Enquirer Consulting Group
U4U Partner and Investor Map
Ila Panik Marchetta | U4U | October 2026
As of 14 Oct 2026
U4U is a daily social wellness app for teen girls ages 11 to 18, sold to parents through a membership and to schools as a program. Growth past that runs through partners and investors, so this page maps those groups rather than individual buyers.
It covers the two routes you put first, healthcare partners and investors. For each group it shows roughly how many organizations there are in the US, where a clean public count exists, and who usually signs off on a partnership or an investment.
Where your partners and investors sit
Healthcare groups are counted from US firm data and banded on purpose. Counts are firms, not sites. Investor groups have no clean public count, so they are listed by type.
| Group | Organizations in the US | Under 20 staff | 20 to 99 | 100 to 499 | 500 or more |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health plans and health insurers | about 1,100 | about 750 | about 73 | about 82 | about 170 |
| Hospitals and health systems, including psychiatric hospitals | about 3,000 | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| Mental health practices and outpatient centers | about 61,000 | about 55,000 | about 3,500 | about 1,200 | about 680 |
| Pediatric and family medicine practices | no clean public count | ||||
| Angel investors and angel groups | no clean public count | ||||
| Impact and digital health venture funds | no clean public count |
US firm counts by industry code, banded deliberately.
Who usually signs off in each group
Titles vary with size. In a small practice or an angel group one person often decides. In a health plan or a hospital the decision sits with a clinical or population health lead and is checked by finance and compliance.
| Group | Usually signs | Also in the room |
|---|---|---|
| Health plans and health insurers | VP of Population Health or Chief Medical Officer | Behavioral health director, pediatric or Medicaid program lead |
| Hospitals and health systems | VP of Behavioral Health or the pediatric service line lead | Community health lead, innovation or digital health lead |
| Mental health practices and outpatient centers | Founder or Clinical Director in smaller practices, COO in larger centers | Child and adolescent program director |
| Pediatric and family medicine practices | Managing physician or practice administrator | Care coordinator or behavioral health integration lead |
| Angel investors and angel groups | The individual angel, or the screening lead at an angel group | Members who follow health, education or women-led companies |
| Impact and digital health venture funds | Partner or principal covering health or education | Investment committee |
What each group tends to weigh
Health plans weigh the cost of teen mental health care and whether a tool fits a preventive care program they already run. Your healthcare page answers both with its reporting and its design for preventive care billing.
Hospitals, behavioral health centers and pediatric practices ask how a tool supports teens between visits and how it handles safety and privacy. A non-clinical model that families use at home, as your site describes, keeps the ask small for a busy clinical team.
Angels and early funds at the pre-seed stage look hardest at the founding team, early use from the first pilot, and how parent memberships and partner revenue add up. Your invest page already offers a deck on request, so the first ask to an investor can be a short note and the deck.
Groups without a clean public count
Pediatric and family medicine practices share one industry code with every other physician office, so a count for that code would overstate the group.
Angel investors are individuals, and angel groups and impact funds are filed alongside many unrelated finance firms, so no public count fits them. Both are still worth working by name, starting with groups that back health, education or women-led companies.
Ten people to start with
The people who usually sign at the groups above, one a company. Work emails and phone numbers checked on Oct 14, 2026.
| Name | Role | Company | Where | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alejandro Badia | Chief Medical Officer | OrthoNOW immediate Orthopedic Care | Miami, FL | alejandro@orthonowcare.com | +1 305 987 3964 |
| Shauhab Chaudhry | Chief Medical Officer | Prolis | New Brunswick, NJ | +1 732 407 2494 | |
| John Kennedy | Chief Medical Officer | Ohio Department of Behavioral Health | Cincinnati | john.kennedy@dbh.ohio.gov | +1 614 507 2874 |
| Adam Plotkin | Chief Medical Officer | OnSite Dermatology | Delray Beach, FL | aplotkin@onsitederm.com | +1 561 289 1594 |
| Edward Kalpas | Chief Medical Officer | Peach Tree Healthcare | Prescott, AZ | ekalpas@pickpeach.org | +1 808 371 1532 |
| Reza Alavi | Chief Medical Officer | ArtiMed Inc. | Clarksville, MD | reza@artimed.ai | +1 610 348 8785 |
| Geoffrey Rutledge | Founder and Chief Medical Officer | HealthTap | San Carlos, CA | geoffrey.rutledge@healthtap.com | +1 650 644 1833 |
| KP Reddy | Founder-Managing Partner | Shadow Ventures | Half Moon Bay, CA | kpr@shadow.vc | +1 404 483 9800 |
| Ben Kaplan | Managing Partner | Deep Venture Partners | San Francisco, CA | ben@deepvp.com | +1 415 565 1510 |
| Lisa Lambie | Managing Partner | Maroon Venture Fund I LP | New York | +1 346 533 9081 |
Where to start
Offer providers a one-clinic pilot
Bring the pilot story to angel groups
Built from public federal registries and the company's own website, counts banded deliberately.
If a walk-through is useful, pick a time at cal.com/ecg.
Prepared by Dan Reeves, dan@enquirerconsulting.com.