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The Empty Shift Is Qwick's Whole Business - and It Fills One in 30 Minutes
A Charleston startup called Gigpro merged with its better-funded Phoenix rival, took the rival's name, and built a marketplace where a short-staffed restaurant can post a shift and have a vetted bartender walking in before service.
Matthew Levesque
Matthew Levesque is chief executive of IntelyCare, the Quincy, Massachusetts nurse-staffing platform that pairs per-diem shifts with roughly a million registered nursing professionals. He arrived in July 2024 after running Groups Recover Together and, before that, connectRN, and before that spending twelve years at athenahealth as it grew from a hundred-million-dollar company to a $1.3 billion one. In December 2025 he engineered IntelyCare's acquisition of CareRev, combining two of the loudest names in shift-based nurse labor into a single platform for hospitals and post-acute facilities.
Simba Jonga
Simba Jonga is the founder and CEO of Laborup, an AI-powered hiring platform often described as the LinkedIn of manufacturing. A University of Tennessee chemical engineer turned Stanford AI researcher, he built Laborup after watching skilled machinists, welders and technicians struggle to get hired despite working inside high-tech factories. The platform uses an autonomous AI voice agent to interview and vet workers, building profiles in minutes and matching them to high-paying industrial jobs. Laborup has raised $7.7M from investors including NVP, Torch Capital and angels Jeff Dean, Jeff Jordan and Evan Moore, grown a 25,000-strong East Tennessee worker network, and is expanding across the South and Midwest.