
He co-founded Apollo, built Pegasus, and helped turn a hotel brand into a $300 million sale. Now Craig Cogut is working on a harder transaction: connecting private capital to the places that need it.

He passed on familiar names for a seven-person startup, polished its first launch until dawn, watched nobody arrive, and stayed long enough to help rebuild the product around the cloud.
Jake Cooper is the CEO and co-founder of Grow Therapy, a New York based company building the infrastructure that lets therapists and psychiatric providers run insurance-covered private practices. Since 2020 he has grown it into a national network spanning 125+ insurers and tens of thousands of providers, raising $388 million to date, including a $150 million Series D in 2026. A former Blackstone and Apollo private equity investor and summa cum laude Duke graduate, Cooper is focused on making mental health care easier to find, afford, and stick with.