Coral Care just pulled in $13M in Series A capital, and this one hits different. Because this is not some abstract SaaS optimizing ad clicks. This is what happens when a parent runs into a wall in the healthcare system and decides the wall is the problem.
Founded in 2023, Coral Care is the brainchild of Jennifer Wirt, Founder & CEO, who built the company after navigating developmental delays with her own daughter and running headfirst into waitlists, insurance friction, and the slow grind of “maybe next quarter.” Instead of accepting the bottleneck, Jennifer Wirt engineered a release valve. In-home pediatric speech, occupational, and physical therapy delivered by licensed clinicians. Access without the maze.
Haymaker Ventures led the $13M Series A, joined by FCA Ventures, Peterson Ventures, AlleyCorp, Reach Capital, Jefferson River Capital, Greymatter Capital, Mother Ventures, and Charge Ventures. That is a serious table of capital allocators who know the difference between a trend and a tectonic shift. When that many disciplined investors lean in, it is not charity. It is conviction.
Coral Care now operates across multiple states, with expansion into Dallas, Houston, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. The network includes more than 400 licensed pediatric therapists. More than 75% of families continue care beyond 4 months. Clinicians reclaim up to 15 hours a week by offloading scheduling, documentation, billing, and credentialing to Coral Care’s proprietary platform. Time is the only currency that compounds for everyone in this equation, and Coral Care is printing it responsibly.
Let’s talk business mechanics. Coral Care is not trying to digitize empathy. It is operationalizing access. The model is clean: families get vetted, insurance-supported, in-home care; clinicians get infrastructure without drowning in admin; investors get exposure to a category where demand is painfully real and supply has historically been fragmented. The company’s earlier capital, approximately $6.5M, set the foundation. This $13M pours concrete.
The play on words is almost too easy. Coral reefs are ecosystems. They thrive when every organism has a role and the water is clear. Coral Care is building its own reef in pediatric therapy, aligning families, clinicians, and capital into a living system that grows stronger with density. Scale here is not vanity. It is access.
Congratulations to Jennifer Wirt, Founder & CEO, and the entire Coral Care team for building something that respects both the child in the living room and the clinician on the calendar. And credit to Haymaker Ventures and the full investor syndicate for recognizing that sometimes the most disruptive thing in tech is not another app notification, but a knock on the door from a licensed therapist who finally had the time to show up.
