Nursegrid
AcquiredFounded 2013 · 12 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors
Nursegrid is a mobile app for nurses to manage their work schedules, connect with colleagues, and stay organized. Built by nurses, it serves registered nurses across the United States.
Also known as NurseGrid
Investors · 4
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Nursegrid builds mobile and web scheduling and workforce tools for nurses, other healthcare workers, and the departments that manage them. Its core product is a free app that lets nurses enter and view their work calendar, compare schedules with colleagues, swap or give away shifts, store licenses and certifications with expiration reminders, earn continuing education credits through Nursegrid Learn, and browse or receive matched job opportunities.
On the employer side, Nursegrid Manager digitizes departmental scheduling, replacing spreadsheets and paper with tools for building and distributing schedules, self-scheduling, filling open shifts, and approving or denying swaps and giveaways, with changes pushed in real time to staff in the Nursegrid mobile app. Nursegrid Talent supports hiring for full-time, part-time, PRN and contract roles, and Nursegrid Promote offers access to the company's nurse audience. The company states it serves more than 650,000 active users, reports 3.3 million nurse-to-nurse connections and 89 million shifts tracked, and says one in five US registered nurses uses the product.
Nursegrid is part of HealthStream, a healthcare workforce solutions company described on Nursegrid's site as having over 30 years of experience; HealthStream's hStream ID provides Nursegrid sign-up and login.
Founding story
Joe Novello, a registered nurse, began his career at the University of California, San Francisco, where he found workforce and workflow processes poorly organized, and observed similar problems at other hospitals while working as an agency nurse. As a clinical leader he later saw the downstream effects of those problems, including poor staffing, nurse burnout and reduced patient throughput, and a disconnect between staff nurses, managers and executives. Drawing on prior experience as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, he founded NurseGrid in Portland, Oregon in 2013 to build scheduling and staffing technology specifically for nurses.
Business model
Nursegrid distributes a free consumer mobile app to nurses and other healthcare workers and monetizes through paid products sold to healthcare employers: Nursegrid Manager, a departmental scheduling platform priced at $5 per staff member per month; Nursegrid Talent for hiring; and Nursegrid Promote for reaching its nurse audience. Manager is offered with a 30-day free trial and is aimed at teams of roughly 2 to 250 staff. The approach is a bottom-up, product-led motion in which adoption by individual nurses creates a base for enterprise sales.
Subscription software sold to healthcare organizations, with Nursegrid Manager priced at $5 per staff member per month (for example, $125 per month for 25 staff), plus recruiting (Nursegrid Talent) and audience-reach (Nursegrid Promote) offerings. The nurse-facing mobile app is free to healthcare workers.
Traction
Nursegrid reports more than 650,000 active users, 3.3 million nurse-to-nurse connections, 89 million shifts tracked, over 117,000 App Store reviews with a 4.9-star average, and use by one in five US registered nurses. Earlier milestones included approaching 500,000 mobile downloads by January 2018, use by nearly half a million nurses in 2017 with a 4.7 App Store rating, 99% support satisfaction on the paid manager platform, and 85% of nurses reporting greater work satisfaction when their department used the technology.
Latest developments
Nursegrid is now part of HealthStream, with hStream ID powering account creation and login and further integration of nurse-focused services indicated. The product line has expanded from the original schedule app to a suite covering calendar, colleagues, portfolio and credentials, continuing education, jobs, Nursegrid Manager for team scheduling, Nursegrid Talent for hiring, and Nursegrid Promote.
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Market position
Nursegrid describes itself as the leading app for nurses, citing more than 650,000 active users, over 117,000 App Store reviews, a 4.9-star average rating, and adoption by one in five US registered nurses. In 2018 the company was described as a player in healthcare scheduling and staffing technology competing with established vendors such as McKesson, Cerner Clairvia and GE Healthcare Centricity.
Founder Joe Novello, a registered nurse, has said NurseGrid was built mobile-first and around what nurses ask for, whereas competing nurse scheduling products started as online software and were later moved to mobile and focus on time-keeping and schedule construction rather than real-time shift changes. The company points to nurse founders and staff with clinical backgrounds, strong user allegiance, and a large connected network of nurses as its distinguishing assets, along with a bottom-up product-led growth strategy that begins with end users rather than administrators.
Technology
A mobile-first platform available on iPhone, Android and desktop browser, built around a color-coded shift calendar with colleague schedule sharing, shift swaps and giveaways, credential tracking with expiration reminders, continuing education, and job matching. Nursegrid Manager integrates with the mobile app so that schedule changes and open shifts propagate to staff in real time. Authentication is provided by HealthStream's hStream ID.
Go-to-market
Nursegrid uses a bottom-up, product-led strategy: a free app for nurses and other healthcare workers builds a user base, and paid platforms are then sold to their employers. Nursegrid Manager is marketed with a 30-day free trial and a self-serve onboarding flow (select worksite, define department, add shift types, invite staff), and is positioned to reach care teams on a platform staff already use. Enterprise deals with healthcare facilities were part of the model as early as 2018.
Registered nurses and other healthcare workers, including techs and respiratory therapists, on the consumer side; on the organizational side, nursing departments and care teams of roughly 2 to 250 staff, such as critical access hospitals, hospital departments, surgery centers and clinics, plus enterprise healthcare employers hiring full-time, part-time, PRN and contract staff.
Geography
Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with a user base described as nationwide across the United States.
History
Joe Novello, a registered nurse who had worked at the University of California, San Francisco and later as an agency nurse and clinical leader, founded NurseGrid in Portland, Oregon in 2013. The company first raised angel funding, bootstrapped, and then raised venture capital. In January 2018 it announced a $5.7 million round led by Hatteras Venture Partners, bringing total funding to $9.3 million, at a point when it was nearing its 500,000th mobile download and closing enterprise deals; the team had grown nearly 50% during 2017 and reached 34 employees by April 2018. The product line later expanded beyond the original nurse calendar into colleague scheduling, credential storage, continuing education (Nursegrid Learn), a jobs board, Nursegrid Manager and Nursegrid Talent. Nursegrid is now part of HealthStream, and its accounts are powered by HealthStream's hStream ID.
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Competitors · 3
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Companies competing with Nursegrid for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsNurseGrid announced a $5.7 million funding round led by new investor Hatteras Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Excelerate Health Ventures, Toba Capital, Healthbox and the Portland Seed Fund. Proceeds were earmarked for team growth, product-line expansion, float-pool and self-scheduling features, and building out a mobile Jobs Board.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Nursegrid do?
- Nursegrid makes a free scheduling and career app for nurses plus paid scheduling, hiring and outreach tools for care teams.
- Who are Nursegrid's investors?
- Nursegrid's investors include Excelerate Health Ventures, Hatteras Venture Partners, Portland Seed Fund, Toba Capital.