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Latino Commission makes room for recovery in your own language
Built by people in recovery, this California nonprofit pairs addiction treatment with Spanish-speaking staff, family support and cultural tradition. Its public contracts reveal the cost of preparing care before anyone walks through the door.
Kipu Health Wants Behavioral Health to Run on One System - Here’s the Bet Behind the Last Login Standing
Behavioral-health clinics do not need another dashboard. Kipu’s wager is that one vertical operating system can connect the first inquiry, the clinical note, the compliance check and the final paid claim - without making care feel like data entry.
Recovery.com Built the Expedia for Rehab - Without Selling the Patient
The Madison startup began with a directory, an ethical constraint and an unfashionable launch market. Now it is assembling a large behavioral-health search network - while betting that transparency can be a business model, not merely a promise.
Alkermes
Alkermes spent decades teaching medicines to last longer. Now the neuroscience company is trying something harder: building a business around the brain's switches for addiction, psychosis and wakefulness.
Perspectives Health
Perspectives Health builds AI agents that take on the paperwork behind behavioral health care. Its software reviews patient charts every night, flags documentation that would trigger an insurance denial, writes clinical notes, and assembles utilization-review packets - so addiction and mental health programs get paid and clinicians spend less time on forms. Founded in 2024 and backed by Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch, the company reports piloting across a dozen-plus clinics and reaching $250K in committed ARR within four weeks of launch.
Pelago
Pelago is a virtual clinic for substance use management, delivering physician-led, evidence-based care for tobacco, alcohol, opioid and other substance use. Founded in 2017 as Quit Genius by three Imperial College London physicians, the company combines cognitive behavioral therapy, medication-assisted treatment and at-home monitoring tools into a program sold to employers, health plans and pharmacy benefit managers. Pelago says it has supported more than 750,000 members and validates its approach with 13 peer-reviewed studies.
Ria Health
Ria Health is a San Francisco-based telehealth company that treats alcohol use disorder entirely online. Founded in 2015 by addiction physician Dr. John Mendelson, it combines FDA-approved anti-craving medications (including naltrexone and The Sinclair Method), recovery coaching, digital progress tracking and a smartphone breathalyzer into a physician-managed program available in all 50 states. Ria treats drinking as a medical condition rather than a moral failing, offering flexible goals from moderation to abstinence, with care reimbursed by major insurers.
Gallus Detox and Recovery Services
Gallus Detox and Recovery Services is a physician-founded medical detoxification and addiction-recovery company that treats withdrawal from opioids, alcohol, benzodiazepines and other drugs in upscale, hotel-like inpatient suites staffed 24/7. Built on the proprietary 'Gallus Method' developed by ER physician Dr. Patrick Gallus in 2011, the company uses IV and injectable medications and cardiac telemetry to make detox safer and more comfortable, and reports that roughly 87% of its patients step directly into aftercare - far above the industry norm. Now led by Chairman and CEO Warren Olsen after a 2019 acquisition by SCB Global Healthcare, Gallus operates inpatient centers in Colorado, Arizona and Texas plus outpatient (IOP) services.
Recover
Recover is a San Diego-based, tech-enabled substance use treatment provider that combines medication-assisted treatment with counseling delivered via telehealth. Founded in 2021 by Nick Gulino and a former McKinsey team out of Y Combinator's Winter 2021 batch, the company partners with state and local governments to offer same-day, no-waitlist addiction care - in-network with Medi-Cal and certified by California's Department of Health Care Services - at roughly a tenth of the cost of traditional rehab facilities.
Nick Gulino
Nick Gulino is the founder and CEO of Recover (letsrecover.com), a Y Combinator-backed telehealth company that delivers evidence-based addiction treatment in partnership with state and local governments, at roughly a tenth of the cost of traditional rehab. A graduate of Yale Law School and UC Berkeley who started at a community college and a 'last chance' high school, he spent a decade in government and addiction services - leading work in McKinsey's government practice, advising governors, and serving in the White House - before building Recover to make recovery accessible to low-income and underserved people.
Birches Health
Birches Health is a digital behavioral health company treating gambling addiction and other process addictions - sports betting, video gaming, internet, sex and pornography - entirely online and covered by insurance. Founded in 2023 and based in New York City, it pairs licensed counselors who specialize in gambling disorder with peer mentors, group therapy and financial-wellness coaching, available in all 50 states. The company works with 100+ insurance plans and more than 18 state governments to reach patients who have historically had nowhere specialized to turn.
Ophelia
Ophelia is a New York-based telehealth company making evidence-based opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment available from home. It connects people to licensed clinicians for medication-assisted treatment (buprenorphine/Suboxone), with video visits, on-demand messaging, and care coordination, deliberately removing the friction and stigma of traditional rehab. Founded in 2019 by Zack Gray after he lost a loved one to an overdose, Ophelia focuses heavily on Medicaid and rural populations and has raised roughly $68 million, including a $50M Series B led by Tiger Global in 2021.