Saile announced that it raised a $2.2 million oversubscribed pre-seed funding round led by Matchstick Ventures. Headwater Ventures also participated in the round.
The company is emerging from stealth with more than 5,000 physicians on its platform and a growing network of healthcare facility partners spanning telemedicine, per diem staffing, locums, consulting, and ambulatory centers.
Over the past six months, Saile said it achieved 100% provider volume growth organically, while supporting more than 1,000 unique job posts and over 1,000 provider engagements each week.
Saile was founded to address inefficiencies in healthcare staffing and credentialing, where hospitals and healthcare organizations often rely on multiple vendors, staffing agencies, and credentialing firms to onboard physicians. The company said facilities frequently spend significant sums recruiting temporary physicians while nearby qualified doctors remain unable to work due to administrative barriers and lengthy credentialing processes.
The platform offers physicians a universal credential passport, described as a continuously updated and portable vault of verified credentials that can move with clinicians across healthcare opportunities, including inpatient locums positions, telemedicine consulting shifts, and per diem work. Facilities can access a pre-vetted clinician pool without relying on recruiter middlemen, agency markups, or repetitive onboarding procedures.
Saile also consolidates payments for clinicians across multiple engagement types through a single platform.
Under the hood, the platform utilizes five modular AI agents focused on recruiting, onboarding, credentialing, staffing, and compliance automation.
The company was co-founded by Marc Ayoub, a neurocritical care physician and assistant professor at the Donald & Barbara Zucker School of Medicine, along with a founding engineer from Cedar.
Saile recently added Janna Karwaski to help scale its physician and hospital partner network.
The company said it currently operates across ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care clinics, telemedicine platforms, AI training labs, and acute care hospitals through flexible engagement models including per diem staffing, locum tenens, and consulting.
Saile plans to use the funding to expand its AI agent infrastructure, enhance marketplace capabilities, and deepen integrations with healthcare technology platforms.
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“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, 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.”
Marc Ayoub, Co-Founder of Saile
“Saile is tackling a deeply embedded inefficiency in healthcare that has gone largely unchanged for decades. What Marc and Taylor are building isn’t a new staffing agency, it’s the infrastructure layer beneath every staffing decision in healthcare.”
Ryan Broshar, Partner at Matchstick Ventures
