About a month after Jared Taylor decided to move from Boston to St. Petersburg, Florida, his belongings were packed, and he made the long trek.
It would be a major leap for any founder, but especially Taylor, who’s the CEO and founder of a medtech company — an area where Boston is king.
“I just loved the area and got sick of the snow,” Taylor said in an interview with sister publication Tampa Bay Inno, adding he did have some family already in the Sunshine State. “I read a lot of what was happening down here, and the entrepreneur ecosystem was starting to be built. Boston was an established ecosystem, and Tampa Bay was on the rise; I wanted to be part of the new ecosystem being built.”
The bet has seemed to pay off for Taylor, whose company, BlocHealth, was just acquired by St. Louis telehealth infrastructure company SteadyMD. The deal was completed for an undisclosed amount. BlocHealth's eight-person credentialing team is based in Richmond.
BlocHealth will remain its own brand while serving under the SteadyMD umbrella, which boasts more than 100 employees. SteadyMD is a B2B telehealth infrastructure provider, while BlocHealth offers a health care professional credential sharing network powered through blockchain and its technology. Taylor will become president of BlocHealth and senior VP at SteadyMD.
“The licensing and credentialing platform developed by BlocHealth will play a key role in helping us scale our clinician workforce even more efficiently to better serve patients and our partners,” said Guy Friedman, SteadyMD’s co-founder and CEO, in a statement.
BlocHealth, founded in 2017, is housed in the Rising Tide Innovation Center in downtown St. Petersburg. About 90% of the BlocHealth workforce is remote.