Healthcare workforce technology · International nurse recruitment
Flint
Flint recruits nurses and other clinicians from overseas, and from asylum, TPS and DACA pools already inside the United States, and places them as direct, permanent hires at hospitals and skilled nursing facilities with EB-3 green card sponsorship attached. It says it now works with more than 130 facilities in 28 states.
A booth at a nursing home conference
Next week a Flint employee named Charlie Clough plans to stand at booth number 2 at the Health Care Association of Michigan’s annual convention in Grand Rapids, giving away water bottles and Lego sets. The pitch behind the giveaway is arithmetic. Michigan’s population of people 65 and older is projected to grow 25 percent by 2032, roughly half a million more people who will need care. Meanwhile, Clough wrote in a LinkedIn post, the average Michigan nursing home replaces more than half its nursing staff every year. Most hiring, he said, is not growth. It is refilling the same seats.
Flint’s answer is to find nurses who are already licensed or licensable, already living in the United States or ready to relocate, and place them as permanent W2 employees rather than temporary agency staff. “Traditional international recruiting means waiting a year or two for someone to arrive from overseas,” Clough wrote. “We don’t do that. Everyone we place is already living and working in the U.S.”
The gap it is aimed at
Skilled nursing facilities and hospitals across the US have leaned on travel and per diem agency staff for years, at a steep markup over direct employment. Flint’s pitch to facility administrators is that agency reliance is a cost problem as much as a staffing one: the company’s site claims an average hospital saves a million dollars a year for every 15 agency hires it replaces with direct staff. Its recruiting pool includes nurses recruited from abroad and, through a partnership with the immigration firm Shan Potts Law Offices, asylum seekers, TPS holders and DACA recipients already inside the country who are registered nurses, certified nursing assistants or medical laboratory technicians.
The mechanism is the EB-3 immigrant visa category for skilled workers, paired with state licensure transfer and relocation support. Flint says it covers immigration costs, manages licensing and relocation, and does not get paid until a hired nurse actually shows up for orientation. Placed registered nurses come with what the company calls a three year retention guarantee, four years for other roles: if someone leaves or does not work out, Flint says it will source a replacement at no extra cost.
Two co-founders, an old team, and no confirmed public filings
The people record on Flint is thinner than its customer claims. Independent people-data sources place Kenton Jarvie as founder and CEO and Anson Kung as co-founder and COO, both since 2020 or 2021 depending on the source. Kung holds a mechatronics, robotics and automation engineering degree from the University of British Columbia and worked previously at A&K Robotics and a company called Oco Meals, according to his RocketReach profile, which also lists Vancouver-area phone numbers. Jarvie’s own profile lists prior ventures called Praxis, Gomae and Oco Meals, and a business administration degree from Trinity Western University in British Columbia. Flint’s own about page adds texture without names: one founder immigrated from South Africa, one founder’s wife is a nurse, and one founder’s mother immigrated from Hong Kong and built a career in US healthcare. It does not say how many founders there are in total.
No Form D or other SEC filing tied to Flint Healthcare, Flint Inc or withflint.com turned up in an EDGAR company search as of this writing. A separate, generically named entity called Flint Technologies Inc. filed one Form D in February 2022 from a Delaware registered agent address, but nothing in that filing ties it to this company, and it is not treated as evidence here.
A single named case, and an open funding picture
Flint’s clearest public proof point is one facility, not fully named: an unspecified nursing home in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. “Eight months in, we’ve replaced 10 FT agency nurse and aide roles with permanent staff,” Clough wrote, “at 30% savings compared to agency.” That is one case study, described by a Flint employee, with the facility unnamed.
On money, commercial data providers show a company that has grown quickly on a modest capital base. PitchBook lists an accelerator or incubator round of 125,000 dollars completed in August 2020, a seed round in September 2021 with no disclosed amount, and a later early stage VC round of 4 million dollars with no disclosed date, for 4.12 million dollars raised in total across 8 investors, including Y Combinator, Haystack VC, Audacious Ventures, Rhino VC, Foreword, MPG Fund and Side Door Ventures. Datanyze separately estimates 2.5 million dollars in revenue on 17 employees, while PitchBook puts headcount at 48 and Y Combinator’s own listing says 50. None of these figures come from a public filing.
What is proven, and what is still claimed
| Evidence | What the record shows | Source type |
|---|---|---|
| Founding year | Company classification data used to build this profile lists 2024. PitchBook’s accelerator round date (Aug 2020), Y Combinator’s own batch field (Summer 2020), a profile of co-founder Anson Kung (COO and cofounder “2021 to now”), and Datanyze (founded 2021) all point to 2020 or 2021 instead. | Conflict |
| Headquarters | PitchBook lists a Menlo Park, CA corporate office. Y Combinator lists Vancouver, Canada as Flint’s location, and co-founder Anson Kung’s listed phone numbers use Vancouver area codes. | Independent, conflicting |
| Y Combinator participation | Flint is listed as a Y Combinator company, batch Summer 2020, with Kenton Jarvie as active founder. | Certifier listing |
| SEC Form D | No Form D under Flint Healthcare, Flint Inc, withflint.com or close variants found in an EDGAR company search as of September 25, 2026. | Not found |
| Funding total | 4.12 million dollars raised across an accelerator round, a seed round and an early stage VC round, per PitchBook, none tied to a public filing. | Data provider |
| Customer scale | “130+ SNFs in 28 states,” stated by a Flint employee on LinkedIn. No customer list published. | Company-stated |
| Named case | One unnamed skilled nursing facility in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, described as replacing 10 full time agency roles in 8 months at 30 percent savings, per the same employee post. | Company-stated |
| Asylum and TPS pipeline | A named partnership with Shan Potts Law Offices places asylum, TPS and DACA status registered nurses, CNAs and medical lab technicians into hospital jobs with green card sponsorship. | Partner site |
Read plainly, Flint has real signals of a working business: a Y Combinator batch, a growing headcount across three independent people-data sources, a named law firm partner, and a specific, if unnamed, customer case with numbers attached. What it does not have is a single government filing, a named customer roster, or agreement among outside sources on when it started or where it is based.
What to watch
- Whether Flint or an affiliated entity ever files a Form D or other SEC notice, which would supply verifiable investor names and amounts.
- Named hospital or SNF customers beyond the single unidentified Michigan facility.
- Resolution of the founding year and headquarters discrepancy between commercial data providers and the record used to start this profile.
- Confirmation of the date and lead investor for the 4 million dollar early stage VC round PitchBook lists with no date attached.
In their words
“Flint’s mission is to solve the healthcare labor shortage by helping international talent build long-term careers in the United States.”
Flint, company website, 2026 · Company
“One of our founders immigrated from South Africa, so the power of a single opportunity to change a life isn’t abstract to us.”
Flint, about page, 2026 · Company
“Traditional international recruiting means waiting a year or two for someone to arrive from overseas. We don’t do that. Everyone we place is already living and working in the U.S.”
Charlie Clough, Flint employee, LinkedIn post, Sep 2026 · Company
“RNs are backed by a three-year retention guarantee, all other roles four.”
Charlie Clough, Flint employee, LinkedIn post, Sep 2026 · Company
“A facility up in the UP partnered with us to help them reduce agency reliance. Eight months in, we’ve replaced 10 FT agency nurse and aide roles with permanent staff. At 30% savings compared to agency.”
Charlie Clough, Flint employee, LinkedIn post, Sep 2026 · Company
“Flint Healthcare, Inc. is a medical recruiting firm that offers asylum seekers who are Registered Nurses, as well as other medical professionals such as Certified Nursing Assistants and Medical Laboratory Technicians, a fully-sponsored US Green card program.”
Shan Potts Law Offices, partnership page, 2023 · Partner site
“Flint is backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, Haystack VC, Audacious Ventures, and Rhino VC.”
Flint, about page, 2026 · Company
Related companies
Sources
- IndependentFlint: Securing Nurses for Your Future
- CompanyFlint Healthcare, home page
- CompanyAbout Flint
- CompanyFacility Partners
- CompanyLinkedIn post on Health Care Association of Michigan conference, agency replacement case, retention guarantees
- IndependentFlint (Healthcare Services) 2026 Company Profile: Valuation, Funding and Investors
- IndependentFlint Healthcare Company Profile: Management and Employees List
- IndependentAnson Kung Email and Phone Number, Flint COO and CoFounder
- IndependentKenton Jarvie founder profile
- IndependentMigrant Nurses Empowered: Shan Potts Law Offices and Flint Healthcare partnership
- IndependentFlint Healthcare employer listing
- Not foundEDGAR company search for Flint Healthcare, Flint Inc, Flint Technologies and withflint
Profile researched and written by Healthcare Discovery. Last updated September 29, 2026.
