Enabling Compassionate Care
By Removing What Gets in the Way

Guardoc is building the clinical intelligence layer that removes administrative friction so caregivers can deliver more human-to-human, compassionate care. Starting with documentation and compliance, because that's where time, risk, and revenue all bottleneck.

Our Story

Why Long-Term Care. Why Now.

Long-term care is one of the most care-intense settings in US healthcare. It's also where staffing pressure is unusually severe, which amplifies the harm of administrative burden. Nursing and residential care facility employment fell 12.1% from January 2020 to January 2022. Skilled nursing facilities were still 7.3% below pre-pandemic levels by mid-2024. Over half of nursing homes report limiting new admissions due to staffing shortages.

Where staffing is most strained, every minute of documentation friction hits care quality hardest. Nurses are the core of human-centered care. But they spend hours every shift on paperwork instead of patients. DONs chase corrections. MDS coordinators race against deadlines. Administrators scramble before surveys.

Guardoc started by tackling the hardest version of this problem in SNFs. Documentation is simultaneously the source of truth for continuity of care, the basis for regulatory compliance, the foundation for legal defensibility, and the driver of reimbursement integrity. We found strong product-market fit quickly, with demand outpacing execution, because when you remove the documentation bottleneck, everything downstream improves: care quality, compliance posture, financial performance, and staff morale.

Our Vision

Enable compassionate care by removing barriers to human-centered care.

We will continue winning with clinical compliance products that remove documentation friction, standardize clinical quality, reduce survey risk, and give clinical leaders confidence that care is both compassionate and provable.

Leadership

The Experience Behind The Scenes

Ariel Efergan

Ariel Efergan

CEO

Serial entrepreneur with deep experience in healthtech and enterprise SaaS. Built and scaled products at the intersection of AI and healthcare operations.

Mike Hough

Mike Hough

CSO

Healthcare executive who scaled Advance Medical (acquired by Teladoc). Founder, advisor, and investor across healthtech and employer benefits.

Rachel Duftler

Rachel Duftler

VP Clinical, RN MBA

Assaf Amiaz

Assaf Amiaz

Director of Product

Nir Shtein

Nir Shtein

VP R&D

Mendy Friedman

Mendy Friedman

VP Operations

Our Culture

How We Work

Passion & Mission Obsession

Bring the fire, and fuel every decision with an unwavering focus on our customers and mission.

Team First: Zero Ego & No Politics

Prioritize collective success, and build each other up.

Ownership & Accountability

We set high standards, hold ourselves to our commitments, and learn from every outcome.

Radical Transparency & Integrity

Be incredibly honest, and let the best ideas win, regardless of where they come from.

Bias for Action

Self-starter, move fast, and create solutions to problems.

Our Values

What We Believe

Nurses First

Every product decision starts with one question: does this make a nurse's shift better?

Clinical Truth

We surface what's actually missing and help fix it - no false compliance.

Embedded, Not Separate

We work inside the EHR, in the workflow, at the point of care.

Accountability With Empathy

Every correction creates a record, but we understand clinical context.

Backed By
Pitango HealthTechBertelsmann InvestmentsFresh.fundSpringbank

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