Matt Kennedy is co-founder and CEO of Mantra Health, a New York-based digital mental health company that partners with over 150 college and university campuses to deliver telepsychiatry, teletherapy and campus-wide wellness programs to more than 1.3 million students. He moved from COO to CEO in 2023, and leads a team of roughly 130 employees and 100+ in-house clinicians.
Joe English is the co-founder and CEO of Cartwheel, a school-based mental health company he launched in December 2022 to put licensed clinicians and a HIPAA-compliant platform inside K-12 districts. Cartwheel has grown into the largest K-12 mental health telehealth provider in the United States, reaching roughly 350 school districts across 15 states after nearly 300% year-over-year growth and raising a Series B that brought total funding to about $44 million. A Yale graduate and former student body president with an MBA from Harvard Business School, English previously founded the LGBTQ-inclusion nonprofit Hope in a Box and worked as a McKinsey consultant on K-12 education. He grew up on a farm in rural upstate New York, an experience that shaped his belief that schools are the natural front door for reaching kids and families.