Cityblock Health is a New York-based, technology-driven healthcare company that delivers integrated primary care, behavioral health, and social services to Medicaid and dually eligible (Medicare-Medicaid) members in underserved communities. Spun out of Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs in 2017, Cityblock pairs neighborhood-based care teams with a custom care-management platform to treat the whole person - medical needs alongside housing, food, and other social drivers of health - under value-based, risk-sharing contracts with health plans. It serves more than 100,000 members across over ten states.
Zarminali Pediatrics is a venture-backed, multi-specialty pediatric care group building purpose-designed clinics that bundle primary care, urgent care, specialty care, behavioral health, and telehealth under one coordinated roof. Founded in 2024 by healthcare operator Danish Qureshi after his own family struggled to coordinate care for a child with an autoimmune disorder, the company has grown to roughly 28 clinics across 8 states and raised $110M in Series A funding (about $150M total) to fix what it calls a fragmented, broken pediatric system.
Center for Social Dynamics (CSD) is an applied behavior analysis (ABA) provider serving children and adults with autism and other developmental needs. Founded in 2012 by Pete Pallares, CSD delivers in-home, center-based, school-based, and virtual therapy across California, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, and Colorado, pairing evidence-based clinical care with what it calls a foundation of science, compassion, and humility. The company now serves more than 4,000 clients with roughly 1,500 providers, and in December 2024 was acquired by Goldman Sachs Alternatives from longtime backer NMS Capital.
Brightside Health is a national virtual mental healthcare company delivering psychiatry, therapy and crisis care for people with depression, anxiety, and elevated suicide risk - powered by a proprietary AI platform and a 50-state clinician network, with coverage through major commercial insurers, Medicare and Medicaid.
Forta is a San Francisco-based virtual ABA therapy company that pairs board-certified behavior analysts with families across 47 states, using AI-assisted clinical algorithms to deliver autism care without the years-long waitlists that define the industry.
Opya is a California-based early intervention therapy provider specializing in comprehensive, multidisciplinary care for children aged 18 months to 6 years diagnosed with autism. The company delivers Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), speech therapy, occupational therapy, and feeding therapy through in-home, clinic-based, and telehealth models across Northern and Southern California. Backed by $34.7M in total funding including a $15.4M Series A in 2021 from investors including SoftBank's SB Opportunity Fund, Opya is one of only eight ABA providers in California to hold BHCOE (Behavioral Health Center of Excellence) accreditation. In 2024, the company expanded into center-based care through the acquisition of Center for Autism Spectrum Therapy (CAST) and began operating under the Spectrum Pride brand.
Christina Sanders, M.A., BCBA is the Chief Executive Officer of Opya (rebranded as Spectrum Pride), a California-based autism early intervention therapy provider delivering ABA, speech, occupational, and feeding therapy to young children. A Board Certified Behavior Analyst with a Master's from Ball State University, she rose from VP of ABA Clinical Operations to CEO, overseeing a company that has raised $34.7M in venture funding, earned BHCOE 3-year accreditation, and expanded across Northern and Southern California to serve over 110 employees and thousands of families.
Grace Chang is the Taiwanese-American founder and CEO of Kintsugi, the Berkeley-based startup that built AI capable of detecting clinical depression and anxiety from just 20 seconds of free-form speech. A five-time entrepreneur with roots in signal processing and consumer tech, she raised $28 million, launched Japan's default mental health screener, and built the world's largest annotated voice dataset for mental health machine learning - before making all of Kintsugi's research and technology open source in early 2026 after FDA regulatory hurdles made the venture-backed model unsustainable.