A database built to help a friend became a business serving 1,600+ academic programs. Exxat’s wager: the road from classroom to clinic gets shorter when everyone can see the same work.
Education Management Solutions turns the rehearsal of healthcare into a record of performance. Its most interesting work begins when the simulated emergency ends.

After three decades spent building healthcare agencies, Leo Tarkovsky has taken on a more exacting problem: helping useful evidence survive the noise between scientific discovery and everyday clinical practice.
Mandatory training is easy to dismiss until an audit, a staffing gap, or a preventable error arrives. Relias has spent more than a decade turning that administrative burden into a healthcare workforce platform used by millions of caregivers.
The quietly ambitious health-tech company started with better training videos. Now it wants to connect everything that happens after a patient leaves the clinic - without asking the clinician to become a software operator.
Roman Giverts is the CEO and founder of VuMedi, the largest video education network for healthcare professionals, which he built from his UC Berkeley college apartment after watching his girlfriend's father — an orthopedic surgeon — prep for surgery by watching technique DVDs. Founded in 2008, VuMedi has grown to serve 600,000+ healthcare professionals across 25+ medical specialties, with a library of 100,000+ videos from institutions like the Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic. In May 2025, VuMedi raised an $80M Series B, bringing total funding to $82.1M, with annual revenue of $45.5M and 260+ employees across Oakland, Minneapolis, and Zagreb, Croatia.