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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.
Constant Therapy
Constant Therapy is a Boston-area digital health company that turns speech, language, and cognitive rehabilitation into an AI-personalized app. Spun out of Boston University's Aphasia Research Laboratory in 2012, its platform delivers more than 100,000 evidence-based exercises across 80-plus task categories to people recovering from stroke, traumatic brain injury, aphasia, dementia, and other neurological conditions - and to the clinicians who treat them. A patented NeuroPerformance Engine adapts each session to the individual, extending therapy beyond the clinic and into daily home practice.
Veera Anantha
Veera Anantha is the co-founder and CEO of Constant Therapy Health, a Boston-based digital therapeutics company whose AI-powered app helps people living with stroke, traumatic brain injury, aphasia and other neurological conditions rebuild speech, language and cognitive skills. A trained engineer and physicist with a PhD from Northwestern and a degree from IIT Bombay, he spent years building products at startups acquired by Apple and Motorola before turning to brain rehabilitation. Under his leadership the platform has delivered well over 100 million therapy exercises, creating what is described as the largest real-world brain rehabilitation dataset, and he champions AI that is accountable and explainable enough for healthcare.
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.
Huddle Up
Huddle Up (formerly DotCom Therapy) partners with K-12 school districts to deliver high-quality speech therapy, occupational therapy, mental health, and school psychology services for students with IEPs. Combining licensed providers in all 50 states with a proprietary technology platform, the company offers both virtual and in-person care to close special-education staffing gaps. Founded in 2015 to reach students in remote Alaska, it has delivered more than 1 million therapy sessions and now serves close to 1,000 school districts nationwide.
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.
Opya
Opya is a California-based early intervention therapy provider specializing in comprehensive, multidisciplinary care for children aged 18 months to 6 years diagnosed with autism. The company delivers Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), speech therapy, occupational therapy, and feeding therapy through in-home, clinic-based, and telehealth models across Northern and Southern California. Backed by $34.7M in total funding including a $15.4M Series A in 2021 from investors including SoftBank's SB Opportunity Fund, Opya is one of only eight ABA providers in California to hold BHCOE (Behavioral Health Center of Excellence) accreditation. In 2024, the company expanded into center-based care through the acquisition of Center for Autism Spectrum Therapy (CAST) and began operating under the Spectrum Pride brand.
Christina Sanders
Christina Sanders, M.A., BCBA is the Chief Executive Officer of Opya (rebranded as Spectrum Pride), a California-based autism early intervention therapy provider delivering ABA, speech, occupational, and feeding therapy to young children. A Board Certified Behavior Analyst with a Master's from Ball State University, she rose from VP of ABA Clinical Operations to CEO, overseeing a company that has raised $34.7M in venture funding, earned BHCOE 3-year accreditation, and expanded across Northern and Southern California to serve over 110 employees and thousands of families.