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How Schweiger Turned the Dermatologist Wait Into a 160-Office Growth Machine
Eric Schweiger began with one Midtown office and a consumer-grade complaint: seeing a dermatologist took too long. Six messy integrations and at least $155 million of disclosed growth capital later, his group has become a coast-to-coast test of whether convenience and clinical care can scale together.
Eden Care Medical
Eden Care Medical is a licensed digital health insurer building the claims and distribution infrastructure that modernizes health insurance in Africa. Starting in Rwanda and expanding into Kenya, it sells group health cover to employers and their staff, then runs the whole value chain - HR admin portal, an employee app for navigating care and wellness, and digital tools for hospitals and clinics - to cut the cost of insurance in a market where operating costs run 2.2x the global average and penetration sits near 0.2%.
Examedi
Examedi is a Latin American digital health company that sends nurses and lab technicians to patients' homes to draw blood, run medical tests, give vaccines and connect people to doctors - booked in minutes through an app or website. Founded in Chile in 2021 and shaped in Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch, it built logistics software to route clinicians the way a delivery app routes drivers, then expanded from COVID-era PCR tests into a broader home-health marketplace spanning lab work, telemedicine, nutrition, kinesiology and mental health across Chile and Mexico.
Halodoc
Halodoc is a Jakarta-based digital health platform that lets Indonesians consult licensed doctors, order medicine for home delivery, book lab tests and appointments, and buy insurance from a single mobile app. Founded in 2016 by Jonathan Sudharta and Doddy Lukito, it connects more than 20 million monthly active users with over 20,000 doctors, 4,000+ pharmacies and 1,400+ hospitals, and has raised roughly US$258 million led by Indonesian conglomerate Astra, Temasek and Novo Holdings.
NousQ Pte Ltd
NousQ is a Singapore-based medical technology company founded in 2021 by ENT surgeon Dr Lynne Lim and engineer Gan Chee Wee. Its flagship product, CLiKX, is a handheld, robotic and sensor-controlled applicator that performs ventilation ear tube insertion with a single click. The device is designed to move ear tube surgery out of the operating theatre and general anesthesia setting into the outpatient clinic, cutting cost, wait times and trauma for the more than one million children who undergo the procedure worldwide each year.
Jake Cooper
Jake Cooper is the CEO and co-founder of Grow Therapy, a New York based company building the infrastructure that lets therapists and psychiatric providers run insurance-covered private practices. Since 2020 he has grown it into a national network spanning 125+ insurers and tens of thousands of providers, raising $388 million to date, including a $150 million Series D in 2026. A former Blackstone and Apollo private equity investor and summa cum laude Duke graduate, Cooper is focused on making mental health care easier to find, afford, and stick with.
Nick Abramovich
Nick Abramovich is the CEO of Workers Benefit Fund, a New York-based benefits platform that builds the plumbing between gig workers, freelancers, independent contractors and the government, union and private benefits they are eligible for but almost never enroll in. He has been running the company since 2019, when WBF acquired BeneStream, the Medicaid-for-the-workplace outfit he ran as President. Under him, WBF added Upward Finance in December 2024, extending the platform from healthcare enrollment into tax and earnings tools for gig workers. Before benefits, he was CEO of Synaptic Digital and CMO of Ditech Holding Corporation, with earlier stops at MetLife, MoveOnIn.com, and BizSlate. Columbia MBA, Tulane BS.
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.
Robbins Schrader
Robbins Schrader is the co-founder and CEO of SafeRide Health, a San Antonio-based technology company that runs non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) for the country's largest Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and provider programs. A former US Navy officer and Boston Consulting Group project leader with a Wharton MBA, he started the company in 2016 with his brother Whit Schrader and Ben Salter to fix healthcare's hardest mile: getting vulnerable patients to the care they need. Under his leadership SafeRide now coordinates more than a million rides a year and Schrader was named an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2024 Gulf South Award winner.
Brianna Wronko-Stevens
Brianna Wronko-Stevens is a University of Pennsylvania-trained bioengineer who turned a senior design project into HueDx (formerly Group K Diagnostics), a Philadelphia diagnostics company that reads lab-grade results off a color-changing card and a smartphone camera - no lab, no reader, no waiting days. Inspired by an HIV clinic internship at 17, she built a platform to deliver fast, quantitative results to the patients who can least afford to wait. She founded the company in 2017, served as CEO through a 2023 rebrand and raised millions in funding, then stepped into the Chief Scientific Officer seat to focus on the science.
Ellen DaSilva
Ellen DaSilva is the founder and CEO of Summer Health, a New York-based pediatric telehealth company that lets parents text a pediatrician and get an answer in under 15 minutes, 24/7. A mother of three, she built the company after living the gap herself: long waits, short visits, and a pile of unanswered questions. Before founding Summer Health in 2022, she was the eighth employee at Hims & Hers, led business operations at Twitter as revenue scaled from $100M to $2B, and worked on more than $10B of IPOs at Barclays. She is an HBS MBA, a Sequoia Scout, and co-author of the startup business-development book 'Pitching & Closing.'
Jen Wirt
Jen Wirt is the founder and CEO of Coral Care, a venture-backed digital health company that sends licensed pediatric speech, occupational, and physical therapists into families' homes and bills their insurance directly. She started the company in 2023 after her own daughter's developmental delays sent her through six months of waitlists and thousands of dollars in out-of-network bills. A former product manager in consumer electronics and digital health, Wirt built Coral Care as a three-sided platform that pairs families needing care with clinicians who want to build sustainable private practices. By early 2026 the company had raised $19.5M, operated across five states, and grown a network of 400+ providers.
Richard Fine
Richard Fine is Chief Business Officer at Zocdoc, where for more than a decade he has helped turn a doctor-booking marketplace into what he calls 'healthcare access infrastructure.' A two-time founder with two exits, he built Help Remedies, the over-the-counter brand that made aspirin boxes funny and won a Cannes Lion, and spent years as a brand strategist at Redscout working with Nike, PepsiCo and Diageo. Oxford-trained in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and raised by two epidemiology professors, he frames his work simply: he loves healthcare and hates its incentives, and at Zocdoc he gets to fix both.