The Canyon at Santa Monica

What The Canyon at Santa Monica does

The firmographic record labels this entity as "The Canyon at Santa Monica," a for-profit provider of treatment for addiction and mental health disorders, with 11–50 employees and a website URL of dave-cushman.net. However, every substantive data point attached to this record — technology stack, revenue, ownership, history, customer base, products, and source citations — pertains to Dave Cushman's beekeeping website (dave-cushman.net), a personal informational resource, not a treatment facility. The website was created by Dave Cushman (David Albert Cushman, 1946–2011), a beekeeping enthusiast from Syston, Leicestershire, UK, beginning around 2000. It grew from a few pages to thousands of pages covering bee breeding, queen rearing, swarm management, disease control, and hive products, and is described by its current maintainer as "probably the world's most comprehensive and authoritative beekeeping website." Dave Cushman died on 22 February 2011 and bequeathed the site to Roger Patterson, who has maintained it since on a volunteer basis, most recently updating pages in November 2022.

The underlying technology is hand-coded HTML with a Google-powered site search; no commercial platform, no API, no integrations, and no AI/ML components are documented. Cushman deliberately waived copyright on all beekeeping material and granted free use of any material or software (apart from family photographs), so the site generates no revenue, sells no products, and has no disclosed pricing. There are no disclosed customers, partnerships, certifications, patents, funding rounds, or management team beyond the original founder and current volunteer maintainer. The data therefore describes a non-commercial, free-access reference resource, and the original "addiction treatment" descriptor is unsupported by any evidence in the record.

Name

The Canyon at Santa Monica

Legal name

Dave Cushman's Website (Personal Website)

Website

https://dave-cushman.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Per its source data, this entity is a free, non-commercial beekeeping reference website (dave-cushman.net) originally created by Dave Cushman and now maintained by Roger Patterson as one of the world's most comprehensive beekeeping information resources.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Addiction and Mental Health Treatment Services

NAICS

Residential Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities (623220), Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers (621420)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Residential Substance Use Rehabilitation (Inpatient Rehab) (HLAFACAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Outpatient Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Treatment Programs (HLAFABAD)

Keywords

• Addiction treatment
• Mental health treatment
• Behavioral health services
• Substance abuse treatment
• Residential treatment

Headquarters

HQ city

Malibu

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

The Canyon at Santa Monica provides treatment for addiction and mental health disorders. It operates as a for-profit private facility with 11-50 employees, based in Malibu, California, delivering direct patient care services to individuals seeking recovery and behavioral health support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Addiction and Mental Health Treatment

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Cliffside Malibu: Residential substance abuse and co-occurring disorder treatment facility on the Malibu coast. Directly comparable in clinical model (residential SUD with mental health focus) and premium private-pay client base.
• Passages Malibu: Luxury residential addiction treatment center located in Malibu serving a similar private-pay, dual-diagnosis population. Operates with comparable premium positioning and adult residential SUD programming.
• Mountainside Treatment Center: Residential and outpatient addiction treatment provider in Connecticut offering dual-diagnosis programming to a largely private-pay population. Comparable in clinical model and target demographic, though geographically distinct.
• Promises Behavioral Health: Multi-site residential and outpatient addiction treatment operator with a flagship Malibu location. Comparable in clinical offerings, private-pay positioning, and dual-diagnosis programming.
• Malibu Hills Treatment Center: Residential substance abuse and mental health treatment center in the Malibu area. Comparable in facility size, residential-only model, and dual-diagnosis clinical positioning.
• Seasons in Malibu: Residential addiction treatment center in Malibu offering detox, residential, and outpatient programs to a private-pay population. Closely comparable in location, acuity, and program structure.

Broad incumbents

• Caron Treatment Centers: Nonprofit addiction treatment operator with residential, outpatient, and recovery programs nationwide. Comparable core service line in residential SUD, but with broader geographic footprint and significantly larger scale.
• Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation: Large national nonprofit operator of residential addiction treatment and recovery services across multiple states. Comparable clinical model but operates at significantly broader scale and with mixed payor mix rather than private-pay focus.

Emerging players

• Bicycle Health: Telehealth-based medication-assisted treatment provider for opioid use disorder. Not a residential peer, but operates in the same SUD treatment category with a rapidly scaling, digitally-enabled model that competes for some of the same downstream referrals.
• Sandstone Care: Multi-state operator of adolescent and young adult substance use and mental health treatment, including residential programs. Comparable in clinical focus on co-occurring disorders, though skewed to a younger demographic.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/the-canyon

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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