mental health startups
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Cartwheel Snags $20M For School-based Mental Health Services
Cartwheel, a startup that partners with school districts to provide virtual mental health services, raised $20 million in Series A funds. The company is working with about 50 school districts and charter school networks across Massachusetts, Illinois, New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
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Gen Z-Focused Mental Health Platform Founded by Stanford Psychologist Raises $6M
Wave Life — a mental health platform designed for Gen Z — recently closed a $6 million seed investment led by Santé Ventures. The company — which was founded by Sarah Adler, a clinical psychologist and clinical associate professor at Stanford’s psychiatry department — will use the funding to move further into the employer market and conduct research on its care model’s outcomes.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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Inside One Startup’s Effort to Make Mental Healthcare Progress Seem Less Subjective
Less than 20% of behavioral healthcare providers collect data on how patients are progressing with their treatment. To buck this trend, Two Chairs is rolling out “mental health snapshots,” which are consistent summaries of patients’ well-being designed to offer real-time insight to both clinicians and clients.
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Lightfully Behavioral Health acquires 2 of 13 centers it plans to open in California in 2022
The Thousand Oaks, California-based company bought Resilience Treatment Center for Mental Health in West Los Angeles for an undisclosed sum and is now accepting patients at two centers it acquired through the purchase.
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Behavioral health startup Octave raises $11M, strikes deal with California insurer
Octave Health matches patients with personalized behavioral health services, typically either in-person therapy or virtual coaching, and is among a new breed of digital health startups tackling mental health.