Healthcare systems around the world are under immense strain. Demand for care is rising, but workforce capacity isn’t keeping pace. The World Health Organisation predicts that the global healthcare industry will face a shortfall of 18 million healthcare workers by 2030.
Talented and skilled professionals can be deployed to fill these gaps globally, but the systems for healthcare providers to source and relocate global talent are broken. TERN Group offers a solution.
Tackling healthcare problems at scale
After building category-defining businesses across Europe and India, including multinational online used car marketplace Cars24 and PropTech platform IMMO, Avinav Nigam teamed up with Krishna Ramkumar, whose background spans BCG, Nexus Venture Partners and social impact ventures. They launched TERN Group in 2023, inspired by first-hand experiences of the complexities of relocation and migration, as well as the acute skilled talent shortage across the UK, Europe and the Gulf.
Together, they have built the world’s first AI Clinical Workforce Platform. It’s designed for healthcare providers to connect with the global talent they require, with support for sourcing, credentialing, training, and onboarding. TERN Group’s platform vastly improves on the slow and bureaucratic processes typical of international recruitment with a combination of AI-driven workflows and human-led support for training, relocation and settlement.
Importantly, the platform delivers a far more positive experience for both sides of the hiring contract. Healthcare providers access talent fast and more predictably, while talented professionals begin their global careers with dignity and confidence, free of unethical recruitment practices.
Today, London-headquartered TERN Group employs a team of 133 people worldwide across core markets of Germany, UK, UAE, KSA, Japan and the USA. It’s trusted by over 100 healthcare clients and is supporting a global talent pool of 650,000+ professionals across 13 countries.
The future of healthcare talent mobility
Having expanded from one to six core markets this past year, TERN Group is now focused on strengthening its foothold across these markets in addition to accelerating the development of its AI Clinical Workforce platform and ramping up investment in international talent preparation.
We’re delighted to be partnering with Avinav and team through this next phase of growth as an investor in TERN Group’s $24M Series A funding round. You can read more about that raise in Entrepreneur.
Commenting on the raise, Galina Chifina, CEO of RTP Global, said: “At RTP Global, we love backing founders who take on big challenges with heart. Avinav and Krishna are just those founders – solving problems they’ve lived and felt. With TERN, they’re reimagining global talent mobility in a way that’s ethical, scalable, and deeply human, turning it into a powerful, tech-driven solution. We can’t wait to see how TERN will continue to change lives across borders, and we’re delighted to back them on this journey.”
Skilled worker shortages are a truly global challenge. TERN is rising to that challenge with an appropriately global solution that combines AI-driven agility with human support for an end-to-end solution to transform skilled talent mobility.
With AI at its core and scale on the horizon, TERN Group is redefining how healthcare talent moves across the world.
