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The People Who Know Where the Policy Is Buried
CCR Consulting hires people who have already lived inside the systems its clients are trying to change. The result is a particular kind of consultancy: less crystal ball, more institutional memory with a project plan.
Academy Programs and the work of getting home
On one road in Fairmont, West Virginia, three residential programs and a school sit close together. The harder task is connecting what happens there to life beyond the campus.
meQuilibrium Wants to Catch Burnout Before It Hits the Payroll
The workplace mental-health company spent years teaching people to handle stress. Now it is selling employers an early-warning system for the expensive moment when stress becomes absence, attrition or a claim.
The Mental-Health Company You Used Without Knowing It - and the Cost of Disappearing Into the Parent Brand
For decades, MHN sat between an insurance card and a therapist's door. Then Health Net moved much of the machinery under its own name - a case study in what happens when a useful company becomes infrastructure.
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.
Brave Health Bet on the Patients Telehealth Forgot - Then Had to Make the Math Work
Most virtual-therapy companies chased easy-to-reach customers. Brave Health built for Medicaid members, where the hard part is not launching a video call - it is finding patients, accepting their insurance and keeping care financially sustainable.
AnswersNow Bet Five Virtual Hours Could Challenge the 30-Hour Autism Therapy Week - 504 Families Put It to the Test
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.
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.
SonderMind Raised $183 Million to Make Therapy Easier. The Hard Part Was Insurance.
The Denver company turned a founder’s bad therapist search into a national care network. Its advantage is the same complicated machinery that can still frustrate patients: matching, credentialing, claims and the stubborn arithmetic of insurance.
The Doctor Who Traded the Exam Room for the Cap Table
A physician-turned-financier is buying up the unglamorous engine room of American healthcare - the home aides, clinical trial sites and hospice teams that most funds overlook.
The Newport Beach Holding Company Quietly Running Labs, Call Centers and a Mental-Health Machine
Upfront Inc doesn't pick one lane. From a Newport Beach office it runs mental-health programs, diagnostic labs, call centers and a PR shop as parts of the same growth engine.
The Company Behind the Clinic Boom
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.
Shareh Ghani Turned Behavioral Health Into a Data Problem Worth Solving
From the ACT teams of Maricopa County to the C-suite of a national managed care company, Shareh Ghani built a career on a stubborn idea: that good care and good data are the same project.
The Brooklyn Nonprofit Building a One-Stop Village Around Every Child
Yeled V'Yalda began with 78 children. Four decades later, its answer to fragmented family services is a network where preschool, therapy, nutrition and parent support can meet under one institutional roof.
The Hospital Network Betting That Great Care Can Stay Close to Home
Lifepoint Health has grown from 23 community hospitals into a coast-to-coast care network. Its wager is simple to describe and difficult to execute: give smaller markets the infrastructure of a national system without asking patients to leave home for care.
Magellan Health
It started as a chain of psychiatric hospitals in Georgia. Fifty-plus years later, Magellan Health decides how millions of Americans get their mental health care approved - and after a $2.2 billion round trip through Centene, it is about to be on its own again.
The Cigna Group
The insurance card is only the front door. Behind it sits a $274.9 billion machine spanning pharmacy benefits, specialty medicine, behavioral care and digital health - built to make a fragmented system behave more like one business.
Klarify
Klarify is an AI agent for therapists that automates the administrative, operational, and financial work surrounding mental-health care - clinical notes, treatment plans, insurance claims, clinical letters, between-session resources, and client acquisition - so clinicians can spend more time in session and less on paperwork. Founded in 2024 by Moody Abdul and Alexander Bergholm and backed by Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch, it is used by thousands of therapists across five countries.
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.
Sohar Health
Sohar Health is an API-first platform that automates insurance eligibility checks and verification of benefits (VoB) for behavioral and digital health providers. Founded in 2023 by physician Ashish Mandavia and engineer Lucas Gordon, the company turns a slow, error-prone front-office task into a real-time API call - returning most checks in seconds with high accuracy - so clinics can confirm coverage, cut claim denials, and get paid faster. It graduated from Y Combinator (S23) and raised $3.8M in seed funding led by Kindred Capital in 2025.
Camber
Camber is a New York-based healthtech company building AI-driven revenue cycle management (RCM) software for specialty care practices. Formerly known as Juniper, it automates medical claims processing, denial prevention, and payment reconciliation for ABA therapy, physical therapy, ENT and allergy, and other high-recurring care specialties. Trained on more than $2.5 billion in claims data, Camber helps providers reach roughly 95% first-pass paid rates and get reimbursed faster, replacing the manual, call-center-heavy processes of traditional billing firms.
Headway
Headway is a New York-based healthtech company building a software-enabled network that makes it easier to find a therapist and to pay for one with insurance. Its three-sided marketplace connects patients, mental health clinicians, and insurance plans: patients search for in-network providers with transparent copays, clinicians offload credentialing, billing, scheduling, and claims to Headway, and insurers gain a larger accessible network. Founded in 2019 by Andrew Adams and co-founders, Headway operates in all 50 states with roughly 34,000 clinicians and, after a $100M Series D in 2024, is valued at about $2.3 billion.
Iris Telehealth
Iris Telehealth is an Austin, Texas-based telepsychiatry company that partners with hospitals, health systems, community mental health centers, and federally qualified health centers to deliver virtual behavioral health care. Founded in 2013 on the belief that every community deserves timely access to quality mental health care, Iris supplies vetted psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and licensed therapists on both scheduled and on-demand bases, plus an AI-enabled analytics platform. It is the only virtual mental health company to earn The Joint Commission's behavioral health care accreditation twice, and it works with roughly 200 partner organizations across the United States.
Mantra Health
Mantra Health is a New York-based digital mental health company that partners with colleges and universities to give students access to a full spectrum of care - from self-guided wellness content and coaching to therapy, psychiatry, and 24/7 crisis support. Its 'Whole Campus Care' model integrates with existing campus counseling centers to close gaps in access, reduce wait times, and help students stay enrolled and succeed.
Marigold Health
Marigold Health is a Boston-based digital behavioral health company that combines certified peer recovery coaches with a 24/7 anonymous, text-based support community. Natural language processing scans member conversations to flag emerging needs and route human support where it matters most, helping people with mental health and substance use conditions stay engaged in recovery. Marigold contracts primarily with Medicaid and dual-eligible health plans under value-based arrangements, and became the largest provider of peer recovery supports in Delaware.
Nirvana
Nirvana is a New York-based health tech company that automates insurance eligibility and benefits verification for healthcare providers. Its AI-powered platform - available as the OneVerify web/mobile app or a Coverage API - reads complex insurance plans from hundreds of payers, returns real-time, specialty-specific benefit and cost details, and catches errors that lead to claim denials. Founded in 2019 with a focus on behavioral and mental health, Nirvana now supports more than 100,000 providers and roughly 2 million patient visits a year.
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.
Televero Behavioral Health
Televero Behavioral Health is an Austin, Texas physician-led virtual behavioral health practice that delivers online therapy, psychiatry, medication management, and neurotesting for conditions like anxiety, depression, ADHD and autism. Built as a licensed medical practice rather than an app or marketplace, it pairs same-day and same-week access with clinical oversight from MDs, nurse practitioners and licensed counselors, and accepts commercial insurance, Medicare and Medicaid so cost is not a barrier to care.
Jake Cooper
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.