What is Cartwheel Care?
School-based youth mental-health partner delivering virtual therapy and psychiatry.
- Category
- Youth mental health
- Headquarters
- Cambridge, MA
- Founded
- 2022
- Employees
- 226 reported by PitchBook
- Total funding
- $55M disclosed/reported
- Status
- Private; Series B
What is Cartwheel Care?
Cartwheel Care is a youth mental health company. Cartwheel partners with K-12 schools and districts to provide therapy, psychiatric evaluations, medication management, groups, and parent guidance without long waitlists.
Cartwheel Care is a youth mental health company with headquarters listed as Cambridge, MA. School-based youth mental-health partner delivering virtual therapy and psychiatry. Cartwheel partners with K-12 schools and districts to provide therapy, psychiatric evaluations, medication management, groups, and parent guidance without long waitlists.
The company is currently best read as Private; Series B. Public sources show $55M disclosed/reported in funding and Not publicly disclosed; where revenue, ARR, margin, or exact customer counts are not published, this profile avoids inventing them and uses funding, footprint, product coverage, and public scale signals instead.
For sellers, the account matters because buying centers span clinical operations, compliance, product, data, security, finance, and growth. The strongest pitch is tied to measurable access, quality, cost, workflow, or workforce outcomes rather than generic software adoption.
What does Cartwheel Care offer?
Cartwheel Care offers Individual therapy, Group therapy, Psychiatric evaluations, Medication management, and related workflows.
- Individual therapy· Core product
- Group therapy· Core product
- Psychiatric evaluations· Care workflow
- Medication management· Care workflow
- Parent guidance· Expansion
- School mental-health program support· Expansion
How does Cartwheel Care make money?
Cartwheel makes money through school-district partnerships, insurance billing, Medicaid/commercial reimbursement, and public or grant-funded access programs.
Cartwheel makes money through school-district partnerships, insurance billing, Medicaid/commercial reimbursement, and public or grant-funded access programs.
District and payer pricing is not public; families access services through school referral and insurance or sponsored programs. Growth is driven by adoption in youth mental health, expansion into larger accounts or additional geographies, and proof that the product improves outcomes, cost, capacity, or experience.
Because the company is private, this profile does not invent revenue, gross margin, or unit economics. Sellers should qualify budget owner, reimbursement model, procurement path, compliance requirements, and integration effort early.
Who leads Cartwheel Care?
Cartwheel Care is led by Joe English, Juliana Chen, MD, Daniel Tartakovsky.
- Joe EnglishCEO & Co-founderFounderLeads Cartwheel's school-partnered mental-health model.
- Juliana Chen, MDChief Medical Officer & Co-founderFounderChild psychiatrist leading clinical model.
- Daniel TartakovskyCo-founder & COOFounderLeads operations and district implementation.
How do you contact Cartwheel Care's leadership?
Cartwheel Care does not publish verified personal executive emails in the reviewed public sources. Use official company contact, demo, support, partnerships, or careers routes rather than guessed personal emails.
Personal executive email format not verified; use official company routingHow much funding has Cartwheel Care raised?
Cartwheel Care has $55M disclosed/reported in public or reported funding; latest disclosed round: Aug 2025 Series B filing ($35M of $44M round disclosed).
Cartwheel Care's disclosed funding history is: Sep 2023 Series A: $20M, valuation not disclosed, led/backed by Menlo Ventures; Aug 2025 Series B filing: $35M of $44M round disclosed, valuation not disclosed, led/backed by Menlo Ventures with existing backers.
The latest public valuation/status used here is Not publicly disclosed. If a valuation is not disclosed, this profile treats the company as private with no public priced mark rather than inferring a number from round size.
Seller signal: funding indicates capacity to invest, but healthcare buyers still require security, compliance, implementation proof, and outcomes evidence. New capital is most likely to support market expansion, hiring, product development, clinical operations, data, AI, and partnerships.
How did Cartwheel Care get here?
Cartwheel Care reached its current stage through founding, product expansion, and major financing milestones.
- 2022FoundedCartwheel starts in Cambridge to partner with schools on student mental health.
- 2023$20M Series AMenlo Ventures leads Series A after early district traction.
- 2025$35M disclosed Series B filingCartwheel discloses new funding toward a $44M round.
- 2025BCBSIL grantBlue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois funds school-based services with Cartwheel.
- 2026Six-state footprintCartwheel lists virtual care in six states and headquarters in Cambridge.
Who are Cartwheel Care's competitors?
Cartwheel Care competes with adjacent healthcare providers, software platforms, marketplaces, and care-navigation companies.
- Hazel HealthSchool-based telehealth and mental-health provider.
- Daybreak HealthSchool-based youth mental-health platform.
- KoothDigital mental-health platform for youth and public-sector partners.
- BrightlineVirtual behavioral health for kids and families.
- TalkspaceVirtual therapy and psychiatry platform.
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