How This Doctor-Turned-Startup-Founder Decided To Fix The Healthcare Staffing Crunch: Make Employers Apply
figure — editor’s note: The following is the sixth profile in a series of articles about startup founders from non-technical backgrounds who have launched successful venture-backed companies. Read the previous interviews with MagicSchool AI founder Adeel Khan here, Trunk Tools founder Sarah Buchner here, Tabs founder Ali Hussain here, Craft founder Ilya Levtov here, and GC AI founder Cecilia Ziniti here.
After completing medical school in London, Iman Abuzeid decided not to pursue a residency. Her father was disappointed. But she didn’t change her mind because she lost interest in healthcare. Instead, Abuzeid realized she wanted to work on problems affecting more people than she could treat individually. Iman Abuzeid, co-founder and CEO of Incredible Health. (Courtesy photo) “Working as a doctor is great, but you’re only working with one patient at a time,” she said in an interview with Crunchbase News. With software, “you have millions of users using your products.” Abuzeid went on to co-found Incredible Health, a San Francisco-based healthcare hiring platform that has raised about $97.5 million from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Base10 Partners, Obvious Ventures, Precursor Ventures and NFX. It says its products are used by 1.5 million healthcare professionals — including 1 in 2 U.S. nurses — and 1,500 healthcare employers. Before launching Incredible Health in 2017, Abuzeid trained as a doctor, advised healthcare companies at Booz Allen and McKinsey, and worked as a product manager at a health tech startup, but didn’t know how to code software. An M.D. who chose not to practice Originally from Sudan, Abuzeid was born and raised in Saudi Arabia and also lived in the United Arab Emirates. She moved to London at 18, where she completed her undergraduate education and medical school. Her interest in business predated her medical career. Both of her grandfathers were entrepreneurs in Sudan, and she grew up hearing about the companies they built.
