One platform where the chart, the bill, and the parent all live together.

Develo is a web-based, FHIR-native EMR built around the realities of outpatient pediatrics - well-child checks, growth charts, immunization records, and the family relationships that make a pediatric chart different from any other. Around that core sit the operational pieces a practice actually runs on.

Six modules, one login, zero fax machines harmed in the making of this paragraph.

Built on Medplum, backed by people who built the last generation of health IT.

Develo runs its platform on Medplum's open infrastructure, self-hosted on its own AWS, with each practice getting an isolated datastore through Medplum projects. That choice let a small team ship a full, interoperable EMR instead of a thin layer on someone else's cloud.

The Series A investor list reads like a who's who of people who already know where the bodies are buried in health IT: Blueprint Equity led, with Villain Capital, Z21 Ventures, and Bienville Capital joining, alongside angels including CentralReach CEO Chris Sullens, former Cerner executive Chris Barton, and former Allscripts CEO Paul Black.

Make the software disappear so the pediatrician can look at the kid.

Develo's stated mission is to replace the fragmented, outdated tools running pediatric practices with a single AI-native operating system that lowers administrative burden. The deeper goal is structural: keep independent pediatric practices viable in an era when many are being squeezed out, by making their software a competitive advantage instead of a daily tax.

It is a family-first design philosophy applied to an industry that, until recently, treated families as an afterthought to the billing code.

Back to that pediatrician, home before the charting.

Here is the bet, in plain terms. If independent pediatric practices get software as good as the care they want to give, fewer of them close, fewer pediatricians burn out, and a third of the country gets a steadier place to take their kids.

Develo is early - hundreds of providers, not thousands, and metrics it reports itself rather than ones an auditor signed. The skeptic is right to wait for the independent numbers. But the thesis is no longer theoretical: there is now a funded company arguing, with money behind it, that pediatrics was never too small to deserve its own operating system. The pediatrician who left the laptop at the office is the first piece of evidence.