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Ehab Gabr is teaching healthcare to count in real time
The Sigmatic founder built an AI...
By MPower · 12 min read
Surgery centers run on margins thinner than the instruments they buy. A delayed case, a miscoded claim, an operating room sitting idle for forty minutes — each one quietly bleeds money that nobody sees until the quarter closes and the spreadsheet finally lands. By then the decisions that caused it are weeks in the past, and clinicians who could have fixed it never had the numbers in front of them.
Ehab Gabr decided that lag was the enemy. An Austin-based operator with an MBA from Clemson, Gabr co-founded Sigmatic with COO Mitch Laird around a deceptively simple promise: give provider-owned facilities real-time, AI-driven insight into their own performance, drawn entirely from the data they already generate. No new hardware, no six-month implementation — just clarity, arriving while there's still time to act on it.
"Sigmatic helps provider-owned facilities regain clarity — cutting delays, reducing cost, and driving efficiency with the data already on the table."
It is, in other words, the whole MPower thesis in one company: take an unglamorous, expensive problem; solve it with what's already lying around; and build the relationships that turn a Texas pilot into something larger. Gabr has done exactly that. He has raised millions for Sigmatic, and the cap table reads less like a seed round than a statement of intent — including backing tied to Mubadala, the Abu Dhabi sovereign-wealth fund, a relationship that seeded the company's expansion into the UAE.
Why it lands for founders
What makes Gabr worth a Deep Dive isn't the logo on the term sheet — it's the discipline behind it. He picked a market everyone finds boring, got close enough to the operators to see where the money actually leaks, and then refused to make them wait for the answer. That instinct — speed over ceremony, clarity over noise — is the one we keep seeing in the founders who break out. The ones who don't aren't short on vision. They're short on the room where someone's already solved it.
That's the room MPower is building. And Ehab Gabr is exactly the kind of operator we want in it.
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ProcureWide: the JV taking aim at procurement's quiet tax
Welcome to this week's MPower Bytes. Today we're highlighting ProcureWide — a company going straight at one of the least glamorous, most expensive problems in science: procurement lag and runaway spend. ProcureWide began as a joint venture between founder Ali Darwish, USC partner Diego Alcala, and James Thomson of Prodigy Scientific, the notable San Diego incubator — three operators who looked at how labs actually buy and decided the whole motion was broken.
Ali's road there is its own story. He sold cars in college to put himself through an environmental biology degree, then spent years fostering synthetic-biology ecosystems alongside SynBioBeta. At seventeen he wrote a novel recognized by The New York Times Magazine and carried across a run of radio segments. He went on to close massive enterprise deals and to lead Fruitionary, a marketing and messaging consultancy, before turning his full attention to procurement.
ProcureWide attacks the gap between what labs need and what they actually pay — the weeks lost to reorders, the dollars lost to spend nobody's watching. Real-time clarity, guaranteed savings, fewer stockouts. If you're a founder fighting the same quiet drag in your own operation, this is the kind of unfair advantage worth knowing about. Read more at procurewide.com.
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