Rachel Munsie is the CEO and co-founder of Ounce of Care (Ounce), a tech-enabled resident services platform that connects people living in affordable housing to public benefits, health and social care coordination, and community programming. A former Goldman Sachs banker and private equity investor who left MIT Sloan to help build home-health startup Tomorrow Health, she launched Ounce to close the gap between where people live and the care they can actually reach. In October 2023 the company raised $5.2M in seed funding led by Meridian Street Capital and Flare Capital, with backers including Chelsea Clinton's Metrodora Ventures, Hilton CEO Chris Nassetta, and Unite Us co-founder Taylor Justice.
Accompany Health is a Bethesda, Maryland-based healthcare company building integrated primary, behavioral, and social care for low-income patients with complex medical needs. Founded in 2022 and publicly launched in January 2024 with $56 million in Series A funding, the company pairs a proprietary care-model technology platform with at-home and virtual visits, 24/7 support, and help navigating benefits like Medicaid and SNAP. It aims to be the kind of patient-centered, dignified care system that high-need, under-resourced patients rarely get.
Better Health is a modern medical supplier and digital care platform that helps people living with chronic conditions get the supplies they need at home, delivered with peer support, education, and insurance handled for them. Founded in 2019 by Naama Stauber Breckler and Adam Breckler, the company bundles diabetes, ostomy, urology, incontinence, and wound care products with human peer coaching, operating across 48 states and contracting directly with payers including Medicare, Medicaid, Cigna, Humana, Florida Blue, and Oscar.
Cartwheel is a Cambridge, Massachusetts company that delivers evidence-based mental health care to K-12 students through their schools. Working as a telehealth partner to school districts, it provides rapid-access individual therapy, group therapy, psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and family and parent guidance, with most care covered by insurance. By 2026 it had grown to roughly 350 school districts across 15 states, positioning itself as the largest school-based mental health telehealth provider in the United States.
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.
Anne Rascón is the Executive Director of the Better Health Better Pay Collaborative (BHBP), a nonprofit that stitches together two systems that rarely talk to each other - healthcare and workforce development. She works to connect Medicaid members and Managed Care Organizations with education, training, and employment so that better jobs lead to better health. Her career spans the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, including national workforce training programs and advisory work with the U.S. Department of Labor, large employers, and workforce boards. In 2023 she helped launch the Florida Self-Sufficiency Council with Simply Healthcare and Florida's 24 workforce development boards.
Bill Henderson is a healthcare growth executive with 35+ years across dental, vision, Medicaid, Medicare, and chronic care management. He spent 15 years at LIBERTY Dental Plan, where he grew the business to more than $900 million in sales and over 6 million covered lives across all 50 states. After serving as Chief Growth Officer at Vheda Health, he was named Strategic Advisor to the CEO of LightSpun, the AI-powered dental insurance administration platform formerly known as 32Health, in April 2026, where he leads national growth strategy and payer partnerships.
Colby Takeda is the co-founder and CEO of Pear Suite, a digital health company that gives community health workers the software, billing tools, and data infrastructure to be recognized as a foundational part of the healthcare system. A fourth-generation Japanese American from O'ahu, registered community health worker, and former senior living executive, he built Pear Suite during the pandemic on Google Sheets and Typeform before turning it into a care navigation platform that supports thousands of frontline workers. In October 2025 the company raised a $7.6 million Series A led by Rock Health Capital to expand its reach into Medicaid and Medicare markets.
Marble Health is a New York-based youth mental health company building a school-centered model of care. It partners with school counselors - not just school district budgets - to identify struggling students and match them with licensed therapists within days, covering visits through insurance including Medicaid. Marble combines individual, family, and group teletherapy with a purpose-built therapist EHR and AI documentation tools, and folds counselors and parents into a collaborative care team. Founded by former Headway co-founders Jake Sussman and Dan Ross, the company has facilitated more than 15,000 therapy sessions since launching and raised a $15.5M Series A in October 2025.
Nest Health is a New Orleans-based value-based care company that brings primary medical, behavioral, and social care directly into the homes of families on Medicaid. Founded in 2021 by Dr. Rebekah Gee and Rebecca Kavoussi, the company offers 24/7 in-home and virtual visits at no additional cost to eligible families, treating the whole household - children, parents, and postpartum mothers - under one roof. Its model has reduced emergency room use, doubled vaccination rates, and delivered a two-to-one return for payer partners across Louisiana and Arizona.
Jake Sussman is the cofounder and CEO of Marble Health, a virtual behavioral health company that embeds inside American schools to get anxious, depressed and overwhelmed kids into group therapy within days rather than months. He helped build Headway into a mental-health unicorn, then walked away to teach fifth-grade English at a Brooklyn charter school, where one overstretched counselor for hundreds of students convinced him the youth side of the system was broken. In 2023 he founded Marble with fellow Headway alum Dan Ross, betting that insurance-funded virtual group therapy, routed through school counselors, could scale care without waitlists. By late 2025 Marble had run more than 15,000 sessions and raised a $15.5M Series A led by Costanoa Ventures.
SafeRide Health is a technology and services company rebuilding non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) for Medicaid and Medicare Advantage populations. Founded in 2016 by brothers Robbins and Whit Schrader with Ben Salter, SafeRide pairs proprietary scheduling and dispatch software with a nationwide network of 600+ credentialed transport providers and rideshare partners to get vulnerable patients to the right care at the right time. The company now delivers more than one million rides per month across all 50 states and has been profitable since 2024.
Wellth is a Los Angeles-based digital health company that uses behavioral economics and small financial incentives to help high-risk patients build daily healthy habits - taking medications, checking vitals, and showing up to appointments. Through a consumer-grade smartphone app built around daily photo check-ins, Wellth works with Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, D-SNP, ACA and employer plans to improve care plan adherence, lift Star Ratings, and lower costly hospital admissions.
Rahul Rajkumar is the founder and CEO of Accompany Health, a Bethesda, Maryland company delivering home-based, technology-enabled primary, behavioral, and social care to low-income Americans with complex needs, especially dual-eligible Medicare-Medicaid patients. A Yale-trained physician and lawyer who holds an MD and a JD, he spent 15 years redesigning how the U.S. pays for and delivers care, from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to chief medical officer roles at CareFirst and Blue Cross North Carolina and COO of Optum Care Solutions. Accompany Health launched in January 2024 with $56 million in Series A funding led by Venrock, ARCH Venture Partners, and IVP.
Dr. Rebekah Gee is the founder and CEO of Nest Health, the first value-based primary, behavioral, and social care provider built for whole families on Medicaid, delivered through house calls and virtual visits from a base in New Orleans. An obstetrician-gynecologist and health-policy researcher, she ran the Louisiana Department of Health from 2016 to 2020, where she led Medicaid expansion and pioneered a subscription drug-payment model for hepatitis C. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017 and now runs a startup that has raised a $22.5M Series A to scale care for the families the system tends to forget.
Ophelia is a New York-based telehealth company making evidence-based opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment available from home. It connects people to licensed clinicians for medication-assisted treatment (buprenorphine/Suboxone), with video visits, on-demand messaging, and care coordination, deliberately removing the friction and stigma of traditional rehab. Founded in 2019 by Zack Gray after he lost a loved one to an overdose, Ophelia focuses heavily on Medicaid and rural populations and has raised roughly $68 million, including a $50M Series B led by Tiger Global in 2021.
Oula is a modern maternity and gynecology clinic that blends midwifery with obstetrics in a single, collaborative care model. Founded in New York in 2019 and opening its first Brooklyn clinic in 2021, Oula pairs in-person visits with virtual check-ins and care navigators to deliver personalized, evidence-based pregnancy, postpartum, and women's health care. The company reports outcomes that beat NYC benchmarks across race and payer type, accepts insurance and Medicaid, and is expanding beyond New York City after raising a $28M Series B in 2024.
Somethings is a New York-based digital mental health company that connects teens and young adults (ages 13-26) with trained, certified near-peer mentors in their 20s for real-time text and video support. Built around lived experience rather than clinical therapy alone, every mentor is background-checked, certified as a peer specialist, and supervised by licensed clinicians. The company sells primarily to states, Medicaid managed-care plans, schools, and community organizations as an early-intervention layer in the youth mental health system.
Toyin Ajayi is a board-certified family medicine physician and the co-founder and CEO of Cityblock Health, a New York-based company that builds neighborhood-rooted care for Medicaid and dually eligible patients - the people most health systems treat last. She co-founded the company out of Google's Sidewalk Labs in 2017, took the CEO seat in 2022, and has grown it into a roughly $6 billion business serving hundreds of thousands of members. Trained at Stanford, Cambridge, and King's College London, she practiced in safety-net hospitals and ran a clinic in Sierra Leone before deciding the system itself needed rebuilding. Her current obsession: making the most vulnerable patients the proving ground for AI in medicine.
Patrick Gilligan is the founder and CEO of SOMETHINGS, a New York based near-peer mentorship platform that connects youth ages 13 to 26 with trained mentors in their twenties through real-time virtual support. The service is free to teens and paid for by states, Medicaid managed care plans and school systems. In February 2026 the company raised a $19.2M Series A led by Catalio Capital with returning backers General Catalyst and Tusk Ventures, bringing total funding to roughly $28.6M. SOMETHINGS has supported more than 11,000 teens and is built on Gilligan's conviction that a young person in crisis needs a person, not a chatbot.
James C. Capretta is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he holds the Milton Friedman Chair and studies health care, entitlement programs, and the long fiscal arc of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. He spent more than 16 years inside the federal government, including as an associate director at the White House Office of Management and Budget from 2001 to 2004, where he was the lead OMB official on Medicare and Medicaid policy. A market-oriented reformer who argues for consumer choice and cost discipline over centralized control, he is the author of US Health Policy and Market Reforms: An Introduction and a prolific commentator on the math of America's safety-net programs.
Joseph Antos is one of Washington's most-quoted health economists, the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy and a senior fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute. A University of Rochester PhD who started as a Cornell math major, he spent decades inside the federal machinery - the Congressional Budget Office, the Council of Economic Advisers, OMB, the Department of Labor and HHS - before becoming AEI's go-to voice on Medicare, the federal budget, and market-based reform. He has advised the World Bank and foreign governments, served terms regulating hospital rates in Maryland, and teaches at George Washington University.
Molina Healthcare is a Fortune 500 managed care company headquartered in Long Beach, California, that provides government-sponsored health insurance - chiefly Medicaid, Medicare, and ACA Marketplace plans - to low-income and underserved Americans. Founded in 1980 by emergency-room physician Dr. C. David Molina, it grew from a single clinic in Wilmington into a multi-state insurer covering roughly 5.8 million members across some 20 states, with about $43 billion in 2025 premium revenue.
Foodsmart (formerly Zipongo) is a San Francisco-based telenutrition company that pairs registered dietitians with a food benefits marketplace to treat diet-related chronic disease and food insecurity. It serves more than 2.2 million members across employer plans, Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage and commercial insurers, and in 2024 raised $200M led by TPG's The Rise Fund to expand its 'Foodscripts' food-as-medicine programs with major U.S. health systems.
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.
Brad Kittredge is the co-founder and CEO of Brightside Health, a San Francisco-based telemental health platform serving 135 million covered lives across commercial insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid. Driven by his father's decade-long struggle to find effective depression treatment, Kittredge built Brightside from a two-day old Stripe notification into the first telepsychiatry company to achieve 100% national Medicare Part B coverage. Before Brightside, he led product teams at 23andMe and Lantern, and built ComplexDx - later acquired by 23andMe. He holds an MBA, MPH, MA in International Affairs, and a BA in Psychology, all from UC Berkeley and UC San Diego.
Kurt Knight is the CEO of Foodsmart, the largest digital food-as-medicine platform in the United States, appointed in March 2025 after 13 years at Amwell where he rose to COO and helped scale virtual care nationally. With an MBA from Harvard, an MPH from Columbia, and field experience everywhere from UNICEF to the Gates Foundation to the Boston Consulting Group, Knight brings an unusually wide lens to the intersection of food, nutrition, and healthcare delivery.
Si France, MD is the Founder and CEO of WelbeHealth, a Menlo Park-based healthcare company operating PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) programs across California. A physician-entrepreneur with dual MD/MBA degrees from Dartmouth, he previously founded GoHealth Urgent Care, scaling it to 150+ centers before selling to TPG Growth in 2014. At WelbeHealth he pioneered the first four for-profit PACE organizations in the United States, building a model that enables low-income, medically frail seniors to remain in their homes and communities rather than enter nursing facilities - while saving taxpayers $10,000 per patient annually.