Aba Business Growth

What Aba Business Growth does

ABA Business Growth is a private B2B services firm founded in 2018 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, that operates as a division of Special Learning, Inc. The company sells an integrated workforce solution to Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) organizations — primarily small and mid-sized autism and behavioral health providers — addressing chronic shortages of Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) and Registered Behavior Technicians (RBTs). Its offering spans three pillars: Target Recruitment (retained search, RBT/BCBA Matchmaker at $2,500 per delivery, targeted email blasts to a proprietary 20,000-25,000-person database, and human-driven ethics and clinical screening), Talent Retention (an ABA Training Partner Program with CE Library, RBT 2.0 Education Program, RBT Continuing Education Library, and a Pennsylvania IBHS package backed by ACE Provider Status OP-14-2347, priced at $199/year per license or $59 on promotion), and Business Accelerator (consulting plus the ABA CEO Peer Group at $1,500/month with bundled Special Learning credits). Distribution is sales-led through website forms, direct outreach, and email marketing, with named engagements across at least seven U.S. states (CA, NJ, PA, NC, MA, CT, CO).

The platform is built on a WordPress-based marketing and commerce site, a proprietary candidate database, and training content licensed or co-developed with parent Special Learning, Inc. Underlying technical components include a candidate-matching workflow that produces geo-filtered lists (50 BT/RBT or 25 BCBA profiles), a multi-stage screening process covering ethics, clinical baseline, competency interviews, and video review, and an LMS-style training catalog meeting 100% of BACB continuing education requirements. The company has no disclosed AI/ML capabilities, no public funding history, and a small operating team of roughly four identified members led by CEO and Founder Karen Chung.

Commercially, the business combines professional-services fees (retained search and Matchmaker), recurring training subscriptions, advertising-style email blast revenue, and a high-touch membership product. Pricing is modular and accessible: $59-$199 per training license, $2,500 per Matchmaker delivery, and $1,500/month for the Peer Group, with the largest training deployments pricing on contact for organizations with 10+ staff. No revenue figure is disclosed and there are no known institutional investors.

Name

Aba Business Growth

Legal name

ABA Business Growth

Website

https://ababusinessgrowth.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ABA Business Growth is a Menlo Park-based B2B services firm and division of Special Learning, Inc. that provides recruitment, ethics-focused screening, online training, and consulting to ABA organizations seeking BCBAs and RBTs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

ABA Talent Recruitment and Training Services

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services (56131)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361), Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

ABA Staff Training & RBT/Paraprofessional Support Services (EDAKAHAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

ABA Program Management, Compliance & Outcomes Measurement (Documentation, Audits) (EDAKAHAM)

Keywords

• ABA talent recruitment
• Clinical recruitment services
• Behavior analyst staffing
• ABA training programs
• BCBA RBT placement

Headquarters

HQ city

Menlo Park

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Recruitment Services: Retained search and placement services for BCBAs and RBTs to ABA organizations. Revenue from placement fees and matchmaker service fees.
2. Training Program Licensing: Sale of training course licenses to ABA organizations. CE libraries, RBT training, and continuing education programs licensed per employee on annual basis.
3. Digital Marketing Services: Email blast campaigns to their proprietary database of 20,000+ BCBAs, RBTs and prospects. Targeted marketing campaigns for ABA organizations seeking recruitment.
4. CEO Peer Group Membership: Monthly membership program at $1,500/month providing access to peer group, expert consultants, and $1,500 in Special Learning credits.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

ABA Business Growth provides specialized recruitment, screening, and online training services to Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) organizations. The company connects ABA employers with pre-screened Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs), Registered Behavior Technicians (RBTs), and Behavior Technicians (BTs) through retained search, an RBT/BCBA Matchmaker tool, and targeted email marketing to a proprietary 20,000-25,000 clinician database. It also delivers continuing education training programs and practice management consulting to ABA providers.

Product overview

ABA Business Growth offers a comprehensive talent management and training platform for Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) organizations. The platform operates across three core service areas: Target Recruitment (including Elite Talent Recruitment, Digital Email Blasts to 20,000+ professionals, RBT/BCBA Matchmaker, and Targeted Candidate Screening), Talent Retention (featuring the ABA Training Partner Program with CE Library, RBT 2.0 Education Program, RBT Continuing Education Library, and PA IBHS Training), and Business Accelerator (consulting services and the ABA CEO Peer Group membership). The company is a division of Special Learning, Inc. and serves as an integrated workforce solution for the behavioral health industry.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Elite Talent Recruitment Recruitment service that connects ethical ABA organizations with qualified Board Certified Behavior Analysts, Registered Behavior Technicians, and Behavior Technicians. Includes ethics and clinical screening criteria to assess candidates.
• Digital Recruitment Email Blast Email marketing service that exposes organizations to over 20,000 BCBAs, RBTs, and RBT prospects in the company's exclusive database of career-seeking behavior health professionals.
• RBT and BCBA Matchmaker Recruitment tool providing curated candidate profiles including resumes, verified email addresses, and telephone numbers, plus a warm-up email sequence of three customized emails. One-time fee of $2,500.
• Targeted Candidate Screening Comprehensive candidate assessment service covering resume review, background checks, reference letters, ethics screening (code and scenario testing), clinical baseline testing, ABA terminology assessment, competency interviews, and video interview results.
• ABA Training Partner Program Comprehensive online training platform for ABA professionals offering CE Library for Behavior Analysts, RBT 2.0 Education Program, and RBT Continuing Education Library. Pricing at $59 per license with special promotional pricing available.
• CE Library for Behavior Analysts Continuing education library meeting 100% of BACB requirements covering ABA Essentials, ABA Advanced, Ethics, Supervision, Collaboration, and more through multiple learning platforms including online courses and live webinars.
• RBT 2.0 Education Program RBT training program that exceeds BACB requirements, covering multiple settings (home, clinic, school, community), multiple populations (ASD, ADHD, Dual Diagnosis, Behavioral), Professional Ethics, ABA Overview and Essentials.
• PA IBHS Training Package Pennsylvania-specific training approved under ACE Provider Status (OP-14-2347) to meet IBHS requirements. Free full license available for agencies to explore the training package.
• Business Accelerator Consulting Services Specialized ABA practice consulting services to align and optimize non-clinical areas of organizations including business management, HR, financial planning, marketing, technology, and clinical operations.
• ABA CEO Peer Group Exclusive monthly membership program for ABA business owners and leaders featuring virtual meetings, expert-led sessions in HR, Finance, Marketing, Recruitment, Technology, and Growth Strategies, plus $1,500 monthly credit for Special Learning resources. Priced at $1,500 per month.

Quantifiable outcome

• Satisfaction guarantee - replacement search at no additional cost if candidate does not meet expectations within specified timeframe

Named customers12 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Special Learning, Inc.coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerABA Business Growth is a division of Special Learning, Inc., which creates and provides quality online training to ABA health professionals. Special Learning provides the underlying training content and infrastructure for the ABA Training Partner Program, CE libraries, RBT training, and other educational offerings. CEO Karen Chung leverages this partnership to provide $1,500 in monthly credits to CEO Peer Group members.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• Caravel Autism Health: Multi-state ABA therapy provider operating in the Midwest and other regions — representative of the large regional ABA agencies that are both a target customer base for ABA Business Growth and a potential direct competitor for talent.

Emerging players

• RethinkFirst: Provider of digital ABA training, clinical tools and practice management software used by schools and ABA providers. Comparable to ABA Business Growth on training content side and competes for the same provider spending on staff enablement.
• Hi Rasmus: Digital ABA training company offering RBT and BCBA continuing-education content. Direct competitor to the CE Library and RBT 2.0 products within ABA Business Growth's training portfolio.

Broad incumbents

• AMN Healthcare: Largest U.S. healthcare staffing and workforce solutions company. Represents the publicly-traded mega-incumbent that could move into ABA-specific staffing at scale and compress pricing across the recruitment market.
• CentralReach: Largest ABA practice management platform, serving thousands of ABA agencies with EHR, billing, scheduling and increasingly learning/career tools. CentralReach is a strategic incumbent that competes for both the practice's technology wallet and adjacent workforce/training workflows targeted by ABA Business Growth.
• Sunbelt Staffing: Large healthcare and school staffing firm that places therapists, behavior specialists and paraprofessionals including RBTs/BCBAs. Represents the kind of broader-incuumbent staffing competitor ABA Business Growth faces for outsourced ABA hiring.
• Therapy Source: Specialized therapy and behavioral health staffing agency placing school psychologists, OT/PT and ABA clinicians. Comparable to ABA Business Growth on the recruiting/matchmaker axis, with a wider therapy footprint.

Others

• Special Learning, Inc. Parent company and strategic content partner of ABA Business Growth. Special Learning provides the underlying ABA training catalog (CE Library, RBT 2.0, PA IBHS) and ACE Provider Status that powers the Training Partner Program — the closest comparable in terms of training content and ACE accreditation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/aba_bizgrowth
• Facebookfacebook.com/ABABusinessGrowth
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ababusinessgrowth
• Instagraminstagram.com/ababusinessgrowth

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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