Stepful’s $31.5M Investment Focuses on People Over Tech to Transform Healthcare Training

Carl Madi knows the power of transformation. Having spent much of his career with platforms like Uber and Handy, Madi was instrumental in bringing thousands of workers into the gig economy, helping them find jobs as drivers, handymen, and cleaners. But the pandemic reshaped his outlook entirely. Seeing so many people lose their livelihoods overnight, he realized that gig work wasn’t always a stable path to economic security. When he saw the tremendous strain on healthcare, he saw an opportunity to create something more stable and transformative: an accessible, fast-track healthcare training program that could open doors for underserved communities. From this vision, Stepful was born. Launched in 2021 with co-founders Tressia Hobeika, a former executive at Udacity, and ex-Apple enginee