ShiftRx, a platform for staffing pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, raised $3.5 million in a seed funding round, co-founder and CEO Autumn-Kyoko Cushman wrote in a blog post.

The round will enable the company to expand into Florida, in addition to its operations in California and Texas. Funds will also go toward moving into other business lines.

“We’re committed to evolving our AI capabilities to address the broader healthcare staffing crisis, potentially expanding to roles like X-ray technicians, medical technicians and lab technicians,” Cushman wrote.

Cushman started her career as a healthcare provider in the US Navy, while co-founder Leann Haddad began her career as a pharmacy technician at CVS.

The round was led by Work-Bench, a New York-based venture capital firm with participation from Inflect Health, Tau and Opal Ventures.

“ShiftRx unifies the sourcing, hiring, onboarding and compensation for pharmacists,” Jessica Lin, co-founder and general partner at Work-Bench, wrote in a separate post. “Their product integrates into existing clinical workflows with customized training modules to accelerate the end-to-end process by combining AI-driven onboarding modules, historical and real-time decision-making data, clinical workflow insights, and seamless EHR/EMR integrations for each healthcare facility and its corresponding providers.”

ShiftRx was founded in 2023 and works with more than 2,000 providers and 150 pharmacies.