Umar Nadeem

Umar Nadeem
Occupation	Entrepreneur, software engineer
Known for	Co-founder of Kabilah (YC W24)
Education	Stanford University (BS in Computer Science, MS in Management Science & Engineering); University of Oxford, Blavatnik School of Government (Master's)

Umar Nadeem is a Pakistani-American entrepreneur and co-founder of Kabilah, an enterprise artificial intelligence platform designed for nursing workflows. Kabilah was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2024 batch and operates in the generative AI and digital health sectors.

Early life and education

Nadeem holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science with a focus on artificial intelligence and a Master of Science in Management Science & Engineering, both from Stanford University. He was a 2023 Mayfield Fellow at Stanford. He also holds a master's degree from the University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government. Prior to founding Kabilah, Nadeem was a founding partner at Tabadlab, a policy and advisory organization where he led projects across public and private sectors in multiple regions. Nadeem is a cancer survivor, an experience he has cited as motivating his work in healthcare technology.

Career

Nadeem co-founded Kabilah alongside Sarah Raza in 2024. The company describes itself as "the most trusted enterprise-grade AI platform designed specifically for nursing workflows." Kabilah's core product addresses the problem of nurse shift changes — traditionally conducted through verbal handoffs and paper-based report sheets — by applying generative AI to digitize and improve these processes.

The Kabilah platform includes several key features. Its verbal handoff system provides a proprietary solution for transitions of care, from the emergency room through discharge, notifying nurses of missing critical information and flagging inaccuracies. The platform also converts fragmented paper report sheets into a digital format, eliminating the need for nurses to manually rewrite patient details at the start of each shift. Additionally, Kabilah offers guided task management, generating context-aware task lists that prioritize urgency and organize workflows to support patient safety.

The company's stated mission is to reduce nurse burnout, enhance system efficiency, and enable higher quality patient care. Kabilah operates in the generative AI, digital health, healthcare, and AI sectors. The company was recognized at the HIMSS 2025 conference, where it was named a winner in competition.

Both Nadeem and co-founder Sarah Raza were Mayfield Fellows at Stanford and hold computer science degrees from the university.