Elemy raised $270 million to make autism care feel less like paperwork and more like care. Then the company learned the hardest lesson in digital health: the people are not the software layer.
A clinician built a way out of paperwork. Thirteen years later, Roper paid about $1.65 billion for the workflow - and for a lesson in how narrow software becomes essential infrastructure.
The Richmond company replaced a scrappy text-support service with insurance-funded, BCBA-direct virtual care. A new 504-participant study suggests the lower-hour model is feasible and well liked - while also showing exactly what still needs proving.
ICBD does not simply write checks. It lends young companies an operating system - and ABA Centers' rapid expansion shows both the appeal and the pressure of that model.