Carl Madi
CEO and Co-Founder, Stepful (YC). Creating pathways to a stronger healthcare workforce
I co-founded Stepful because healthcare's workforce shortage is one of the most solvable problems in American healthcare and very few people are solving it at the root. We partner with health systems to build the clinical workforce they actually need. We power internal training pathways that turn existing staff into higher-credentialed talent, and we bring in new, practice-ready graduates from the communities they serve at scale. Our programs span allied health, nursing, and degree-granting pathways. The model works because the outcomes are real. Tens of thousands of practice-ready graduates