Est. 2026  ·  Michigan

Changing the infrastructure
of the symptom-to-solution experience

Rootwise Holdings, LLC is a multi-entity platform company — built to serve people who have long been underserved by conventional healthcare and consumer markets.

Mission

The Rootwise App is designed to help organize doctor's appointments, from preparing for the appointment through a color-coded task list afterwards, it is designed so you never miss a step.

The Rootwise Marketplace is designed to connect people with solutions via a symptom-based search - No more spending hours on Reddit combing for reviews or trying to guess what the diagnosis is. Just enter how you feel and get matched to products that work.

People living with chronic and complex illness navigate a fragmented landscape — underserved by clinical pathways, poorly matched to consumer products, and left to piece together answers on their own.

Rootwise was built to change that infrastructure. Across every subsidiary, the mission is the same: connect people to what actually helps.

Subsidiary Portfolio

Three companies. One mission.

Company
Entity
Focus
Domain
Rootwise AppFlagship
Rootwise LLC
Patient-facing digital health application for symptom tracking and communication. Built for the space between appointments, where most of the patient story unfolds.
rootwisehealth.org/appdemo
Rootwise Market
Rootwise Marketplace LLC
AI-powered product marketplace with symptom-based search. Connects buyers to vetted products using the language of lived experience — not diagnoses, not keywords.
rootwise.market
Rootwise Media
Rootwise Media LLC
Content, patient narratives, and condition-specific education for people navigating complex health. Storytelling and advocacy journalism that closes the information gap.
rootwise.media
Founders

Clinical vision.
Operational execution.

Rootwise is built by a physician and a decorated Navy veteran — two people with fundamentally different skill sets and a shared commitment to the mission. Elise leads strategy, clinical direction, and platform vision. Steve runs operations, project deployment, and the daily infrastructure that keeps everything moving.

Elise Matichak
Co-Founder
  • Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (DPM)
    Clinical training & patient care
  • Master of Health Services Administration (MHSA)
    Healthcare operations & strategy
  • Master of Science, Medical Education (MSMEd)
    Applied linguistics & curriculum design
  • Platform Architecture & Venture Development
    Multi-entity corporate structure, product strategy
Stephen Matichak
Co-Founder
  • Hospital Corpsman Chief, USN (Ret.)
    24 years, Navy Medicine
  • Clinical & Operational Specialties
    Oncology · Emergency Medicine · Mental Health · Education & Training · Field Medicine · Pharmacy
  • Veteran Community Liaison
    VA systems navigation, veteran-owned business development
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