The workplace mental health company began with meditation. Its bigger bet is that the hardest part of getting care happens before the first appointment.
It began with a belief in the therapy room. Then the room disappeared, and Two Chairs had to find out which parts of good care could travel.
When employers squeezed wellbeing budgets, Plumm moved into the software they still needed to buy. Its bet: put therapy, people management and payroll on the same bill.
The Burnaby practice did not invent a new kind of therapy. It made the old kind easier to enter - then used a sprawling therapist network, low-cost training pipeline and two mergers to turn access into the product.
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.
MindFi is a Singapore-based corporate mental health platform that helps global employers care for their people. Through a single app it offers on-demand therapy and coaching, 24/7 text and chat support, guided self-care programs, and community support, matching employees to culturally relevant, multilingual providers. Founded in 2017 and a Y Combinator Summer 2021 company, MindFi positions itself as an APAC-first alternative to Western employee-assistance programs, blending clinical care with wellbeing analytics for HR teams.
Headway is a New York-based healthtech company building a software-enabled network that makes it easier to find a therapist and to pay for one with insurance. Its three-sided marketplace connects patients, mental health clinicians, and insurance plans: patients search for in-network providers with transparent copays, clinicians offload credentialing, billing, scheduling, and claims to Headway, and insurers gain a larger accessible network. Founded in 2019 by Andrew Adams and co-founders, Headway operates in all 50 states with roughly 34,000 clinicians and, after a $100M Series D in 2024, is valued at about $2.3 billion.
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.
Modern Health is a global mental wellness platform built for employers. It blends self-guided digital tools, behavioral health coaching, licensed therapy, and crisis support into one app, with care delivered in 50+ languages across more than 200 countries.
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.