Problem

Bemlo addresses the healthcare workforce shortage and the operational burden of filling temporary and longer-term vacancies. Healthcare staffing managers often juggle email, SMS, spreadsheets, phone calls, and multiple systems to maintain safe staffing, while organizations can face long lead times for coverage and high external-agency costs. The core use case is filling vacant shifts quickly: Bemlo says healthcare employers such as clinics, hospitals, and nursing homes can secure staffing within 24 hours instead of a typical three-month lead time.

The economics are visible in reduced administration and agency dependence. Danderyd Hospital reports saving SEK 13 million per year and cutting administration for temporary staffing and scheduling by 75%, while AbleCare Homes reports reducing its reliance on staffing agencies by 90% after four months. These outcomes suggest the main value is not simply job matching, but lowering the cost and management effort required to keep shifts covered.

Product / Service

Bemlo is a cloud-based, B2B healthcare workforce-management platform with a mobile app for employees. It combines AI scheduling, internal staffing pools, external-agency management, communications, analytics, compliance documentation, payroll and invoicing integrations, and access to a marketplace of more than 20,000 vetted healthcare professionals. Organizations configure care needs, scheduling rules, staff availability, qualifications, and preferences; Bemlo then automatically assigns or recommends staff for shifts.

Unfilled shifts can be escalated to approved staffing agencies, with permanent, internal-pool, and agency workers managed in the same schedule. The platform centralizes applications, availability, communications, compliance records, time reporting, and invoicing, reducing manual work and helping organizations use internal staff before turning to more expensive external labor. Bemlo also positions preference-aware AI scheduling as a retention benefit because it gives staff more flexibility and accounts for workload and well-being.

Market

Bemlo competes in the intersection of healthcare staffing marketplaces, healthcare workforce-management software, and AI-enabled employee scheduling. Its initial model connected nurses and doctors with care providers and staffing agencies, while its current product targets public and private healthcare and social-care organizations that need to manage both internal pools and external contingent labor. The competitive set includes healthcare-specific staffing marketplaces such as Clipboard Health, Medwing, and Pflegia, as well as broader workforce-management and scheduling platforms; Bemlo differentiates by combining the marketplace with end-to-end healthcare staffing operations.

The company was founded in 2021, joined Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch, and was still listed as active with 13 employees in July 2026. It announced a roughly $3.3 million seed round in July 2022, reported more than 20% month-on-month growth in the first half of 2022 and tens of thousands of nurses and doctors using the marketplace at that time, and later advertised a pool of more than 20,000 vetted professionals. Bemlo expanded from Sweden into Norway and the UK and completed its acquisition of Swedish-Norwegian workforce-management provider Vivium in 2024. The available evidence demonstrates operating traction and customer outcomes, but does not establish a current revenue figure or support labeling the company pre-revenue.