Vita Health

What Vita Health does

Vita Health is a U.S.-based, venture-backed telehealth company founded in 2021 and headquartered in New Haven that delivers clinically validated suicide prevention and behavioral health services, with a stated focus on adolescents and transitional age youth. Its core offering is a telehealth platform built around proprietary clinical care pathways that the company reports have demonstrated significant reductions in suicide attempts and deaths, positioning Vita Health at the narrow intersection of suicide prevention and behavioral health rather than as a generalist mental health provider.

The company's technology stack is a telehealth delivery layer that operationalizes these validated clinical pathways rather than a self-service consumer app, and its product is sold to enterprise buyers rather than directly to patients. Vita Health runs a B2B sales-led go-to-market targeting four buyer categories: health plans, healthcare providers, employers, and educational institutions, with services distributed through partnership channels rather than direct-to-consumer marketing. The revenue model is described as subscription or recurring in nature, consistent with per-member or per-employee contracting through these enterprise channels.

Vita Health completed a $22.5 million Series A round in January 2024 led by a syndicate that included Athyrium Capital Management, CVS Health Ventures, Flare Capital Partners, Hopelab, Connecticut Innovations, LFE Capital, and The CU Healthcare Innovation Fund, with stated use of funds for nationwide U.S. expansion. Earlier funding includes an $11.775 million round from Polaris Partners in July 2023 and a $100,000 investment from the One Mind Accelerator in March 2024. Total disclosed funding across these rounds is approximately $34.4 million. The company is led by chairman and co-founder Seth Feuerstein, operates with 51-100 employees, and remains a private, pre-IPO entity with no parent company or public ticker disclosed.

Name

Vita Health

Website

https://vitahealth.care

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Vita Health delivers clinically validated telehealth-based suicide prevention and behavioral health services to adolescents and transitional age youth, selling through enterprise B2B partnerships with health plans, providers, employers, and educational institutions across the United States.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Behavioral Health Telehealth Services

NAICS

Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers (621420), Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians) (621330)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Crisis Support, Suicide Prevention & Acute Behavioral Triage Platforms (HLALAEAI)

Keywords

• Telehealth mental health
• Suicide prevention services
• Behavioral health care
• Youth mental health
• Clinical care pathways

Headquarters

HQ city

New Haven

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Telehealth Services: Revenue generated from providing clinically validated telehealth services for suicide prevention and behavioral health to health plans, providers, employers, and educational institutions

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Core offering

Vita Health delivers clinically validated telehealth services for suicide prevention and behavioral health care, primarily targeting adolescents and transitional age youth. The company operates at the intersection of suicide prevention and behavioral health, providing evidence-based clinical care pathways delivered through a scalable telehealth platform. Services are distributed via B2B partnerships with health plans, healthcare providers, employers, and educational institutions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Telehealth Suicide Prevention and Behavioral Health Services Clinically validated telehealth services aimed at reducing suicide attempts and addressing mental health issues through evidence-based clinical care pathways, delivered to health plans, providers, employers, and educational institutions for their members, patients, employees, and students.
• Evidence-Based Clinical Care Pathways Clinical care pathways that have demonstrated significant reductions in suicide attempts and deaths, providing evidence-based outcomes data to support B2B partners in delivering measurable behavioral health improvements.

Quantifiable outcome

• Significant reductions in suicide attempts and deaths through clinically validated care pathways

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Charlie Health: Charlie Health provides intensive outpatient and virtual mental health treatment for adolescents, teens, and young adults, including crisis and high-acuity care. Highly comparable to Vita Health due to its shared focus on youth mental health and complex clinical needs delivered virtually.
• Brightside Health: Brightside Health is a telehealth platform delivering evidence-based mental health treatment, including for anxiety and depression, with a clinical outcomes focus. Comparable to Vita Health as a clinically validated virtual behavioral health provider serving payer and enterprise channels.
• Valera Health: Valera Health provides virtual mental health care to adults and children with a dedicated care coordinator model, working with health plans and partners. Comparable to Vita Health as a virtual mental health platform targeting similar payer and provider channels with a clinical quality emphasis.
• Lyra Health: Lyra Health is a mental health benefits platform for employers and health plans, offering therapy, coaching, and medication management. Comparable to Vita Health as a B2B virtual behavioral health provider selling into employers and payers, though broader in scope.
• Spring Health: Spring Health provides a global mental health and wellness benefit for employers and health plans, combining assessment, therapy, coaching, and medication services. Comparable to Vita Health in its employer and payer go-to-market and virtual care delivery model.
• Talkspace: Talkspace operates an online therapy and psychiatry platform serving payers, employers, and individuals. Comparable to Vita Health as a virtual behavioral health provider with a B2B channel strategy, though offering a broader, less acuity-focused service catalog.
• Two Chairs: Two Chairs is a therapy provider combining in-person and virtual care with an outcomes measurement focus, serving employer and payer clients. Comparable to Vita Health in its clinical quality emphasis and B2B distribution model.
• Cerebral: Cerebral is a tele-mental health company providing therapy, counseling, and medication management for conditions including anxiety, depression, and ADHD. Comparable to Vita Health as a virtual behavioral health provider targeting payer and consumer channels.

Broad incumbents

• Headspace Health: Headspace Health (formed via the Ginger/Headspace merger) provides mental health, coaching, and therapy benefits to employers and health plans. Comparable as a broad incumbent in B2B virtual behavioral health, with the scale to bundle crisis-adjacent services.

Emerging players

• Mantra Health: Mantra Health provides virtual mental health services specifically for college students and young adults through partnerships with universities and health plans. Comparable to Vita Health as an emerging player with a shared focus on youth mental health and educational institution channels.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/Vita-Health-111464838374773
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/vita-health

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors9 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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