Behind the Deal: Backing Saile and Hitting a Syndicate Milestone

Layss Majed, Angel Investment Lead at Viaka

June 2026

The Story

This deal came through exactly the kind of infrastructure we've been deliberately building since day one. Over the past few years, we've expanded Viaka's reach through chapters across the world — New York, San Francisco, Toronto, Boston, and London — each one deepening our sourcing engine and putting us closer to the best founders wherever they're building. Marc, Saile's founder, was introduced to us through our New York Chapter Lead, and that's precisely the point: deals like this don't happen by accident.

When a practicing physician walks in with a problem he lives every single day, backed by a technical co-founder who helped build one of healthcare's most respected platforms from seed to growth, you pay attention.

What Saile is building

The prevailing narrative in healthcare is that there's a physician shortage. What Saile has found is something different: there's a large, underutilized workforce that simply can't move between systems efficiently.

Every time a doctor works at a new hospital, surgery center, or telemedicine platform, they must re-submit the same documentation from scratch. This process can take 90 to 120 days. Facilities pay staffing agencies enormous sums to fly in temporary physicians, while qualified, vetted doctors who live down the street sit on the sidelines. Not because they don't want to work, but because the paperwork won't let them.

Saile was built to end that loop. Physicians maintain one secure, portable credential passport that travels with them across every opportunity: telemedicine, per diem, locums, consulting, and ambulatory centers. Facilities tap directly into a pre-vetted local pool without recruiter middlemen or agency markups. One platform owns the entire journey, from sourcing to credentialed and ready to work.

The traction speaks for itself: more than 5,000 physicians on the platform, 100% provider volume growth in six months (entirely organic), and over 1,000 unique job posts and provider engagements every week. All while still in stealth.

Why the conviction?

Two things stood out immediately.

First, the founding team.Marc Ayoub is a practicing neurocritical care physician and Assistant Professor at the Zucker School of Medicine. He isn't theorizing about the problem — he's lived it in every hospital he's worked in.Taylor Hakes is the kind of CTO you rarely find at the pre-seed stage: former Chief Architect at Cedar, a healthcare technology company that scaled to a ~$3B valuation, where he helped build the infrastructure from the ground up.

Second, the integrated approach. Every competitor either does staffing or credentialing. Saile owns the entire journey, from sourcing to credentialed and ready to work, and that's a fundamentally more defensible position. Saile isn't just improving the process — it's redefining how clinicians and healthcare facilities staff care.

If you’re a healthcare organization, healthcare professional, platform, AI lab, or ecosystem player interested in exploring opportunities with Saile, feel free to reach out directly through their website or contact us, and we’d be happy to make an introduction to the team.

A milestone worth celebrating

This investment marks Saile as our 10th portfolio company, reached within our first year of operating the syndicate. What started as an idea has become a real, active syndicate backing exceptional MENA diaspora founders.