"Uber for nurses" - except it hires its nurses as employees. The AI marketplace matching clinicians to shifts they actually want, and facilities to coverage they can count on.
Walk into any skilled nursing facility at 6 a.m. and you will find the same quiet crisis: a shift starts in an hour, and it is short a nurse. For decades the fix was a phone tree - a scheduler calling agency after agency, hoping someone picks up. IntelyCare, founded in the Boston area in 2016, replaced that phone tree with an app and an algorithm.
The company runs a two-sided marketplace. On one side are nursing professionals - registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and certified nursing assistants - who open the IntelyCare app, see open shifts near them, and claim the ones that fit their lives. On the other side are healthcare facilities that post those shifts and get them filled with credentialed, vetted clinicians. An AI engine sits in the middle, predicting where demand will spike and nudging the right nurse toward the right shift before the gap becomes an emergency.
What separates IntelyCare from the gig-economy pack is a single, deliberate choice: its nurses are W2 employees, not 1099 contractors. That means IntelyCare pays employer payroll taxes, carries workers' compensation and malpractice insurance, and offers health, dental, vision and retirement benefits to those who qualify. The flexibility of gig work, wrapped in the stability of a real job. The company brands these nurses "IntelyPros."
The people doing the hardest job in the building rarely control their own calendars. IntelyCare hands that control back.
Skilled nursing facilities, assisted living, hospitals and health systems face chronic, expensive coverage gaps.
The problem underneath both sides is the same. Nursing shortages, burnout and turnover leave facilities understaffed and nurses overworked. Traditional agencies treat the symptom - they find a warm body for tonight - without addressing why nurses leave in the first place. IntelyCare's wager, informed by behavioral science, is that flexibility and respect drive reliability. Give a nurse the shifts she wants, pay her promptly, treat her like an employee, and she shows up.
The IntelyPro-facing marketplace. Browse and claim shifts, get AI recommendations, same-day pay, benefits, insurance and continuing education.
The facility platform to post shifts, fill gaps and manage contingent labor through an AI-powered workforce optimization engine.
Tools to manage permanent staff, internal float pools and external contingent labor in one system - expanded via the CareRev acquisition.
Automated license verification, credentialing and compliance workflows so facilities stay within regulatory requirements.
IntelyCare is a B2B2C marketplace. Facilities pay for staffing coverage; IntelyCare pays its W2 nurses for shifts worked and keeps the margin between the two - while absorbing employer taxes, benefits and insurance. Revenue scales with shift volume, and with the number of facilities and nurses on the network. The company reportedly tripled revenue in 2021, and its estimated annual revenue sits in the range of roughly half a billion dollars.
The market is crowded and consolidating. IntelyCare competes with app-based rivals like ShiftKey, ShiftMed, Clipboard Health and connectRN, travel-focused platforms such as Nomad Health and Trusted Health, and legacy giants including AMN Healthcare and Aya Healthcare. Its January 2026 purchase of CareRev - once a competitor in acute-care staffing - is the clearest signal of where the sector is heading: fewer, broader platforms that span post-acute and acute settings.
David Coppins, Ike Nnah and Chris Caulfield launch the company in the Boston area to modernize nurse staffing.
The company closes its first funding round and begins scaling the platform.
IntelyCare ranks among the fastest-growing private companies in America.
National expansion accelerates and the company hires a slate of C-level executives.
Janus Henderson-led round pushes the valuation above $1 billion.
Co-founder David Coppins moves from CEO to Executive Chairman.
IntelyCare buys the acute-care staffing platform to build an end-to-end clinical workforce solution.
IntelyCare's founding team was built to bridge two worlds that rarely talk. Chris Caulfield, the Chief Nursing Officer, is a registered nurse - clinical reality lives in the product. Ike Nnah, the Chief Technology Officer, came from hospital IT. David Coppins, who led the company as CEO before becoming Executive Chairman in 2023, brought the operating and business lens. Matthew Levesque now serves as CEO.
That mission orientation shows up in how the company spends money it didn't have to. IntelyCare pledged $500,000 to help nursing professionals facing hardship during the holidays, and runs recognition programs - IntelyPros of the Year, a Healthcare Heroes awards series - built around the people on the front lines. It's the kind of thing a temp agency wouldn't bother with, and it hints at the retention thesis at the core of the business.
Led IntelyCare as CEO; now Executive Chairman. The operating and business mind behind the company.
Chief Technology Officer with a background in hospital IT and technology development.
Chief Nursing Officer and registered nurse - the clinical voice inside the product.
It's a healthcare talent platform connecting nursing professionals (RNs, LPNs, CNAs) with per diem, contract and permanent shifts through an AI-powered app, while giving facilities on-demand staffing coverage.
IntelyCare employs its nursing professionals - "IntelyPros" - as W2 employees, providing benefits, paid payroll taxes, workers' compensation and malpractice insurance, unlike a typical 1099 gig model.
It was co-founded by David Coppins, Ike Nnah and Chris Caulfield in 2016. Matthew Levesque is the CEO; Coppins serves as Executive Chairman. The company is venture-backed by investors including Janus Henderson.
About $173.8 million total, including a $115 million Series C in April 2022 that valued the company at roughly $1.1 billion.
In January 2026, IntelyCare acquired CareRev, an on-demand workforce platform for acute care, to create one platform spanning permanent staff, internal resource pools and contingent labor for health systems.