A Madison-area startup founded by a former employee of Epic Systems Corp. has raised $700,000 from Wisconsin investors that include Kevin Conroy, the CEO of Exact Sciences Corp. (NYSE: EXAS).

Nurse Disrupted Inc. is based in Fitchburg and was founded in 2020 by Bre Loughlin, a registered nurse and former nursing innovation and project lead at Epic. Nurse Disrupted provides telehealth solutions designed to help provide remote care at homeless shelters, rural health clinics and community organizations that don’t have on-site health staff.

The company’s seed funding round was led by Conroy and Mark Bakken, Loughlin said. Bakken invested as an individual but is also the founder and managing partner of Madison’s HealthX Ventures, he said. Other investors included Madison’s Wisconsin Investment Partners, Green Bay’s Tundra Angels and Wisconsin River Business Angels of Midwest Wealth Ventures in Plover.

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