NEW YORK — Saile, a physician-founded workforce platform targeting the bureaucratic bottlenecks of healthcare staffing, has emerged from stealth mode with $2.2 million in pre-seed funding.
The oversubscribed round was led by Matchstick Ventures, with additional participation from Headwater Ventures. The company plans to use the capital to expand its AI-driven infrastructure, enhance its marketplace capabilities, and deepen its integrations with healthcare technology platforms.
Saile aims to dismantle the fragmented and notoriously slow credentialing process that currently plagues the healthcare industry. In the traditional system, hospitals and clinics face extensive, months-long verification processes and costly staffing agency markups just to fill single roles. Simultaneously, qualified clinicians are subjected to redundant onboarding procedures and exhausting paperwork each time they transition to a new facility.
To solve this, Saile has developed a “universal credential passport.” The technology creates a secure, portable vault of verified credentials that travels with physicians across various care settings—including inpatient locum tenens, per diem shifts, ambulatory centers, and telemedicine consulting. Rather than starting the credentialing process from scratch with every new opportunity, clinicians can deploy their pre-vetted profiles seamlessly.
“Most people assume the issue in healthcare staffing is a lack of doctors, but what we’ve seen is something different,” said Dr. Marc Ayoub, Co-Founder of Saile, a neurocritical care physician and Assistant Professor at the Donald & Barbara Zucker School of Medicine. “There’s a large, underutilized workforce that simply can’t move between systems efficiently. We’re building the infrastructure that sits in between, so a physician who is already vetted in one system doesn’t have to start from zero every time they want to work somewhere new.”
Under the hood, Saile employs five modular AI agents designed to automate the manual hurdles of the onboarding process: Recruit, Onboard, Credential, Staffing, and Compliance. In addition to simplifying credentials, the platform consolidates payments for clinicians. This allows doctors to manage their schedules and receive combined payouts for various contract types in one centralized place.
“Saile is tackling a deeply embedded inefficiency in healthcare that has gone largely unchanged for decades,” said Ryan Broshar, Partner at Matchstick Ventures. “What Marc and Taylor are building isn’t a new staffing agency, it’s the infrastructure layer beneath every staffing decision in healthcare.”
Though just emerging from stealth, Saile reports significant organic momentum. The platform already hosts more than 5,000 physicians and a growing roster of facility partners. Over the last six months, the company has seen 100% growth in provider volume, managing more than 1,000 unique job posts and 1,000 provider engagements weekly.
To help navigate this rapid expansion, the New York-based startup recently brought on Janna Karwaski, a veteran healthcare tech operator, to scale its network of physicians and hospital partners.
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