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Tim Hwang has spent his career moving between politics, policy, and startups. He worked on Barack Obama\u2019s 2008 presidential campaign, studied public policy at Princeton, and took his first company, FiscalNote, public before he turned 30. Now, at the helm of Nitra, a healthcare financial and operational platform, he\u2019s doing what he calls \u201cthe perfect confluence of everything I\u2019ve worked on in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nitra is an AI-native operating platform built specifically for medical practices. Rather than patching together separate tools for billing, purchasing, scheduling, and insurance verification, Nitra consolidates all of it into a single system powered by AI agents. <\/p>\n
The company targets the administrative layer of healthcare\u2014the back-office work that consumes enormous time and costs inside clinics\u2014and automates it end to end, from expense management and accounting to patient communications and claims filing. It is, in Hwang\u2019s words, designed to replace the fragmented patchwork of software that most practices currently rely on just to keep the lights on.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Nitra announced a $50 million Series B round, bringing its total capital raised to $205 million. The funding comes alongside a milestone: the company\u2019s platform has surpassed $1 billion in annualized processing volume and crossed $33 million in annual recurring revenue as of December 2025, representing approximately eight-fold year-over-year growth. More than 700 clinics are now live on the platform.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019re probably in the first inning of our growth trajectory,\u201d Hwang told Fortune ahead of the announcement. \u201cI honestly believe we can get to a billion dollars in revenue in the next couple of years.\u201d<\/p>\n
A wedge into the back office<\/p>\n
Nitra\u2019s entry point into a practice isn\u2019t a pitch deck or a workflow audit. It\u2019s a credit card. Designed specifically for physicians, the card is linked to a backend suite covering expense management, accounting integration, inventory management, and procurement. Hwang calls it a \u201cTrojan horse.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey start swiping. They\u2019re buying all their medical equipment, their surgical equipment. We\u2019re categorizing all their accounting,\u201d he explained. <\/p>\n
From there, Nitra\u2019s marketplace\u2014Nitra Rx and Nitra Mart\u2014lets doctors buy pharmaceuticals and specialty equipment directly through the platform. AI agents then handle the back-office orchestration: account reconciliation, insurance claim filing, scheduling, benefits verification, and patient communications.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe start very small with the doctor, build trust, get them on the card, get them on our bill pay, get them our accounting system, have them start ordering equipment from us, and then we start orchestrating all of that kind of back-office administrative work using our agents,\u201d Hwang said.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a land-and-expand model applied to one of the most administratively burdened industries in the country. And the pitch is easy. \u201cWhen you go into a doctor and ask how it\u2019s going, most of them just throw up their hands and say they need help,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Doctors overcome supply chain issues\u2014and AI fears<\/p>\n
Hwang credits two forces for Nitra\u2019s breakout growth last year. The first is tariff-driven supply chain pressure. With pharmaceutical, surgical, and medical equipment costs fluctuating sharply, practices are scrambling to control costs they previously didn\u2019t have the tools to track. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat 8% increase on surgical gloves, that 4% increase in syringes\u2014it just sneaks up on them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The second is a broader shift in how physicians relate to technology. As clinical AI tools become standard for scribing and decision support, doctors have grown more comfortable handing the reins of administrative work to software. <\/p>\n
The result: Nitra is onboarding clinics at a pace Hwang describes as daily acceleration. \u201cI just looked at my Slack channel, and we probably onboarded six or seven clinics just today,\u201d he said. He\u2019s projecting the platform will scale from $1 billion in annualized processing volume to approximately $4 billion by year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n
As part of the announcement, Nitra is also bringing on Dr. Richard Park\u2014founder of CityMD and former executive at Summit Health+CityMD\u2014to its board of directors. Hwang called Park \u201ca legend in the healthcare space\u201d who has had \u201cone of the largest exits in healthcare history.\u201d Beyond the credibility signal, Hwang sees Park as a bridge to physician entrepreneurs who run their own practices. \u201cMany founder physicians really look up to Dr. Park as a role model for how he built up CityMD, how he built this whole category of urgent care,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Why healthcare, why now<\/p>\n
For Hwang, his time with Obama wasn\u2019t just a job \u2014 it was a crash course in why healthcare is so hard to fix. Watching policymakers wrestle with the Affordable Care Act as a young staffer showed him just how deeply the system\u2019s dysfunction runs, long before he ever thought about building a company inside it. That early exposure, combined with what he witnessed during COVID, is what ultimately convinced him that the problem was worth a lifetime of work.<\/p>\n
Hwang traces his obsession with healthcare back to March 2020, watching CNN broadcast the crisis of personal protective equipment supplies and the overflows of patients in intensive care units. \u201cWhen you strain the healthcare system like that, you see all the problems very quickly,\u201d he said. So he and co-founder Jonathan Chen decided their next company would be a 20-year project in the biggest industry they could imagine.<\/p>\n
The numbers backed them up. Healthcare is now the single largest employer in the United States, and for many Americans over 45, it is their single largest household expense\u2014surpassing rent and groceries. \u201cIt just shouldn\u2019t be like that,\u201d Hwang said. \u201cIf we can unlock 10 to 20% more time for doctors across the country, that would be a tremendous impact on society.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom a business perspective, yeah, I do think Nitra is going to be a decacorn.\u201d<\/p>\n
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