Pulse Healthcare Staffing

What Pulse Healthcare Staffing does

Pulse Healthcare Staffing (commercial brand "Pulse!") is a Flemish project staffing agency that supplies nurses to healthcare institutions across Belgium's Flanders region. Founded in 2019 "by and for nurses," the firm is operated through two affiliated Belgian legal entities — PulseHCS N.V. (enterprise number 0728.657.070) and Pulse! N.V. (enterprise number 0788.915.549) — both headquartered at Crosspoint, Veldkant 31-2, 2550 Kontich. The company deploys nurses for short-term (1–3 month) and long-term (>3 month) project assignments into general and university hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, home care providers, residential care centers (woonzorgcentra), and study/company-nurse placements, with active coverage across all five Flemish provinces (Oost-Vlaanderen, West-Vlaanderen, Antwerpen, Limburg, Vlaams-Brabant).

The core service is B2B project staffing mediated by a consultative sales process — a free exploratory conversation, a framework agreement (raamakkoord), candidate screening, presentation of a Pulse-CV, and an on-site introductory interview attended by a Pulse team coach. Nurses are recruited under permanent contracts of indefinite duration with a rich extralegal benefits package (company car with fuel card, hospitalization and group insurance, meal vouchers, 13th month, shift premiums, training budget, benefits platform), and the firm also supports freelance/self-employed nurses who outsource client acquisition to Pulse. Underlying technology is minimal: a Squarespace-hosted marketing website, an internal CRM for prospection and candidate management, and standard first-party/third-party cookies. No proprietary AI/ML platform, matching algorithm, mobile application, or public API is described.

The business model is managed-services staffing: the institution pays a quote-based project staffing fee per assignment, while Pulse employs the nurse on a permanent contract and captures the spread between client billing and nurse compensation. There is no publicly disclosed price list or revenue figure; pricing is established per engagement through framework agreements and varies by assignment length and nurse profile. Distribution is fully direct — no marketplaces, resellers, or franchise operators — with enterprise field sales to healthcare institutions and self-serve online application by nurses. The company is privately held with no disclosed funding rounds, parent company, or institutional investors in the source material.

Name

Pulse Healthcare Staffing

Legal name

PulseHCS N.V.

Website

https://pulsehcs.be

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Pulse Healthcare Staffing is a Belgian nurse staffing firm founded in 2019, placing screened nurses into Flemish healthcare institutions for short- and long-term project assignments under permanent employment contracts.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Staffing Services

NAICS

Home Health Care Services (62161), Continuing Care Retirement Communities and Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly (62331)

SIC

Services-Home Health Care Services (8082), Services-Nursing & Personal Care Facilities (8050)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare Clinical & Allied Health Staffing (BPACADAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Temporary, On-Demand & Short-Notice Caregiver Staffing (HSABAMAE)

Keywords

• Healthcare staffing services
• Nursing project staffing
• Temporary nurse placement
• Healthcare workforce solutions
• Medical recruitment services

Headquarters

HQ city

Edegem

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Project staffing fees from healthcare institutions: Healthcare institutions (woonzorgcentra, hospitals, psychiatric institutions, home care, study bureaus) contract Pulse via a framework agreement (raamakkoord) to receive nurses on short-term (1-3 months) and long-term (>3 months) project assignments. Pulse is paid by the institution for the staffing service; pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. Nurses themselves are employed by Pulse on permanent contracts of indefinite duration, so the firm captures the spread between client billing and nurse compensation.
2. Freelance / self-employed nurse placement support: Pulse also works with self-employed (freelance) nurses who conduct their own home care or institutional nursing work and partner with Pulse to source client assignments, with Pulse providing coaching, training opportunities, and a hospitalization insurance benefit.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Pulse Healthcare Staffing (operating as Pulse!) provides project-based nursing staffing to healthcare institutions across Flanders, Belgium. The firm employs nurses on permanent contracts and seconds them to woonzorgcentra, hospitals, psychiatric institutions, home care providers, and study bureaus for short-term (1-3 months) or long-term (>3 months) assignments under framework agreements. Founded in 2019 by and for nurses, Pulse also supports freelance/self-employed nurses and provides a comprehensive extralegal benefits package including company car, hospitalization insurance, and training budget.

Product overview

Pulse Healthcare Staffing offers a single core service — project staffing for the Flemish healthcare sector — centered on its main "Projectstaffing in de zorgsector" product, under which Pulse (founded in 2019, based in Kontich, Belgium) matches screened nurses to client care institutions for short- and long-term assignments. The portfolio is structured as one core service with multiple role-based worker offerings layered on top: the Projectverpleegkundige (project nurse) track, the Hoofdverpleegkundige (head nurse) track, the HBO5 verpleegkundige track, and the Freelance verpleegkundige track. The client-facing Werken met tijdelijke verpleegkundigen offering operationalizes how institutions engage Pulse (intake → framework agreement → candidate introduction → on-site interview → work agreement). A shared benefits layer — most visibly the Verpleegkundige met bedrijfswagen package (company car, fuel card, hospitalization and group insurance, training budget, benefits platform) — is applied across the worker offerings, with continuous coaching by team-coaches and HR-led support linking the named products together.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Projectstaffing in de zorgsector (Healthcare Project Staffing) Core staffing service through which Pulse supplies (head)nurses to healthcare institutions across Flanders for short-term (1-3 months) and long-term (>3 months) project assignments, including screening, onboarding, and matching by Pulse team coaches.
• Werken met tijdelijke verpleegkundigen (Working with Temporary Nurses) B2B offering for healthcare institutions covering intake, exploratory conversations, framework agreements (raamakkoord), candidate introductions via Pulse CVs, on-site kennismakingsgesprek interviews, and work agreements; designed for general/university hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, home care, residential care centers, and study bureaus.
• Vacature Projectverpleegkundige (Project Nurse Vacancy) Open recruitment track for nurses holding an HBO5 or bachelor's diploma to be deployed as project nurses across Flemish provinces (East/West Flanders, Antwerp, Limburg, Flemish Brabant), bundled with an extralegal benefits package (company car with fuel card, hospitalization insurance, group insurance, meal vouchers, training budget, benefits platform).
• Vacature Hoofdverpleegkundige (Head Nurse Vacancy) Recruitment track for experienced head nurses who combine clinical nursing expertise with coaching and organizational leadership, deployed via project staffing to client care institutions in their home region across Flanders.
• Vacature HBO5 Verpleegkundige (HBO5 Nurse Vacancy) Targeted recruitment track for nurses with an HBO5 diploma in nursing, offering indefinite-duration contracts and deployment on diverse projects within the Flemish care sector.
• Freelance Verpleegkundige (Freelance Nurse Service) Service path for self-employed / freelance nurses (including self-employed home nurses) who want Pulse to handle client matching and project sourcing in exchange for customized coaching, training opportunities, and a hospitalization insurance benefit.

Quantifiable outcome

• Founded in 2019 and has experienced 'mooie groei in de afgelopen jaren' (meaningful growth in recent years); no quantified revenue, headcount, or placement figures are publicly disclosed.
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Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor operational vendor, core intra-group entity, core operational infrastructure and minor support function.

• Kapture ([email protected])minor operational vendorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerKapture acts as the Data Protection Officer service provider for both PulseHCS N.V. and Pulse! N.V. The privacy and cookie policies explicitly direct all privacy-related questions, comments, complaints, and rights-exercise requests to [email protected]. Kapture is therefore an operational vendor handling GDPR/AVG compliance for the company.
• Verbonden en geassocieerde vennootschappen (Pulse! N.V. / PulseHCS N.V.)core intra-group entityOthersPulse! N.V. (ondernemingsnummer 0788.915.549) and PulseHCS N.V. (ondernemingsnummer 0728.657.070) are co-registered entities sharing the same maatschappelijke zetel at Veldkant 31, 2550 Kontich. The privacy policy repeatedly references the sharing of personal data with 'verbonden en geassocieerde vennootschappen' for purposes including recruitment matching, indicating they operate as a coordinated group.
• CRM-platform provider (unnamed)core operational infrastructureTechnology or IntegrationUsed as a processor for customer-relationship management, prospection of new clients and suppliers, and recruitment data processing. The specific CRM vendor is not named in the public privacy policy.
• Hosting partner (unnamed)core operational infrastructureTechnology or IntegrationReferenced as a processor used to host the website and handle contact-form / relationship-management workloads. The specific hosting vendor is not named in the public privacy policy.
• Rekruteringskantoren (recruitment agencies, unnamed)minor support functionImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerReferenced as processors used for werving en selectie (recruitment and selection) of nurse candidates. Specific agency names are not disclosed in the public privacy policy.
• Evenementenbedrijven en catering (event companies and caterers, unnamed)minor support functionOthersReferenced as processors engaged for organizing Pulse's internal teamevents (afterworks, BBQs, trips). Specific vendor names are not disclosed.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Synergie Belgium: Belgian staffing network with healthcare recruitment; comparable on serving Flemish employers and candidate sourcing, but with a wider industry mix.
• Luba: Dutch-Belgian staffing group with healthcare placements; comparable on healthcare interim work and cross-border nurse sourcing, though broader and larger than Pulse.
• Randstad Belgium: Largest general staffing group in Belgium with a dedicated healthcare (Randstad Health) vertical serving hospitals and care homes. Comparable because it competes for both nursing clients and candidates, but is broader in scope and substantially larger than Pulse.
• Tempo-Team Belgium: Major Belgian staffing brand covering healthcare alongside other verticals; comparable on the healthcare placement motion and Belgian footprint, though broader in sectoral coverage.
• Adecco Belgium: Global staffing leader with a Belgian healthcare placement practice. Directly competes for the same Flemish institutional clients and the same nurse talent pool as Pulse, but operates a much wider portfolio including industrial and office placements.

Direct peers

• Xtra People: Belgian recruiter focused on healthcare and care-sector staffing in Flanders; closely comparable on target customer (care institutions) and candidate profile (nurses, care staff).
• Vivaldis: Belgian staffing agency with a strong healthcare vertical placing nurses and care staff in Flemish institutions. Closely matches Pulse's project-staffing, Flemish-focused, multi-domain care model.
• Accent Jobs: Belgian staffing group active across Flanders with dedicated healthcare recruitment and interim staffing; competes head-to-head with Pulse for both care institutions and nursing candidates.
• Ago Jobs: Belgian staffing firm placing care and nursing staff in Flemish institutions; competes directly with Pulse on healthcare project staffing and candidate acquisition.

Others

• ManpowerGroup Belgium: Pan-Belgian staffing firm with healthcare interim/recruitment offerings; comparable as a direct competitor for nursing placements and as a destination employer for healthcare candidates, but at much greater scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/pulse_hcs
• Facebookfacebook.com/pulsehcs
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/pulsehcs

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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

M&A

Investments

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