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Patti Betts Learned to Sell the Experience Before She Sold the System
Before healthcare partnerships and enterprise software, Patti Betts spent nearly a decade selling weddings at the San Diego Zoo. The scenery changed. Her working idea did not: people commit when an ambitious system begins to feel personal.
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.