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Latino Commission makes room for recovery in your own language
Built by people in recovery, this California nonprofit pairs addiction treatment with Spanish-speaking staff, family support and cultural tradition. Its public contracts reveal the cost of preparing care before anyone walks through the door.
Opción YO Thought Spanish Was the Product. Culture Built the $4.5 Million Business.
The Miami platform began as a marketplace for Spanish-speaking therapists. Its sharper insight - that migration, family and identity shape care - turned cultural fluency into a five-stage subscription business.
MiSalud Health
MiSalud Health is a bilingual, AI-powered hybrid healthcare platform built for the Spanish-speaking workforce in the U.S. and Mexico. It pairs same-day virtual consultations in Spanish and English with on-site biometric screenings, mental health support, chronic condition management and nutrition coaching, delivered through employer partnerships that reach over 100,000 members. The company combines culturally tailored care with measurable cost savings, reporting 80% enrollment, 97% satisfaction and 3.5x ROI for its clients.
La Clínica de La Raza
La Clínica de La Raza is one of the largest community-based primary health care providers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 1971 in Oakland's Fruitvale district by UC Berkeley students and community activists, it is a federally qualified health center (FQHC) delivering culturally appropriate medical, dental, behavioral health, vision, and pharmacy services to roughly 90,000 patients a year across more than 35 sites in Alameda, Contra Costa and Solano Counties - regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Bismarck Lepe
Bismarck Lepe is a serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur and the Co-Founder and CEO of MiSalud Health, a bilingual AI-powered telehealth platform serving Latino and blue-collar workers across the U.S. and Mexico. The son of Mexican immigrant farmworkers, he spent early childhood following seasonal harvests before attending Stanford and building a $1B+ career at Google, Ooyala (sold to Telstra for $400M+), and Wizeline. At MiSalud, he applies his nearshore technology playbook to a deeply personal mission: making quality healthcare accessible to the communities that shaped him.