# Waleed Asif

> Waleed Asif is the co-founder and chief technology officer of NexHealth, the San Francisco healthcare software company he began building with Alamin Uddin while they were students at the City College of New York. A lifelong tinkerer who once supported himself by repairing and reselling broken equipment, Asif turned that instinct toward an unusually stubborn technical problem: making closed, fragmented practice-management and electronic-record systems exchange data. NexHealth launched in 2017, was named to Forbes' 2018 30 Under 30 healthcare list, and reached a $1 billion valuation after a $125 million Series C in 2022.

- **Role:** Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at NexHealth
- **Organizations:** NexHealth, The City College of New York, Zahn Innovation Center
- **Education:** Computer Science studies; left college to build NexHealth, The City College of New York
- **Known for:** Co-founded NexHealth and serves as its chief technology officer., Named to Forbes' 2018 30 Under 30 healthcare list with Alamin Uddin., Helped build NexHealth's integration layer for practice-management and electronic-record systems.

## Career timeline

- **2014** — As an undergraduate at City College, participated with Alamin Uddin in the Zahn Center's inaugural Social Entrepreneurship bootcamp and developed an early concept for digitizing the doctor-patient experience.
- **2016** — Paired with Uddin and began writing the first NexHealth code; the founders raised an early seed round and financed the lean beginning with credit-card debt and online resale work.
- **2017** — Launched NexHealth and its integrated online-booking product, which synchronized with practice record systems.
- **2018** — Named with Uddin to the Forbes 30 Under 30 healthcare list.
- **2019** — NexHealth raised additional seed capital and expanded beyond appointment booking into messaging.
- **2020** — NexHealth raised a $15 million Series A, expanded payments and telehealth capabilities, and acquired the paperless forms platform Enlive.
- **2021** — NexHealth raised a $31 million Series B to expand integrations and its go-to-market team.
- **2022** — NexHealth raised a $125 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation.
- **2025** — Asif's essay on the coming healthcare API ecosystem was republished by NexHealth, setting out use cases for portable records, payments, referrals and developer-built applications.
- **2026** — Shared NexHealth's Synchronizer API V3 launch and reported that the platform powered more than 10,000 locations for hundreds of developers.

## Achievements

- Co-founded NexHealth and serves as its chief technology officer.
- Named to Forbes' 2018 30 Under 30 healthcare list with Alamin Uddin.
- Helped build NexHealth's integration layer for practice-management and electronic-record systems.
- Helped grow NexHealth through a $125 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation in 2022.
- Helped turn a City College entrepreneurship project into the first unicorn connected with CUNY's entrepreneurship training programs.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Shared NexHealth's Synchronizer API V3 rollout, describing 27-plus read/write workflows across 15 practice-management systems and more than 10,000 powered locations.
- **2026-08** — Highlighted a Seattle hackathon where engineering, product and design teams built AI-oriented prototypes on the Synchronizer platform.
- **2026-04** — Discussed his childhood repair habit, the difficult first years of NexHealth and his infrastructure ambitions in the Five by Friday interview.
- **2025-07** — NexHealth republished his essay outlining how a universal healthcare API could support referrals, payments, portable records and developer innovation.

## Links

- Website: https://www.nexhealth.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waleed-asif-19947191/

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Last updated: 2026-09-27