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Vanna Health
Serious mental illness healthcare services
- 21-100 employees
- Healthcare
- B2B
- Mental health
- Social Impact
- Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
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Company mission
To help people living with serious mental illness thrive by strengthening the community ecosystem around them.
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Our take
There are 14 million Americans living with serious mental illness, the vast majority of whom never receive any kind of psychosocial rehabilitation. This is a silent human crisis, with sufferers having life expectancies decades shorter than the average and a greatly elevated risk of poverty, homelessness and incarceration.
Vanna Health exists to help support people suffering from serious mental illness by strengthening the community support structures around them. A for-profit company, it works by providing values to its partner insurers, agencies and hospitals, bundling clinical treatment plans and community offerings in a way that greatly reduces the cost of care while delivering outcomes that far outperform the rather dire status quo in US mental health care.
Vanna Health raised significant funding in late 2022, enabling it to officially launch its services in the United States. It will be investing heavily in building new health care partnerships, expanding its clinical teams and developing its tech stack. In the longer term it could well develop into a significant part of the mental health care landscape in the US medical system.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Funding (1 round)
Dec 2022
$29m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $29m
Leadership
Giovanni Colella, MD
(CEO)Before co-founding Vanna Health co-founded Brightline, OODA Health, Castlight Health and RealyHealth.
Brian Meewes
(President)Was previously COO & CFO at OODA Health. Before that was Head of Growth, Operations and Finance at Alto Pharmacy, and Head of Finance for Symphony Commerce.
Tom Insel, MD
(Executive Chairman)Is also Adjunct Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. Is on several not-for-profit and for-profit boards, and is a Scientfic Advisor to numerous firms including Alto Neurosci and Cerebral.