Veeraj Shah is the co-founder and CEO of Vitalize (YC W23), a San Francisco company building software to fix hospital operations, starting with staffing and scheduling. A 2021 Gates Cambridge Scholar who walked away from a Cambridge PhD to run the company full-time, he is a three-time healthcare founder whose earlier work spanned the U.S. Surgeon General's office, IBM Watson Health, and the National Cancer Institute. Vitalize is now live across more than 20 hospitals.
M7 Health is an AI-powered workforce operations platform built for the realities of hospital nurse staffing and scheduling. Founded in 2022 by a former bedside nurse and her Harvard Business School classmate, M7 forecasts staffing demand, auto-balances schedules, fills open shifts before hospitals reach for expensive premium labor, and gives nurses a real voice in when they work. It now runs as the workforce operating system for 15,000+ healthcare professionals across 60+ hospitals.
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.