What Ecura does

Ecura Care AS is a Norwegian for-profit private limited company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Østensjøveien 14A, Oslo, with a regional office in Steinkjer and an international recruitment office in Alicante, Spain. The company operates as a healthcare staffing agency that recruits and places temporary and contract healthcare personnel — including nurses (sykepleiere), specialist nurses (spesialsykepleiere), healthcare workers (helsefagarbeidere), assistants, medical students, and doctors — into Norwegian municipalities, public hospitals, and private healthcare institutions. Ecura states it is the first-tier supplier to all public hospitals in Norway and holds agreements with more than 150 municipalities (over 200 per the nurse-facing page), covering services such as home nursing, nursing homes, emergency clinics, mental health and substance abuse services, and 1:1 / 2:1 specialized care assignments.

Ecura has no proprietary technology platform. Its stack is built on third-party systems: Recman for candidate registration, job applications, and shift management; Visma Employee and Visma Expense for payroll and travel reimbursement; Cookie Information for GDPR consent management; and Google Analytics and LinkedIn Insight Tag for marketing analytics. The company supplements these with operational infrastructure for international recruitment — notably Norwegian language courses and relocation logistics run from its Alicante office — and an employee-facing Health Course Portal (Helsekursportalen) that delivers free professional development content. The company holds ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, and ISO 45001 certifications and is verified on the Factlines platform for 2025.

Ecura's revenue model is professional services: it earns placement fees by acting as an intermediary between healthcare institutions (its paying customers) and healthcare professionals (its supply side). Pricing is not publicly disclosed; candidates are directed to contact the company or register via the Recman portal. Go-to-market is enterprise field sales into the Norwegian public sector, with the candidate funnel driven by the multi-language website, content marketing featuring employee stories, the Recman self-registration platform, and community referrals from international healthcare worker networks in Spain. The company reports 11-50 employees and has no disclosed funding rounds, revenue figures, or ownership structure in the input data.

Name

Ecura

Legal name

Ecura Care AS

Website

https://ecuracare.no

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Ecura Care AS is a Norwegian healthcare staffing agency that places temporary nurses, specialist nurses, healthcare workers, assistants, and students into Norwegian municipalities, public hospitals, and private institutions, operating as first-tier supplier to all public hospitals in Norway and recruiting internationally from Spain.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Oslo

HQ country

Norway

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Staffing Placement: Ecura Care generates revenue by placing qualified healthcare personnel (nurses, specialist nurses, healthcare workers, assistants, medical students, and doctors) in temporary or contract positions with healthcare institutions. The company acts as a staffing intermediary, earning fees from healthcare institutions (municipalities, hospitals, private institutions) for providing vetted, qualified temporary staff.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Ecura Care is a healthcare staffing agency that recruits and places temporary healthcare personnel — nurses, specialist nurses, healthcare workers, assistants, medical students, and doctors — with Norwegian municipalities, public hospitals, and private healthcare institutions. The company operates as a first-tier supplier to all public hospitals in Norway and holds agreements with 150-200+ municipalities, providing end-to-end support including Norwegian authorization, paid travel and accommodation, personal coordinators, and free professional development courses.

Product overview

Ecura is a healthcare staffing agency that operates as a unified platform connecting healthcare professionals with healthcare institutions across Norway. The core product, Ecura Care, offers staffing solutions for municipalities, hospitals, and private institutions. The service portfolio includes specialized placement for nurses (sykepleiere), specialist nurses (spesialsykepleiere), healthcare workers (helsefagarbeidere), other healthcare personnel, and students. Ecura also provides supplementary services including the Health Course Portal (Helsekursportalen) for employee training and the Vikarprofil registration platform for candidate management. The company holds agreements with over 150 Norwegian municipalities and serves as primary supplier to all public hospitals in Norway.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Healthcare Staffing Placement (Ecura Care) Core temporary staffing service for healthcare professionals (nurses, specialist nurses, healthcare workers, assistants, doctors, students) placed with municipalities, public hospitals, and private healthcare institutions across Norway.
• Nurse Staffing (Sykepleier) Placement services for general nurses seeking assignments at hospitals, nursing homes, and home care services throughout Norway, with first-tier supplier status to all Norwegian hospitals providing broad assignment access.
• Specialist Nurse Staffing (Spesialsykepleier) Placement services for specialist nurses in anesthesiology, intensive care, operating room, pediatric, psychiatric, emergency, oncology, dialysis, and midwifery specialties at hospitals throughout Norway.
• Healthcare Worker Staffing (Helsefagarbeider) Placement services for certified healthcare workers for nursing homes, home care services, and specialized care facilities for patients with complex needs.
• Student Placement Placement program for medical and nursing students seeking part-time or summer work experience in Norwegian healthcare facilities, including support for group placements.
• Vikarprofil — Temporary Worker Registration Online registration platform where healthcare professionals create profiles, browse available assignments, receive job recommendations, and manage applications through Ecura's recruitment system.
• Helsekursportalen (Health Course Portal) Online learning platform providing free professional development courses for Ecura employees, including both general and specialized healthcare courses such as medication handling and wound care.

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• VismacoreTechnology or IntegrationVisma provides enterprise software used by Ecura Care for HR management. Healthcare workers use Visma Employee app for payroll slips and expense management, and Visma Expense for travel reimbursement submissions. Ecura accesses the platform at ecura.enterprise.visma.no.
• increo.nominorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partnerincreo.no provides design and development services for Ecura Care's website and digital presence.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Direct peers

• Dedicare: Dedicare is a Swedish healthcare staffing firm placing nurses, doctors, and specialists across the Nordics. It is the most direct peer to Ecura given the matching healthcare-temporary-staffing model and overlapping Nordic customer base of hospitals and municipalities.
• Bemannia: Bemannia is a Norwegian staffing and recruitment agency with a public-sector focus. It directly competes with Ecura for healthcare and administrative staffing contracts with Norwegian municipalities and hospitals under similar framework-agreement structures.

Broad incumbents

• Humana: Humana is a Nordic personal care and staffing group operating individual and family care services plus healthcare staffing across Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Comparable to Ecura given its Nordic healthcare staffing presence in the same geographies.
• Randstad: Randstad is a global staffing leader with a healthcare practice serving hospitals and care providers across Europe. It overlaps with Ecura in healthcare temp staffing but operates at vastly greater scale and breadth.
• ManpowerGroup: ManpowerGroup is one of the world's largest staffing firms with a healthcare segment that places nurses and clinical staff across Europe. Comparable to Ecura in core service offering but operates as a broad multi-industry incumbent.
• Adecco Group: Adecco Group is a global staffing leader with a dedicated healthcare/life sciences division operating across Europe including the Nordics. It competes with Ecura for healthcare temp contracts but as part of a much broader portfolio across industries and geographies.
• Ambea: Ambea is a major Nordic care services operator running its own elderly care, disability care, and healthcare staffing businesses across Sweden, Norway, and Finland. It is a comparable Nordic peer given its Norwegian footprint and healthcare staffing activities.

Regional players

• Academic Work: Academic Work is a Nordic staffing firm focused on graduate and young professionals. It is comparable to Ecura as a Nordic staffing operator using a similar recruitment-and-placement model, though focused on a different candidate segment.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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