Blackbird Health Raises $17 Million Series A to Expand Access to Integrated, Technology-Backed Youth Mental Health Model

Blackbird Health Leverages a Neuroscience-Driven, “Understanding-First” Care Model to Take the Trial and Error out of Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young-Adult Mental Health Diagnosis and Treatment Blackbird Health, a neuroscience-led and technology-backed youth mental health provider, announced today it raised $17 million in series A funding. The round was led by Define Ventures and also included participation from Frist Cressey Ventures and GreyMatter. Blackbird has raised nearly $23 million to date. Blackbird Health is a mental health company for kids and young adults struggling with social, emotional, developmental, and school-related challenges. Leveraging an integrated, virtual, and in-person model that includes a groundbreaking approach to diagnosing and treating, it’s the only in-network mental health practice that’s dedicated to achieving better outcomes more quickly by taking trial and error out of delivering high-quality mental healthcare. The original clinic behind Blackbird was founded in 2014 by Amy Edgar, APRN, CRNP, FNP-C, now serving as its Chief Clinical Officer, and then relaunched in 2021 when Co-Founder Dr. Matt Keener, a Board-Certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, joined the company. Together, Edgar and Dr. Keener pioneered an “Understand-first” care model that leverages neuroscience-driven patient assessments led by a trained specialist and computational models applied to its 10-year foundational dataset to un...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Amy Edgar Blackbird Health Chirag Shah Define Ventures Dr. Matt Keener Frist Cressey Ventures GreyMatter Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Tom Peterson Source Type: blogs