--- title: Stepful raises $55M to train healthcare workers with AI description: Stepful, a New York-based edtech startup, has raised a $55M Series C led by Oak HC/FT to scale its AI-powered 'school-as-a-service' platform for healthcare... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/stepful-raises-55m-to-train-healthcare-workers-with-ai-jszi6xhvo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Stepful raises $55M to train healthcare workers with AI | daily.dev og:description: Stepful, a New York-based edtech startup, has raised a $55M Series C led by Oak HC/FT to scale its AI-powered 'school-as-a-service' platform for healthcare... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/stepful-raises-55m-to-train-healthcare-workers-with-ai-jszi6xhvo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JSzI6xhVO.png og:image:alt: Stepful raises $55M to train healthcare workers with AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Stepful raises $55M to train healthcare workers with AI **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Stepful, a New York-based edtech startup, has raised a $55M Series C led by Oak HC/FT to scale its AI-powered 'school-as-a-service' platform for healthcare worker training. Having already graduated over 32,000 workers and partnered with 35+ health systems including Mount Sinai and Providence, the company plans to expand into advanced programs like registered nursing and respiratory therapy. Its employer-sponsored, debt-free model ties revenue to measurable outcomes — certification pass rates and job retention — differentiating it from typical AI-in-education ventures. The funding addresses a structural US hospital staffing shortage costing roughly $97B annually in contract staff. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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