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Amen Clinics puts a picture at the center of psychiatry
Daniel Amen built a national clinic network around the promise of seeing the brain. The appeal is easy to understand. The argument over what those pictures prove is harder to settle.
Scott Alexander Built a Public Square for People Who Prefer Footnotes to Factions
For more than a decade, the psychiatrist behind Slate Star Codex and Astral Codex Ten has made uncertainty readable - then invited the readers to argue back.
Craig Hopkinson Turns Deep Science Into Medicines That Reach People
A doctor by training who now runs research, development and medical affairs at one of neuroscience's most watched biopharma companies - and keeps the patient at the center of every decision.
Brave Health Bet on the Patients Telehealth Forgot - Then Had to Make the Math Work
Most virtual-therapy companies chased easy-to-reach customers. Brave Health built for Medicaid members, where the hard part is not launching a video call - it is finding patients, accepting their insurance and keeping care financially sustainable.
SonderMind Raised $183 Million to Make Therapy Easier. The Hard Part Was Insurance.
The Denver company turned a founder’s bad therapist search into a national care network. Its advantage is the same complicated machinery that can still frustrate patients: matching, credentialing, claims and the stubborn arithmetic of insurance.
Shareh Ghani Turned Behavioral Health Into a Data Problem Worth Solving
From the ACT teams of Maricopa County to the C-suite of a national managed care company, Shareh Ghani built a career on a stubborn idea: that good care and good data are the same project.
Neurocrine Biosciences
One movement-disorder medicine turned a San Diego research shop into a multibillion-dollar biopharma. Now Neurocrine is spending that advantage on rare endocrine disease, psychiatry and the difficult biology between brain and body.
Iris Telehealth
Iris Telehealth is an Austin, Texas-based telepsychiatry company that partners with hospitals, health systems, community mental health centers, and federally qualified health centers to deliver virtual behavioral health care. Founded in 2013 on the belief that every community deserves timely access to quality mental health care, Iris supplies vetted psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and licensed therapists on both scheduled and on-demand bases, plus an AI-enabled analytics platform. It is the only virtual mental health company to earn The Joint Commission's behavioral health care accreditation twice, and it works with roughly 200 partner organizations across the United States.
Televero Behavioral Health
Televero Behavioral Health is an Austin, Texas physician-led virtual behavioral health practice that delivers online therapy, psychiatry, medication management, and neurotesting for conditions like anxiety, depression, ADHD and autism. Built as a licensed medical practice rather than an app or marketplace, it pairs same-day and same-week access with clinical oversight from MDs, nurse practitioners and licensed counselors, and accepts commercial insurance, Medicare and Medicaid so cost is not a barrier to care.
Amae Health
Amae Health is a Los Angeles-based, psychiatry-led healthcare company building in-person outpatient clinics for people living with severe mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and treatment-resistant depression. Founded in 2022 by Stas Sokolin and Sonia Garcia, it pairs a wraparound clinical team - psychiatrists, therapists, primary care providers, dietitians, health coaches, peer mentors and social workers - with a data platform built on Palantir Foundry. The company reports a 30-day hospital readmission rate under 4% versus a 23% national average, and raised a $25M Series B in November 2025, bringing total funding to more than $50M.
Legion Health
Legion Health is an AI-native psychiatry practice that delivers world-class mental health care covered by insurance. The company automates the administrative work behind clinical care - and became the first to receive regulatory authorization for AI to prescribe psychiatric medications, starting in Utah.
Christopher Gaeta
Christopher Gaeta is the founder and CEO of InSite Health, a venture-backed behavioral health company building what he calls a K-12 wellness operating system: one integrated platform that bundles mental health screenings, on-site therapy and psychiatric care for school districts that were otherwise stitching together six or more separate vendors. A 2023 Swarthmore College graduate and former co-captain of the golf team, he previously ran the campus-wellness company Grapefruit to 250,000 patients and worked as a healthcare venture investor before turning operator. Business Insider named him a top Gen Z venture capitalist, and he aims to build the nation's largest K-12 wellness platform by 2030.
Foresight Mental Health
Foresight Mental Health is a Berkeley, California-based outpatient mental health provider that pairs clinicians - psychiatrists, therapists and prescribers - with software, data and wearables to deliver personalized, insurance-covered care. Founded by two UC Berkeley computer-science students, the company offers therapy, psychiatry, child and adolescent services, ADHD testing, intensive outpatient programs and TMS across in-person clinics and telehealth, with the stated mission of improving access to high-quality mental health care.
Ilise Lombardo
Ilise Lombardo is the CEO of Noema Pharma, a Basel-based clinical-stage biotech advancing treatments for central nervous system disorders. A Yale-trained psychiatrist with a Cambridge M.Phil and a Brown degree, she spent two decades in clinical practice and academia before co-founding Arvelle Therapeutics, which sold to Angelini Pharma for roughly $1 billion in 2021. She now steers Noema's pipeline of Phase 2 programs targeting Tourette syndrome, trigeminal neuralgia, tuberous sclerosis seizures and menopause-related CNS symptoms.
Beacon Biosignals
Beacon Biosignals is a Boston-based neurotechnology company that pairs FDA-cleared wearable EEG hardware with AI to turn brain electrical activity - especially during sleep - into scalable, at-home neurodiagnostics. Its platform powers drug development, clinical trials, and precision medicine across neurology, psychiatry, and sleep medicine.
Grow Therapy
Grow Therapy is a behavioral health company that makes therapy and psychiatry easier to start, covered by insurance, and sustainable for the clinicians who deliver it. It runs a national marketplace and full-stack practice platform that handles credentialing, insurance billing, scheduling, and EHR tooling so independent therapists can build in-network private practices, and so patients can find a provider who takes their insurance for an average copay of about $21. Founded in 2020, the company reached roughly $1 billion in revenue and a $3 billion valuation in 2026.
Brightside Health
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.
Brad Kittredge
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.
Yash Patel
Yash M. Patel is the Co-Founder and CEO of Legion Health, a San Francisco-based AI-native mental health platform that delivers insurance-covered psychiatric care via telehealth. A Princeton mathematics graduate (2018) and Y Combinator alum (S21), Yash previously worked as a healthcare policy analyst at the Congressional Budget Office and as a research assistant at Harvard Medical School. Motivated in part by his experience caregiving for his father, he co-founded Legion Health in 2021 alongside Princeton classmates Arthur MacWaters and Daniel Wilson. The company has raised over $10M, and in April 2026 became the first startup to receive regulatory authorization to let AI prescribe psychiatric medications.