NPHub

Healthcare Entrepreneur Meetup

By Atlanta Ventures

October 31^st, 2025

On October 29th, 55+ entrepreneurs joined us in person for an insightful morning event! This Atlanta Healthcare Entrepreneur Meetup was not one to miss: HealthIT folks joined A.T. Gimbel and Krish Chopra of NPHub.

These Meetups are part of an ongoing series of talks about Healthcare in Atlanta, with the objective of making Atlanta the premier place to start and grow a HealthIT business. The goal of these meetups is to facilitate connections, hear from industry professionals, and truly dig deeper into Healthcare problems that Atlanta entrepreneurs can help solve.

We started the morning with a networking session. It was a great opportunity to connect with new faces and reconnect with familiar ones before we dove into the event.

About NPHub

NPHub is the #1 clinical placement agency in America, founded to solve the unique problem faced by Nurse Practitioner (NP) students who are unfairly required to find their own clinical rotation preceptors.

NPHub's core mission is to give every NP student the support they deserve by challenging this status quo. Since 2017, the company has built a network of over 2,000 active, vetted preceptors, facilitating 10,000+ placements and helping over 8,000 NP students secure quality clinical rotations to graduate on time.

The service streamlines the process by handling the preceptor match and all necessary paperwork, backed by a 100% Refund & Replacement Perfect Preceptor Promise and offering flexible, industry-first 12-month financing to ensure placements are accessible to every aspiring NP.

The Philosophy of Validation

The NPHub journey began with a non-negotiable step: extensive customer discovery. Krish personally obsessed over the problem, conducting over 300 one-on-one interviews to hear student stories and validate the pain points before building the product. This proved that students were willing to pay for a solution, which is key.

"If the product is too beautiful and they don’t have ROI, we have a red flag."

Scaling with Strategic Hiring

The company's hiring philosophy centered on amplifying Krish's strengths by filling their gaps in execution. The first crucial hire was an "everything person" or executor who handled administrative tasks, paperwork follow-through, and other details that the founder was "horrific" at completing. This move freed Krish to focus on high-value activities like sales and strategy.

The Trigger for Fundraising

In its earliest stages, NPHub embraced bootstrapping, believing that working with scarce capital forces maximum resourcefulness and compels the team to focus only on the most useful solutions that directly move the needle. However, growth led to Krish becoming the bottleneck, personally doing too much and causing everything to "break." The decision to raise capital was highly strategic and made only after a clear growth path was identified.

Post-Fundraising Challenges

After the decision was made to raise capital, the immediate challenge became scaling the organization to move at the required pace. Krish realized they were not prepared to scale by quickly ramping at team without dedicated HR resources. The current focus is on properly staffing the team to handle the execution of their new growth strategy. And... they are hiring now!

Key Takeaways

Validate Before You Build: Conduct extensive customer discovery (e.g., 300+ 1-on-1 interviews) to validate the problem and price point. A beautiful product with no ROI is a failure.
Embrace Resourcefulness: Bootstrapping forces the highest level of resourcefulness, compelling you to find the most useful, needle-moving solutions.
Hire for Gaps: Your first hires should be executors who amplify founder strengths by filling weaknesses like organization and follow-through.
Fundraise for Scale, Not Survival: Only raise capital when a clear, high-ROI initiative is blocked by lack of funds.