SANITAS
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Sanitas Health was a Los Angeles digital-health startup founded in 2021 by Rodney Bell, former co-founder of the women's telehealth platform Butterflly Health. It built an AI-driven mental health platform offering culturally and gender-sensitive coaching and counseling for historically marginalized communities and Medicaid populations — combining peer support groups, text-based coaching and one-on-one teletherapy with a 'therapy last versus therapy first' philosophy. The company was backed by StartUp Health, Right Side Capital Management, Jumpstart Foundry, Nex Cubed and MassChallenge.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
Rodney Bell founds Sanitas Health in Los Angeles to make mental health services radically accessible and inclusive for communities of color and Medicaid patients.
- National spotlight
StartUp Health features Sanitas Health; the company sets up a base of operations in Baltimore with support from the State of Maryland and partners including Johns Hopkins University and the University of California.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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