Iman Abuzeid

Meet the fourth Black woman in history to build a billion-dollar company.

Iman Abuzeid was raised in a family of surgeons.

Her father and brothers practiced medicine, and she followed the same path, earning her MD from University College London.

But she quickly realized she didn’t want to only treat one patient at a time.

So she moved to the U.S., earned her MBA at Wharton, and joined McKinsey to work in healthcare strategy.

Then she led product at AliveCor, where she helped launch FDA-approved algorithms and 6x’ed app downloads.

She co-founded a healthtech app for wellness pros, Lift League.

And in 2017, she launched Incredible Health with cofounder Rome Portlock, an MIT computer science grad from a family of nurses.

The problem was obvious: hospitals were desperate to hire, while nurses were drowning in outdated job boards and recruiters.

So they flipped the model.

Instead of nurses applying to hospitals, hospitals now apply to nurses.

They built the first and only career marketplace focused entirely on permanent healthcare workers. Not travel nurses, not contractors.

They used AI and proprietary algorithms to match the right nurse to the right role.

It worked.

Today, over one million nurses and technicians use the platform.

More than 1,500 hospitals and health systems (including Johns Hopkins, Cedars-Sinai, and Kaiser Permanente) rely on it to hire.

Hiring times dropped from 90 days to under 20.

Hospitals save over $5 million per year.

Nurses who use Incredible Health report 17% salary increases and 15% shorter commutes.

Incredible Health hides profile photos and location data.

It uses avatars to avoid appearance bias.

It randomizes listings to prevent favoritism.

And it gives every nurse a dedicated career advocate (often a fellow nurse) to coach them through the process.

Iman raised $100M from top-tier firms including Andreessen Horowitz, Obvious Ventures, Base10, and from health systems like Kaiser Permanente and Johns Hopkins.

In 2022, Incredible Health reached a $1.65B valuation.

That made Iman Abuzeid the fourth Black woman in history to build a unicorn.

In 2024, Forbes named her to their Self-Made Women list with an estimated $350 million net worth.

Her response?

“You overlook female CEOs or Black CEOs at your own expense. They’re driving enormous value.”