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Equip Health

Virtual treatment program for eating disorders

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501-1000 employees
  • Healthcare
  • B2C
  • B2B
  • Personal health
  • Mental health
  • Wellbeing
Carlsbad Village, Carlsbad, CA

Company mission

To provide eating disorder treatment that works to everyone who needs it.

Led by a woman
Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

56% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Eating disorders are common in the United States. Roughly 9% of the population, or 28.8 million people, will have an eating disorder in their lifetime. However, long waiting lists and one-size-fits-all approaches that usually do not involve the patient's support network lead to many people suffering without the help they need.

Equip Health provides virtual treatment programs for people with eating disorders, leading treatments with virtual five-person care teams consisting of a therapist, physician, peer mentor, family mentor and dietitian. The family mentor represents the company's Family Based Treatment method, which is designed to empower families to help loved ones overcome their eating disorders.

By holding all sessions virtually and including the family of the patient in their recovery, the company can increase accessibility to eating disorder treatment, reduce its cost, and help more people recover. The value of this proposition has seen Equip Health raise substantial funding, the latest of which is being channelled into expansion of the platform.

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Kirsty

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Benefits

  • Work in ways that work for you - Flexible PTO & work hours
  • Work from home – or close to it - Co-working space stipends
  • Comfortably WFH - Home office tech stipend
  • Take care of yourself and your most important people - 12 weeks of paid parental leave, short term & long-term disability
  • Healthcare and more - Medical, Vision, Dental, HSA & FSA
  • We invest in you - 401k program starting day 1
  • Open feedback in every direction - Regular coffee with co-founders and ongoing 360 feedback

Company values

  • Start with curiosity - At Equip, we are insatiably curious. We enter every interaction with positive intent, the mindset that there are always ways to improve, and the willingness to find out how to get it done. We communicate from a place of “yes, and”, celebrate conviction, and are constantly changing, evolving and improving
  • Trust your village - We know our best work emerges from open and transparent feedback, asking for help when we need it, and leveraging the strengths of our teammates to move ideas forward. We value team goals over the individual: we know that we can go fast alone, but far together. We show up for each other, act with empathy, and bring our passion and commitment to work every day
  • Own the impact - At Equip, we believe that recovery is possible for every patient which is why we constantly push ourselves out of our comfort zone to find solutions that will help patients heal. No job is too small, we are creative, and we are determined to move the needle. All of our decisions are informed and backed by solid data, and we demand accountability from ourselves in order to ensure the best possible outcomes

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Apr 2024

$35m

SERIES C

Feb 2022

$58m

SERIES B

Total funding: $109.7m

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Leadership

Kristina Saffran

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Co-founder and CEO of Project HEAL: Help to Eat, Accept and Live, from 2008 to 2019. Was also a Mental Health Advisory Board Member for Verily Life Sciences for 2 years.

Erin Parks, Ph.D

(Co-Founder & Chief Clinical Officer)

Experience as Manager of the Pediatric Clinic for Eating Disorders at UC San Diego Health, where they are an Assistant Professor. Also Founding Operator of the Coalition Network.

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