NurseRecruiter

What NurseRecruiter does

NurseRecruiter (legally NurseRecruiter.com, LLC, a Delaware LLC headquartered in Austin, Texas) operates a two-sided web-based job board marketplace that connects US-licensed nurses with healthcare employers seeking to fill travel, per diem, and permanent nursing positions. The platform is free for nurse job seekers, who create profiles and apply to listings, while healthcare facilities, home health agencies, correctional institutions, and staffing agencies pay to post jobs and access the candidate database for proactive sourcing. On the technology side, the platform consists of job-listing and profile-management tooling, specialty and location filtering, an in-house personalized job-matching algorithm, an SMS notification and two-way messaging service, and a nationwide nurse candidate database searchable by employers. The business model is freemium on the supply side and subscription-based on the employer-paid side, with monthly billing and a discretionary 30-day money-back guarantee for select new employer clients. Marketing and distribution are anchored on long-tenured SEO through 50 state-specific landing pages, a nursing content blog, and a recurring scholarship program aimed at student nurses. The company is privately held and bootstrapped, has operated since 1999, and supports 11-50 employees.

Name

NurseRecruiter

Legal name

NurseRecruiter.com, LLC

Website

https://nurserecruiter.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

NurseRecruiter is a US two-sided job board marketplace, founded 1999, that connects nurses with healthcare employers across all 50 states. Nurses use the platform free; employers pay to post jobs and search the nationwide nurse candidate database.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nursing Job Board Marketplace

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare Clinical Direct Hire (Nursing/Allied/Physicians) (BPACAFAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Home Care Staffing & Nurse Registry Services (HLAFAEAK)

Keywords

• Nursing job board
• Healthcare staffing marketplace
• Nurse recruitment platform
• Travel nursing jobs
• Healthcare employer hiring

Headquarters

HQ city

Austin

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Employer Job Posting & Database Access: Healthcare facilities and staffing agencies pay to post nursing jobs and access the nurse candidate database. Nurses receive free profiles with access to all job listings.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

NurseRecruiter operates a two-sided online job board marketplace that connects nursing job seekers with healthcare employers across the United States. Nurses create free profiles to search and apply for travel nursing, per diem, and permanent staff RN positions, while healthcare employers pay subscription fees to post jobs and search the nationwide nurse candidate database. The platform serves all 50 U.S. states via localized landing pages and adds value through personalized job matching and SMS/email job alerts.

Product overview

NurseRecruiter is a single unified nursing job board marketplace that connects skilled nurses with healthcare employers. The core platform enables job seekers to search and apply for travel nursing, per diem, and permanent nursing positions nationwide at no cost. For employers, the platform offers job posting services and access to a nurse candidate database. The product portfolio includes specialized job search tools, candidate matching, and location-based job browsing across all U.S. states.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• NurseRecruiter Platform Web-based two-sided nursing job board marketplace connecting nurses (free job seekers) with healthcare employers (paying customers) for travel nursing, per diem, and permanent staff RN positions across all 50 U.S. states. Includes free nurse profile creation, personalized job matching, SMS/email job alerts, and employer-side job posting plus searchable candidate database access.

Quantifiable outcome

• Multiple nurses report receiving multiple job offers within one week of signing up
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• ShiftMed: Direct peer providing a marketplace platform connecting nurses with per diem shifts at hospitals and post-acute facilities. Overlaps with NurseRecruiter's per diem segment and uses similar self-serve employer-paid monetization.
• Vivian Health: Direct peer and the leading venture-backed nursing-focused job marketplace. Connects nurses (especially travel nurses) with employers via a mobile-first platform; competes head-to-head with NurseRecruiter for nursing job seeker mindshare and employer recruitment spend.
• IntelyCare: Direct peer offering a nursing-focused marketplace platform for per diem and shift-based staffing, primarily serving post-acute and long-term care facilities. Comparable in segment focus (nurses) and marketplace GTM motion.
• Incredible Health: Direct peer operating a healthcare professional marketplace with strong focus on permanent nursing placement. Uses algorithmic matching and a candidate-first model similar to NurseRecruiter's employer-paid approach.
• ConnectRN: Direct peer operating a marketplace that matches nurses with shifts at healthcare facilities, with focus on per diem and part-time work. Comparable nurse supply-side audience and employer customer base.
• Trusted Nurse Staffing: Direct peer in the travel nursing staffing space, operating its own candidate matching and job placement platform for nurses across multiple specialties. Comparable two-sided marketplace model for nursing professionals.

Broad incumbents

• ZipRecruiter: Broad incumbent generalist job marketplace with significant healthcare and nursing listings. Competes for SMB and mid-market healthcare employers that might otherwise use NurseRecruiter.
• AMN Healthcare: Broad incumbent and publicly traded healthcare staffing leader; also a customer of NurseRecruiter. Operates travel nursing, per diem, and permanent placement at scale — overlapping with NurseRecruiter's marketplace across multiple nursing modalities.
• Indeed: Broad incumbent generalist job board with massive employer reach and free nursing job listings. Competes with NurseRecruiter for employer recruitment budgets despite lacking nursing-specific specialization.
• Aya Healthcare: Broad incumbent and large travel nursing staffing agency. Operates its own job platform and recruiter network and competes for both nurses and employers in the same travel nursing vertical NurseRecruiter serves.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/nurserec
• Facebookfacebook.com/nurserecruiting
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/nurserecruiter

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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