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ClinicMind built the billing engine before the waiting room
A father-and-son software company began with the problem of getting doctors paid. Its answer grew into a connected system for the entire life of a patient visit.
TriZetto Provider Solutions and the art of getting paid
A medical visit ends. The paperwork begins. TriZetto Provider Solutions makes its living in the awkward interval between care delivered and money collected.
Steve Gallion and the Product Hidden in a Bad Demo
A clumsy two-minute sales call exposed what MedTrainer had not yet built. Steve Gallion turned the embarrassment into a roadmap, then spent the next decade joining healthcare training, credentialing, and compliance under one roof.
Honorlock Built a Digital Exam Room. The Hard Part Is Making It Feel Human.
A spreadsheet prototype became a $40.65 million-funded proctoring company when remote exams went mainstream. Its next test is harder: stopping AI-enabled cheating without turning every honest candidate into a suspect.
Certemy
Certemy is a SaaS workforce-compliance platform that helps enterprises and licensing boards track, verify, and manage the professional licenses and certifications of their workforce. It replaces spreadsheets and manual paperwork with automated workflows, primary-source verification, real-time dashboards, and HRIS integrations - reducing compliance risk and administrative cost for organizations that employ licensed and certified professionals across healthcare, field services, real estate, and multi-state operations.
Headway
Headway is a New York-based healthtech company building a software-enabled network that makes it easier to find a therapist and to pay for one with insurance. Its three-sided marketplace connects patients, mental health clinicians, and insurance plans: patients search for in-network providers with transparent copays, clinicians offload credentialing, billing, scheduling, and claims to Headway, and insurers gain a larger accessible network. Founded in 2019 by Andrew Adams and co-founders, Headway operates in all 50 states with roughly 34,000 clinicians and, after a $100M Series D in 2024, is valued at about $2.3 billion.
IntelyCare
IntelyCare is a Quincy, Massachusetts-based healthcare talent platform that connects nursing professionals with per diem, contract, and permanent shifts through an AI-powered mobile marketplace. Founded in 2016, it employs its nurses as W2 workers with benefits, malpractice coverage and same-day pay, while giving skilled nursing facilities, hospitals and health systems on-demand access to credentialed clinicians. After a $115M Series C that pushed its valuation past $1 billion, IntelyCare acquired acute-care staffing platform CareRev in January 2026 to build one of the industry's most comprehensive clinical workforce solutions.
Nick Macario
Nick Macario is co-founder and CEO of Verifiable, an Austin-based healthcare credentialing platform that replaces weeks of paperwork with API-driven verifications and, more recently, an autonomous AI agent called CredAgent. A multi-time founder (Branded.me, Remote.com, Dock.io), he raised a $27M Series B from Craft Ventures in 2023 and is backed by Sam and Jack Altman.
Shawn Cantor
Shawn Cantor is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Certemy, a Series B compliance and credentialing SaaS company he started in 2017 with Zorik Gordon. Before Certemy, he served as COO of WorkWave (acquired by IFS in 2018), spent eight years at ReachLocal building its North American sales channel to more than 600 employees and $200M in revenue, and founded JAC Media, a digital marketing agency acquired by ReachLocal in 2005. His career is a sequence of building operations engines for outbound sales and services businesses.
Zaya Care
Zaya Care is a New York-based healthcare company building the largest network of in-network maternal and wellness specialists in the United States. It negotiates insurance contracts on behalf of independent practitioners - pelvic floor therapists, lactation consultants, dietitians, mental health therapists and acupuncturists - and handles credentialing, eligibility and billing so those providers can accept insurance without the administrative burden or financial risk of doing it alone. Inspired by the comprehensive European model of maternity care, Zaya gives small practices the leverage and efficiency of a large health system while letting them stay independent, and gives patients affordable, whole-person care beyond the standard OB-GYN visit.
Hirsch Group (fka Vitaprotech)
Hirsch Group (formerly Vitaprotech Group) is a France-based provider of premium, integrated physical-security systems for sensitive and high-security sites. Built by rolling up specialist companies - perimeter-intrusion pioneer Sorhea, access-control firm TIL Technologies, video-analytics maker Foxstream, UK detection specialist Harper Chalice, and others - it made its biggest leap in 2024 by acquiring the security business of U.S. firm Identiv for about $145 million, which brought the iconic Hirsch access-control brand into the fold. In 2026 the whole group unified under a single name, Hirsch, spanning command-and-control (PSIM), access control, video intelligence, credentials, door readers, and perimeter protection, with roughly $185M in revenue and 700+ employees.
Joshua Broggi
Joshua Broggi is the founder and CEO of Woolf, a software-powered collegiate university that lets qualified organizations launch accredited, globally recognized degree programs in weeks. A former Faculty of Philosophy member at the University of Oxford and a Humboldt Fellow, he is rebuilding the plumbing of higher education from the API up.
CertifyOS
CertifyOS is a New York-based healthcare technology company building the provider data infrastructure layer for health plans, health systems, and digital health companies. Its API-first platform automates credentialing, licensing, enrollment, and continuous network monitoring, unifying data from thousands of primary sources into a single, continuously updated source of truth. Founded by former Oscar Health operators, the NCQA-accredited CVO tracks 1,600+ data points per provider and manages 15+ million licenses, turning a notoriously slow, manual back-office process into real-time infrastructure.
KarmaCheck
KarmaCheck is an AI-driven background check and credentialing platform that makes employment screening faster, cheaper, and more accurate. Founded in 2019 by LinkedIn co-founder and founding CTO Eric Ly, the company combines real-time identity verification, criminal and credential checks, drug screening, and occupational health into an API-first platform that plugs into the ATS, HRIS, and HCM systems staffing and healthcare teams already use. In 2025 it launched the industry's first MCP server, letting AI agents run verifications through plain-language prompts.
Bill Henderson
Bill Henderson is a healthcare growth executive with 35+ years across dental, vision, Medicaid, Medicare, and chronic care management. He spent 15 years at LIBERTY Dental Plan, where he grew the business to more than $900 million in sales and over 6 million covered lives across all 50 states. After serving as Chief Growth Officer at Vheda Health, he was named Strategic Advisor to the CEO of LightSpun, the AI-powered dental insurance administration platform formerly known as 32Health, in April 2026, where he leads national growth strategy and payer partnerships.
Eric Ly
Eric Ly is a Vietnamese-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as a founding member and the first CTO of LinkedIn. Born in Saigon and raised in Silicon Valley, he was an early Java engineer at Sun and a product builder at General Magic before helping Reid Hoffman launch LinkedIn in 2002. Today he is co-founder and CEO of KarmaCheck, an AI-forward background check and credentialing company that raised a $45M Series B in 2024, focused on speeding up hiring in healthcare and staffing. Across a 30-year career he has chased one recurring idea: building trust between people online.
SuperDial
SuperDial is a San Francisco voice AI company that builds agents to handle the endless administrative phone calls between healthcare providers, billing companies and insurers - navigating phone trees, waiting on hold, and conducting live conversations with payer reps. Its agents automate benefits verification, prior authorizations, claim status follow-up, credentialing and provider data attestation, logging structured results directly into a customer's EHR or RCM platform. Founded by Stanford classmates Sam Schwager and Harrison Caruthers (originally as the billing startup SuperBill), the company launched in late 2023, scaled to seven-figure revenue and tens of thousands of calls per week, and raised a $15M Series A in June 2025 led by SignalFire.
Grow Therapy
Grow Therapy is a behavioral health company that makes therapy and psychiatry easier to start, covered by insurance, and sustainable for the clinicians who deliver it. It runs a national marketplace and full-stack practice platform that handles credentialing, insurance billing, scheduling, and EHR tooling so independent therapists can build in-network private practices, and so patients can find a provider who takes their insurance for an average copay of about $21. Founded in 2020, the company reached roughly $1 billion in revenue and a $3 billion valuation in 2026.