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OVREN Investor brief · 2026

OVREN needs investors. Here's the case.

The who, the what, and the why, in one page. No deck required to start the conversation, just an honest read on where OVREN stands.

About a 3-minute read
01 · The who

Two founders. Built for the people running the floor.

OVREN is built by Nick Rapoport and Michael Edward. It's built for the people who run a hospital in motion: the manager coordinating a surge, the charge nurse running bed flow, the ER and trauma teams working a live floor, and everyone else whose shift doesn't happen at a workstation. Same data, wherever you're standing.

Nick Rapoport
Founder

Background in UX design and product management. Building OVREN full time.

nick@ovren.io

Michael Edward
Co-founder

Founder of ENSŌ DSGN. Twenty years in AI product design and experience strategy, nearly seven at Microsoft.

michael@ovren.io

Manager Charge Nurse ER Personnel Trauma
02 · The what

One screen. Every system, every patient, every shift.

Hospital teams run inside a maze of disconnected systems: EHR, lab, pharmacy, paging, bed board, EVS, vitals monitor, each with its own ping. Critical signal gets lost in the noise, handoffs get interrupted, decisions get delayed. OVREN condenses that into one screen: situational awareness, AI-assisted coordination, and a mobile companion built for people who aren't sitting at a workstation.

7+ → 1 hospital systems, one screen
Predictive capacity horizon, every shift
SEESituational awareness: capacity, alerts, and surge state, above the noise.
DOCoordination with AI: it runs the mechanical tasks, you see what needs judgment.
GOOn the ground: a mobile companion built for one-handed use, mid-shift.
OVREN's Horizon view showing predictive ED capacity forecast, active alerts, bed capacity, and command actions
Not concept art. This is the actual interface a floor manager opens on shift, today.
03 · The why

Epic is a chart for clinicians at workstations. OVREN is a command surface for operators in motion.

Epic has spent thirty years owning the chart. In that time, it never shipped a tactical surface for the people who run a hospital in real time: the charge nurses, ops directors, and trauma teams who aren't sitting at a workstation. That's not a feature gap. A single-EHR vendor can't be the layer that sits above every system it doesn't own. Fusing signal across the EHR, bed management, staffing, and city-level feeds isn't something Epic ships as an update. It's a different company. That's the room OVREN is built for.

Hospital operations are under real, ongoing pressure: staffing shortages, patient boarding, and margin compression aren't a moment, they're the baseline. That pressure isn't going away, and the tools built for the people managing it in real time haven't caught up. That gap is the opportunity, and it's open now.

04 · The ask

Why OVREN needs investors.

Hospitals don't buy fast, and they don't buy from a two-person team stretched across every function. Selling into a hospital takes months of relationship-building, security review, and pilot deployment before a single contract closes. Building software that meets that environment's bar takes real engineering time before it takes a single sales call. Right now, Nick and Michael are building the product, the design, and the pilot conversations themselves. Capital buys the thing time alone can't: a team that runs all of that in parallel instead of two founders doing it in sequence, while the window this thesis depends on is still open.

Engineering

Ship the roadmap on a team's hours, not two founders'.

Pilot deployments

Get OVREN live inside a real hospital's operations, not just a demo.

Compliance

The audits and infrastructure a hospital requires before it will sign.

Go-to-market

The relationships and sales cycle hospital software actually requires.

Round size, terms, and timeline are a conversation, not a webpage claim. This page is the case for why that conversation is worth having; the specifics come next, directly from Nick and Michael.

Ready to talk

Let's talk.

If the case above makes sense to you, the next step is a conversation with Nick and Michael directly, not a form.