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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.
Coral Care
Coral Care is a Cambridge, Massachusetts based pediatric therapy company that brings licensed speech, occupational and physical therapists into children's homes, with services covered by insurance. Founded in 2023 by Jen Wirt after she ran into the system's long waitlists trying to get help for her own daughter, the company now operates a network of more than 600 clinicians across nine states.
Jen Wirt
Jen Wirt is the founder and CEO of Coral Care, a venture-backed digital health company that sends licensed pediatric speech, occupational, and physical therapists into families' homes and bills their insurance directly. She started the company in 2023 after her own daughter's developmental delays sent her through six months of waitlists and thousands of dollars in out-of-network bills. A former product manager in consumer electronics and digital health, Wirt built Coral Care as a three-sided platform that pairs families needing care with clinicians who want to build sustainable private practices. By early 2026 the company had raised $19.5M, operated across five states, and grown a network of 400+ providers.