Scheduling Wizard Raises Y Combinator–Backed Funding to Automate Physician Scheduling Across Major U.S. Hospitals
Scheduling Wizard, a healthcare operations startup building AI-driven physician scheduling and clinical coordination infrastructure, has raised early-stage venture funding as it expands deployments across major U.S. hospital systems and scales its proprietary scheduling platform.
The company’s funding includes backing from Y Combinator, which supported Scheduling Wizard through its Winter 2026 accelerator cohort. The startup has also raised additional pre-seed capital totaling approximately $510,000, according to venture tracking data, with participation from early-stage investors including HopStone and other seed investors focused on healthcare and enterprise software infrastructure.
Scheduling Wizard is building what it describes as the “logistics infrastructure” for healthcare operations, starting with physician scheduling systems used by hospitals, residency programs, and clinical departments. The company’s platform replaces manual scheduling workflows that are typically managed through spreadsheets, fragmented communication tools, and legacy hospital systems, which can require hundreds of administrative hours per department each year.
The startup reports that its technology is already in use across more than 20 departments in 16 hospitals, including major academic medical centers such as Mass General, Johns Hopkins, UT Southwestern, and UCSF. These institutions use Scheduling Wizard to automate physician rota creation, manage shift assignments, and improve coordination across clinical teams responsible for patient care delivery.
At the core of Scheduling Wizard’s platform is its proprietary scheduling system, which the company describes as a “Scheduling Programming Language.” This system is designed to generate optimized schedules based on complex constraints such as physician availability, fairness rules, specialty coverage requirements, and regulatory compliance constraints in residency training programs.
Beyond scheduling, the company is expanding into broader healthcare operations infrastructure, including patient triaging and provider management systems. These additional modules aim to coordinate patient flow with available clinical resources, helping hospitals reduce bottlenecks in care delivery and improve operational efficiency across departments.
Scheduling Wizard was founded by a team of engineers and mathematicians from Johns Hopkins University, including Samuel Oberly, Zachary Dermody, and Abdelrahman Hamimi. The founders bring backgrounds in mathematics, economics, computer science, and systems engineering, and have emphasized algorithmic optimization and operations research as the foundation of their product.
The company’s early traction has been driven by its focus on reducing administrative burden in healthcare systems, an industry where inefficiencies are estimated to cost hundreds of billions of dollars annually. By automating scheduling and coordination workflows, Scheduling Wizard aims to allow clinicians and administrators to focus more time on patient care rather than administrative logistics.
The funding will be used to expand engineering capabilities, deepen integrations with hospital IT systems, and scale deployments across additional health systems in the United States. The company is also investing in extending its platform beyond physician scheduling into broader care coordination and operational intelligence tools.
As demand grows for AI-enabled healthcare infrastructure, Scheduling Wizard is positioning itself as a core operational layer for hospital systems seeking to modernize staffing, scheduling, and patient flow management. With backing from Y Combinator and early venture investors such as HopStone, the company is now focused on scaling its platform across more hospitals and expanding its role in healthcare operations automation.
