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KARE lets you hire the help it sends
The senior care marketplace earns money when clinicians work a shift, then lets communities hire them without a placement fee. Its next move is a free scheduler designed to catch expensive decisions before they happen.
Relode bets the next hire is someone you already know
A healthcare recruiter built on paid introductions has grown into a hands-on staffing partner. Its most useful lesson: a bigger candidate list means little if nobody can turn it into a hire.
SnapCare Hit $1.1 Billion in a Crisis. Then It Had to Build a Company for Normal Times
The nurse-staffing app went from $3 million to $1.1 billion in revenue as COVID scrambled hospitals. Its harder act is happening now: turning emergency speed into software that helps facilities need fewer emergency hires.
The Nurse Staffing Spreadsheet That Told a Hospital It Needed 9.6 More Nurses
Heidi Morin was told to cut staff. Her own calculator found the unit was 9.6 nurses short. Parity grew from that argument into a system designed to make clinical reality legible to hospital finance teams.
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.
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.
Vitalize
Vitalize is a San Francisco health-tech company building an AI platform that helps hospitals and health systems optimize labor - unifying staffing, scheduling, patient flow, and capacity in one system. Founded by Veeraj Shah, Sanketh Andhavarapu, and Nikhil DSouza and shaped in Y Combinator's W23 batch, the company began as a mental-health support tool for burned-out clinicians and evolved into the operational backbone that decides who works where and when, cutting manual scheduling time by roughly 70% and reaching demonstrated ROI in under 90 days.
M7 Health
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.
Float Health
Float Health runs an on-demand marketplace that dispatches vetted registered nurses to patients' homes for specialty medication infusions. The San Francisco startup pairs an AI-powered scheduling platform with a gig-style nurse network, and acts as the staffing backbone for specialty pharmacies like CVS, Optum, Walgreens, Kroger and Option Care Health.