How This Doctor-Turned-Startup-Founder Decided To Fix The Healthcare Staffing Crunch: Make Employers Apply
Iman Abuzeid left clinical medicine to tackle healthcare problems at scale, co-founding Incredible Health, a hiring platform that reverses traditional recruiting by having employers apply to healthcare professionals by combining her expertise with co-founder Rome Portlock’s technical skills the company uses AI agents to cut hiring time by 30%.
Iman Abuzeid, co-founder and CEO of Incredible Health, decided to leave medical school and pursue a venture-backed startup after realizing she wanted to work on problems affecting more people than she could treat individually. Born and raised in Saudi Arabia, Abuzeid completed her medical degree in London and worked in healthcare consulting and product management before co-founding Incredible Health in 2017 with software engineer Rome Portlock.
The San Francisco-based platform aims to address the healthcare staffing crunch by enabling employers to apply for healthcare professionals, rather than the other way around. The software automates screening and matching for permanent jobs at various healthcare facilities and is currently used by 1.5 million healthcare professionals and 1,500 healthcare employers.
Incredible Health has raised approximately $97.5 million in funding from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Base10 Partners, and NFX. The company operates on a free platform for healthcare professionals and charges an annual subscription to employers. Abuzeid emphasizes that her role as CEO is not about coding, but rather solving problems and identifying markets.
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