Marble Health
School-embedded youth mental health platform that identifies students in need and connects them to licensed therapists — built by the co-founders of Headway.
New York, NY
2024
11-50
$20.5M+
Commercial Insurance, Medicaid
What They Do
Marble partners directly with schools to proactively identify students who need mental health support and connect them quickly to licensed therapists. Rather than relying on patient-initiated access, which systematically undercounts need among adolescents, Marble uses institutional school relationships to surface kids who would otherwise never reach outpatient care. The model is school-led in distribution but insurance-funded in reimbursement, with therapists delivering virtual individual, group, family, and parent-guidance services. Current company materials make clear that Medicaid is central to the access thesis: schools do not pay, families use existing coverage, and Marble coordinates among counselors, guardians, therapists, and health plans on one operating system.
Competitive Position
Marble's school-embedded, proactive identification model differentiates it from demand-driven telehealth platforms. brightline serves families who actively seek care, while cartwheel-care and hazel-health are closer institutional comparisons because they also sell through schools or pediatric systems. Marble's differentiation is the combination of school referral workflows, insurance-backed access including Medicaid, and a care-collaboration layer that keeps counselors, therapists, and guardians aligned. The Headway founder lineage gives it additional credibility in therapist network building and payer contracting.