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Little Otter Health
Online therapy provider for families and children
- 21-100 employees
- B2C
- Mental health
- Kids
- Wellbeing
- SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Company mission
Little Otter's mission is to reimagine children’s mental health care through its online therapy services by increasing the quality of care, improving access to help, and recognizing the urgency and importance of early detection and counselling.
Our take
Increased awareness of the importance of mental wellness in young children and their families has driven increased demand for therapy services, but help is not always available. Many specialized mental health services come with lengthy waiting lists due to limited in-person appointments, and services with smaller waiting times are often less specialized and follow a one-size-fits-all approach.
Little Otter provides an online therapy service for children and their families, focused on providing personalized therapy by leading experts in childhood mental health to homes through a smartphone app. The child and their family must fill in an online assessment which is assessed to match the patient with a personalized therapist and care plan, covering areas such as anxiety, tantrums, relationship conflicts, and attention difficulties.
Whilst therapy for childhood mental health issues is widely available, its specialized nature often leads to difficulties in access, and Little Otter’s remote approach shows potential to improve this. The company also recognizes the unique problems children face with its personalized approach, staying away from a problematic one-size-fits-all attitude.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Equity in a seed-stage startup
- Comprehensive health benefits (health, dental, medical)
- Flexible remote-first working environment
- Parental leave
Company values
- Quality matters. All families deserve exceptional care
- Integrated care with families at the center is best
- Trust and listen to parents
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2022
$22m
SERIES A
May 2021
$4.2m
SEED
Total funding: $26.2m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Rebecca Egger
(CEO)Forward Deployed Product Lead for Palantir Technologies from 2015 to 2017. Experience as Product and Program Lead of Infectious Disease for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Helen Egger MD
(CMO & CSO)Experience as Tenured Associate Professor for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Duke University Medical Center from 2011 to 2016. Director of the Child Study Center of NYU Langone Health from 2016 to 2021.