- Saile raised $2.2 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed round led by Matchstick Ventures
- The healthcare workforce startup has emerged from stealth with more than 5,000 physicians already using the platform
- Saile automates credentialing, staffing, onboarding, compliance, and payments through a single healthcare workforce system
New York-based Saile has raised $2.2 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed round led by Matchstick Ventures, with participation from Headwater Ventures.
Founded in 2025 by neurocritical care physician Marc Ayoub and a founding engineer from Cedar, Saile is building infrastructure to simplify physician hiring and workforce management.
Hospitals typically depend on staffing agencies to source temporary physicians while separate vendors manage credential verification and onboarding. The process can take months, and physicians often repeat paperwork every time they move between hospitals, telemedicine roles, consulting work, or locum assignments.
Saile replaces that fragmented workflow with a universal credential passport, a portable profile containing continuously updated and verified credentials. Physicians can use one profile across multiple healthcare jobs, while healthcare facilities gain access to pre-vetted clinicians without recruiter fees or disconnected onboarding systems.
“Most people assume the issue in healthcare staffing is a lack of doctors, but what we’ve seen is something different. There’s a large, underutilised workforce that simply can’t move between systems efficiently,” says Ayoub. “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.”
The platform also consolidates payments, allowing physicians to receive compensation for multiple contract types through one system. Saile’s infrastructure includes five automation agents covering recruitment, onboarding, credentialing, staffing, and compliance.
The company operates in the healthcare workforce technology market, competing with staffing firms and workforce management platforms such as AMN Healthcare, Aya Healthcare, Nomad Health and credentialing providers including Medallion. Saile differentiates itself by combining staffing, credential portability, compliance, onboarding, and payments into a single platform.
Over the past six months, the startup says provider volume has doubled through organic growth. The platform now supports more than 5,000 physicians, over 1,000 job postings, and more than 1,000 weekly provider engagements. Customers include ambulatory surgery centres, telemedicine platforms, urgent care clinics, acute care hospitals, consulting networks, and AI training labs.
“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.”
The new funding will be used to expand Saile’s automation infrastructure, marketplace capabilities, and healthcare technology integrations.
