Insurance-enabled therapist network and practice management platform
Alma operates a two-sided marketplace connecting therapists with insured patients, layered on top of practice-management tooling. The tech stack (Python, Django, MySQL, Redshift, SQL) is classic backend-heavy, signaling data infrastructure as a core operational concern—confirmed by active work on standardized analytics models, performance tuning across the data lifecycle, and ML-driven provider matching. Hiring skews senior (9 of 14 open roles) with concentrated demand in data (4 roles), suggesting investment in analytics and matching algorithms to solve their stated challenges in conversion and retention.
Notable leadership hires: Art Director, Community Director
Alma is a mental health access platform that recruits therapists onto its network, equips them with business-management tools, and directs insured patients to them through a free directory. The company operates in all 50 US states with 24,000 therapists in its network as of the last public update. Revenue model centers on making insurance billing financially rewarding for providers—removing friction that typically keeps therapists out-of-network. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Brooklyn, Alma is backed by strategic healthcare investors (Optum Ventures, Cigna Ventures) alongside venture capital. The 201–500 employee range reflects a mid-stage marketplace with growing internal functions around tax, learning operations, and data analytics.
Core stack: Python, Django, MySQL, Redshift, SQL, and R. Backend-focused, optimized for data pipelines and analytics. No cloud migration visible in adoption layer.
24,000 therapists in the network, operating across all 50 US states. Directory is publicly browsable and free to search.
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