SALT LAKE CITY-- Nursa, a nationwide platform that exists to put a nurse at the bedside of every patient in need, announced the completion of its executive leadership team following an $80 million Series B funding raise led by Drive Capital and joined by existing partners Pelion and Kickstart. With the addition of experienced Chief Product, Revenue and Technology Officers, Nursa is diversifying its expertise in order to further address the industry’s rising financial and nursing deficits.

Total funding at Salt Lake City-based Nursa is now $100 million.

Founded in 2019, Nursa has nearly 300 team members in its Salt Lake City headquarters and remote positions. Nursa is a locally driven, national platform, working with any organization that needs nurses to deliver the best patient care. Its platform was built to enable facilities to fill shifts quickly and easily with qualified nurses from their community, eliminating the requirements for bulk shifts and limited networks.

“Providers have operated on thin margins for years. We all know the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results,” said Nursa founder and CEO Curtis Anderson. “We cannot operate business as usual. The staffing shortage is bigger than nurses, agencies, and systems. As the need for care continues to grow across the country, we need a diversity of experts in tech, experience, nursing, administration, and healthcare legislation to solve this problem. The additions of Amanda, Melissa, and Brad complete our experienced and well-seasoned leadership team and position us to tackle these issues head-on.”

Nursa also announced three new executive hires. They included Amanda Duke as chief revenue officer, Melissa Matross as chief product officer and Brad Taylor as chief technology officer. Duke has more than 20 years of leadership experience in sales, account management and business development within the healthcare industry. She is a former registered nurse. Matross brings nearly 20 years of leadership experience in product management and user experience across consumer platforms. Her most recent roles were at Salesforce where she served as a senior VP of product management and senior VP of product design. Taylor most recently served as chief technology officer at Galileo Health and previously helped lead multiple engineering verticals at Marqeta, a payment card platform, through their IPO. He is an engineering executive who brings 20 years of experience across a variety of industries.

About Nursa

Nursa is a nationwide platform that exists to put a nurse at the bedside of every patient in need quickly and safely, removing the financial strain and operational gaps of traditional staffing methods. Nursa’s real-time technology enables hospitals, health systems, skilled nursing facilities and community organizations to easily secure qualified, local nursing talent for per diem shifts. Founded in 2019 and built on the bedrock granite of Lake Bonneville in Salt Lake City, Nursa is trusted by a growing community of more than 1,300 facilities and 95,000 nurses nationwide and is accredited by The Joint Commission.

SOURCE Nursa