Talked to the founders of two stealth startups this week. 🤐 Both very cool.

Revitalized Solutions Vogt-ed!

If you missed it, Revitalized Solutions was selected as part of the 2025 Vogt Invention and Innovation Awards Cohort. 👏 

I had a chance to connect with Janelle Jones BSN, RN [JJ], Founder and CEO of Revitalized Solutions.

HD: You’ve worked as a nurse for two LOUMED institutions, correct?
JJ:  Three if you include Indiana. I got my start at Clark County ER before coming to UofL’s ER. I was an ER float for both Norton and UofL Health for many years. I still work for Norton PRN actually. It allows me to maintain my skill set and stay close to my mission.

HD: You're both an ER nurse and a startup founder; two pretty intense roles. Do you see any parallels between working in the ER and running a company, or are they completely different worlds?
JJ: The two actually have a lot of overlap. As an ER nurse, my job was putting out fires all day long—and as a founder, its pretty similar. The only constant in both worlds is chaos. Nurses are incredibly adaptable; we’re the MacGyvers of healthcare. We’ve had to learn how to work within a system that wasn’t built by us or for us, and yet every day we find a way to make it work. That resilience and resourcefulness make nurses natural founders. What we need now is more nurses stepping forward to challenge the status quo, because it’s clear the old way doesn’t work—and we’re uniquely positioned to build something better. 

HD:  Nurse-founded companies in Louisville. Are there any others?
JJ: pac-IQ is an excellent example! I had the privilege of working with its founders, Adam and Lee, first at UofL's ER and later at Kindred, where I also met Tasha. Another standout nurse-owned company is All Hearts Cardiology—a mobile cardiology practice founded by a former ICU nurse whom I also met during my time at UofL.

Revitalized and All Hearts are launching an exciting pilot where I'll be supporting his mobile practice with remote monitoring devices like blood pressure cuffs and scales, along with virtual nurses who help coordinate patient care and provide remote monitoring and treatment. I am so incredibly proud of how far we've all come and the innovative ways we're transforming healthcare in our community. 

HD:  You recently sold a company?
JJ: Yes, my first company, Vitality Solutions was just acquired! I was a travel nurse for over a decade so I started a travel nurse staffing agency because I wanted to give nurses a better experience from someone who just gets it. Along the way, I learned so much about all the challenges staffing is facing in a modern world, which brings me to my current work with Revitalized.

HD:  High level, what’s next for Revitalized Solutions?
JJ: This is such an exciting time for Revitalized! Right now, we’re running pilots with our remote monitoring and virtual nursing services, while also testing my code capture model that is going to transform the nursing profession—taking it from a cost burden into a revenue generator. I truly believe this is going to reshape how nursing is valued and drive real systemic change. For too long, nursing has been treated as an expense line, making us the first to face cuts and fueling the cycle of short staffing. What we’re building has the power to break that cycle, and I couldn’t be more thrilled.

On top of that, we’re expanding care directly into the home with in-home EKGs, acute care at home, and soon, the launch of our app that tackles staffing’s biggest pain points—same-day staffing and on-demand nurses so we can get care to the people when they need it, not months later. 

Innovation at Sutter Health.

Sutter Health is a health system based in Sacramento. This is the part of the article below that I think is particularly cool; “One example is Sutter’s Innovation Challenge, an enterprise-wide call for bold ideas from employees and clinicians across our organization.” Y’all.

Who remembers this? From 1999.

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Louisville, we gotta stir the pot a bit.

Q2 2025 State of Pre-Seed.

Data from Carta.

“Nashville emerging as a pre-seed hub: After attracting $32 million over the past twelve months, Nashville broke into the top 20 U.S. metros for pre-seed fundraising.”

Drywall and neon signs.

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“7. Recognize and Fund Venture Studios as Engines of Startup Creation”

Creating value rather than redistributing it.

🫶 Part 2.

“This model is especially powerful in regions where early-stage venture activity is sparse, because studios don't rely on deal flow—they create it.”

Inaugural AgeTech Connect Summit.

Atlanta, Tuesday, November 18.

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