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UrgentIQ wants your urgent care to stop treating the software
An urgent care visit has two journeys: the patient needs treatment, and the paperwork needs to become payment. UrgentIQ is building one system to keep them moving together.
The Doctor Is in the Text Thread
Curai Health tried to make primary care feel as easy as sending a message. Its more interesting bet is what happens behind that message: AI handles the paperwork and pattern finding, while clinicians keep the medical judgment.
The Doctor in Your Pocket Had to Learn Your Name
Doctor On Demand began with a $40 video house call. The lasting business emerged when a quick answer became a continuing relationship with a clinician, a health plan, and the care that happens after the screen goes dark.
Peter Hotz Built a Healthcare Brand Around the First Five Minutes
The former Walgreens executive returned to entrepreneurship with a simple Philadelphia thesis: access matters, but the experience begins before anyone reaches an exam room.
Kevin Cross Built a Career Out of the Space Between Five Clinics and a Network
The Nashville founder keeps returning to one stubborn business problem: how to give local healthcare the reach of a network without sanding away what makes it local.
Tom Dent Built a Career Around the Space Between the Hospital and Home
Across four decades, the Nashville executive has returned to one stubborn question: how do you make a complicated system feel local, legible and close at hand? His answer has been a career of partnerships, patient storefronts and quiet infrastructure.
The Waiting Room Was the First Diagnosis
Small Door tried to fix veterinary medicine by fixing the hour around it - the wait, the uncertainty, the mystery bill. Then it merged with a rival large enough to test whether intimacy can survive scale.
The Hospital With No Hallways
Amwell Medical Group’s cleverest product is not an app. It is a nationwide medical practice designed to appear exactly where a health system runs out of doctors, hours or state lines.
Choice Medical Group brings care closer to home
In California’s High Desert, Choice Medical Group connects a network of 300-plus providers with urgent care, nursing support, and a senior club where the paintbrushes matter, too.
Ardent Health
Ardent Health is betting that a hospital system can stay local while its technology, purchasing and operating discipline scale nationally. Across six states, the result is a care network stretching from the emergency room to the smartphone.
Chuck Kruger
Chuck Kruger is the President and CEO of Foresight Mental Health, a Berkeley-based outpatient behavioral health provider he took over in April 2025 with a mandate to make the company self-sustaining and profitable. A Stanford-trained operator with more than 25 years building private-equity-backed healthcare services companies, he previously ran Akeso Occupational Health, launched and scaled Dignity Health GoHealth Urgent Care into San Francisco's largest urgent care network, and integrated more than 125 outpatient clinics over a decade at Physical Rehabilitation Network. His brand of leadership is unglamorous on purpose: run the basics well, deliver care from the first visit to the last, and make the math work.
Zarminali Pediatrics
Zarminali Pediatrics is a venture-backed, multi-specialty pediatric care group building purpose-designed clinics that bundle primary care, urgent care, specialty care, behavioral health, and telehealth under one coordinated roof. Founded in 2024 by healthcare operator Danish Qureshi after his own family struggled to coordinate care for a child with an autoimmune disorder, the company has grown to roughly 28 clinics across 8 states and raised $110M in Series A funding (about $150M total) to fix what it calls a fragmented, broken pediatric system.
Sollis Health
Sollis Health is a membership-based concierge medical provider that runs 24/7 centers handling everything from a sore throat to an ER-level emergency, all without a wait. For an annual fee, members get unlimited same-day visits, on-site imaging and labs, telehealth, house calls, and access to a network of ER-trained physicians and specialists, positioned as a calmer, faster alternative to the traditional emergency room and the fragmented urgent-care system.
Brad Olson
Brad Olson runs Sollis Health, the members-only concierge urgent and emergency care company that treats your time as the real luxury. He came to medicine sideways - from Bain consulting to Starwood's loyalty empire to Peloton's first 100 employees - and now applies the playbook of emotional loyalty and hospitality to a 15,000-member, 11-clinic operation where the average wait to see an ER-boarded doctor is zero to fifteen minutes. His pitch is blunt: if any consumer business ran like a hospital ER, it would be out of business the next day.
Carbon Health
Carbon Health is an American chain of tech-enabled primary and urgent care clinics that pairs brick-and-mortar visits with telemedicine, all running on its own AI-powered electronic health record. Founded in 2015 in San Francisco by Udemy co-founder Eren Bali, it set out to make seeing a doctor feel as simple as using a consumer app - same-day appointments, transparent records, and a single platform tying diagnostics, virtual visits, and prescriptions together. After raising more than $600 million and scaling past 100 clinics, the company filed for Chapter 11 in February 2026 to restructure its debt while continuing to operate.
LifeLong Medical Care
LifeLong Medical Care is a Berkeley-based nonprofit Federally Qualified Health Center that has delivered medical, dental, and social services to underserved people of all ages across California's East Bay since 1976. Born from the Gray Panthers' Over 60 Health Center, it now runs a network of primary care clinics, dental centers, school-based health sites, urgent care, and supportive housing programs, serving more than 66,000 patients a year regardless of income or insurance status.
Kerem Ozkay
Kerem Ozkay is the CEO of Carbon Health, the modern primary and urgent care chain. An aerospace engineer turned marketer turned operator, he ran growth and operations at Carbon for years before founder Eren Bali handed him the top job in August 2024. He now steers the company through a Chapter 11 restructuring designed to refocus on its hybrid care model and homegrown EHR.
HealthTap
HealthTap is a Sunnyvale-based digital health company that connects patients with board-certified physicians 24/7 through video, phone, and text consultations. Founded in 2010, it operates a platform of 105,000 doctors across 141 specialties serving 23 million monthly members. The company pairs AI-powered symptom checking with live clinical consultations, offering affordable virtual primary and urgent care via subscription or per-visit pricing. Recent partnerships with Samsung Health, Eli Lilly's LillyDirect, and Commure signal a shift toward deep integration with major consumer and clinical platforms.
Si France
Si France, MD is the Founder and CEO of WelbeHealth, a Menlo Park-based healthcare company operating PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) programs across California. A physician-entrepreneur with dual MD/MBA degrees from Dartmouth, he previously founded GoHealth Urgent Care, scaling it to 150+ centers before selling to TPG Growth in 2014. At WelbeHealth he pioneered the first four for-profit PACE organizations in the United States, building a model that enables low-income, medically frail seniors to remain in their homes and communities rather than enter nursing facilities - while saving taxpayers $10,000 per patient annually.