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The Doctor Who Traded the Exam Room for the Cap Table
A physician-turned-financier is buying up the unglamorous engine room of American healthcare - the home aides, clinical trial sites and hospice teams that most funds overlook.
Inside the Tennessee Family Office Quietly Building a Portfolio of Unsexy Companies
The Providence Groups turned a long-term-care operator in White House, Tennessee into a ten-company family office that bets on septic pumping, nurse staffing, and construction - the businesses nobody posts about.
The $1.6 Billion Business of Making Labor Move on Demand
TrueBlue began with one Labor Ready branch and a blunt promise: put people to work quickly. Today, its apps, recruiters and on-site teams form an unusually broad operating system for the variable workforce.
The Staffing Company Trying to Turn Hospital Chaos Into a Control Panel
Cross Country Healthcare spent four decades putting people into hard-to-fill shifts. Its next act is to make the whole labor system visible - and, under new private ownership, prove that staffing data can be as valuable as staffing itself.
AMN Healthcare
AMN began by placing traveling nurses. Forty years later, it sells health systems something broader: the people, software and operating discipline to keep care moving when labor gets scarce, expensive or suddenly unavailable.
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.
LanceSoft, Inc.
LanceSoft is a global, minority-owned workforce solutions and technology staffing company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. A certified Minority Business Enterprise and Woman-owned firm, it supplies temporary and permanent talent, Statement of Work services, payrolling, Recruitment Process Outsourcing, and engineering and application-development solutions to more than 110 enterprise and Fortune clients across banking, healthcare, technology, government, telecom, energy, and semiconductor sectors. With over 5,000 professionals and offices spanning six continents and 50-plus countries, LanceSoft pairs large-scale sourcing with a self-described 'human touch' approach to connecting talent with opportunity.
Legion Technologies
Legion Technologies builds an AI-native workforce management (WFM) platform for the hourly workforce. Founded in 2016 by former SAP chief product officer Sanish Mondkar, the Redwood City company automates demand forecasting, employee scheduling, time and attendance, and labor optimization for retailers, restaurants, healthcare and fitness operators. Its stated mission is to turn hourly jobs into good jobs by helping employers cut labor costs while giving frontline workers more control, flexibility, and faster access to pay.
Hirey AI
Hirey is an AI-first recruiting platform built around a chat-based hiring app and an AI agent named Rey that sources candidates, screens them, checks availability, and books interviews automatically. Founded in 2021 by Walter Wu and headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, Hirey focuses on high-volume, fast-turnover hiring in sales, caregiving, and healthcare staffing, where speed matters more than paperwork. The company says it has helped 500,000+ job seekers and is trusted by 10,000+ hiring companies, and it has raised roughly $14M through a Series A led in part by DST Global.
Clasp
Clasp is a Boston-based workforce and fintech company that ties student-loan repayment to employment, helping healthcare systems recruit and retain clinicians. Using a model it likens to military ROTC, employers commit to students before graduation and repay their loans over time in exchange for a multi-year work commitment. Founded in 2018 as Stride Funding and rebranded as Clasp in 2024, the company links education and employment to attack two problems at once: crushing student debt and chronic clinical staffing shortages.
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.
Stepful
Stepful is a New York-based healthcare education company that trains people for entry-level allied-health jobs - medical assistants, pharmacy technicians, surgical techs and more - through fast, affordable, AI-supported online programs. Roughly four months and about $2,500 replace a two-year, $20,000 community-college track, and graduates are funneled toward clinical hours and full-time jobs through a network of partner clinics and hospitals. The company pairs a B2C learner business with a growing B2B arm that helps health systems build their own talent pipelines, positioning itself as an end-to-end answer to the U.S. healthcare worker shortage.
Vituity
Vituity is a 100% physician-owned and led multispecialty partnership delivering acute care across the United States. Founded in 1971 as California Emergency Physicians (CEP America), it rebranded as Vituity in 2018, combining 'vital' and 'acuity.' Today roughly 5,500 doctors and clinicians staff emergency departments, hospital medicine, critical care, anesthesiology, psychiatry, neurology, telehealth and more across hundreds of care sites in 27+ states, treating millions of patients a year - all without private equity, insurer, or hospital-system ownership.
Clipboard Health
Clipboard Health (now branded as Clipboard) is a San Francisco-based two-sided marketplace that matches nurses, CNAs, and allied healthcare professionals with shifts at understaffed hospitals, nursing homes, and post-acute facilities. Founded in 2016 by Wei Deng, the company has grown into a healthcare unicorn with a 1,600-person team and a network of more than a million qualified professionals.
Trusted Health
Trusted Health is a labor marketplace and workforce management platform for the healthcare industry, connecting nurses and allied health clinicians with hospitals through software that replaces the legacy travel-nursing agency model. Its consumer-facing platform helps nurses find travel and per-diem jobs; its enterprise Works platform helps health systems build internal float pools and on-demand workforces.