Rōvn

Rōvn is the operating network for the healthcare workforce.
Verify a clinician once, reuse everywhere. Rōvn runs recruiting, credentialing, primary-source verification, onboarding, roster monitoring, privileging, and payer enrollment as a single agentic system; the reusable worker-owned credential is the atomic unit; the two-sided compounding network is the company.
Pre-seed - $2.25MRound sizeRōvn SAFE term sheet · 2026-05 · canonical raise (see 02.1 Use of Funds) target - $15M post-money SAFERound structureRōvn SAFE term sheet · 2026-05 · $2.25M / $15M post-money cap - updated 2026-06-19

TL;DR

Healthcare's workforce crisis isn't a supply problem, trust gets rebuilt from zero at every facility, and no one owns the layer that makes it reusable. The bottleneck is outcome labels, and the only way to get them is to operate the workflow. Rōvn helps healthcare facilities get workers from application to compliant, billable work faster. The platform turns source evidence into credentialing, privileging, monitoring, payer-readiness, and audit-ready human decisions.

The moat is a business-model reversal incumbents (Medallion, symplr) can't copy without abandoning the facility silo their revenue depends on, Plaid vs. banks. We don't launch as a network and wait for density; we enter as a paid operator one facility wants on day one, and buy density with revenue, not subsidy.

AI operates the workflow. Source systems prove the facts. Humans make every regulated decision.

The problem

Healthcare workforce readiness is still run by inboxes, spreadsheets, portals, and repeated primary-source checks. The same clinician is re-verified across facilities, renewals, payer enrollments, and surveys. A credentialed provider may still be unprivileged, unmonitored, or not billable. Facilities absorb delays, agency spend, survey risk, and revenue leakage because the work has no durable evidence layer.

Hiring an experienced RN now takes ~78 days on average (NSI Nursing Solutions, 2026 National Health Care Retention & RN Staffing Report), and primary-source credentialing is a large, repeated slice of that window. Rōvn's target is to compress that to under 14 days. System-wide, redundant credentialing and provider-data coordination is estimated to waste ~$5-15B/yr (Rōvn estimate triangulated from CAQH provider-data-maintenance findings and industry analyst credentialing-cost ranges). Every facility pays that tax in parallel.

The product

• Passport - a free, worker-owned record of credentials, documents, attestations, consents, and source receipts.
• Facility workflow layer - intake, screening, credentialing, privileging, monitoring, interview/offer gates, roster management, payer-readiness tracking, missing-item nudges, and proof packets.
• Verified API - read-only evidence rail for healthcare systems that need source-backed workforce facts.

Rōvn does not replace the medical staff office, credentialing committee, MEC, Board, hiring manager, payer enrollment team, or clinical leader. It gives them the evidence, routing, packet, and audit trail to decide faster.

Facilities enter paid at Readiness, $2,500/mo (the dashboard is not free); the free Design Partner Program is retired.

Proof now

• Live production infrastructure at rovn.to and passport.rovn.to running a synthetic credentialing corpus (43 roles × 51 jurisdictionsCoverage grid43 roles × 51 jurisdictions = 2,193 coverage cells · 11.3 + 07.7); no real roster has run through it yet, pre-launchStage03.1 Company Overview · pre-launch by design, zero paying customers, zero signed pilots or design partners by design.
• May 17 credentialing trust hardening and provider lifecycle proof.
• 43 rolesRole coverage43 healthcare roles in the Rōvn workforce catalog · 07.7 + 11.3 coverage grid, 51 jurisdictionsJurisdictional coverage50 US states + DC = 51 jurisdictions · 11.3 coverage grid · 07.7 Source Authority Rail, 2,193 role/state coverage cells, 0 unsupported catalog cells.
• API/source-receipted where live; manual PSV where automation is not live.
• Receipt-bound readiness where enforcement is wired.
• HIPAA-alignedHIPAA posture06.2 HIPAA Posture Memo · canonical procurement-safe phrasing (not 'compliant' / not 'certified') posture with BAA availableBAA posture06.4 Vendor BAA Matrix · customer BAA template at 08.9; AWS + Anthropic BAAs executed.
• Clinical advisor: Dr. Danielle K. MillerFounding Advisor01.9 Advisor Deck · DNP RN · Founding Advisor to Rōvn Advisory Board, DNP, RN, public clinical advisor. Additional clinical, operational, and commercial seats in progress.
• Strategic partnership with healthcare-SaaS implementation depth (10-year operating history, 50+ shipped products, 0 HIPAA violations).

Why now

NCQA's updated standards, effective July 1, 2025, require ongoing monitoring of each provider's license, sanctions, and exclusions at least every 30 days, shortened primary-source verification windows (120 days accreditation, 90 days certification), and escalation of adverse findings to a peer-review body. The quarterly, manual, batch approach now fails survey. Alongside Joint Commission medical staff expectations and payer enrollment pressure, billing for an improperly-credentialed provider remains exposed to False Claims Act liability under Medicare's 60-Day Rule. Facilities need source-backed, exportable proof with named human decisions, and Rōvn is built for that regulated workflow state from the start.

Moat

1. Evidence inventory - every receipt, renewal, exception, and decision improves routing and reduces repeated work.
2. Worker-owned record - proof travels with the worker instead of staying trapped in facility silos. Worker-owned-portable is a business-model reversal incumbents (Medallion, symplr) can't make without abandoning the silo their revenue depends on, Plaid vs. banks. We don't launch as a network; we enter as a paid operator one facility wants on day one, density is bought with revenue, not subsidy.
3. AI workflow engine - the system reads evidence, maps rules, assembles packets, flags gaps, routes exceptions, and creates receipts.
4. Regulated boundary - AI never hires, credentials, privileges, disciplines, reports adverse actions, or makes clinical decisions.
5. Implementation leverage - the implementation partner (under NDA) gives Rōvn healthcare SaaS depth without building a large services bench on day one.

Expansion plan

The ask

Rōvn is raising $2.25MRound sizeRōvn SAFE term sheet · 2026-05 · canonical raise (see 02.1 Use of Funds) on a $15M post-money SAFERound structureRōvn SAFE term sheet · 2026-05 · $2.25M / $15M post-money cap to complete and commercialize the facility workforce operator, open the first paid pilots (none signed yet, targets only), harden compliance/security, expand source access, and build the first repeatable sales motion.

Use of funds: product/engineering support, source access, compliance/security, legal/BAA work, pilot implementation, GTM hire, advisors, AWS/AI/tooling, and operating buffer.

Team

• Giles-Evan Mboumi - Founder & CEO - vision, fundraising, GTM, pilots, recruiting.
• Christian Montgomery - Co-Founder & COO - operations, finance, delivery, security/infra, founding engineer of the deployed attestation pipeline (B.S. Cybersecurity, Kennesaw State).
• Abhishek Jha - CTO - architecture, implementation, infrastructure, reliability (~6 yrs SWE; MS CS; rebuilt a healthcare data pipeline from >1 week to ~90 min across 15M+ records).
• Gokul Shanmugam - CPO - product strategy, roadmap, verification-engine behavior (payer-side at Aetna + provider-side at Athenahealth and Commure).
• engineering partner under NDA - strategic engineering and healthcare SaaS implementation partner.
• Clinical advisory - Dr. Danielle K. MillerFounding Advisor01.9 Advisor Deck · DNP RN · Founding Advisor to Rōvn Advisory Board, DNP, RN (public clinical advisor); advisors Dr. Mohammed Quadri, MD, MBA and Aki Hashmi.

Rōvn turns credentialing from a repeated cost into a reusable evidence asset.

Contact: Giles-Evan Mboumi - gmboumi@rovn.to - cal.com/rovn-entreprise/intro - rovn.to