Editor's note: The following is the sixth profile in a series of articles about startup founders from non-technical backgrounds who have launched successful venture-backed companies. Read the previous interviews with MagicSchool AI founder Adeel Khan here, Trunk Tools founder Sarah Buchner here, Tabs founder Ali Hussain here, Craft founder Ilya Levtov here, and GC AI founder Cecilia Ziniti here. Abuzeid went on to co-found Incredible Health, a San Francisco-based healthcare hiring platform that has raised about $97.5 million from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Base10 Partners, Obvious Ventures, Precursor Ventures and NFX. It says its products are used by 1.5 million healthcare professionals ' including 1 in 2 U.S. nurses ' and 1,500 healthcare employers. Before launching Incredible Health in 2017, Abuzeid trained as a doctor, advised healthcare companies at Booz Allen and McKinsey, and worked as a product manager at a health tech startup, but didn't know how to code software. Originally from Sudan, Abuzeid was born and raised in Saudi Arabia and also lived in the United Arab Emirates. She moved to London at 18, where she completed her undergraduate education and medical school....

As Andrew Sullivan wrote a few days after the Twin Towers fell, America's national myth includes the idea that the country exists as 'the place apart, the city on a hill, the eternal elsewhere''a place of safety and refuge from the bloodshed and suffering that mark so many pages of human history. Americans have always believed that 'whatever horrors lay out there, there was always this place, where no external force could harm them, where no foreign threat could ever intrude.'1 And the remarkable fact is that this myth had been reinforced and seemingly confirmed over the course of the 20th century'decades during which the United States engaged in a series of wars and police actions around the globe without ever suffering 'an attack on America itself'its soil, its cities, its land.' In these manifold conflicts, only the distant military outpost of Pearl Harbor ever experienced the horror of aerial bombardment. Through two world wars, the deadly skirmishes of the Cold War, and the grossly lopsided interventions of the 1990s, American civilians remained secure in their homeland, unscathed by the indiscriminate violence of modern warfare, untouched by the uniquely potent experience of existential threat that comes from living with the ever-present possibility of violent death at the hands of a powerful national adversary....

The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) selected AI-GUIDE, a medical device developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), for its 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award. This award recognizes federal laboratories and collaborators who have accomplished outstanding work in the process of transferring technology. With funding from the U.S. Army's Combat Casualty Care Research Program (CCC), Lincoln Laboratory and MGH developed AI-GUIDE and are in the process of transferring the prototype to the startup company AutonomUS Medical Technologies, Inc. "This recognition reflects what effective technology transfer looks like ' aligning the Army's operational need with Mass General's clinical expertise and Lincoln Laboratory's engineering capabilities to deliver a solution with a clear path to impact. The transition to AutonomUS underscores how strong partnerships can carry a technology from development into real-world adoption," says Asha Rajagopal, Lincoln Laboratory's chief technology transfer officer....

At a time when misinformation is rife and many seem to be questioning scientific evidence, do people really trust scientists' In the United Kingdom, the answer is mostly yes, finds a study led by the Policy Institute at King's College London and Sense about Science, a charity based in London. To explore what drives trust and distrust of scientists, the researchers used regression modelling to identify factors most strongly associated with trust. The most influential factors were whether respondents felt that scientists are "on the side of people like them" and whether they thought of scientists as open and transparent. Both outweighed perceptions of scientific expertise. Previous research has shown that benevolence ' the idea that researchers care about society and want to do good ' is a core pillar of public trust in science1. Now Bobby Duffy, director of the Policy Institute at King's College London and one of the authors of the UK study, says that the work reveals that trust in scientists was less associated with scientists being eager to work for the good of society in general (12%) and had more to do with whether they are on the side of people like the respondent (21%)....