Nomad Health

Two healthcare providers wearing blue scrubs and looking at a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 02:18 pm June 19, 2024
Nomad Health, which offers an online job portal for temporary healthcare workers, announced it has secured $22 million. HealthQuest Capital led the round, with participation from Icon Ventures, Adams Street, .406 Ventures, RRE Ventures and Polaris Partners.  The company also announced it has appointed Justin Lambert as its new CEO, replacing former CEO Dr. Alexi Gharib Nazem, who cofounded the...
Healthcare workers standing in a hallway talking
By  Jessica Hagen 10:29 am February 14, 2023
New York-based Nomad Health, which offers an online job portal for temporary healthcare workers, has laid off 17% of its workforce as it adjusts to the post-pandemic job market.  Nomad provides a staffing marketplace for temporary workers, allowing users to search for job openings nationwide, search by pay and specialty, apply for positions and manage their resume.   Alexi Nazem, CEO of Nomad,...
A nurse using her smartphone.
By  Emily Olsen 12:44 pm June 28, 2022
Nomad Health, an online job portal for temporary healthcare workers, scooped up $105 million in financing, led by Adams Street Partners and Icon Ventures. Other participants in the round include HealthQuest Capital, Polaris Partners, .406 Ventures, AlleyCorp and RRE Ventures as well as new debt providers J.P. Morgan and Trinity Capital. The staffing startup said the new capital brings its total...
Piggy bank next to coins and a stethoscope
By  Emily Olsen 11:37 am September 22, 2021
Virtual care collaboration and navigation tool Pager announced it raised $70 million in an equity and debt financing round. The Series C round was led by Susquehanna Private Equity Investments. Silicon Valley Bank provided debt financing.  Pager said the capital will be used to increase the platform’s capacity, make improvements and expand to new markets worldwide, including ones in the U.S. and...
By  MobiHealthNews 03:36 pm January 29, 2020
New York-based startup Nomad Health, a company that makes an online platform for healthcare job-seekers and employers, has appointed Liming Zhao as its first chief technology officer. Previously holding similar posts at Frontier Signal (which he cofounded) and Compass, Zhao will be heading up the employment marketplace’s engineering, data science, IT and security efforts, and will also be helping...
By  Laura Lovett 02:44 pm August 15, 2019
New York-based startup Nomad Health, maker of an online healthcare job marketplace, announced Thursday that it raked in $34 million through a combination of new equity and debt financing. The round was led by Icon Ventures with participation from Polaris Partners, RRE Ventures, .406 Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.  As part of this news Tom Mawhinney, a general partner at Icon Ventures took a...
By  Dave Muoio 03:48 pm January 16, 2019
A bot by any other name. It appears that Pillo Health won’t be the only one selling its friendly home health assistant and countertop pill dispenser. Thanks to a strategic investment by Stanley Ventures, Stanley Black & Decker will be offering a slightly modified version of the device under the name of “Pria by Black+Decker Home Care Companion.” According to a representative of Stanley Black...
By  Laura Lovett 02:19 pm July 2, 2018
The NHS is looking to ramp up its patient data security, after signing a contract with software company Privitar for its de-identification technology. The new technology will help prevent a person’s identify from being connected to their information.  “The health and care landscape is rapidly changing, and we can improve individual patient care if our systems can deliver a complete picture of...
By  Jonah Comstock 04:19 pm May 9, 2018
Slavitt's new gig. Former CMS Administrator Andy Slavitt is heading up Town Hall Ventures, a new healthcare investing group that officially launched yesterday. Slavitt will be joined by Trevor Price, founder of Oxeon Holdings, a retained executive search and investment firm; and David Whelan, who managed Oxeon's previous firm Oxeon Ventures. The firm already has several investments including...
By  Jonah Comstock 06:08 pm February 26, 2018
Nomad Health, a New York company that makes a platform for job-seekers and employers in the healthcare space, has raised $12 million in a new funding round led by Polaris Partners. Existing investors First Round Capital, RRE Ventures, and .406 Ventures also participated. “We’re building a marketplace for healthcare jobs,” CEO Dr. Alexi Nazem told MobiHealthNews. “We started out with just...