Stedi
Stedi builds APIs for healthcare transaction processing, serving as a programmable clearinghouse. The company has raised $145M and employs 160 people.
The growth story
Stedi grew from 65 to 160 employees between 2021 and 2026, raising $145M along the way, most recently a Series C in March 2026.
About
Stedi provides API-based infrastructure for healthcare transactions, enabling payers and providers to exchange data. Its platform focuses on reliability, scalability and engineering rigor for handling sensitive medical information.
The company has raised $145M through Series C funding. With 160 employees, it draws engineering talent heavily from Amazon Web Services and Amazon, suggesting a focus on cloud-native architecture.
Founders and leadership
Engineering is Stedi's largest function with 53 staff, accounting for a third of total headcount. The company has a median tenure of 1 year, indicating relatively high turnover.
The Stedi org chart
Zack Kanter (Founder & CEO) leads 57 mapped leaders with 4 direct reports. Click +N to expand a team; names link to the person’s public profile.
Departments, and which ones grew
Headcount by function: Engineering 60 (+82% YoY), Sales 28 (+133% YoY), Operations 21 (+250% YoY), Business Development 9 (+29% YoY), Information Technology 6 (0% YoY), Customer Success and Support 5 (+150% YoY).
Talent flow
Stedi recruits heavily from Amazon Web Services (23 hires) and Amazon (13 hires), with smaller inflows from NexHealth and Deloitte. Alumni frequently move to infrastructure startups like Fluidstack and Runlayer.
Most common previous employers of Stedi staff: Amazon Web Services (AWS) (23), Amazon (13), NexHealth (6), Deloitte (4), Microsoft (4), Oscar Health (4). Former Stedi employees most often moved to Fluidstack (6), Braintrust (3), Runlayer (3), Amazon Web Services (AWS) (3), Figma (3), Runway (2).
Alumni worth knowing
The Stedi mafia
Stedi alumni have founded 7 companies, including Runlayer (43 staff) and TrueOps (10 staff), showing a pattern of spinning out infrastructure startups.
7Vitor Balocco, was Senior Software Engineer until 2023Pablo Cantero, was Engineering until 2022Denis Zgonjanin, was Software Engineer until 2022Nicole Doyle, was Head of People until 2020Nick Wein, was Customer Operations until 2023Scott T., was Software Engineer until 2019
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Web traffic
Traffic mix: 61% direct, 31% search, 2% social, 1% paid.
What this company is made of
Most common skills at Stedi: Python (Programming Language) (51), SQL (51), Microsoft Excel (47), JavaScript (45), Leadership (45), Microsoft Office (43), Java (42), Project Management (34).
Where the team actually sits
Stedi people are concentrated in New York, United States (19), California, United States (15), British Columbia, Canada (9), New York City Metropolitan Area (7).
Search footprint
Stedi attracts about 3,345 organic search visits a month, traffic worth roughly $66K a month if bought through ads. It gained 1,132 ranking keywords and lost 1,117 in the last period.
What employees say
- Compensation
- 4.50 / 5
- Career opportunities
- 3.90 / 5
- Senior management
- 4.10 / 5
- Work-life balance
- 3.60 / 5
Frequently asked
Stedi has 160 employees as of September 2026.
Stedi has raised $145M in total, most recently a Series C round in March 2026.
Stedi was founded in 2017 by Zack Kanter.
Zack Kanter (Founder & CEO) sits at the top of Stedi's reporting structure, with 4 direct reports.
The most common previous employers of current Stedi staff are Amazon Web Services (AWS) (23 people), Amazon (13 people), NexHealth (6 people).
Former Stedi employees most often move to Fluidstack (6), Braintrust (3), Runlayer (3).
At least 7 companies have a founder who previously worked at Stedi, including Runlayer, TrueOps, Downpay.
Stedi attracts about 3,345 organic search visits a month, worth roughly $66K a month in equivalent ad spend.
The most common skills among Stedi staff are Python (Programming Language), SQL, Microsoft Excel, JavaScript, Leadership.
Stedi staff are concentrated in New York, United States (19), California, United States (15), British Columbia, Canada (9).
Stedi has about 60 people in Engineering, up 82% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Stedi has about 28 people in Sales, up 133% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Computed from 150 current and 97 former Stedi profiles, as of September 2026. Source: Crustdata.
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