Dr. Iman Abuzeid earned a medical degree at 24, skipped residency and spent the next decade at McKinsey, Wharton and Bay Area healthcare startups — learning the business of healthcare from every angle.
In 2017, she co-founded Incredible Health after spotting a contradiction: hospitals were chronically understaffed while qualified nurses were applying to ten jobs and never hearing back. The system hadn't meaningfully changed in over 20 years.
Her fix was a structural one: flip the model so employers apply to nurses, not the other way around. Nurses create a profile, set their preferences and choose which interviews to accept.
The platform launched in the Bay Area, stayed in California for two years to build the product right, then expanded nationally. Today it serves 1.5 million nurses — about one in two in the U.S. — and roughly 1,500 hospitals and facilities. In 2022, Incredible Health reached a $1.65 billion valuation.
Two AI agents launched in 2025 are already saving hospital HR teams one to two months of work each.
The lesson: the best solutions don't just fix a problem — they challenge the assumption that it had to work that way in the first place.
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