Nashville Growth Equity Firm Backs Atlanta's NPHub With $20 Million Investment
Atlanta-based NPHub secures $20M from Edison Partners to expand its platform helping nurse practitioners find clinical rotations and full-time jobs—tackling critical healthcare workforce gaps nationwide.
Armed with a new $20 million growth equity investment from Edison Partners, Atlanta-based NPHub is ready to help more nurse practitioners land jobs.
The platform serves a hub for nurse practitioners looking for critical clinical rotation opportunities across the country. To date, the startup has helped over 8,500 nurse practitioners from over 240 programs. In its pilot phase, its NPHire platform already has over 6,500 graduates actively seeking full-time positions.
Helping nurse practitioners find opportunities is critical for the overall healthcare system as demand for their skills continues to grow, said NPHub co-founder and CEO Krish Chopra. Before launching the startup, he was working on another company helping medical students land clinical placements. It was there when he realized another key group of healthcare professionals, nurse practitioners, had an even harder time finding jobs and rotations.
“Many couldn’t graduate because they couldn’t secure even one rotation. Some were delayed 6–12 months, and unlike med students, they had almost no university support,” Chopra told Hypepotamus. “It was clear the system was broken, and no one was solving it. At the same time, nurse practitioners were becoming one of the fastest-growing roles in healthcare. The timing, the need, and the opportunity all lined up.”
“Scrappy, Bootstrapped Roots”
Chopra told Hypepotamus that he had first met with the Edison team at Venture Atlanta in 2023. But conversations “really kicked off in February,” on what happened to be Chopra’s birthday.
“From the start, the alignment felt strong. Kelly [Ford, General Partner at Edison], has an operating background and has led and scaled multiple organizations herself, so the conversations were grounded in first-hand insights and experience, not theoretical. It was easy to build trust,” Chopra said. “We were in a great position with multiple offers on the table, but ultimately chose Edison because they had a track record of backing companies that are built on sustainable growth, not just short-term wins. They also understood and celebrated our scrappy, bootstrapped roots—which mattered a lot to us.”
This is NPHub’s first round of outside funding, according to Crunchbase.
“The company is already delivering tremendous value across the nursing ecosystem with students, universities and healthcare providers and poised to scale through an expanded set of services for nurses and other advanced practice healthcare professionals,” Ford added in a press statement.
Doubling Atlanta Opportunities
The NPHub team is currently made up of 70 employees. Across the globe, the team includes people in sales, engineering, marketing, success, and operations roles. Atlanta, the company’s HQ, serves as the largest talent hub for the company.
Over the course of the next twelve months, Chopra said NPHub plans to double its Atlanta-based headcount.“Atlanta has been an amazing home base. Coming from New York City in 2014, the cost of living really helped. As a bootstrapped founder for most of our journey until now, Atlanta gave us the breathing room to build something real before we ever needed to raise capital,” Chopra added. “And there’s a deep talent pool here that is hungry and wants opportunities—especially new graduates. With the University of Georgia, Emory, Georgia Tech, and Georgia State nearby, we’ve had access to strong talent across disciplines.”
-Featured photo shows CEO Krish Chopra (provided by NPHub)
