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Kari O'Rourke Keeps One Sentence in the Room: Patients Are Waiting
The nurse practitioner turned CEO has spent two decades learning how care breaks apart. At Brightline, she is trying to put the family, the clinician and the business model back in the same room.
The Speech Therapist Who Bet the Parents Do the Real Work
A speech pathologist got tired of watching kids wait months for care they could barely access. So she built a company on an uncomfortable premise: the therapist is not the one who fixes your child's speech - you are.
The Hospital Built Around a Small but Radical Idea: Kids Aren't Tiny Adults
For more than a century, Children's Minnesota has designed care around the biology, fears and families of young patients. Its scale is large, but its strategic advantage is unusually specific: everything is built for kids.
Zarminali Pediatrics
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
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.