Zarminali Pediatrics did not wander into pediatric care. It arrived with purpose, receipts, and a founder who has already seen what scale looks like when healthcare actually works. The Chicago-based...
Zarminali Pediatrics did not wander into pediatric care. It arrived with purpose, receipts, and a founder who has already seen what scale looks like when healthcare actually works. The Chicago-based company announced a $110M Series A, bringing total capital raised to $150M less than eighteen months after founding. That number matters, but the speed matters more. Pediatric care moves slowly. Zarminali Pediatrics did not get the memo.
Danish Qureshi founded the company in July 2024 after navigating the chaos of fragmented pediatric care while managing his daughter’s autoimmune condition. Anyone who has lived that experience knows the system quietly hands parents a second full-time job. Coordinate the specialists. Repeat the medical history. Chase the records. Zarminali Pediatrics is named after “Zarmina,” meaning something more precious than gold, and the thesis is simple. Children deserve care that treats coordination as the default, not the burden.
This is not Danish Qureshi’s first time scaling something that matters. Before this, he co-founded LifeStance Health and helped build it into the largest outpatient mental health provider in the country, scaling to over 7,000 clinicians across 550 centers in 33 states before going public in 2021. That muscle memory shows. Zarminali Pediatrics opened its first clinic in Michigan in November 2024, the same moment it announced a $40M seed led by General Catalyst. Execution followed capital without hesitation.
Today, Zarminali Pediatrics operates 28 clinics across 8 states, blending primary care, specialty care, and urgent care inside purpose-built clinics supported by a unified technology platform. This is not a loose affiliation of practices. It is one coordinated system designed to eliminate handoffs, reduce burnout, and let clinicians focus on medicine instead of admin. Over 15M children need specialty care each year, nearly half rely on Medicaid, and only 37% of hospitals still offer pediatric services. The gap is real. The timing is sharp.
The Series A was led by Healthier Capital, founded by Amir Dan Rubin, the former CEO of One Medical who scaled it from vision to IPO to a $3.9 billion acquisition by Amazon. Amir Dan Rubin joins the board alongside Holly Maloney of General Catalyst, with participation from K2 HealthVentures. When operators who have already built national healthcare platforms lean in, they are not betting on theory. They are betting on pattern recognition.
Zarminali Pediatrics plans to open 15 more clinics in 2026, expand technology investment, and continue building a national pediatric platform before moving into value-based care on its own terms. Pediatric care has been waiting for a model that respects families, clinicians, and scale at the same time. Zarminali Pediatrics is not asking for permission. It is building the infrastructure and letting the rest of the market catch up.